Man who made a habit of attacking women he met on Bumble in custody after 1 didn't make it out alive: Police

A Connecticut antheral is successful custody aft constabulary accidental helium murdered a pistillate helium started dating done the Bumble app — but she was allegedly not his archetypal target.

Cole Werhan, 28, was arrested and charged with murder connected Tuesday, 3 months aft the decease of 26-year-old Janina Brooke Murphy.

According to an apprehension warrant obtained by section NBC affiliate WVIT, Werhan called for assistance connected March 29 aft helium claimed that Murphy had fallen down the stairs successful his home. When constabulary arrived, Werhan met them connected the backmost structure and brought them to Murphy, who was nether a broad successful the home's surviving room. She was pronounced dormant soon earlier midnight.

Werhan claimed to constabulary that Murphy "started smashing her caput into the partition and yet threw herself down the stairs." The couple, who had known each different successful assemblage and precocious reconnected connected Bumble, purportedly had an statement aft Murphy saw texts from different pistillate connected Werhan's phone. Werhan told constabulary that Murphy, who was listed successful his telephone contacts arsenic "Wife <3," had a bipolar episode.

According to the warrant, Werhan told constabulary that aft Murphy fell, helium moved her into the surviving country and placed a broad implicit her. He past called his parents, who called 911.

Police reportedly began questioning Werhan's communicative erstwhile they noticed helium had a swollen hand. He claimed that it whitethorn person been injured from "trying to assistance [Murphy] aft she had fallen." Blood was recovered passim the home, including successful "the superior bedroom, bathroom, hallway, stairs, eating room, surviving room, kitchen, rear introduction door, deck, and driveway," the warrant said.

Interviews with Murphy's friends indicated that her behaviour had changed since she moved successful with Werhan. According to the warrant, friends said she became isolated. Her parent said she stopped moving and answering calls and texts from her family. One person told constabulary that Murphy called her via FaceTime portion she was astatine Werhan's location and told her she had taken "a clump of Werhan's medicine drugs."

As constabulary investigated Werhan, they reportedly discovered a signifier of alleged abuse against different women helium met connected Bumble and Hinge. According to sum of the warrant by CTInsider, Werhan was arrested connected June 3 successful transportation with an alleged incidental from summertime 2025. Werhan was charged with disorderly behaviour and threatening aft helium allegedly slapped and strangled a pistillate who moved successful with him aft they met connected Hinge. The pistillate told constabulary that erstwhile she was leaving his home, Werhan allegedly grabbed her, pulled her backmost into the house, and held her down. She told constabulary that she snuck retired of the location astatine 5 a.m. 1 greeting portion Werhan was inactive asleep.

The pistillate reportedly told constabulary that "she felt similar if she went backmost to him, she would extremity up dead."

The warrant outlined 2 different incidents that resulted successful charges against Werhan. Police arrested him connected April 28 successful transportation with different incidental from December 2025, erstwhile helium allegedly dumped a vessel of h2o implicit different woman's caput and threw an entity astatine her face. That woman, whom helium met connected Bumble, told constabulary astatine the clip that "she did not consciousness she could permission astatine immoderate constituent due to the fact that she was acrophobic of what [Werhan] mightiness do."

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The earliest of Werhan's 3 arrests happened connected Nov. 20, 2025. Eighteen days aft gathering a pistillate connected Bumble, Werhan allegedly became drunk and slapped her truthful hard that she fell onto a bed. He reportedly forced her to amusement him her telephone to spot if she tried to telephone the police. The pistillate aboriginal told constabulary that Werhan allegedly said, "Now you person fixed maine thing I person ever wanted to do, I americium going to termination you."

Werhan was charged with misdemeanor counts of third-degree assault, second-degree unlawful restraint, second-degree threatening, second-degree breach of peace, and disorderly conduct.

All 4 cases against Werhan are inactive open.

During his tribunal quality connected Wednesday, a justice ordered that Werhan beryllium held connected $5 cardinal bond. He remains successful custody and is scheduled to look successful tribunal again connected June 30.