Former EastEnders actress Sian Blake and her two sons died as a result of head and neck injuries, Scotland Yard says.
Police are treating the deaths as murder after the bodies were found in the garden of the family home in Erith, Kent, on Tuesday.
A post-mortem confirmed the identities of the victims - Miss Blake and eight-year-old Zachary and four-year-old Amon.
The search is on for the children's father, Arthur Simpson-Kent, with police investigating reports he may have fled to Ghana.
He has not been seen since detectives spoke to him on 16 December.
"Significant attempts" had been made to hide the bodies, said a statement from Metropolitan Police.
They were found when officers dug up the garden after sniffer dogs "indicated areas of interest" and soil that had possibly been disturbed.
Miss Blake and her children were last seen in east London on 13 December, prompting a missing person investigation, but the murder squad did not get involved until 4 January.
Her sister has revealed the former actress was planning to leave Mr Simpson-Kent over Christmas and wanted to end the relationship "a long time ago".
"She had asked to come back home and we said yes, so we really tried to plan on getting her to move back home," said Ava Blake.
"She said she would come back, sort of Christmas week, and after Christmas they would arrange about selling the property she lived in.
"She didn't want to throw (Arthur) out on the street but give him time to find somewhere else to live.
"That was the only point she was wavering on."
Ava Blake said her sister had changed from the "vivacious, happy person she once was" and that she suspected texts sent by Sian after she disappeared had not been written by her.
"The first part of the text, I believe my sister may have written that," she said.
"But the rest of the wording and other texts my family received, they were not my sister. We don't use text lingo. We write full sentences."
Scotland Yard has said it is aware of a photo apparently showing Mr Simpson-Kent, 48, arriving in Ghana, but refused to confirm reports he had flown to Africa.
Police had earlier reported being unable to reach Miss Blake's partner - and the children's father - Arthur Simpson-Kent, who is seen here with Amon
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