{"id":971855,"date":"2026-07-31T18:46:16","date_gmt":"2026-07-31T18:46:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/971855\/"},"modified":"2026-07-31T18:46:16","modified_gmt":"2026-07-31T18:46:16","slug":"chilling-twist-after-ny-mom-grandma-grandkids-found-dead","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/971855\/","title":{"rendered":"Chilling twist after NY mom, grandma, grandkids found dead"},"content":{"rendered":"

The four children found dead alongside their mom and grandma<\/a> in an upstate New York apartment were murdered \u2013 while their adult relatives died by suicide, authorities revealed this week. <\/p>\n

Amy Steadman, 64,<\/a> and her 44-year-old daughter, Sarah Myers, killed themselves in the Mechanicville apartment where Myers\u2019 four children \u2013 Harper Harmon, 13; Hudson Harmon, 11, and 10-year-old twins Gavin and Gracelynn Harmon \u2013 were also discovered dead on June 23, Police Chief William Rabbitt told the<\/a> Times-Union<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The kids\u2019 deaths have been ruled homicides, the chief said.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The four children\u2019s deaths have been ruled homicides, while mom Sarah Myers (pictured, top) and grandma Amy Steadman died by suicide, Mechanicville Police Chief William Rabbitt revealed this week. Facebook \/ Sarah Myers<\/p>\n

One of the children was fatally stabbed, while the rest appear to have been poisoned, according to Rabbitt.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Police have not disclosed Steadman and Myers\u2019 manner of suicide, nor what led up to the kids\u2019 murders.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n

Last month, Rabbitt told reporters that prescriptions and over-the-counter medications were found inside the apartment, \u201cindicating intentional poisoning.\u201d<\/p>\n

At the time, a handwritten note found at the scene \u201cstrongly suggested\u201d<\/a> that Steadman was \u201cinvolved\u201d in the children\u2019s deaths, Rabbitt said.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Recently, however, the chief hinted that the grandma may not have acted alone<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cWe have not ruled out that Sarah Myers was also complicit in the deaths of her children,\u201d Rabbitt told NBC5<\/a> last week, adding that cops were still awaiting toxicology results.\u00a0<\/p>\n

A handwritten note found inside the grandma\u2019s apartment \u201cstrongly suggested\u201d that Amy Steadman was \u201cinvolved\u201d in the children\u2019s deaths, Rabbitt previously said. Facebook \/ Amy Steadman<\/p>\n

Police have not disclosed Steadman (pictured) and Myers\u2019 manner of suicide, nor what led up to the kids\u2019 murders.\u00a0\u00a0 Facebook \/ Amy Steadman<\/p>\n

The six family members were found dead last month after a neighbor requested a welfare check.<\/p>\n

The bodies were too badly decomposed for responding officers to immediately identify them, Rabbitt said at the time.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Rabbitt and the Mechanicville Police Department didn\u2019t respond to messages from The Post Friday. <\/p>\n

Brady Harmon, seen with his children, had not seen his children in person since November 2019, but they were supposed to be in the Beehive State between July and September. Facebook\/Brady Harmon<\/p>\n

Myers had reportedly been embroiled in a bitter custody battle with her ex-husband and the children\u2019s father, Brady Harmon, who lives in Utah.\u00a0<\/p>\n

He had not seen his children in person since November 2019, but they were supposed to be in the Beehive State between July and September.<\/p>\n

He previously told The Post<\/a> that the last time he spoke with the children was for 15 minutes on June 7.<\/p>\n

The six family members were found dead last month after a neighbor requested a welfare check. Albany Times Union via Getty Images<\/p>\n

Residents walk under police tape at the scene of multiple deaths on Wednesday, June 24, 2026, at the Mechanicville Housing Authority in Mechanicville, N.Y. Cindy Schultz for NY Post<\/p>\n

\u201cThey seemed like happy little kids,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

A funeral for the four children has since been held in Utah, the Times-Union reported<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cWe could not bring their bodies home due to the horrific state they were in,\u201d Harmon told the outlet. \u201cTheir ashes were spread where my father\u2019s ashes were laid to rest, on top of a mountain here in Utah.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The four children found dead alongside their mom and grandma in an upstate New York apartment were murdered…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":971856,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[5122],"tags":[5229,245,5416,32550,405,403,5226,5225,5228,5227,38389,8626,67,586,132,5230,68,1154,2969],"class_list":["post-971855","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york","tag-america","tag-children","tag-deaths","tag-murder-suicide","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-newyork","tag-newyorkcity","tag-ny","tag-nyc","tag-poison","tag-stabbings","tag-united-states","tag-united-states-of-america","tag-unitedstates","tag-unitedstatesofamerica","tag-us","tag-us-news","tag-usa"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/117016080353041292","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/971855","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=971855"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/971855\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/971856"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=971855"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=971855"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=971855"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}