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HORROR IN NEW YORK: Mother and Grandmother Poisoned and Stabbed Four Children Then Killed Themselves Days Before Father Could Reunite With Them After a Six-Year Custody Fight
The Gateway Pundit ^ | September 8, 2026 | Jim Hᴏft

Posted on 09/08/2026 6:50:19 PM PDT by Red Badger

Four innocent children were deliberately drugged and murdered by their own mother and grandmother in a sickening murder-suicide plot allegedly driven by a bitter custody dispute, according to investigators.

The children, Harper Harmon, 13; Hudson Harmon, 11; and 10-year-old twins Gavin and Gracelynn Harmon, were found dead alongside their mother, Sarah Myers, 44, and grandmother, Amy Steadman, 64, inside Steadman’s apartment in Mechanicville, New York, on June 23.

Investigators believe the children were murdered on June 10, nearly two weeks before their decomposing bodies were discovered during a welfare check.

Now, toxicology results have revealed that diphenhydramine, the active ingredient in Benadryl, and kratom, a psychoactive substance with opioid-like effects, were found in the children’s blood, sources told Albany’s WNYT NewsChannel 13.

The disturbing toxicology findings were first reported nationally by the New York Post.

According to police, Myers and Steadman conspired through text messages to obtain medications, poison the children, and conceal their monstrous plot.

The messages allegedly show the two women coordinating the murders as they were taking place.

One message reportedly indicated that the drugs were not working as planned and that at least one child had realized what was happening.

Gavin was allegedly stabbed repeatedly after the poisoning attempt failed. Police said he had defensive wounds, indicating the terrified 10-year-old fought for his life.

Investigators also discovered disturbing internet searches on Steadman’s phone involving fatal stabbing locations and the carotid artery, according to ABC News.


TOPICS: Health/Medicine; Local News; Society
KEYWORDS: amysteadman; benadryl; custodybattle; divorce; doineedtolook; filicide; granbyghoul; grannyghoul; harmon; isitthemyogi; kratom; newyork; sarahmyers; steadman; textmessages; themagain; yesbooboo
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To: xp38

They always show pictures of perps “in happier times”....

Its the media telling us what to cogitate upon. Disgusting , manipulative media.


21 posted on 09/08/2026 9:08:22 PM PDT by Getready (Wisdom is more valuable than gold and harder to find.)
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To: Getready

Oh indeed the photo selection is almost always slanted to serve the narrative and that goes for every story not just crime ones.


22 posted on 09/08/2026 9:12:51 PM PDT by xp38
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To: ansel12
Women have found a new way to get at their ex’s.

New? Ever heard of Medea?

23 posted on 09/08/2026 9:17:55 PM PDT by A_perfect_lady (The greatest wealth is to live content with little. -Plato)
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To: Red Badger

Lovely Family Photo
/$

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Who cleans up the Mess?
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Culture of Death.


24 posted on 09/08/2026 10:24:24 PM PDT by Big Red Badger (Good SCIENCE is Not Faith BUT Curiosity. )
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To: Secret Agent Man

“More reasons for women to be viewed legally as just big dangerous children.” Women are easily influenced and don’t have much of a back bone.


25 posted on 09/08/2026 10:24:41 PM PDT by Falconspeed ("Keep your fears to yourself, but share your courage with others." Robert Louis Stevenson.)
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To: Red Badger; Jamestown1630

Would it Have Been Polite to Tell these Monsters The Gospel ?
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Even Thou Shalt Not Kill?
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What Religion Were They?
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A Satanic Death Cult was More to Their Liking with a Black Mass I’d Guess.
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A mother and Grand Mother more like
Jim Jones wanna Be’s.
Personally the Elastic Work-Bands would have been cleaner and More efficient,,,
Don’t You Think?


26 posted on 09/08/2026 10:33:22 PM PDT by Big Red Badger (Good SCIENCE is Not Faith BUT Curiosity. )
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To: xp38

putting the pink t-shirt back on...


27 posted on 09/08/2026 10:33:38 PM PDT by If You Want It Fixed - Fix It
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To: Falconspeed

Yuppers...
Started with Eve in the Beginning.
Woman Just All want a Little More
Or Girls just want to have Fun.


28 posted on 09/08/2026 10:42:36 PM PDT by Big Red Badger (Good SCIENCE is Not Faith BUT Curiosity. )
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To: Big Red Badger

RIP Children
Mamma knows Best !


29 posted on 09/08/2026 10:44:28 PM PDT by Big Red Badger (Good SCIENCE is Not Faith BUT Curiosity. )
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To: xp38

More likely the photo selection is limited to what family members or friends with photos are willing to let the press see, and willing to give to the press.

And in cases like these it is probably the defense attorneys who selected the photos.


30 posted on 09/08/2026 11:59:52 PM PDT by piasa (Attitude adjustments offered here free of charge)
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To: Red Badger

Just more later term abortions. Life has no value. Mind virus.


31 posted on 09/09/2026 12:25:42 AM PDT by griffin (When you have to shoot, SHOOT; don't talk. -Tuco)
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To: Big Red Badger

Meanwhile, there is no shortage of men killing kids and women and each other with bombs and in drive by shootings and murder suicides, demonstrating how rock solid and steady their mental state is.

There is much more going on here than just gender.

Much of the planet has gone batshit crazy since social media addiction and all the cover behavioral influence campaigns. Not that horrific killings didn’t occur in the past- they did.

It’s going to get worse.


32 posted on 09/09/2026 12:29:25 AM PDT by piasa (Attitude adjustments offered here free of charge)
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To: piasa

The book on Marijuana has yet to be written...


33 posted on 09/09/2026 12:50:49 AM PDT by Does so (Book:"The Party of Death"...Dem☭¢rats ™ ® © ≣ ½⅓⅔¼¾ ⅛⅜⅝⅞ ⅓ ⅕ ⅖ ⅗ ⅘ ⅙ ⅚)
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To: piasa

The book on Marijuana has yet to be written...


34 posted on 09/09/2026 12:50:50 AM PDT by Does so (Book:"The Party of Death"...Dem☭¢rats ™ ® © ≣ ½⅓⅔¼¾ ⅛⅜⅝⅞ ⅓ ⅕ ⅖ ⅗ ⅘ ⅙ ⅚)
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To: xp38; Getready
They always show pictures of perps “in happier times”....

Oh indeed the photo selection is almost always slanted to serve the narrative and that goes for every story not just crime ones.

To be fair, people rarely go professional studios and instruct the photographer to "capture that gleam of homicidal mania in my wife's eye, willya?"

And they rarely take home snapshots intended to highlight how deranged and unstable the future perp is.

Waddaya expect, anyway?

Regards,

35 posted on 09/09/2026 12:56:12 AM PDT by alexander_busek (Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.)
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To: jroehl
The horror story of Constance Fisher and her husband Carl is heartbreaking - but I really have to question Carl's taking her back and fathering an additional three children with her. I mean: How could a man even touch a woman who had done that to his children?

And could you imagine what it was like at family gatherings?

"Carl, your new daughter has the same eyes as your previous daughter - you know: The one your wife drowned?"

Conducting even a casual conversation with your son, brother-in-law, uncle, etc. would be like navigating a verbal mine field!

Regards,

36 posted on 09/09/2026 1:04:06 AM PDT by alexander_busek (Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.)
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To: piasa; xp38
More likely the photo selection is limited to what family members or friends with photos are willing to let the press see, and willing to give to the press.

True! That said: I doubt that the family members even have any unflattering photos - you know: Snapshots of the young kids with the mother - a murderous glint in her eye - hovering in the background, holding a butcher knife!

Regards,

37 posted on 09/09/2026 1:07:07 AM PDT by alexander_busek (Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.)
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To: Red Badger

The family that slays together...


38 posted on 09/09/2026 3:59:15 AM PDT by equaviator (Nobody's perfect. That's why they put pencils on erasers!)
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To: Red Badger

EVIL is winning - and it won’t be beaten until He returns - but things will get much worse before that happens.


39 posted on 09/09/2026 4:29:53 AM PDT by trebb (So many fools - so little time...)
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To: Red Badger

Chain them together 24/7 until both are bones.


40 posted on 09/09/2026 4:37:42 AM PDT by Clutch Martin ("The dawn cracks hard like a bull whip and it ain't takin' no lip from the night before" Tom Waits)
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