Chilling final text NY mom sent dad about stomach bug before 4 kids killed in murder-suicide revealed
The twisted mom who killed her four children in an upstate New York murder-suicide told their dad that they had “a little stomach bug” while they died, according to newly released texts. “The kids have gotten a little stomach bug throwing up is it okay to switch your online visit to tomorrow night at 4 pm your time please,” reads the final text message that Sarah Myers allegedly sent to her ex-husband on the afternoon of June 10 – the same day Mechanicville police say she and the kids’ grandmother, Amy Steadman, “conspired in carrying out the murders of the four children before taking their own lives.”The slain kids’ father, Brady Harmon, released screenshots of the now harrowing text exchange with Myers, 44, in a heart-wrenching Facebook post Tuesday.“Okay I will keep painting then.Hopefully they feel better soon,” Harmon, who lives in Utah, wrote in response to Myers’ text – oblivious to the fact that, over 2,000 miles away, three of his children were killed in a suspected mass poisoning event, while the fourth was repeatedly knifed to death, according to cops. The screenshots show the father tried to reach Myers the next day, writing in a text, “Are the kiddos feeling better?” before his 4:02 p.m.
video call went unanswered. By that time, 64-year-old Steadman, Myers and the children – Harper Harmon, 13; Hudson Harmon, 11, and 10-year-old twins Gavin and Gracelynn Harmon – were all already dead inside the Mechanicville apartment, Police Chief Bill Rabbitt said during a press conference Tuesday. The crazed mother-daughter duo had carefully planned for and communicated about the killings by June 5, with Steadman visiting several pharmacies to pick up “multiple doses of over-the-counter sleep aids and multiple medications that had been prescribed to her,” Rabbitt said. Disturbing text messages also revealed conversations between Myers and Steadman “regarding obtaining medications, where the murders would occur, how those ...