{"id":173679,"date":"2025-09-27T19:34:07","date_gmt":"2025-09-27T19:34:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/173679\/"},"modified":"2025-09-27T19:34:07","modified_gmt":"2025-09-27T19:34:07","slug":"newcastle-man-charged-with-murder-in-wifes-death","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/173679\/","title":{"rendered":"Newcastle man charged with murder in wife\u2019s death"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Durham regional police say a man has been charged with first-degree murder in connection with the death of his wife in Newcastle earlier this month.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Officers were called to a home near Farrow Avenue and Highway 2 just after 9 a.m. on Sept. 16, where they found a 62-year-old woman with \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.drps.ca\/news\/posts\/update-2-male-arrested-in-durham-region-s-fifth-homicide\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.drps.ca\/news\/posts\/update-2-male-arrested-in-durham-region-s-fifth-homicide\/\">obvious signs of trauma<\/a>.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">She was pronounced dead at the scene and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cp24.com\/local\/durham\/2025\/09\/23\/police-identify-woman-who-died-after-being-found-injured-in-durham-region-earlier-this-month\/?taid=68d3348e7de7d80001c64312&amp;utm_campaign=trueAnthem%3A+Trending+Content&amp;utm_medium=trueAnthem&amp;utm_source=twitter\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.cp24.com\/local\/durham\/2025\/09\/23\/police-identify-woman-who-died-after-being-found-injured-in-durham-region-earlier-this-month\/?taid=68d3348e7de7d80001c64312&amp;utm_campaign=trueAnthem%3A+Trending+Content&amp;utm_medium=trueAnthem&amp;utm_source=twitter\">recently identified<\/a> as Marilyn Stevens, of Newcastle on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" data-chromatic=\"ignore\" alt=\"Homicide investigation launched in Newcastle, Ont. after woman found with \u2018signs of trauma\u2019\" class=\"c-image\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/P3G2RSHCF5CUXMCJCAEX4SEYXY.jpg\"  width=\"800\" height=\"450\"\/>Homicide investigation launched in Newcastle, Ont. after woman found with \u2018signs of trauma\u2019 Homicide investigation launched in Newcastle, Ont. after woman found with \u2018signs of trauma\u2019 <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">On Friday, investigators arrested her husband, 64-year-old Scott Stevens also of Newcastle.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">He is charged with first-degree murder and was held for a bail hearing.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">None of the charges have been tested in court. This is Durham\u2019s fifth homicide of the year. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Anyone with additional information is asked to come forward and contact Durham police\u2019s Homicide Unit at 1-888-579-1520 ext. 5319.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Durham regional police say a man has been charged with first-degree murder in connection with the death of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":173680,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[712,49,48,44],"class_list":{"0":"post-173679","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-canada","8":"tag-apple-news","9":"tag-ca","10":"tag-canada","11":"tag-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/173679","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=173679"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/173679\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/173680"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=173679"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=173679"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=173679"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}