{"id":173856,"date":"2025-09-27T21:18:09","date_gmt":"2025-09-27T21:18:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/173856\/"},"modified":"2025-09-27T21:18:09","modified_gmt":"2025-09-27T21:18:09","slug":"durham-region-man-64-charged-with-murder-in-wifes-death","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/173856\/","title":{"rendered":"Durham Region man, 64, charged with murder in wife&#8217;s death"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A man from Durham Region has been charged with murdering his wife in what police are categorizing as a case of \u201cintimate partner violence.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Last week, police were called to the Newcastle area in the municipality of Clarington for reports of \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/toronto.citynews.ca\/2025\/09\/16\/durham-clarington-woman-dead-homicide-newcastle\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">unknown trouble<\/a>\u201d in the vicinity of Farrow Avenue and Highway 2 at approximately 9:10 a.m.<\/p>\n<p>When officers arrived at the scene on Sept. 16, they discovered a female victim with \u201cobvious signs of trauma.\u201d She was pronounced dead at the scene.<\/p>\n<p>The Homicide Unit then took over the investigation and later identified the victim as <a href=\"https:\/\/toronto.citynews.ca\/2025\/09\/23\/police-identify-woman-found-dead-in-clarington\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">62-year-old Marilyn Stevens<\/a> of Newcastle.<\/p>\n<p>Police have not revealed exactly how she died, but on Saturday investigators announced the arrest of the victim\u2019s husband, 64-year-old Scott Stevens.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>He has been charged with a single count of first-degree murder and was held for a bail hearing.<\/p>\n<p>Authorities say intimate partner violence can take many forms, including physical, emotional, financial and psychological abuse.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt knows no boundaries and can impact people of all ages, genders, races, and socioeconomic backgrounds,\u201d Durham police wrote in a statement.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis incident serves as a crucial reminder that we must come together as a community to support those affected by domestic violence and work towards creating safer environments for everyone,\u201d they added.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A man from Durham Region has been charged with murdering his wife in what police are categorizing as&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":173857,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[43,44,41,39,42,40],"class_list":{"0":"post-173856","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-headlines","8":"tag-headlines","9":"tag-news","10":"tag-top-news","11":"tag-top-stories","12":"tag-topnews","13":"tag-topstories"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/173856","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=173856"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/173856\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/173857"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=173856"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=173856"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=173856"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}