{"id":296989,"date":"2026-06-05T10:11:26","date_gmt":"2026-06-05T10:11:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/296989\/"},"modified":"2026-06-05T10:11:26","modified_gmt":"2026-06-05T10:11:26","slug":"father-kills-2-daughters-their-mother-in-miami-stabbing-murder-suicide","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/296989\/","title":{"rendered":"Father kills 2 daughters, their mother in Miami stabbing murder-suicide"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Miami police car (tzahiV\/Getty Images)<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">(MIAMI) \u2014 A man, woman and two girls were found stabbed to death in what investigators believe is a murder-suicide in Miami.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">Investigators said they believe 42-year-old Ryan Charles Whiten killed 46-year-old Melanie Lauren Hyer, 11-year-old Savannah Whiten and 8-year-old Sienna Whiten before taking his own life, according to the Miami-Dade Sheriff\u2019s Office.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">Ryan Charles Whiten was the biological father of Savannah Whiten and Sienna Whiten, and Hyer was the girls\u2019 mother, according to the sheriff\u2019s office.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">Doral Police Officers responded to a residence in Miami-Dade for a welfare check on Tuesday at around 7:30 p.m., according to the sheriff\u2019s office.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">Officers entered the residence when they arrived on the scene to find a woman, man and two girls all unresponsive, according to the sheriff\u2019s office. All four individuals suffered stab wounds and were pronounced dead at the scene.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">\u201cThe Miami-Dade Sheriff\u2019s Office Homicide Bureau investigation is currently leading detectives to believe this incident was a murder-suicide. Investigators are continuing to work closely with the Miami-Dade County Medical Examiner\u2019s Office as the investigation remains active,\u201d the sheriff\u2019s office said in a statement.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Copyright \u00a9 2026, ABC Audio. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Miami police car (tzahiV\/Getty Images) (MIAMI) \u2014 A man, woman and two girls were found stabbed to death&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":296990,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[123,125,124],"class_list":["post-296989","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-miami","tag-miami","tag-miami-headlines","tag-miami-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/296989","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=296989"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/296989\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/296990"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=296989"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=296989"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=296989"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}