{"id":204240,"date":"2026-04-21T02:42:07","date_gmt":"2026-04-21T02:42:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/204240\/"},"modified":"2026-04-21T02:42:07","modified_gmt":"2026-04-21T02:42:07","slug":"new-york-state-police-investigate-suspicious-death","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/204240\/","title":{"rendered":"New York State Police investigate suspicious death"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text | article-text\">CHAMPLAIN, N.Y. (WCAX) &#8211; A death investigation is underway in New York after police say they found a man strangled to death.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Just before 8 on Saturday night, New York state police responded to a home on Route 9B in Champlain for a reported death.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">When they arrived, they found the body of 63-year-old John Murphy on a couch.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">On Monday, Murphy\u2019s death was confirmed to be due to strangulation.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">New York State Police are asking those in the area for information and security footage.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">This is an ongoing investigation.<\/p>\n<p>Copyright 2026 WCAX. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"CHAMPLAIN, N.Y. (WCAX) &#8211; A death investigation is underway in New York after police say they found a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":204241,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[9,11,10,12,104,26450,1631],"class_list":["post-204240","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-headlines","tag-new-york-news","tag-news","tag-police","tag-suspicious-death","tag-wcax"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/204240","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=204240"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/204240\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/204241"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=204240"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=204240"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=204240"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}