{"id":315081,"date":"2026-08-06T10:00:21","date_gmt":"2026-08-06T10:00:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/315081\/"},"modified":"2026-08-06T10:00:21","modified_gmt":"2026-08-06T10:00:21","slug":"ny-mom-sent-ex-husband-chilling-final-text-about-stomach-bug-before-killing-their-4-kids-in-murder-suicide","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/315081\/","title":{"rendered":"NY mom sent ex-husband chilling final text about \u2018stomach bug\u2019 before killing their 4 kids in murder-suicide"},"content":{"rendered":"

The twisted mom who teamed up with her own mother to kill her four children in an upstate New York murder-suicide<\/a> told the kids\u2019 dad the youngsters had \u201ca little stomach bug\u201d in a final text message on the day they died.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe 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,\u201d reads the newly released message that Sarah Myers allegedly sent to her ex-husband on the afternoon of June 10 \u2013 the same day Mechanicville police say she and the kids\u2019 grandmother, Amy Steadman,<\/a> \u201cconspired in carrying out the murders of the four children before taking their own lives.\u201d<\/p>\n

The slain kids\u2019 father, Brady Harmon<\/a>, released screenshots of the now harrowing text exchange with Myers, 44, in a heart-wrenching Facebook post <\/a>Tuesday.<\/p>\n

Sarah Myers messaged the kids\u2019 father that they had \u201ca little stomach bug\u201d on the day they died, newly released texts reveal.\u00a0 Facebook \/ Sarah Myers<\/p>\n

\u201cOkay I will keep painting then. Hopefully they feel better soon,\u201d Harmon, who lives in Utah, wrote in response to Myers\u2019 text \u2013 oblivious to the fact that, over 2,000 miles away, three of his children were killed in a suspected mass poisoning event<\/a>, while the fourth was repeatedly knifed to death, according to cops.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The screenshots show the father tried to reach Myers the next day, writing in a text, \u201cAre the kiddos feeling better?\u201d before his 4:02 p.m. video call went unanswered.\u00a0<\/p>\n

By that time, 64-year-old Steadman, Myers and the children \u2013 Harper Harmon, 13; Hudson Harmon, 11, and 10-year-old twins Gavin and Gracelynn Harmon \u2013 were all already dead inside the Mechanicville apartment, Police Chief Bill Rabbitt said during a press conference Tuesday.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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 \u201cmultiple doses of over-the-counter sleep aids and multiple medications that had been prescribed to her,\u201d Rabbitt said.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The slain kids\u2019 father, Brady Harmon, released screenshots of the chilling text exchange with Myers, 44, in a heart-wrenching Facebook post Tuesday.\u00a0 Facebook \/ Brady Harmon<\/p>\n

Disturbing text messages also revealed conversations between Myers and Steadman \u201cregarding obtaining medications, where the murders would occur, how those medications would be administered, how the children would be brought together, what they would be told and how suspicion could be avoided,\u201d the chief told reporters.\u00a0<\/p>\n

During that period, Myers was also sending Harmon deceptively reassuring messages regarding plans for the kids to stay with him in the Beehive State for two months starting July 1.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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\u201cWe are good for summer,\u201d she wrote in a June 5 text to Harmon.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cSometime before July 1st can we message on here re FaceTime calls and times for summer and birthday calls so I can have it in writing and there\u2019s no error,\u201d she wrote, and then, \u201cAnd if you could, please put the child support in the account so I can get them some sneakers.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n

The screenshots show Harmon made a video call to Myers\u2019 phone that lasted 17 minutes on June 7 \u2013 which, the dad would later come to realize, was the final time he spoke with his children.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Harmon (pictured) responded to Myers\u2019 message \u2014 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.\u00a0 Facebook \/ Brady Harmon<\/p>\n

\u201cThey seemed like happy little kids\u201d during that call, a heartbroken Harmon told The Post<\/a> days after the six family members\u2019 badly decomposed bodies were discovered inside the apartment on June 23.\u00a0<\/p>\n

On June 8, Harmon \u2013 who hadn\u2019t seen his children in-person since 2019 \u2013 sent Myers an eager message asking for intel on the kids\u2019 individual hobbies and interests.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Here\u2019s the latest on the upstate NY murder-suicide that left 4 kids, mother, grandmother dead<\/p>\n

\u201cSince I have missed a significant amount of time with [the kids], I want to make sure their summer is enjoyable, engaging, and centered around things they genuinely like to do,\u201d Harmon wrote.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cMy goal is to create opportunities for all of us to spend quality time together, stay active, enjoy the outdoors, make positive memories, and reconnect as a family.\u201d<\/p>\n

The father also requested that Myers send over any medical records for the children so he could \u201cproperly care for them.\u201d<\/p>\n

In response, Myers wrote, \u201cI\u2019ll talk to the kiddos about the stuff they would like to do over the summer.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n

Harmon \u2014 who hadn\u2019t seen the children in-person since 2019 \u2014 was planning for their arrival in the Beehive State starting July 1. Courtesy Brady Harmon<\/p>\n

On June 8, Harmon sent Myers an eager message asking for intel on the kids\u2019 individual hobbies and interests.\u00a0 Facebook \/ Brady Harmon<\/p>\n

In a text sent the following morning, she said: \u201cAnd I\u2019m getting together all the stuff you asked for so everyone has a safe fun time.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n

Rabbitt told The Post that Harmon had previously shared the texts with investigators.<\/p>\n

Investigators revealed Tuesday they found a note written by Steadman which stated that \u201cthe author accepts responsibility for what occurred and states that they believed killing the children was the only way to keep them safe from alleged abuse in Utah.\u201d<\/p>\n

Cops also found letters they suspect were written by Myers, in which she also claimed her children had been abused.<\/p>\n

\u201cAlthough those writings were unsigned, the author repeatedly referred to \u2018my babies,\u2019 expressed anger toward the Utah family court system, made allegations that she and the children had been abused while living in Utah and complained that she had been unable to obtain legal representation,\u201d Rabbitt told reporters.<\/p>\n

\u201cAmy Steadman and Sarah Myers consistently portrayed these murders as a way of protecting the children,\u201d the chief said.\u00a0\u201cWhatever they believed justified their actions, the deliberate murder of four children cannot be described as protection.\u201d<\/p>\n

Harmon wrote a lengthy message on Facebook, signed \u201clove always, Dad.\u201d Facebook \/ Brady Harmon<\/p>\n

Brady Harmon has categorically denied the allegations, and Rabbitt revealed police couldn\u2019t independently verify the claims of abuse against Myers or the children.<\/p>\n

\u201cI cannot understand how anyone could claim that this was done to \u2018save\u2019 my children from harm,\u201d Harmon wrote alongside the screenshots on Facebook. <\/p>\n

\u201cThe greatest possible harm was done to them. They were terrified, betrayed, and robbed of their lives by the very people who were supposed to protect them.<\/p>\n

\u201cMy children were not pawns to be sacrificed when control was slipping away. They were four beautiful human beings with personalities, dreams, fears, laughter, and an entire family waiting to love them.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cI believed I was preparing to welcome my children home,\u201d he wrote. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The twisted mom who teamed up with her own mother to kill her four children in an upstate…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":315082,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[99550,4207,5998,57,14034,238,9,24,55,54,56,58,1844],"class_list":["post-315081","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york-city","tag-child-custody","tag-children","tag-facebook","tag-metro","tag-murder-suicide","tag-murders","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-new-york-city-headlines","tag-new-york-city-news","tag-ny","tag-us-news","tag-utah"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/315081","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=315081"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/315081\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/315082"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=315081"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=315081"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=315081"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}