{"id":353372,"date":"2026-09-22T10:02:33","date_gmt":"2026-09-22T10:02:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/353372\/"},"modified":"2026-09-22T10:02:33","modified_gmt":"2026-09-22T10:02:33","slug":"autopsies-reveal-murder-suicide-in-brushton-deaths-state-police-say","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/353372\/","title":{"rendered":"Autopsies Reveal Murder-Suicide in Brushton Deaths, State Police Say"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text | article-text\">TOWN OF BRUSHTON, New York (WWNY) &#8211; Autopsies have confirmed that the two people found dead inside a town of Brushton home last week died in an apparent murder-suicide, according to the New York State Police.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Investigators identified the deceased as Martine Decarr, 68, and Drew Harm, 60, both of Brushton.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Following autopsies conducted Friday at Glens Falls Hospital by forensic pathologist Dr. Michael Sikirica, Decarr\u2019s death was ruled a homicide and Harm\u2019s death was ruled a suicide. Both died from severe skull fractures and brain injuries resulting from gunshot wounds, police said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Troopers originally discovered the bodies around 8:30 a.m. on Sept. 16 after responding to the residence for a welfare check. Members of the State Police Bureau of Criminal Investigation, Violent Crimes Investigation Team, and Forensic Investigation Unit processed the scene. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Authorities have reiterated that there is no threat to the public, and the investigation remains ongoing.<\/p>\n<p>Copyright 2026 WWNY. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"TOWN OF BRUSHTON, New York (WWNY) &#8211; Autopsies have confirmed that the two people found dead inside a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":353373,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[2700,13216,9,11,10,49,51,50,747,3905,18431,8938,3904],"class_list":["post-353372","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york","tag-car","tag-generic","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-headlines","tag-new-york-news","tag-new-york-state","tag-new-york-state-headlines","tag-new-york-state-news","tag-new-york-state-police","tag-nysp","tag-patrol-car","tag-state-police","tag-wwny"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/353372","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=353372"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/353372\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/353373"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=353372"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=353372"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=353372"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}