{"id":373450,"date":"2026-10-15T00:49:05","date_gmt":"2026-10-15T00:49:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/373450\/"},"modified":"2026-10-15T00:49:05","modified_gmt":"2026-10-15T00:49:05","slug":"mom-drained-husbands-401k-for-great-wolf-lodge-trip-before-grisly-murder-step-mom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/373450\/","title":{"rendered":"Mom drained husband’s 401(k) for Great Wolf Lodge trip before grisly murder: step-mom"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Pennsylvania mom accused of butchering her husband and their 3-year-old son<\/a> at a Great Wolf Lodge on Monday had drained her husband\u2019s 401(k) to pay for the dream vacation, according to her stepmother \u2014 who believes she planned the bloodbath<\/a> in advance.<\/p>\n

Metallica Rose Harrison<\/a>, 27, tapped husband Charles\u2019 retirement account to pay for the three-week trip to the resort in the Poconos \u2014 an early Christmas present for little Tristan \u2014 plus a kitchen remodel and other expenses, stepmom April Thetga told The Post.<\/p>\n

The family found the sudden financial move \u201codd,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n

Metallica Rose Harrison and her husband Charles Harrison pose with their son in a photo posted to Facebook on August 26, 2025. Harrison killed her husband and three-year-old son at the Great Wolf Lodge in Scotrun, Pennsylvania, on Monday, October 12, 2026. Facebook\/Chaz Harrison<\/p>\n

\u201cIt was definitely odd, but they\u2019d taken their 401(k) out \u2026 There was nothing we could do about that,\u201d Thetga said.<\/p>\n

She didn\u2019t know whether the couple had borrowed against the retirement account or withdrawn the money outright.<\/p>\n

Metallica Rose Harrison, center, poses with her stepmother April Thetga, left, and her biological father Jason Thetga, right, in an undated family photo. Facebook\/April Thetga<\/p>\n

Yet the strange financial choice didn\u2019t raise major red flags for relatives, who had no idea anything was amiss \u2014 and even shared a cheerful video call the day before the murders, Therga said.<\/p>\n

\u201cShe had called and we\u2019re video chatting, and then she says she loved us very much, just like she normally would,\u201d Thetga recalled.<\/p>\n

The next day, cops found Charles and Tristan dead from multiple stab wounds after Harrison called 911 and asked for help ending her life.<\/p>\n

Here\u2019s the latest on the Great Wolf Lodge stabbing:<\/p>\n

The mom later raved to cops and paramedics about dreaming of a \u201chappy family\u201d and wanting to join her husband and son in death, according to an affidavit obtained by WNEP<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Before the trip, Harrison had posted cheerful family photos<\/a> from past vacations.<\/p>\n

Thetga described Charles Harrison as a devoted husband and father who rarely, if ever, lost his temper.<\/p>\n

Metallica Rose Harrison and her husband Charles Harrison hold their son in an undated Facebook photo. Metallica Harrison, 27, killed her husband Charles Harrison and their 3-year-old son at the Great Wolf Lodge in Scotrun, Pennsylvania, on Monday, Oct. 12, 2026. Facebook\/Tonya Goss<\/p>\n

\u201cHe was a fantastic husband. She definitely got lucky when it came to him. He just was good. He was a good father. I don\u2019t think I\u2019ve ever even seen him fight.\u201d<\/p>\n

Relatives still have no idea what could have caused the mom to snap.<\/p>\n

\u201cAbsolutely it was a loving family. We\u2019re just as shocked as everybody else. We\u2019re not evil people. We want answers. They were always happy,\u201d Theta said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Pennsylvania mom accused of butchering her husband and their 3-year-old son at a Great Wolf Lodge on…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":373451,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[238,9,11,10,3909,58],"class_list":["post-373450","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york","tag-murders","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-headlines","tag-new-york-news","tag-pennsylvania","tag-us-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/373450","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=373450"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/373450\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/373451"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=373450"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=373450"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=373450"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}