{"id":214085,"date":"2026-06-08T23:38:07","date_gmt":"2026-06-08T23:38:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/214085\/"},"modified":"2026-06-08T23:38:07","modified_gmt":"2026-06-08T23:38:07","slug":"woman-kills-man-and-then-self-in-pennsylvania-murder-suicide-officials-say","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/214085\/","title":{"rendered":"Woman kills man and then self in Pennsylvania murder-suicide, officials say"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A man and woman were found dead in a Carbon County, Pennsylvania, mobile home in an apparent murder-suicide, authorities said.<\/p>\n<p>The Carbon County Coroner&#8217;s Office said Monday in a news release on Facebook that 59-year-old Samuel Douglas Macadam and 58-year-old Beth Allyson Esa were pronounced dead on Friday morning. The news release said Macadam&#8217;s death was ruled a homicide due to a gunshot wound, while Esa&#8217;s death was ruled a suicide due to self-inflicted gunshot wounds. It was not immediately clear how the two knew each other.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Authorities said the Kidder Township Police Department and Pennsylvania State Police were called to a residence on State Street in East Side Borough after &#8220;concerns were raised&#8221; following a 911 hang-up call. At the scene, law enforcement found two people dead inside a mobile home on the property. The two were pronounced dead by the coroner at around 3:40 a.m.<\/p>\n<p>The coroner said authorities believe this was a murder-suicide, and there is no known threat to the public.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Police are investigating. No other information was released.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"content__tags__label\">In:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A man and woman were found dead in a Carbon County, Pennsylvania, mobile home in an apparent murder-suicide,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":103467,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[39645,28,30,29],"class_list":["post-214085","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-pennsylvania","tag-murder-suicide","tag-pennsylvania","tag-pennsylvania-headlines","tag-pennsylvania-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/214085","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=214085"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/214085\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/103467"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=214085"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=214085"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=214085"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}