{"id":288739,"date":"2026-09-18T07:02:12","date_gmt":"2026-09-18T07:02:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/288739\/"},"modified":"2026-09-18T07:02:12","modified_gmt":"2026-09-18T07:02:12","slug":"pennsylvania-state-police-investigate-homicide-of-elderly-woman-in-susquehanna-county","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/288739\/","title":{"rendered":"Pennsylvania State Police investigate homicide of elderly woman in Susquehanna County"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text | article-text\">SILVER LAKE TOWNSHIP, Pa. (WBNG) &#8212; Pennsylvania State Police are investigating a fatal incident in Susquehanna County after finding an elderly woman dead inside a home on Wednesday afternoon.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">On Sept. 16, at around 3:15 p.m., troopers from the Gibson barracks responded to a Donovan Road residence for a report of a deceased woman.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Andrea Lynn Vail, 76, was found dead inside the home, according to Pennsylvania State Police.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Upon arrival, officers found 46-year-old Michael Sean Jones outside the property.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">An investigation found that Jones and Vail were involved in an argument on the evening of Sept. 15, during which Jones allegedly assaulted the victim, resulting in her death.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Jones was transported to UHS Wilson Medical Center in Johnson City, where he remains hospitalized in police custody.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The Susquehanna County District Attorney\u2019s Office approved a charge of criminal homicide against Jones. New York State Police assisted with securing a fugitive from justice warrant.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The Troop R Major Case Team led the investigation, with assistance from forensic and reconstruction units processing evidence at the scene.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">This is a developing story, and the investigation is ongoing.<\/p>\n<p>Copyright 2026 WBNG. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SILVER LAKE TOWNSHIP, Pa. (WBNG) &#8212; Pennsylvania State Police are investigating a fatal incident in Susquehanna County after&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":288740,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[28,30,29],"class_list":["post-288739","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-pennsylvania","tag-pennsylvania","tag-pennsylvania-headlines","tag-pennsylvania-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/288739","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=288739"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/288739\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/288740"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=288739"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=288739"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=288739"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}