{"id":77046,"date":"2026-01-03T15:59:10","date_gmt":"2026-01-03T15:59:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/77046\/"},"modified":"2026-01-03T15:59:10","modified_gmt":"2026-01-03T15:59:10","slug":"bethlehem-officials-investigate-suspected-murder-suicide-bethelehm-area","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/77046\/","title":{"rendered":"Bethlehem officials investigate suspected murder-suicide | Bethelehm Area"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>BETHLEHEM, Pa. &#8211; The Lehigh County Coroner&#8217;s office says that two victims of a suspected murder-suicide were found in a Bethlehem home Friday night, both of whom had suffered apparent gunshot injuries.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The incident happened in the 200 block of 10th Avenue at approximately 10:45 p.m..<\/p>\n<p>The Coroner says a 39-year-old woman was found deceased at the scene and pronounced dead at 11:22 p.m..<\/p>\n<p>A 42-year-old male, who was in the same residence, was found suffering from gunshot wounds and transported to St.Luke&#8217;s University Hospital. He was later prounounced dead at 11:39 p.m.<\/p>\n<p>Autopsies for both victims are scheduled for Monday.<\/p>\n<p>The Coroner&#8217;s office, the City of Bethlehem Police Department, the Lehigh County Homicide Task Force, and the Lehigh County District Attorney&#8217;s office are investigating.<\/p>\n<p>The Coroner says both victims have been identifed however names will not be released until autopsies have been completed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"BETHLEHEM, Pa. &#8211; The Lehigh County Coroner&#8217;s office says that two victims of a suspected murder-suicide were found&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":77029,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[214,153,155,154,1391,433,805],"class_list":{"0":"post-77046","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-bethlehem","8":"tag-_homepage_top_stories","9":"tag-bethlehem","10":"tag-bethlehem-headlines","11":"tag-bethlehem-news","12":"tag-bethlehem-area","13":"tag-lehigh-county","14":"tag-lehighvalley"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77046","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=77046"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77046\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/77029"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=77046"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=77046"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=77046"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}