{"id":710902,"date":"2026-06-18T05:57:11","date_gmt":"2026-06-18T05:57:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/710902\/"},"modified":"2026-06-18T05:57:11","modified_gmt":"2026-06-18T05:57:11","slug":"autopsies-determine-keene-man-likely-killed-wife-himself","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/710902\/","title":{"rendered":"Autopsies determine Keene man likely killed wife, himself"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t\t\tKEENE, N.H. \u2014 \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>Investigators said Wednesday that a Keene man likely shot and killed his wife before killing himself. <\/p>\n<p>Autopsies were conducted on Donna Fairbanks, 70, and her husband, Chandler Fairbanks, 72, after their bodies were found Tuesday in their Keene home. <\/p>\n<p>The New Hampshire Attorney General&#8217;s Office said the medical examiner determined that both died of gunshot wounds. Donna Fairbanks&#8217; death was determined to be a homicide, and Chandler Fairbanks&#8217; death was ruled a suicide.  <\/p>\n<p>Donna Fairbanks was a beloved math teacher in Keene who continued to substitute teach after she retired. <\/p>\n<p>The Keene School District is remembering her as a pillar of the community and one of the best both inside the classroom and out.  <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;As a professional, as a teacher, Donna was top-notch. Second-to-none,&#8221; said Robb Malay, superintendent of the Keene School District. <\/p>\n<p>&gt;&gt; <a href=\"https:\/\/onelink.to\/wmurapp\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Download the free WMUR app to get updates on the go<\/a> &lt;&lt;<\/p>\n<p>Donna Fairbanks taught thousands over her nearly 40 years teaching, including school board chair George Downing and his two children. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Donna started each day talking with us, not about math, not about homework, but what we were doing,&#8221; Downing said. <\/p>\n<p>Throughout her teaching career, Donna Fairbanks received multiple awards within the school district over the years and was nominated in 2008 for New Hampshire Teacher of the Year.  <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;She loved what she did; she was very passionate about the art and the craft that goes into teaching, and she was really good at it,&#8221; Malay said. <\/p>\n<p>Officials said no further information is expected to be released. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"KEENE, N.H. \u2014 Investigators said Wednesday that a Keene man likely shot and killed his wife before killing&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":710903,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[84815,4,450,306549,3088,8609,26522,306550,53223,451,29084,55216,306552,306551,62654,3,16178,5642,36532,452,453,11484,6601,19500],"class_list":["post-710902","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-breaking-news","tag-autopsy","tag-breaking-news","tag-breakingnews","tag-chandler-fairbanks","tag-couple","tag-death","tag-deaths","tag-donna-fairbanks","tag-gunshot-wound","tag-headlines","tag-husband","tag-keene","tag-keene-home","tag-keene-man","tag-new-hampshire-attorney-general","tag-news","tag-office","tag-suicide","tag-teacher","tag-top-stories","tag-topstories","tag-tuesday","tag-wednesday","tag-wife"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/710902","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=710902"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/710902\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/710903"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=710902"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=710902"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=710902"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}