Fateful suicide note reveals chilling reason twisted granny poisoned daughter and four grandkids

The four children were tragically found dead at the property

A HORRIFIC house of horror has been uncovered after a twisted grandmother allegedly slaughtered her own daughter and four young grandchildren in a sickening mass poisoning plot.

Cops made the grim discovery inside a quiet apartment block in Upstate New York, finding six members of the same family dead.

Now, a chilling handwritten letter left at the scene has exposed the dark truth behind the massacre — revealing how the grandmother chose to wipe out three generations of her own blood over a bitter, long-running family dispute.

A Scene of Pure Horror

The tragedy unfolded in the small city of Mechanicville, just north of Albany, New York. Officers were called to a housing complex on Harris Avenue to conduct a welfare check after anxious neighbors reported they hadn’t seen 64-year-old Amy Steadman for days.

Amy Steadman is believed to have killed her five family members

When emergency workers finally got building managers to unlock the door, they walked into a scene of unimaginable butchery.

Inside the apartment lay the bodies of Steadman, her daughter Sarah Myers, 44, and Myers’ four beautiful children: 13-year-old Harper, 11-year-old Hudson, and 10-year-old twins Gavin and Gracelynn.

The bodies had been inside the sweltering apartment for so long that police chief William Rabbitt admitted the conditions made it initially impossible to identify the victims.

The Fateful Letter

Detectives searching the grim scene quickly discovered a handwritten note penned by the grandmother before she turned the poison on herself. Chief Rabbitt confirmed that the note, alongside a mountain of circumstantial evidence, “strongly suggests” that Steadman was the mastermind behind the slaughter.

Tributes have poured in from a New York shocked community

The note laid bare a chilling motive. Investigators believe Steadman launched her murderous plan to stop the children from being reunited with their heartbroken father, Brady Harmon.

Mr. Harmon, who lives thousands of miles away in Utah, was reportedly just days away from seeing his beloved children in person for the first time in more than six years. He had planned to fly to the East Coast to bring them back to Utah for the summer holidays.

Rather than let the children go, the possessive grandmother chose a sickening final solution.

Toxic Trap

Inside the flat, detectives uncovered a lethal cocktail of numerous prescription and over-the-counter medications, which they believe were used to lace the family’s food or drinks. Cops are treating the case as an “intentional poisoning.”

But the horror did not stop at the toxic drugs. In a sinister twist that points to a desperate struggle inside the flat, chief Rabbitt revealed that one of the innocent children had suffered fatal “sharp-force injuries.”

Neighbors have been left entirely shattered by the realization that a monster was living among them. Tributes and flowers have begun piling up outside the housing complex as a shell-shocked community tries to come to terms with the loss of four young lives.

The father of the children lives in Utah

One local resident said:

“Those kids were always smiling. To think that their own grandmother, the person who was supposed to protect them, could do something so evil is beyond comprehension.”

Six Years of Heartache

The children’s devastated father, Brady Harmon, opened up about his six-year legal nightmare to secure custody and visitation rights. He revealed that Sarah Myers had abruptly left Utah with the kids without warning in November 2019, fleeing to New York to live near her mother.

Mr. Harmon filed for divorce in 2020 and had been locked in a grueling, exhausting court battle ever since, desperate to catch a glimpse of his kids. He was finally on the brink of a joyful reunion, scheduled to pick them up for the summer.

Instead, his dreams were brutally crushed by a mother and grandmother who refused to share them.

Police have confirmed they are not looking for anyone else in connection with the deaths, believing the horror occurred entirely within the four walls of the apartment.

While formal toxicology reports and final medical examiner reviews are still pending, the chilling letter left behind has already written the final, tragic chapter for a family wiped out by a grandmother’s ultimate act of malice.