The sick grandmother suspected of poisoning her daughter and four grandchildren in her upstate New York home before taking her own life was only remembered by her surviving family in a brutal, two-sentence obituary.
“Amy J. Steadman, 64, passed away on Tuesday, June 23, 2026. Per the request of the family, services were held privately,” the obituary posted by Albany-based New Comer Creations and Funerals reads in its entirety, without a photograph of the killer grandmother.
Steadman, her daughter, Sarah Myers, 44, and four grandchildren Harper Harmon, 13, Hudson Harmon, 11, Gavin Harmon, 10, and Gracelynn Harmon, 10, were found dead at Steadman’s home in Mechanicville after police responded to a welfare check.
A handwritten note found at Steadman’s home “strongly suggests” that she poisoned the four before taking her own life, Mechanicville Chief of Police Bill Rabbitt told reporters last week.
“There is recovered evidence inside the apartment that indicates intentional poisoning with numerous prescriptions and over-the-counter medication,” Rabbit said, adding that the deaths are pending additional toxicology testing.
One of the children was also stabbed in the quintuple murder, which were possibly sparked over rage that he grandchildren’s father recently gaining custody, sources told Channel 13.
The children’s devastated dad, Brady Harmon, was in a custody battle with Myers, and had planned to take them with him back to Utah for the summer.
However when he spoke with Myers again on June 10, she claimed the children were sick, he told the US Sun.
He and Myers married in 2015 but separated four years later — the last time he saw his children in-person.
He had previously concerns about the children’s safety before the tragedy, which he described to Fox News as “horrendous.”
“The system is broken, it takes way too long to get anything done. I spent six and a half years fighting to be able to have access to my kids,” he said.
“My concern right now is being able to bring my kids home, and have them away from those two monsters that did this to them,” he added, about Myers and Steadman.
