Brady Harmon Utah father in a new interview says he believes his slain children’s grandmother, Amy Steadman and their mom Sarah Myers plotted killing 4 kids ahead of dad’s upcoming child custody visit.
A Utah father has broken his silence after tragedy struck his family when his four children were found dead in their home alongside their mother and grandmother, in what police suspect was an intentional act of poisoning at the hands of the children’s grandmom.
Brady Harmon had been set to see his for children for the first time since 2020 following a contentious divorce and child custody case involving his ex wife. News of the family’s murder-suicide has forever rocked the dad ever seeing his children again.
The bodies of the family were found dead inside their apartment in Mechanicville, a small town in upstate New York, on Tuesday.
Grandmom became resentful of Utah dad’s recent custody win
The identities were revealed to be Amy Steadman, 64, her daughter, Sarah Myers, 44, (Harmon’s ex wife) and four grandchildren, Harper, 13, Hudson, 11, and Gavin and Gracelynn, both 10.
Mechanicville Police Department Chief William Rabbitt said at a press conference on Thursday that the bodies were recovered after authorities responded to a welfare check.
An autopsy concluded that one of the children suffered fatal blunt-force injuries. Rabbitt added that authorities recovered evidence indicating ‘intentional poisoning.’
The chief told reporters that authorities also located a note at the scene, along with circumstantial evidence ‘strongly suggesting’ that Steadman had deliberately taken the lives of her daughter and her grandkids after becoming resentful of Harmon recently winning custodial rights.
Recent texts with mom ahead of upcoming custody visit
Harmon, has now spoken out about the tragedy, revealing that he had been involved in an ongoing custody battle with Myers and that the children were set to spend the summer with him in Utah.
He told The US Sun that he and Myers married in 2015 but separated four years later, and that it was the last time he saw his children.
Harmon said he last spoke to his children on June 7, but received a text from Myers on June 10 that they were sick.
‘She messaged me, “Hey, the kids are sick, we’ll talk to you on the 11th,” he said.
That same day, Harmon said his lawyer sent her paperwork regarding an upcoming custody hearing on the 29th.
‘So, I don’t know if that pushed them over the edge because like, “Oh my gosh, he actually has a lawyer that’s going to do his job. And we don’t know way out of this, so let’s do the next best thing. He’ll never have access to these kids…” and then do what they did,’ he speculated.
After he learned his children were sick, Harmon said he called police multiple times to ask for welfare checks.
Harmon added that he consistently spoke to his children on FaceTime and tried to get them excited about their upcoming summer visit to Utah.
He described the grandmother as not being warm, but admitted that she was ‘doting’ and would spoil the children.
Utah dad speculates grandmom and mom plotting to kill 4 kids
Harmon speculated during an interview with Spectrum News that Myers and Steadman committed the crime together.
‘And all because they were going to spend 60 days with me. Sixty days in six and a half years. I finally get 60 days, and I get this thrown in my face,’ he added, referring to the upcoming Utah trip.
‘I have been fighting for so long to be able to have access to them, fighting so long to be part of their lives and show them there’s something different,’ he continued.
‘Almost to that finish line, have my legs cut out from me and gutted because someone decided to take my kids away from me.’
Harmon told local ABC affiliate News 10 that he discovered his kids were gone just two days before Father’s Day.
‘No mother, no sane mother, parent or anything would sit there and allow that to happen,’ he said.
‘Who could do that to a child, especially your own child or grandchild? It is so sickening to think that they did that.’
Steadman’s Facebook profile shows that in 2022, she shared a GoFundMe for her daughter to ‘help get a domestic violence lawyer.’
Harmon denied the accusations in his interview with The US Sun, calling Myers the ‘culprit’ rather than a ‘victim.’
He alleged that she stabbed him in the face with a medicine dropper during a fight in 2019. Harmon also accused his ex-wife of keeping his children away from him to maintain a sense of ‘control.’
‘I went from, ‘I’m seeing my kids,’ to ‘I’ll never see my kids again,’’ Harmon told WRGB. ‘Hope to hell. Things happen, but nothing like this.’
Authorities continue to investigate.
