Grandma ‘who fatally poisoned four grandchildren’ given blunt two-line obituary

Amy Steadman is suspected of involvement in the death of her daughter Sarah Myers and her four grandchildren

A grandmother who is suspected of fatally poisoning her daughter and four grandchildren before taking her own life has been remembered by surviving family members in a blunt, two-line obituary.

Amy Steadman, 64, her daughter, Sarah Myers, 44, and four grandchildren, Harper Harmon, 13, Hudson Harmon, 11 and 10-year-olds Gavin Harmon and Gracelynn Harmon, were found dead at Steadman’s home in Mechanicville, New York on June 23.

According to the authorities, who discovered the bodies after responding to a welfare check, a handwritten note found at the scene ‘strongly suggests that Steadman poisoned her five family members.

Mechanicville police chief William Rabbitt said: ‘There is recovered evidence inside the apartment that...