Metallica Rose Harrison, 27, allegedly called 911 from the Scotrun resort to say her husband and toddler were dead. Police say she had cut her wrists and neck and told officers she was “suicidal, not stupid.”
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A 27-year-old woman is in police custody after her husband and their 3-year-old son were found stabbed to death inside a room at the Great Wolf Lodge in Scotrun, Pennsylvania, according to a police affidavit reported by WNEP.
Investigators say Metallica Rose Harrison called 911 shortly after 3 p.m. Monday, told the dispatcher that her husband, Charles Harrison, and their son were already dead, and asked for help ending her own life. The boy has been identified in court papers only by his initials, T.H.
What police found
When officers reached Room 2030, they found the father and son on mattresses in the living area with multiple stab wounds to the chest, the affidavit says. Police recovered a butcher knife on the bathroom floor and a smaller knife in the sink, along with several containers believed to hold blood and a number of medication bottles.
Harrison had cuts to her left wrist and shallow puncture wounds to her neck. According to the affidavit, she told the officers who arrived that she was “suicidal, not stupid,” and later told paramedics that things were not supposed to end this way and that she had always wanted a happy family.
Police say she also asked medics how deep the vein in her wrist was and complained that her blood had clotted even though she was taking blood thinners. She was taken to a hospital in Stroudsburg for treatment.
A weeks-long stay
The family, who lived in Towanda, roughly two hours from the resort, checked in to the Great Wolf Lodge on Sept. 21 and extended their booking on Oct. 5, police said.
Harrison has not yet entered a plea, and it was not immediately clear whether she has an attorney who could comment on her behalf.
Reporting in this story is based on a police affidavit as reported by WNEP and on coverage by the New York Post. The photographs are stock file images, not photographs of the people or places described.
