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By Lissa Harris on Wednesday, Feb. 27, 2013 - 2:43 pm
Above: Lieutenant Erik Dauber of the New York State Police briefs local news reporters on an unfolding homicide investigation at Troop C's Sidney headquarters on Tuesday. Source: New York State Police's Facebook page.
Number of bodies found so far in a... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Tuesday, Feb. 26, 2013 - 3:15 pm
More disturbing details are emerging from the police investigation into an apparent murder-suicide and arson that occurred last week in a Walton home.
On February 19, two people were found dead at a house at 294 John Lockwood Road, which was set on fire... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Monday, Feb. 25, 2013 - 3:14 pm
A long-dead body has been found during the investigation of an arson-suicide at 294 John Lockwood Road in Walton, where 48-year-old Debra Sundstrom committed suicide by gunshot on February 19.
On the afternoon of February 19, two local police officers --... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Thursday, Feb. 21, 2013 - 5:02 pm
One of the two people found dead in a burning house on a dead-end road in Walton on Tuesday was 48-year-old Debra S. Sundstrom, according to a press release from the New York State Police.
A forensic pathologist at Lourdes Hospital in Binghamton has found... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Tuesday, Oct. 9, 2012 - 3:18 pm
For the third time this year, the Daily Mail reports, a suspicious fire has destroyed a house in Prattsville. The house belonged to Jim Rion, and was in the process of being rebuilt after sustaining significant damage in the Irene floods.
Officials... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Friday, Aug. 24, 2012 - 2:49 pm
A Hamden man who was declared missing after his mobile home was set ablaze spent four days hiding in the woods, according to the Delaware County Sheriff's Office.
On Monday morning, police and emergency responders found William D. Lawson's home at 866... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Thursday, Oct. 6, 2011 - 10:01 am
Eugene E. Gundelach, the owner of the Margaretville building on Main Street that burned down on September 17, is no longer being accused of starting the fire, according to the Catskill Mountain News.
Gundelach was arrested on September 17 after the blaze... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Sunday, Sep. 18, 2011 - 10:15 am
After a fire gutted an apartment building on Main Street Margaretville on Saturday, September 17, deputies from the Delaware County Sheriff's Office arrested the man who owns the building -- 58-year-old Eugene E. Gundelach -- on charges of arson.
The... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Friday, Mar. 18, 2011 - 6:30 pm
This just in from the Delaware County Sheriff's Office: 53-year-old Louis J. Brigandi of Walton has been charged with setting a barn on fire in Hamden on St. Patrick's Day.
According to the press release, a barn on Rte. 10 in Hamden went up in flames on... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Thursday, Jan. 13, 2011 - 10:55 am
In the Daily Star today: Reporter Patricia Breakey pounds the pavement for details on Mike Allen, the 31-year-old Walton man accused of burning down the First Baptist Church on Tuesday morning. Friends and neighbors paint a sad picture of mental illness... Read more
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