Bucks man charged with homicide in wife’s strangling death
Police say 59-year-old Michael Myers strangled his wife, Dawn, at their Bristol home.
A Bristol Borough man was charged with homicide and related crimes in the strangling death of his wife this week, authorities said.
Michael Myers, 59, was arrested Thursday in the killing of his wife, Dawn, in their Lower Bucks County home, according to the affidavit of probable cause for his arrest.
Around 6:30 a.m. that morning, police found Dawn Myers, 54, dead in a room on the second-floor of the Wood Street property. She appeared to have been be strangled, and had multiple men’s ties wrapped around her neck and her shirt was pulled up, the affidavit said.
It was not the first time police responded to the property, the document said.
Officers first arrived shortly after 6 a.m. after receiving a security alert from the Myers’ alarm company. But the door was locked and no one answered when they knocked, according to the document.
They returned just before 6:30 a.m. after Dawn Myers’ son, Brendan Murray, arrived at the home to find his mother dead, the affidavit said. There, Murray also found Myers, his stepdad, who had been released from the hospital the previous day after being admitted for making suicidal threats, according to the document.
Myers had been in and out of the hospital for those concerns, the affidavit said, and was released after medical professionals determined he was not a threat to himself, the affidavit said.
Murray told investigators he arrived to find Myers sitting outside the home in a parked car with blood on his face. He said he asked where his mother was, and Myers led him to the front door and unlocked it.
He soon found his mother upstairs and as he tried to descend the stairs, he said, Myers blocked his way with arms outstretched, the document said.
Murray said he fought past him, ran out to the front lawn and yelled for his wife to call 911.
After police arrived, the document said, Murray pointed to Myers ― who was standing behind the front glass door ― and accused him of killing his mother.
Police took Myers into custody as investigators began gathering evidence from the alarm system and security cameras that indicated Myers’ had been inside in the home.
The cameras captured Dawn and Michael Myers returning home together on Wednesday afternoon. They also captured the last time Dawn Myers was seen alive, when she let their dogs out in the backyard around 6:40 p.m.
The next time they recorded activity, Myers was leaving the home around 6 a.m. on the morning of the killing.
He is being held at the Bucks County Correctional Facility and was denied bail.
In addition to homicide, Myers was charged with strangulation, aggravated assault, intimidation of witnesses, possessing instruments of a crime, and false imprisonment.
He is expected to appear in court for a preliminary hearing on August 26.
