Heather Curtis
WMAL.com
UPDATE (WMAL) – Friday afternoon Fairfax County Police provided an update on the arrest and said a grand jury indicted Megan on two counts of first degree murder Thursday.
Maj. Ed O’Carroll said detectives determined early on that the scene inside the house where the bodies were found was staged to look like a murder-suicide.
When asked why police told the public it was a murder-suicide in 2017 even though they determined it wasn’t, O’Carroll said, “An investigative strategy is to find the person that’s responsible for a double murder is of utmost importance.”
O’Carroll added he was thankful that detectives followed up on every lead and said the investigation remains active.
WASHINGTON (WMAL) – When a woman and her daughter were found dead in a home in McLean in 2017 police thought it was a murder-suicide, but now they have said it was murder.
Friday morning Fairfax County Police arrested 35-year-old Megan Hargan in connection with the deaths of her sister 23-year-old Helen Hargan and their mother Pamela. The department Tweeted around 9 Friday morning detectives were questioning her.
After finding the bodies of the Helen and Pamela in a home on Dean Drive in July of 2017, police believed Helen shot her mother Pamela before turning the gun on herself.
Police have not said yet what new evidence led them to determine the women were both murdered
Police will give an update at a press conference this afternoon.
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