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Great Wolf Lodge stabbings

True crime · Heat 2.4 / 10 · 4 shows · 56m airtime

Metallica Rose Harrison, 27, was charged with two counts of criminal homicide on October 12, 2026, after her husband Charles and 3-year-old son Tristan were found stabbed to death in a Great Wolf Lodge room in the Poconos. The October 15 autopsy found the 3-year-old had multiple chest stab wounds and Charles a single one, the reverse of initial police reports. Police found two non-resort knives in the room, a butcher knife and a steak knife, and neither victim had defensive wounds. Harrison is held without bail awaiting a preliminary hearing.

How 4 podcasts covered it

  1. Law&Crime Sidebar, 2026-10-16 (0:00 to 1:10)
    Opens the case with the homicide counts
    Opens the case: the two criminal homicide counts, the three-week resort stay, the drained savings, and the 911 call, drawn from the probable cause affidavit and a police news conference.
    New angle: Harrison is charged with two counts of criminal homicide; police say she drained family savings and stayed three weeks.
  2. Law&Crime Sidebar, 2026-10-16 (1:10 to 3:20)
    Breaks down the affidavit and the teal knives
    Walks the probable cause affidavit in detail: the 911 call asking for help dying, the two mattresses, the stab wounds, and Harrison's statements in the ambulance. Adds the physical evidence - two teal knives in the room that did not come from the resort, ten more seized from the home, journals, a laptop and thirteen sealed envelopes - plus the…
    New angle: Police seized ten teal knives from the home and found two in the room that were not the resort's.
  3. Law&Crime Sidebar, 2026-10-16 (3:29 to 4:21)
    Adds Harrison's statements to EMS
    Goes into the affidavit's account of what Harrison told EMS and hospital staff: that she needed help dying, could not find a vein, and had taken blood thinners. New on-the-record statements from the defendant, not yet in the file.
    New angle: Harrison told EMS she needed help dying and could not find a vein in her neck to stab.
  4. Law&Crime Sidebar, 2026-10-16 (4:21 to 5:32)
    Lists the affidavit evidence and surveillance
    Walks the affidavit's evidence list and surveillance timeline: the two teal knives in the room, the ten seized at the home, journals, a laptop, nine sealed envelopes, and a gas shutoff notice under $30. The stepmother's account of the drained retirement account is the one new voice, but the segment stays inside the charging documents.
  5. Law&Crime Sidebar, 2026-10-16 (6:42 to 8:21)
    Walks the stay timeline and drained retirement
    Walks the stay timeline - check-in September 21, checkout pushed to October 13, the arcade trip that left Tristan alone - and adds the stepmother's account that Harrison drained Chaz's retirement account to pay for the trip.
    New angle: Harrison's stepmother April Tetka says Harrison drained Chaz's retirement account to pay for the vacation.
  6. Crime Stories with Nancy Grace, 2026-10-18 (0:40 to 4:02)
    Cross-checks the 911 call with the reporter
    Walks through the 911 call with the investigative reporter: Harrison told dispatchers her husband and son were already gone in the bed, asked how deep to cut her veins, and had marks on her wrist and neck. Grace argues the call rules out insanity. Adds the wound counts and the arcade timeline.
    New angle: Charles Harrison was stabbed numerous times in the chest; the 3-year-old was stabbed once.
  7. Crime Stories with Nancy Grace, 2026-10-18 (4:00 to 5:48)
    Walks the three-week stay day by day
    Walks the three-week stay day by day: the September 21 check-in, the original October 5 booking, the extension to October 13 paid for out of Charles Harrison's 401k. Retells the timeline already on the record and adds the arcade window, 10:43 to 11:22 p.m.
  8. Crime Stories with Nancy Grace, 2026-10-18 (5:24 to 8:04)
    Adds the butcher knife and the buckets
    Motive talk with Dave Mack: relatives say Harrison never wanted a baby because it took time from her husband. Mack adds that the room knives were a butcher knife and a steak knife, and that buckets of brownish-red liquid sat near the bodies and in the bathroom.
    New angle: The two non-resort knives in the room were a butcher knife and a steak knife; buckets of brownish-red liquid were found near the bodies and in the bathroom.
  9. Crime Stories with Nancy Grace, 2026-10-18 (8:04 to 13:01)
    Argues premeditation from the knives and 401k
    Argues premeditation from the knives and the drained 401k, then adds two forensic details: neither victim had defensive wounds, and medication bottles were found in the room with contents undisclosed. Stays inside the affidavit's account otherwise.
    New angle: Neither Charles nor Tristan Harrison had defensive wounds; medication bottles were found in the room, contents undisclosed.
  10. Crime Stories with Nancy Grace, 2026-10-19 (0:05 to 2:46)
    Recaps the arrest and adds the no-bail booking
    Hourly crime-alert recap of the arrest and affidavit. It adds the booking status and next step: Harrison is held without bail at the Monroe County Correctional Facility awaiting a preliminary hearing, and the DA is quoted calling it an isolated domestic tragedy.
    New angle: Harrison is held without bail at Monroe County Correctional Facility awaiting a preliminary hearing.
  11. Crime Weekly, 2026-10-21 (0:21 to 2:38)
    Recaps the 911 call and the charges
    Opens the episode with the 911 call from room 2030 - the 'help dying' request, the 'already gone in the bed' line, the three-week stay - then recaps the charges and the DA's 'violent domestic tragedy' framing. A scene-setting retelling of what the affidavit already put on the record.
  12. Crime Weekly, 2026-10-21 (2:41 to 4:31)
    Profiles the family behind the charge
    Profiles the family behind the charge: Tawanda, Bradford County, Chaz at 36, Metallica at 27, roughly three years married, the son identified only as T.H. Adds the sister's public statement and a funeral fundraiser, and notes no reporting yet on jobs, police history or CPS.
    New angle: Charles's sister Melissa Rivera has spoken publicly and set up an online fundraiser for funeral costs.
  13. Crime Weekly, 2026-10-21 (6:03 to 12:31)
    Adds sourcing on the three-week stay
    Puts the three-week stay on the record with new sourcing: a Great Wolf Lodge spokesperson tells Fox News such stays are uncommon but not unusual, PennLive estimates the stay alone at over $6,000, and Daily Voice reports a $29.05 gas shutoff notice posted the same day the reservation was extended. It also flags that the stepmother never said the 401k…
    New angle: A $29.05 gas shutoff notice was posted at the family's home on October 5, the day the stay was extended.
  14. Crime Weekly, 2026-10-21 (15:00 to 18:18)
    Reports the autopsy findings that reverse the counts
    Walks the resort surveillance timeline for Sunday, October 11, then reports the October 15 autopsy findings, which reverse the initial wound counts: the 3-year-old had multiple chest stab wounds and Charles had a single one. The DA attributes the earlier version to police's initial observations.
    New angle: The October 15 autopsy found the 3-year-old had multiple chest stab wounds and Charles a single one, the reverse of initial police reports.
  15. Crime Weekly, 2026-10-21 (18:23 to 22:56)
    Walks through the 911 call and the room
    Walks through the 911 call and the room 2030 scene: the butcher knife on the bathroom floor, the smaller knife in the sink, the medication bottles, the blood in the garbage can. Adds the exact call time and the detail that she said the knives were not working.
    New angle: Harrison told the 911 dispatcher she had knives but they were not working.
  16. Crime Stories with Nancy Grace, 2026-10-21 (0:01 to 2:28)
    Recaps the charges and the 911 call
    Opens the episode with a recap of the Great Wolf Lodge case: the two criminal homicide counts, the 911 call from room 2030, the two non-resort knives, and the sister-in-law's account of Harrison as controlling. It stays inside what the affidavit and earlier coverage already established.
  17. Crime Stories with Nancy Grace, 2026-10-21 (2:48 to 5:32)
    Walks through the early case timeline
    A local reporter walks through the case's early timeline: the coroner's call, Mancuso's Tuesday press conference, the September 21 check-in and October 5 extension. She repeats the pre-autopsy account of the wounds, which the record has since reversed.
  18. Crime Stories with Nancy Grace, 2026-10-21 (5:29 to 8:25)
    Compares the case to Scott Peterson
    Brings on a former Modesto detective to compare the case to Scott Peterson and plays neighbor interviews from WNEP saying the family kept to themselves and showed no signs of violence. Reaction and background, not a development in the case.
  19. Crime Stories with Nancy Grace, 2026-10-21 (8:25 to 11:44)
    Relays the stepmother's account of no warning
    Brings in a psychotherapist to read the family's happy vacation posts and FaceTime calls, and relays the stepmother's account that a conference call hours before the killings showed no signs of trouble. Analysis and reaction, not a new development in the case.
  20. Crime Stories with Nancy Grace, 2026-10-21 (11:44 to 13:54)
    Argues greed is not a mental defect
    Runs a defense-attorney segment on a possible postpartum psychosis or command-hallucination defense, with Grace arguing greed and anger are not mental defects. Speculation and argument about a defense not yet filed; no new development in the case.
  21. The Breakfast Club, 2026-10-22 (12:03 to 13:50)
    Reacts to the Great Wolf Lodge stabbing charges
    A listener call brings the Great Wolf Lodge case to the show: a 27-year-old woman charged with stabbing her husband and 3-year-old son at the Scotrun, Pennsylvania resort, then calling 911 on herself. The hosts react to the rarity of a mother killing her child.
    New angle: A 27-year-old woman is charged with killing her husband and 3-year-old son at Great Wolf Lodge in Scotrun, Pennsylvania.
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