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Police Confirm Butler County Murder-Suicide After Husband Called Parents

State troopers are processing a multi-jurisdiction scene with the motive still unknown.

Overview

  • The suspect’s call to his parents early Tuesday led officers to the couple’s Seven Fields home, where 25-year-old Madeline Spatafore was found dead from multiple gunshot wounds.
  • Police later found 26-year-old Ryan Hosso dead from a single gunshot in woods across the municipal line in Cranberry Township after a thermal drone search.
  • Pennsylvania State Police assumed the case because the house and the wooded site fall under different local departments, which makes it a multi-jurisdiction investigation.
  • Investigators say Hosso told his parents he had killed his wife and said he intended to take his own life, and the parents then alerted police around 1:15 a.m.
  • Spatafore worked as a neurocritical care physician assistant at UPMC Presbyterian and graduated summa cum laude from Duquesne University in 2023, and the couple married in September 2024 after dating in high school.