Conflict · Manhattan · ArchiveFather Killed, House Torched: Son Wanted in Hunt 80 Miles From ManhattanAired August 9, 2026 at 1:21 PM UTCWritten September 7, 2026 at 9:22 PM UTCRead the write-upThis storyTranscript · LOADING0:00A 70-year-old father [music] was found0:02dead inside his burned home in0:03Greenville, New York, on the night of0:05August 7th, after investigators say a0:07homicide was followed by an intentional0:08[music]0:09fire to destroy the house. And his0:1132-year-old son, Thomas David Ryan, is0:13now wanted as police search about 800:15miles from Manhattan. Investigators say0:17the fire was deliberately set in the0:18basement [music] after the killing,0:20turning what began as a residential fire0:22response into a homicide investigation,0:24with the family connection [music] made0:25concrete when the victim's daughter, the0:27suspect's sister, identified the man0:29inside as Robert Ryan. The sequence0:31investigators describe moves from the0:33homicide inside the home to the0:34intentional fire that night that0:35destroyed the house [music] to the0:37discovery of the 70-year-old victim0:38inside, and then to the active manhunt0:40now underway for his 32-year-old [music]0:42son. The man wanted is 32. The father0:45killed was 70, and the vehicle police0:47say he may be using is his father's gray0:49[music] Toyota Prius, with officers also0:51warning he could be traveling by train.0:53Greenville sits about 80 miles from0:55Manhattan, [music] and police describe0:56the suspect as armed and dangerous and0:58transient, warning the search is not1:00limited to the immediate neighborhood.1:02The house was [music] destroyed, the1:03community is left with a confirmed1:05homicide and a burned home, and [music]1:07the family is grieving a father1:08investigators say was killed by his son1:11before the fire was set [music] to cover1:12it. No broader independent confirmation1:14has yet been released beyond the initial1:16police account, and the unresolved focus1:18tonight is [music] whether investigators1:20locate Thomas David Ryan before further1:22harm and what they determine about1:23motive and what happened inside the home1:25before the intentional fire.Explore with HeyDexThe shortThe short ↗