NY Woman ‘Missy’ Guisewhite ID’d As Victim Fatally Stabbed By Daughter Alexa Gallagher In Tupper Lake

FRANKLIN COUNTY, NY. (THECOUNT) — Alexa Gallagher, of Tupper Lake, New York, has been identified as the suspect in the fatal stabbing of her mother, Melissa Guisewhite in Franklin County Thursday.

Gallagher, 26, has been charged with the murder of 51-year-old “Missy” Guisewhite Thursday in the Adirondack village of Tupper Lake.

According to reports, Guisewhite was found dead inside the home she shared with her daughter at 50 Lakeview Ave in Tupper Lake at around 1 p.m. Thursday.

Gallagher was later arrested and charged with second-degree murder.

Gallagher is being held in the Franklin County Jail on a no-bail order.

Guisewhite was originally from Harrisburg, Pennsylvania.

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Geo quick facts: Franklin County is a county on the northern border of the U.S. state of New York. To the north across the Canada–United States border are the Canadian provinces of Quebec and Ontario, from east to west. As of the 2020 census, the county population was 47,555. Its county seat is Malone – Wikipedia.