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Bridget Susannah Strauss, 49, of Little Rock, Arkansas, passed away on September 23, 2026. At the time, Pulaski County authorities ruled her death a suicide, and it received no significant media coverage. Her funeral was handled by Roller Funeral Homes in Little Rock, and her obituary described a woman mourned by a large family, including her husband, her son, three…
Bridget Susannah Strauss, 49, of Little Rock, Arkansas, passed away on September 23, 2026. At the time, Pulaski County authorities ruled her death a suicide, and it received no significant media coverage. Her funeral was handled by Roller Funeral Homes in Little Rock, and her obituary described a woman mourned by a large family, including her husband, her son, three sisters, a brother and many cousins, nieces and nephews.
The case was reopened more than seven weeks later under very different circumstances. The Pulaski County Sheriff's Office has reopened its investigation into the death of Bridget Strauss after new developments in a separate homicide case involving her husband. That separate case concerned the death of her own son: Scott Strauss, 50, was charged with first-degree murder and tampering with evidence after his stepson, 21-year-old Michael Hudson Page, was found dead of gunshot wounds on Nov. 7 at the family's home in Maumelle. Maumelle police said they had initially responded to a report of a suicide attempt at the home before the circumstances of Page's death were established.
Announcing the renewed inquiry into Bridget's death, the sheriff's office said only that it had decided to take another look at a previous case within its jurisdiction in light of recent events in Maumelle, and later confirmed that the statement referred to Bridget Strauss. Officials have not released additional details about what prompted the reopening or whether any new evidence has emerged regarding how she died.
Coverage of the case has noted that it was not the first purported suicide connected with Scott Strauss, pointing to Bridget's death two months earlier. Scott Strauss has not been charged in connection with Bridget Strauss' death, and no revised cause of death has been announced as of this writing. There is no public information yet about a memorial service tied to the reopened investigation, since Bridget was already buried in the autumn. Her family has not issued public statements beyond the original obituary, and reaction to the renewed investigation has so far come mainly through local news coverage rather than public tributes.
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