To family and friends, Doug Bailey was a joy to be around. Girlfriend Rose Kuehni, however, claimed he was a scary man, verbally and physically abusive —and used that as a justification to kill him.
Born in 1964, Douglas Leroy Bailey was the youngest of 11 children. “He was just loved by everybody. He was a character even when he was in diapers,” his sister Lisa Elwell told
Oxygen’s “Snapped,” airing
6/5c.
Bailey dropped out of school at age 15 to work at the sawmill his father owned. The business later relocated to Florida, then Iowa, with Bailey and his family following each step of the way. By 2009, Bailey was living in Fort Madison, Iowa. He had been married and divorced and had three sons from two different women. That summer, he met Rose Marie Kuehni, who was visiting her grandmother.