Kept that gun in a plastic case. You kept it locked . How hard would it be for someone to pry it open . But, there was no broken case at the house. That said a lot to the detectives. And i asked him what happened to the box . He didnt know. Tried to say the burglar took it. The burglars not going to take a busted lockbox with him after he killed somebody. They are gone. Believe it. Nathan told police he last fired the gun in oklahoma. A couple weeks ago. Nothing here lately . And there was something else troubling police. Even though denise had been killed in her home, her car was found at a nearby park. Police figured whoever drove it there mustve been involved in denises murder. This is the problem ive got. Shes been shot in the house. I need to figure out how that car got to robinson park
Nathan and Denise Leuthold had met years earlier back in the 80s when they were both students at a small baptist school in central illinois. Even at that young age, nathan knew there was something to the sparkling little girl. I was in third grade, and she was in Fourth Grade at the time and i doubt she even knew i existed but even then, i thought she was the cutest girl in the school. What was it you liked about her so much . It was the bouncy curls in the happygolucky smile. Junior high, i began to see her character, the kind of person she was that way. It was in High School that nathan and denise got to know each other better though they did not date, as most teens do, because they both came from religious families. Our parents did not believe in dating. I went to her church activities
Couldnt comprehend the news. Who could do something like this to a great young woman, it was hard to believe denise leuthold, mother of three young children, had been found shot to death at her home in peoria, illinois. Leutholds friend, ly norm ulrich, couldnt comprehend the news. Who could do something like this to a great young woman, a family of three young children, great husband. Nathan said when he lost denise he lost his foundation. My wife, my friend from third grade, the mother of the three most important children in the world to me. How do i function now without her . With the house a crime scene, nason went with them nathan went with him to the police station. Was there anything of extreme value . Anything in particular
Coming back and stood in the doorway, and when the Door Open, denise tried to take her coat off and he shot her in the back of the head. Then they then drove Denises Card to the same park and hopped back in his car and drove to starbucks, arriving at 12 45. 1245, 12 50, five minutes. Long enough to be on the camera. Long enough they said for nathan to wash his hands to get the Gunshot Residue off, then leave to start his Afternoon Errands before picking up janel from day care. Three 00 the Defendant Return Home and want you to believe he sees the Door Open and glass. Thats the extent of his knowledge. Then he calls the police. He knew full well when you called the police what they would find. From our perspective, thats what makes it so disturbing. The cold and calculated manner he did this. One of the first officers to steps 25 describe the scene at the house just after nathan called 911 that day
Police found denise leuthold, 39yearold mother of three, shot to death in her home. At first, it looked like a possible burglary gone bad. Police found denise leuthold, 389yearold mother of three, shot to death in her home. At first it looked like a possible Burglary Gun Ban bad but after questioning her husband and coming the crime scene, detectives began to see things differently. Police know wanted to look more closely at the Lithuanian Student Nathan had spoken to on the phone the day of the murder. He and denise had met her on the first Missionary Trip in 1988. There was a church that was there and already established in that church really took us in and did their best to communicate with us and helped us out and there was a particular woman at the church we worked with that was ainas