started with roses and ended in a different shade of red. everything stopped. i was just in shock. we knew that there was somebody bad out there doing something. she was a wife, a mother, a missionary. to me, it sounds like a saint. she probably was. but something had been happening behind closed doors. there is nothing more important to me than you and this relationship. was it love? this was his valentine s day present. or hate? one shot to the head. what was the motive for a valentine s day murder? we had a note that she had written. she was speaking from the grave. that note was powerful. it happened on the least likely day imaginable. a day devoted to love and affection. valentine s day. and it happened to the last people on earth you would expect. a religious family dedicated to god and making the world a better place. we had a break-in. is it going on right now? i don t know. the garage door is open. there is glass from the back do
valentine s day. and it happened to the last people on earth you would expect. a religious family dedicated to god and making the world a better place. we had a break-in. is it going on right now? i don t know. the garage door is open. there is glass from the back door where somebody broke in. my world had just been shattered. they re perfect world broken by and act so evil, it tore a family apart. the worst day of my life. and put an entire town on edge. the extra extra cautious, lock your doors, lock your windows. pay attention to strangers in the area. they devoted their lives to others. who would ever want to hurt them? it s just absolutely a despicable act. for a day that ended so tragically, it began in a happy way. with flowers and expressions of love. with nathan and dennis leuthold had met earlier, back in the eighties when they were
but what did denise think about that? i asked for more than once, aren t you jealousies traveling around with this young girl? she was like, no. she wasn t jealous. at all. this was a girl they wanted to exactly. and she trusted nathan. during school vacations, aina would stay in peoria with the whole family. she was really good with the kids. she seemed like she was a sweet girl. if your daughter liked her she was a friend of our daughters. and son-in-law. we accepted her into our home. in december 2011, aina leapt that florida school. she was so close with the leuthold family, she moved in with nathan, denise, and denise s parents well she attended a community college in peoria. it wasn t the first time we ve done that. so aina was one of many we worked with. it was very natural. we had sponsored other lithuania students before to come here. it didn t really seem strange to us that s what they were doing. they were making a difference in this girl s life?
after many years of working overseas as missionaries, the leuthold would return to peoria, illinois. denise, nathan and their three kids. seth, 12, julia, 10 and jenelle, 4. were living with denise is. parents nathan says it felt good to be home. we had tremendous friends and family here in the states. and that s always what we miss the most. being back in the states also made gave nathan an opportunity travel to churches where he reported on his and denise s missionary work and raised more funds so they could soon return to lithuania. in the u.s., they could also celebrate holidays, american style, as they did on valentine s day, 2013. as is our tradition on holidays, easter, christmas, or
door where somebody broke in. my world had just been shattered. they re perfect world broken by and act so evil, it tore a family apart. the worst day of my life. and put an entire town on edge. the extra extra cautious, lock your doors, lock your windows. pay attention to strangers in the area. they devoted their lives to others. who would ever want to hurt them? it s just absolutely a despicable act. for a day that ended so tragically, it began in a happy way. with flowers and expressions of love. with nathan and dennis leuthold had met earlier, back in the eighties when they were 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 school. what was it that you liked about her so much?