He loves to help people out and just wants to do the lords work. By the fall of 2010, Nathan And Denise were living back in the states. By then, they had a third child, janel. Their days were filled with shuttling kids to School And Day care and raising funds for their next overseas mission. Life with three young kids was busy, hectic, normal but then came valentines day, 2013, when nathan pulled into the Driveway Midafternoon and discovered something terribly wrong. I could see the windowpane was broken. The glasses on the ground. At that point i began to put things together and someone had broken into the home and at that point, i called the police, called 911. 911, where is the emergency . A daring burglary in the middle of the day that would rub this family of everything. Coming up, there would be no more cards, candy or flowers this valentines day. No one could find denise. She had not answered her Phone Call or text messages. What Police Find is terrifying
I observed Kitchen Cabinets open, and some Kitchen Drawers on the floor. In my experience as a Police Officer and investigator, when a burglary occurs, the kitchen is not a common place that a burglar would look for items. A burglary, also, items are scattered about. Drawers drum dumped on the floor. I felt it was not ordinary and i expressed that to my partner. While he found that out for a burglary, it was nathans behavior that struck him more. Describe his demeanor. As i am speaking to him, he never showed emotion or asked questions as to what was going on. Prosecutors said nathan showed no emotion during his police interview. Even when a detective told him denise was dead. You cant tell me things about her
You talking to us and cooperating with us is the best information that we can get. We want to talk to the people closest to her first to try to figure out what makes her tick, what is a routine like . Did you start to think that someone may have targeted denise . Well, we didnt know i mean nathan, hes going to be our best witness, you know. You are living with this lady. Youve been married for a long time. You know her routine. Did you think maybe someone had a reason to be inside that house outside of a random burglary . We didnt know. You, we didnt know but we needed to lockdown at that point, we just needed to make sure we locked down what she planned on doing that day. They started at the very beginning. She woke up at about 6 45. I was already shaving and showering. Were the kids already up . She gets up at 6 45. Nathan told police he took the two older children to school and went on a series of errands that day including going to a Day Spa to buy a Gift Certificate for denise
a key to that car was found tangled in denise s hair under her head, so clearly that key was not use to move the car. there had to be another one. i m just trying to figure out how many sets of keys are out there is them trying to find a set of key? there s one set of keys. whenever i drive the car to go get something fixed or oral change or whatnot i just borrow the keys. none of that made any sense to the detectives. there had to be a second key somewhere visible in the house in order for the intruder to easily find it in drive the car to the park. saying denise interrupted a burglary, and he shoots her, that guys getting the heck out of town. he s not going to wait to try to find a spare set of keys in the house. he s leaving. questions about denise s car led to questions about nathan s car and something he said
and suspensions. organizers are calling on columbia to divest from israel. for now, back to dateline. it looked like a burglary gone bad. denise leuthold, mother and missionary, brutally shot and killed in her parent s home where she and her family had been living. typical scenario? robberies happening in peoria, this one just happens to be a lot worse? it is not typical as far as a burglary that results in a murder. that does not happen very often. this was an odd one. detectives needed to know more about denise and began questioning her family, including nathan, her husband of 17 years.