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
Desire for education. as sponsorship started in the fall of 2010 friends aina came to the u.s. to study at a christian college in florida where nathan would occasionally visit her. what did denise think about that? i asked her more the one to than one time, i said aren t you jealous that he s traveling around with this young girl? she said no. this is a girl that she wanted to help. 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 was a friend of our daughters and son-in-law s. we accepted her into her home. then in december, 2011, aina left that florida school. she was so close with the leuthold family that she moved in with nathan, denise and denise s parents while attending community college in peoria. it was not the first time we had done that. aina was one of many we had worked with so it was very natural. they had sponsored other lithuanian students before to come
Three weeks after denise leuthold was shot to death, her husband, nathan, was arrested for her murder. at first, her mother couldn t quite grasp it. he was part of our family for 17 years. he was like a son to us. to think he could actually, you know, shoot her in the head. and this is a man devoted his life to being a good person. by the time nathan went on trial, she changed her mind. had been leading a double life. a bad dream that would not end? it kept going on and on and on. it won t end until nathan is exactly. the trial was big news in town. after all, the defendant was a missionary, accused of killing his wife in their home in an upscale neighborhood. things like that do not happen
Shattered and i would have to tell her at some point. denise s mom had no idea what happened, but rushed home when nathan had told her there had been a break-in. i drove out there and the roads were all blocked off. as had a sick feeling when you see all those police? what are you thinking? i didn t know what to think. i tried to run up there and going to the house and they were like no, you can t go in and i m like well, i just want to know what happened to my daughter. they eventually took me downtown and then one of the policeman came in and told me that she had been shot. the worst day of my life. now, she had to tell her husband, denise s father. fell apart, cried, and i guess it is every parents worst nightmare to have a child taken from them.
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.