She hadnt answered her phone call, she had answered her Text Messages. Valentines day the started with roses entered in a different shade of red. Everything stopped. I was in shock. She was a wife, mother, missionary. Denise sounds like a saint, but something had been happening behind closed doors. There is nothing more important to me than you in this relationship. Was it love . Or hate . One shot to the head. What was the motive for valentines day murder . We had a note that she had written. She was speaking from the grave and away . That note was powerful. It happened on the least likely day imaginable, a day devoted to love and affection. Valentines 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. Is it going on right now . My world had just been shattered. There Perfect World broken by an act so evil, it tore a family apart. The worst day of my life. And, put an entire town on edge. Be extra
Deceased. 39yearold Denise Leuthold lying in a puddle of blood had barely made it inside the house. Her coat was still on. Right inside the front door is where we found her laying down. They quickly determined she had been killed by a single gunshot to the head. She did not have time to take her coat off, her gloves, anything. When she entered the door, the shot was immediate. The weapon appeared to be a 39 Caliber Handgun but no sign of the gun. Did it seem like denise and possibly started a burglar . Yeah, when we got there, it looked like she interrupted a burglar, like somebody had broken in through the Back Door and was going through the house and maybe she startled a burglar when she came through the front door. While investigators combed the crime scene, nathan anxiously watched Police Activity from the house across the street. How did they tell you what they had found . The police were not the first people to tell me. Unfortunately. I found out about it from my father. I was ca
I approached and said what would you think about denise and i coming in helping you guys . He said that would be great. They moved with in with us for six months, sold all their possessions, tried to save up money. We did not know any lithuanian at the time. We were studying it and trying our best but it was definitely a shock. They returned home after a year and soon welcomed a son, seth, and daughter, julia. In 2002, the family went back to lithuania, which became their second home on and off for the next eight years. That is a big undertaking. Right, i think it was very hard for denise to leave her Family And Everything she had known and to go over to a strange country with a toddler and the baby. It was a traumatic experience for her, i think. This is because really nathan wanted to do it . Right. She was supporting him. It was not really her calling. She was basically being a wife
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 parents 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
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