MAN KILLS WIFE... WHO WAS ALSO HIS DAUGHTER!
A DAD murdered his wife – who was also his daughter – and their seven-month-old son, because he was furious that she had asked him for a DIVORCE.
Steven Pladl, 45, and his 20-year-old missus Katie had both been charged with incest in January after their sickening relationship was exposed.
Banned
She was banned from seeing him by a judge and custody of their child, Bennett, was given to Katie’s grandparents.
Earlier last week she told Steven she wanted to split up. Two days later he followed her car home from a supermarket and opened fire, killing Katie and her adoptive father, Anthony Fusco, 56.
He had already shot his son and then called his mother, who called the police.
After the shooting Pladl drove to woodland where he shot himself in the head.
Katie was born in 1998 and put up for adoption but Pladl and Katie reconnected on social media when she turned 18.
They later moved in together in a trailer park in North Carolina.
Steven Pladl had two other children, aged 6 and 11, and when Katie moved in with the family in New York he told them to call her ‘stepmum’, not ‘sister’.
Knightdale Police Chief Lawrence Capps said: “We’re trying to make sense of all the factors that led up to this senseless taking of life.”
Rick Friedman, who had been representing Steven Pladl in the incest case, said he had breakfast with his client only a month ago.
Predicted
He said that he had no indication such violence was possible, adding: “This bothers me a lot because nobody ever could have predicted this.
“If anybody had a remote idea anybody was in harm’s way there would have been no bond set.
“There was absolutely no prior notice anything would happen to these people.”