Amid a bitter divorce battle, a father shot and killed his son before killing himself after making a ‘murder list’ of his wife’s relatives, says report.
According to a police protection order (PPO) filed this year in Kent County Circuit Court, Derek Thebow told his wife, Katie, that he would kill her and their children. michigan.
He threatened to kill me, my children and my family and later threatened to commit suicide. Fox 17 News station.
‘He cut out the names of my family members and said he knew where they worked, he knew when they were at home, and that he could have met them and hurt them.’
Pictured: Derek Thebo (right), wife Katie (2nd-left), son Dylan (second-right), Katie’s daughter with her former partner. Derek shot and killed his son before killing himself after preparing a ‘murder list’ of his wife’s relatives amid bitter divorce battle, report says
Thebo and the couple’s three-year-old son, Dylan, were later found dead as they went through divorce and child custody proceedings.
On September 1, representatives from Kent County searched the father and son inside their home in Lowell Township, Michigan.
Investigators say Thebo shot and killed his son before pointing a gun at himself.
It is clear from the PPO that Katie Thebo – who also has a daughter from a previous relationship – expected her husband to do something violent, with her fears only heightened two days after their wedding.
In a court filing, she told Derek to Dr. Described as Jekyll and Mr. Hyde in character, and threatened with death every time they fought, she wrote.
He said that he threatened to kill her, their children, her family and then himself, even as he would save her children ‘for the last’.
Pictured: Derek and Katie Thebow’s three-year-old son Dylan (with the family dog), whom investigators say was killed by his father before he pointed a gun at himself. The couple was found on September 1 inside their home in Lowell Township, Michigan
Katie also claimed in the documents that she received a gift for Mother’s Day that included a chilling message despite orders not to talk.
The message on the gift read: ‘You are my last’, she said.
Previously, a judge had given a restraining order – but it was dissolved on March 22 after a no-contact order was agreed upon. Lawandcrime.com.
At the time, Derek denied this or said that he did not mean it, saying in the divorce documents that he loved nothing more than his son.
The father was a corrections officer in Michigan, but was fired in 2019. After taking up another job in January this year, his wife claims that the situation has worsened.
Dylan’s mother wrote in a request for a protective order, ‘Once upon a time we were talking about a news story where a woman drove her car off a bridge and she and her children died.
Pictured: Dylan with a family dog. Court filings show that Katie Thebo expected her husband to do something violent, his fears being raised only two days after their wedding.
Image: Derek Thebow’s home where he was found dead with his three-year-old son Dylan in what police believe was a murder-suicide
’ He added that something about the woman was probably trying to save them from something worse or to protect them from someone else. It threatened him that he would protect his son if I ever left him, in whatever way I could to get him out of our marriage.
‘For me it was a threat to kill our son if I ever left him. When we argue, he will repeat this threat and I will leave.’
Dylan’s mom has now set up gofundme Page to raise funds to cover the cost of his son’s funeral.
On the page, she described the three-year-old as ‘an amazing kiddo’ who was full of energy, loved being around family and friends, and always brought a smile to everyone’s face with her crazy antics and talk. Was. Was.
‘Dylan loved Paw Patrol, excavators, cars and trucks, and singing and dancing. Above all, Dylan loved his mother and older sister.’
A YouTube video shared on the page shows her son riding a bike and singing a song, while a picture shows him hugging a dog.
So far, the appeal has raised over $25,000.
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