A mother and her two sons, 11 and 9, are missing. The father of the family would have said a few weeks earlier that he intended to kill them all.
This is a terrible affair which is reminiscent of another still mysterious news item: the Xavier Dupont de Ligonnès affair. For several months, the relatives of the Lutz family are very worried. In February, Stephen, his wife Monica and their sons Aiden and Nicholas disappeared without a trace overnight. There family suddenly left their small house of Newton, Illinois, without telling anyone. It was the father’s eldest daughter, Britanny, who sounded the alarm. In February, her little brother had written to her that they “were all going on vacation to an unknown place”. Britanny would then have offered to keep her brothers so that her father, whom she knew to be unstable, and his wife would both leave. What the 44-year-old would have refused.
The father and the family owned a caravan, a vehicle with which the family would have left. But no neighbor confirmed having attended their departure, as if it had taken place at night. Haven’t heard from for a long time, Britanny and her grandmother contacted the police and missing persons services. They went to the Lutz’s home and found a very disturbing scene.
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A house that looks like a crime scene
The police have indeed discovered a house upside down “as if a tornado had passed inside”. THE housing did not resemble a house that has just been closed for the holidays, but at a crime scene. Or at least to a place that the inhabitants evacuated in the greatest haste. In particular, there were leftover cakes on the table, and the children’s clothes still stored in their chests of drawers.
A very disturbing element increased their concern: the windows had been blocked with newspaper so that no one can see inside the house. Another element convinced the police to open an official investigation, the electricity had been cut and the contract closed, as if the inhabitants never intended to return.
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The disturbing profile of the father of the family
The police issued a arrest warrant for Stephen Lutz for several reasons. In January, he was sentenced by the courts after a case of domestic violence and was in principle not allowed to approach his wife and sons. A decision he had chosen to ignore. Finally, the youngest, Aiden, had reported a scene that traumatized him to his big sister and his grandmother. He had once seen his father standing in the living room, wearing a terrifying clown mask, making chilling remarks “I know what I have to do, kill three people, first my wife, then Aiden, then Nicholas”.
THE laptops of the Lutzes bounded for the last time on February 14 in Indiana. The police are doing everything they can to find the family. But after weeks of silence, their loved ones now fear the worst.