Illinois Missionary Man Who Killed Spouse On Valentine's Day Heads To Preliminary

A previous Baptist missionary from Illinois is on preliminary for supposedly killing his better half on Valentine's Day so that he could be with the Lithuanian understudy prosecutors say is his special lady.

Nathan Leuthold, 39, of Peoria, Poorly., called the police to his home on Feb. 14, 2013, saying he was the casualty of a home attack. At his home, police officers discovered the body of his better half, Denise Leuthold, with a solitary gunfire twisted to the head.

"I watched some kitchen cupboards open, and some kitchen drawers on the floor. I felt this was not a common theft," Officer Richard Linthicum affirmed.

Examiners say Denise Leuthold was executed with a Glock 40, a similar weapon Leuthold possesses however which is currently absent. They additionally discovered Web scans for "how to stifle a firearm," "hitting somebody over the take to thump them off," and "deadly infusion," on Leuthold's PC.

Leuthold is charged with a first-degree kill. Prosecutors say they trust he killed his better half so he could be with Aina Dobilaite, the 20-year-old understudy.

Leuthold and his better half met Dobilaite amid a missionary excursion to Lithuania. When she turned 18, the couple supported her to go to the Unified States.

Presently prosecutors say they trust Leuthold's association with the understudy was something beyond a supported understudy.

"I know you need me dead. For what reason would you like to mortify me by circling with a 20-year-old," Leuthold's significant other professedly wrote in multi-day organizer section specialists found.

Leuthold's legal counselors say there is no proof that Leuthold was impractically required with the undergrad or that he shot his better half on Valentine's Day.

Leuthold faces up to 45 years in jail if convicted.