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Hindustan Times
15-05-2025
- Hindustan Times
Two including woman constable in Bihar die by suicide: Police
Two persons, including a Bihar Police woman constable died by suicide, in two separate incidents from Bihar's Jehanabad and Saran districts, official said on Thursday. In Jehanabad, the 27-year-old woman constable's body was found in her barrack at the Kako sub-divisional Jail premises late on Wednesday. The woman constable, a resident of Manihari police station in Katihar district, had joined the police force in 2016 and had been serving as a warder at the divisional jail for the past 18 months. Earlier, she was posted in Purnea and Araria districts. Sub-Divisional Police Officer (SDPO) Sanjeev Kumar said that they have collected evidence from the spot and are investigating the case from all angles. 'The forensic team has collected evidence from the spot. The police are investigating the case from all aspects,' the SDPO said. Also Read:Who was Jeremy Koch? Nebraska man kills wife, kids and himself days after mental health GoFundMe launched The constable performed her duty at around 12noon and returned to her barrack. Some of the colleagues found her inside the barracks after taking the extreme step. She was immediately rushed to hospital where doctor declared her brought dead,' jail superintendent Uday Kumar told HT. In a similar incident, a 19-year-old youth, recently released from Saran jail, was found dead on the premises of Parsa police station on Wednesday evening with police suspecting it as a case of suicide. Saran's superintendent of police (SP) Kumar Ashish said that the youth took the extreme step and was declared dead on arrival by the community health centre. 'Two separate first information reports (FIRs) registered with concerned police station against the victim. Preliminary investigation revealed that the youth took extreme step due to loneliness inside the police campus,' said the SP. If you need support or know someone who does, please reach out to your nearest mental health specialist. Helplines: Aasra: 022 2754 6669; Sneha India Foundation: +914424640050 and Sanjivini: 011-24311918, Roshni Foundation (Secunderabad) Contact Nos: 040-66202001, 040-66202000, ONE LIFE: Contact No: 78930 78930, SEVA: Contact No: 09441778290
Daily Mail
14-05-2025
- Daily Mail
Mom awoke to husband standing over her with a knife just months before family-of-four were found dead
A mom who was jolted awake in the dead of night as her husband stood over her with a knife was determined to get him the help he needed. But despite desperate efforts since the incident two months ago, Bailey Koch was killed alongside her two sons on Sunday at the family's quiet lakeside home in Nebraska. Jeremy Koch is believed to have stabbed the couple's two teenage sons, Hudson, 18, and Asher, 16, as well as his 41-year-old wife before turning the weapon on himself. Only days earlier, Bailey had pleaded publicly for help with her husband's mental health before the unthinkable happened. Just days before the killings, Bailey launched a GoFundMe campaign on May 4 titled 'Jeremy's Battle: Mental Health Support Needed,' in which she described her husband's severe depression and long history of suicide attempts dating back to 2009. The page, which has since stopped receiving donations, included deeply personal details of the family's struggles with mental illness and recounted the chilling account with the knife. 'In March, just a couple months ago, I woke to Jeremy shaking me awake saying, "Something is wrong,"' Bailey wrote. 'He was standing over my bed with a knife ready to end his life. I was able to talk him down and into accepting help. 'He went to our safe place, Richard Young Hospital in Kearney, Nebraska, for inpatient mental health treatment for the fourth time in our marriage and stayed for four nights and five days. They tried to level out meds and keep him safe.' Bailey wrote that her husband's condition worsened significantly in 2024. On May 3, she said Koch had survived at least four suicide attempts. She went on to state how Jeremy had recently been released from inpatient care so that he could attend Hudson's high school graduation, which was scheduled to take place just hours after the family was found dead on Saturday morning. 'Our boys are doing well living their lives, and for that, we are thankful,' Bailey wrote on May 8. 'Please just pray Jeremy is able to somehow be with us on Saturday for our oldest son's high school graduation.' Deputies from the Dawson County Sheriff's Office responded to the family home in the Johnson Lake community at around 9.45am on Saturday morning, May 9, after receiving a report of an unresponsive person. When officers arrived at the house, located in the Plum Creek Canyon area, they found four individuals dead from what the Nebraska State Patrol (NSP) later confirmed to be fatal stab wounds. Bailey Koch was a special education teacher at Holdrege Public Schools. Her employer issued a statement shortly after the news broke saying, 'Our hearts are with everyone impacted by a tragic event that has deeply affected us all.' The school district opened its middle school facilities later that afternoon for grieving staff and students. Cozad Community Schools, where both Hudson and Asher were enrolled, also confirmed the deaths and expressed condolences in a Facebook post writing: 'Our thoughts are with all those impacted during this incredibly difficult time.' After ending electroconvulsive therapy treatments earlier this year, Bailey explained how Jeremy had become 'a shell of himself.' 'Mental illness is taking my husband from me, and I'm begging you to open your eyes and see the reality that is this society's mental health crisis,' she wrote. Son, Hudson, had plans to move to California after graduation for a bonsai apprenticeship. His brother, Asher, a freshman, was a standout on his high school's varsity golf team. Bailey's social media posts often expressed pride in her sons and determination to fight for her husband's recovery, but the family's situation had grown increasingly dire in recent months. In her GoFundMe plea, Bailey wrote that Jeremy had become largely incapacitated - unable to eat, drink, or get out of bed without assistance. 'By not eating or drinking, Jeremy is slowly completing suicide,' she wrote. She also detailed the financial collapse of their family business and the loss of both parents' retirement savings in an attempt to pay off mounting debt. But there were also sparks of brightness with Bailey hopeful the family would come together for one of their son's graduations. 'Our boys are doing well living their lives, and for that, we are thankful,' Bailey wrote on May 8. 'Please just pray Jeremy is able to somehow be with us on Saturday for our oldest son's high school graduation.' On the morning of May 10, any hope that remained fell apart. Superintendent Dr Dan Endorf addressed the deaths during the Cozad High School graduation ceremony that same day. 'As you know, our community and our senior class experienced a tragedy within the past few hours,' he told those gathered. 'The bittersweet emotions felt by the senior class on their graduation day, and throughout this entire gymnasium for that matter, cannot be concealed in this moment.' The Nebraska State Patrol continues to lead the homicide investigation. Authorities have not yet released the official timeline of events or confirmed whether any notes or messages were found at the scene. Bailey's parents, Lane and Peg Kugler, issued a public statement on Facebook mourning the loss of their daughter and grandsons, while also criticizing what they called systemic failures in the mental health care system. In her final public messages, Bailey expressed growing frustration with the lack of resources available. 'Mental illness is taking my husband from me and I'm begging you to open your eyes and see the reality that is this society's mental health crisis,' she wrote. She also described being forced to care for her husband at home because local hospitals were unable to admit patients without immediate suicidal ideation. 'Our safe place, Richard Young Hospital, doesn't have enough beds… This is mental healthcare in our world,' she wrote. 'It's all put back on the caregivers.' Multiple community vigils are now being planned in both Holdrege and Cozad. The Dawson County Attorney has also ordered autopsies for all four victims with results expected later in the week. Officials say the investigation remains ongoing but no additional suspects are being sought. No funeral plans have yet been announced.
Daily Mail
13-05-2025
- Daily Mail
Mom awoke to husband standing over her with a knife... just months before family-of-four were found dead
A mom who was jolted awake in the dead of night as her husband stood over her with a knife was determined to get him the help he needed. But despite desperate efforts since the incident two months ago, tragically Bailey Koch was killed alongside her two sons on Sunday at the family's quiet lakeside home in Nebraska. Authorities say the man she married and the father of her children carried out an act of almost unfathomable brutality. Jeremy Koch is believed to have stabbed the couple's two teenage sons, Hudson, 18, and Asher, 16, as well as his 41-year-old wife before turning the weapon on himself. Only days earlier, Bailey, a doting wife and mother had pleaded publicly for help with her husband's mental health before the unthinkable happened. Just days before the killings, Bailey launched a GoFundMe campaign on May 4 titled 'Jeremy's Battle: Mental Health Support Needed,' in which she described her husband's severe depression and long history of suicide attempts dating back to 2009. The page, which has since stopped receiving donations, included deeply personal details of the family's struggles with mental illness and recounted the chilling account with the knife. 'In March, just a couple months ago, I woke to Jeremy shaking me awake saying, 'Something is wrong,' Bailey wrote. 'He was standing over my bed with a knife ready to end his life. I was able to talk him down and into accepting help. 'He went to our safe place, Richard Young Hospital in Kearney, Nebraska, for inpatient mental health treatment for the fourth time in our marriage and stayed for four nights and five days. They tried to level out meds and keep him safe.' Bailey wrote that her husband's condition worsened significantly in 2024. On May 3, she said Koch had survived at least four suicide attempts. She went on to state how Jeremy had recently been released from inpatient care so that he could attend Hudson's high school graduation, which was scheduled to take place just hours after the family was found dead on Saturday morning. 'Our boys are doing well living their lives, and for that, we are thankful,' Bailey wrote on May 8. 'Please just pray Jeremy is able to somehow be with us on Saturday for our oldest son's high school graduation.' Deputies from the Dawson County Sheriff's Office responded to the family home in the Johnson Lake community at around 9:45am on Saturday morning, May 9, after receiving a report of an unresponsive person. When officers arrived at the house, located in the Plum Creek Canyon area, they found four individuals dead from what the Nebraska State Patrol (NSP) later confirmed to be fatal stab wounds. Bailey Koch was a special education teacher at Holdrege Public Schools. Her employer issued a statement shortly after the news broke saying, 'Our hearts are with everyone impacted by a tragic event that has deeply affected us all.' The school district opened its middle school facilities later that afternoon for grieving staff and students. Cozad Community Schools, where both Hudson and Asher were enrolled, also confirmed the deaths and expressed condolences in a Facebook post writing, 'Our thoughts are with all those impacted during this incredibly difficult time.' After ending electroconvulsive therapy treatments earlier this year, Bailey explained how Jeremy had become 'a shell of himself.' 'Mental illness is taking my husband from me, and I'm begging you to open your eyes and see the reality that is this society's mental health crisis,' she wrote. Son, Hudson, had plans to move to California after graduation for a bonsai apprenticeship. His brother, Asher, a freshman, was a standout on his high school's varsity golf team. Bailey's social media posts often expressed pride in her sons and determination to fight for her husband's recovery, but the family's situation had grown increasingly dire in recent months. In her GoFundMe plea, Bailey wrote that Jeremy had become largely incapacitated - unable to eat, drink, or get out of bed without assistance. 'By not eating or drinking, Jeremy is slowly completing suicide,' she wrote. She also detailed the financial collapse of their family business and the loss of both parents' retirement savings in an attempt to pay off mounting debt. But there were also sparks of brightness with Bailey hopeful the family would come together for one of their son's graduations. 'Our boys are doing well living their lives, and for that, we are thankful,' Bailey wrote on May 8. 'Please just pray Jeremy is able to somehow be with us on Saturday for our oldest son's high school graduation.' On the morning of May 10, any hope that remained fell apart. Superintendent Dr. Dan Endorf addressed the deaths during the Cozad High School graduation ceremony that same day. 'As you know, our community and our senior class experienced a tragedy within the past few hours,' he told those gathered. 'The bittersweet emotions felt by the senior class on their graduation day, and throughout this entire gymnasium for that matter, cannot be concealed in this moment.' The Nebraska State Patrol continues to lead the homicide investigation. Authorities have not yet released the official timeline of events or confirmed whether any notes or messages were found at the scene. Bailey's parents, Lane and Peg Kugler, issued a public statement on Facebook mourning the loss of their daughter and grandsons, while also criticizing what they called systemic failures in the mental health care system. In her final public messages, Bailey expressed growing frustration with the lack of resources available. 'Mental illness is taking my husband from me and I'm begging you to open your eyes and see the reality that is this society's mental health crisis,' she wrote. She also described being forced to care for her husband at home because local hospitals were unable to admit patients without immediate suicidal ideation. 'Our safe place, Richard Young Hospital, doesn't have enough beds… This is mental healthcare in our world,' she wrote. 'It's all put back on the caregivers.' Multiple community vigils are now being planned in both Holdrege and Cozad. The Dawson County Attorney has also ordered autopsies for all four victims with results expected later in the week. Officials say the investigation remains ongoing but no additional suspects are being sought. No funeral plans have yet been announced.
Fox News
12-05-2025
- Health
- Fox News
Small town dad kills family of 4 in Mother's Day weekend murder-suicide hours before son's graduation: police
This story discusses suicide. If you or someone you know is having thoughts of suicide, please contact the Suicide & Crisis Lifeline at 988 or 1-800-273-TALK (8255). The wife of a Nebraska man who is suspected of killing his entire family of four in a murder-suicide pleaded for support for her husband's mental health online just days before she and her two sons were murdered, according to a report. Jeremy Koch, 42, stabbed and killed his wife Bailey, 41, and sons Hudson, 18, and Asher, 16, before killing himself in their rural Dawson County home, Nebraska State Patrol confirmed Saturday. Hudson was scheduled to graduate from high school on Saturday, just hours after the family was found dead, according to News Channel Nebraska. The outlet reported on a now-removed GoFundMe page Bailey began earlier this month called "Jeremy's Battle: Mental Health Support Needed." "May is Mental Health Awareness Month, so here we are... making you aware," Bailey reportedly wrote. She said Jeremy first attempted suicide in 2009 and had tried to take his life multiple times. Last year, according to Bailey, Jeremy's depression reached a fever pitch. "Jeremy cannot get out of bed unless forced," she wrote. "By not eating or drinking, Jeremy is slowly completing suicide." She reportedly wrote that the family's income, which came from a local landscaping business Jeremy owned, had dried up. In March, Bailey said she woke up to Jeremy standing over her with a knife but talked him down and convinced him to get inpatient mental health care. That was the fourth time Jeremy had been hospitalized for his mental health struggles, according to the report. She said a round of electroconvulsive therapy did not help her husband. "It didn't work. Jeremy became a shell of himself." "I have no pride left," she wrote at the time. "Mental illness is taking my husband from me, and I'm begging you to open your eyes and see the reality that is this society's mental health crisis." However, Bailey reportedly said on the GoFundMe that Jeremy had been released from the hospital last week to attend Hudson's graduation. Bailey worked as a special education teacher at Holdrege Public Schools. "Our Holdrege school community is grieving after a tragic event that has deeply affected us all," the district reportedly said Saturday. "Our hearts are with everyone impacted."
Yahoo
11-05-2025
- Yahoo
Family of 4 Found Dead in Apparent Murder-Suicide on the Same Day of Son's High School Graduation
A father, mother and their two teenage children are dead following what officials are calling an apparent murder-suicide in Nebraska on May 10 Jeremy Koch, 42, is believed to have killed his wife and two children before taking his own life, the Nebraska State Patrol said His eldest son was set to graduate from high school on the same day the family was found dead A family of four in Nebraska was found dead following what authorities are calling an apparent murder-suicide. On Saturday, May 10, the Dawson County Sheriff's Office was dispatched to a home at Johnson Lake, Plum Creek Canyon #1 at around 9:45 a.m. local time. Authorities found a family of four dead at the scene from "fatal knife wounds," the Nebraska State Patrol (NSP) announced in a news release. After a preliminary investigation, police believe 42-year-old Jeremy Koch killed both of his sons — Hudson, 18, and Asher, 16 — and his 41-year-old wife, Bailey, before taking his own life. The NSP also said a knife was discovered at the scene. The agency is now leading a homicide investigation, which remains ongoing, and the Dawson County Attorney has ordered autopsies for the four family members. "The Nebraska State Patrol, the Dawson County Sheriff's Office, Eustis Fire & Rescue and the Dawson County Attorney extend condolences to all, across multiple communities, who will be affected by this incident," the NSP said in a statement. According to local outlet News Channel Nebraska and Bailey's Facebook page, she was a special education teacher at Holdrege Public Schools. The school district wrote in a statement, "Our hearts are with everyone impacted [by] a tragic event that has deeply affected us all." "Holdrege Middle School will be open today from 3:00–5:00 p.m. for students and staff who wish to gather, grieve and support one another," the district added. "We're grateful for the strength and compassion of our community during this difficult time." Cozad Community Schools, which News Channel Nebraska reported is the district where the two boys went to high school, also shared a message on Facebook, extending "thoughts" to "all those impacted during this incredibly difficult time." They also offered support for students and staff. While no further details have been released regarding the homicide investigation, News Channel Nebraska reported that Bailey launched a since-removed fundraiser on GoFundMe days before her death, titled 'Jeremy's Battle: Mental Health Support Needed," in which she detailed years of Jeremy's struggles with depression. In the description, per the outlet, Bailey wrote that her husband was diagnosed in 2009 and that his condition worsened in 2024. She added that in March, she awoke to her husband standing over her with a knife and got him to agree to treatment and electroconvulsive therapy. In a Facebook update on Thursday, May 8, Bailey wrote that her husband had been accepted into a mental health facility and that he "understands it's because we love him so much." "Our boys are doing well living their lives, and for that, we are thankful," she wrote at the time. "Please just pray Jeremy is able to somehow be with us Saturday for our oldest son's high school graduation. We love you all. And THANK YOU for supporting and sharing our story." Dozens of community members shared prayers and condolences underneath the school district's recent posts, before the district posted footage of Saturday's Cozad High School commencement ceremony on YouTube. During the ceremony, superintendent Dr. Dan Endorf reminded attendees that the community and senior class "experienced a tragedy within the past few hours." "The bittersweet emotions felt by the senior class on their graduation day, and by this entire gymnasium for that matter, cannot be concealed in this moment," he said, encouraging graduates to "hug your loved ones." If you or someone you know is considering suicide, please contact the 988 Suicide and Crisis Lifeline by dialing 988, text "STRENGTH" to the Crisis Text Line at 741741 or go to Read the original article on People
