{"id":911,"date":"2025-08-04T10:09:44","date_gmt":"2025-08-04T10:09:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tappyli.com\/?p=911"},"modified":"2025-08-04T10:09:44","modified_gmt":"2025-08-04T10:09:44","slug":"father-believed-to-have-killed-entire-family-in-apparent-murder-suicide-on-sons-high-school-graduation-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tappyli.com\/?p=911","title":{"rendered":"Father believed to have killed entire family in apparent murder-suicide on son\u2019s high school graduation day"},"content":{"rendered":"

On May 10, four bodies were discovered inside a lakeside Nebraska home by the Dawson County Sheriff\u2019s Office.<\/p>\n

Authorities believe that Jeremy Koch, 42, killed his wife, Bailey Koch, and their two sons, Hudson, 18, and Asher, 16, before taking his own life in what is being treated as an apparent murder-suicide.<\/p>\n

Days before the tragedy, Bailey took to Facebook, pleading for help to save her husband\u2019s mental health.<\/h2>\n
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Bailey Koch\/Facebook<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n

Allegedly, Jeremy was battling depression since 2009 and had attempted to commit suicide several times over the years. Bailey even started a\u00a0GoFundMe\u00a0<\/em>in order to raise funds and help her husband\u2019s struggles. \u201cMay is Mental Health Awareness Month, so here we are\u2026 making you aware,\u201d Bailey reportedly wrote.\u00a0Further, she explained that Jeremy\u2019s depression became increasingly severe, writing, \u201cJeremy cannot get out of bed unless forced. By not eating or drinking, Jeremy is slowly completing suicide.\u201d<\/p>\n

His mental health declined in March, when Bailey awoke to him standing over her bed with a knife, saying, \u201cSomething is wrong.\u201d She was able to talk him to access a round of electroconvulsive therapy, which sadly didn\u2019t help him much.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt didn\u2019t work. Jeremy became a shell of himself,\u201d Bailey\u00a0wrote<\/a>\u00a0at the time.<\/p>\n

\u201cI have no pride left. Mental illness is taking my husband from me, and I\u2019m begging you to open your eyes and see the reality that is this society\u2019s mental health crisis.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Bailey Koch\/Facebook<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n

On May 8, Bailey posted on the social media that her husband was released from inpatient care so that he could attend Hudson\u2019s high school graduation which was supposed to take place just hours after after the family was found dead.<\/h3>\n

\u201cOur boys are doing well living their lives, and for that, we are thankful,\u201d Bailey\u00a0wrote<\/a>. \u201cPlease just pray Jeremy is able to somehow be with us on Saturday for our oldest son\u2019s high school graduation.\u201d<\/p>\n

Authorities determined that Bailey and her sons were stabbed with a knife.<\/p>\n

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Bailey Koch\/Facebook<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n

Bailey Koch was a special education teacher at Holdrege Public Schools, who issued a statement shortly after the tragedy took place, writing, \u201cOur hearts are with everyone impacted by a tragic event that has deeply affected us all.\u201d<\/p>\n

In an open\u00a0letter<\/a>\u00a0posted on the social media, Bailey\u2019s father, Lane Kugler, who found the dead bodies of his daughter, grandsons and son-in-law, expressed his anger over the tragedy.<\/p>\n

\u201cJeremy had been fighting mental illness for many, many years,\u201d Kugler wrote. \u201cHis depression had turned into psychosis. It was not Jeremy who committed this horrific act. It was a sick mind.\u201d<\/p>\n

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On May 10, four bodies were discovered inside a lakeside Nebraska home by the Dawson County Sheriff\u2019s Office. Authorities believe that Jeremy Koch, 42, killed his wife, Bailey Koch, and their two sons, Hudson, 18, and Asher, 16, before taking his own life in what is being treated as an apparent murder-suicide. Days before the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":889,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-911","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tappyli.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/911","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tappyli.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tappyli.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tappyli.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tappyli.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=911"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tappyli.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/911\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":912,"href":"https:\/\/tappyli.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/911\/revisions\/912"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tappyli.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/889"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tappyli.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=911"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tappyli.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=911"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tappyli.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=911"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}