Huge funeral for slain family of 6
About 1,000 people attended a funeral in Iowa City for a couple and their four children who police said were killed in a murder-suicide shortly after attending an Easter Mass in the same church. Six caskets rested end to end at the front of the church
Steven Sueppel, 42, is believed to have beat his wife and children to death, probably with a baseball bat, before killing himself in a high-speed crash on Interstate 80 early Monday morning.
Sueppel had been indicted last fall on federal charges accusing him of embezzling nearly $560,000 from Hills Bank & Trust, where he once worked.
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