On April 12, 2018, 43-year-old Steven Walter Pladl murdered his biological daughter, 20-year-old Katie Rose Fusco Pladl, with whom he had been engaged in an incestuous relationship, and her adoptive father, 56-year-old Anthony Charles Fusco, in New Milford, Connecticut. The day prior, Steven had murdered his and Katie's seven-month-old son Bennett Kieron Pladl by smothering him in Knightdale, North Carolina. Following an hours-long search by Dutchess County police, Steven Pladl died by suicide in Dover, New York.