Pladl incest and murders
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 with, and killed her adoptive father, 56-year-old Anthony Charles Fusco in New Milford, Connecticut. The day prior, Steven had murdered his daughter Katie's seven-month-old son, Bennett Kieron Pladl, by smothering him in Knightdale, North Carolina.