The Incest Killer:Steven Pladl·Katie Fusco·Anthony "Tony" Fusco·Bennett Pladl

In the late 1990s, Steven Pladl and his wife gave their infant daughter up for adoption. She grew up in New York as Katie Fusco, raised by Anthony “Tony” Fusco and his family.

In 2016, when Katie was eighteen, she reconnected with her biological parents and moved into their home in Henrico County, Virginia. Within months, Pladl began a sexual relationship with her. His marriage ended, and in 2017 he and Katie married in Maryland. They had a son, Bennett. When the relationship came to light, both were charged with incest.

By April 2018, Katie was living with her adoptive family in New York, and she told Pladl the relationship was over. Pladl’s response was catastrophic. He killed their seven-month-old son at his home in North Carolina, then drove to Connecticut. On a roadside near New Milford he shot and killed Katie and Tony Fusco, who were in a truck together. Soon afterward, Pladl took his own life. Three people and an infant were dead, and there was no one left to put on trial.