Steven and Sheryl Sueppel with their children, from left Eleanor,
Ethan, Mira and Seth.
The Sueppel family is seen in this handout family photo.
Police are looking into the deaths of five people at 629 Barrington
Road. The police were responding to a cell phone call received at
6:31 a.m. March 24, 2008.
(Whitney Wright/The Daily Iowan)
A minivan crashed into a highway sign support pillar in the median
of Interstate 80 this morning. According to police, the vehicle may
be a minivan reported missing from an Iowa City murder scene in
which five people were killed.
(Beth Skogen/The Daily Iowan)
A burned out minivan on Interstate 80, possibly a vehicle missing
from an Iowa City murder scene.
One immediately unidentifiable body
was found in the wreckage.
(Beth Skogen/The Daily Iowan)
Iowa state troopers look over the charred wreckage of a van believed
to belong to the family of Steven Sueppel.
(Harry Baumert/Associated Press)
(Peter Klopfenstein/The Daily Iowan)
Steven Sueppel's parents, Bill Sueppel Sr. and his wife, Patricia,
hug in front of their son's casket before the funeral mass for
Steven Sueppel, 42, his wife Sheryl, 42, and their four children,
Eleanor, 3, Seth, 8, Ethan, 10, and Mira, 5.
(Associated Press)
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