‘Tries to kill himself … a lot:’ Wife made impassioned plea for help with husband’s mental health struggles days before he allegedly killed her, teenage sons in murder-suicide

Writing however she had “no pridefulness left,” Bailey Koch laid bare successful a GoFundMe leafage her husband’s struggles with his intelligence wellness and the desperation she felt successful seeking answers.

Days later, she and her full household was dead.

The Nebraska State Police said successful a press release it responded to an evident murder-suicide successful agrarian Dawson County, successful the Cornhusker State’s Panhandle. Around 9:45 a.m. Saturday deputies from the Dawson County Sheriff’s Office arrived astatine a location astatine Johnson Lake successful Plum Creek Canyon #1. When they went wrong they recovered 4 bodies: Koch, 41, and her hubby Jeremy, 42, on with their sons Hudson, 18, and Asher, 16.

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Authorities judge Jeremy Koch stabbed his woman and sons to decease earlier turning the weapon connected himself. Cops recovered the execution weapon.

Titled “Jeremy’s Battle: Mental Health Support Needed,” Bailey Koch described her husband’s years-long with depression. She wrote however her household was “as vanilla arsenic it gets” with 2 teenage sons, 1 of whom was acceptable to postgraduate precocious schoolhouse and determination to California for a three-year bonsai apprenticeship. She was a teacher and Jeremy Koch ran the household landscaping business.

“But my hubby tries to termination himself…a lot,” she wrote.

Back successful 2009, Jeremy Koch was diagnosed with “severe depression” and implicit the adjacent fewer years survived astatine slightest 4 attempts connected his life, the worst of which occurred erstwhile helium took a semi-truck connected the highway, his woman said.

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“He was near with a limb breached successful 4 places, punctured lung, fractured pancreas, implicit colon reconstruction, encephalon bleed, and…still depression,” she wrote. “When helium awoke, I was successful awe and relieved. He was destroyed his effort hadn’t worked.”

Then her hubby went immoderate 7 years “without experiencing acheronian thoughts.” However, his intelligence wellness struggles exacerbated successful July and helium was incapable to enactment which meant the landscaping concern floundered and they were surviving connected her teaching salary, she wrote.

“In March, conscionable a mates months ago, I woke to Jeremy shaking maine awake saying, ‘Something is wrong,'” Bailey Koch wrote. “He was lasting implicit my furniture with a weapon acceptable to extremity his life. I was capable to speech him down and into accepting help.”

He spent respective days successful a hospital’s intelligence wellness wing. They were declined ketamine treatments and tried Electroconvulsive Therapy Treatments, the fundraiser leafage said. But it didn’t work. Back astatine home, Jeremy Koch wouldn’t get retired of furniture and refused to eat, his woman said. He ended up backmost successful the hospital, she said, for dehydration.

“By not eating oregon drinking, Jeremy is dilatory completing suicide,” she wrote. “So present I am…asking for help. I person taken retired each penny we person to wage bills. My status is gone. Jeremy’s status is gone. I person begun the process of looking into selling our household concern due to the fact that the accent is excessively overmuch connected my husband, and thing is worthy losing him.”

Bailey Koch posted an update connected Thursday — 2 days earlier her decease — saying portion her hubby was home, helium was not reacting good to his caller medications. But she said she had “hope” aft a infirmary astir an hr distant from their location was offering a antithetic treatment. She wrote however they were going to the infirmary connected Friday to spot if they would qualify.

The fundraiser had raised much than $20,000 but was taken down connected Sunday afternoon. It’s unclear why.

Officials person ordered autopsies connected each 4 radical successful the home. The probe remains ongoing.

If you are experiencing suicidal thoughts, telephone oregon substance 988 to scope the nationalist Suicide & Crisis Lifeline.