IOWA CITY, Iowa (KCRG) – A new book examines the 2008 murder suicide of the Sueppel family in Iowa City, and how the tragedy sheds light on the troubled history of U.S. adoptions from Korea.
What They Stole: A Familicide Rooted in Intercountry Adoption is written by Paige Towers.
Towers was a senior at the University of Iowa in March of 2008, when Steven Sueppel violently murdered his wife and four adopted Korean children, then committed suicide by crashing his car on I-80…