In the days leading up to the terrible event, the wife of Jeremy Koch—the man who is accused of killing his family in a horrifying murder-suicide on the day of his son’s high school graduation—made a valiant effort to preserve her husband’s mental health.
On May 10, the Dawson County Sheriff’s Office made a house call at approximately 9:45 a.m. The bodies of Jeremy Koch, 42, his wife Bailey Koch, 41, and their two boys, Hudson, 18, and Asher, 16, were discovered there.
Knife wounds were inflicted by all four. Jeremy is thought to have murdered his three family members before taking his own life.
An Anchoring Hope Facebook page was originally created by Jeremy and Bailey with the goal of supporting people who are experiencing suicide thoughts. For more than twenty-five years, the two had been together.
Jeremy’s personal mental health problems, according to the family’s relatives, began at least in 2009 and included many suicide attempts.
In fact, Bailey made a last-ditch internet appeal for people to help her husband only days before the murder-suicide that has made headlines worldwide. She created a GoFundMe page earlier this month with the message, “May is mental health awareness month, so here we are…making you aware.”
Bailey wrote as recently as May 3 that her husband was receiving ongoing treatment to support his mental health and had survived at least four suicide attempts. In March 2025, however, she claimed to have woken up to her husband standing over her brandishing a knife and stating, “Something is wrong.” She was successful in defusing the situation and persuading him to get help that time.
On May 3, Jeremy was diagnosed with acute malnutrition and dehydration, and on May 8, he was discharged from hospital inpatient treatment.
Bailey expressed her happiness that Jeremy will return home in time for their oldest son Hudson’s high school graduation in a social media post on her and her husband’s Facebook page.
Sadly, shortly after police were called to the family’s residence, they found Bailey and her two sons dead stabbed.
Lane Kugler, Bailey’s father, posted on social media that he had found his daughter’s, his grandsons’, and his son-in-law’s dead early on Saturday.
The distraught father stated, “What I saw will haunt me for the rest of my life.”
“Jeremy had spent many years battling mental illness. Psychosis had replaced his depression. This terrible deed was not Jeremy’s doing. A sick mind was at play.