Amelia M. Griemel Sieckhaus was a woman of 69 who died in St. Louis, Missouri, on February 9, 1956, in a burst of domestic violence that turned a family home into a crime scene. In the public record that preserves her memorial details, the manner of her death is described plainly: she was shot and killed by her husband.
That same day, the violence did not end with Amelia. Two other members of the immediate family—her son, Cpl. Lester F. Sieckhaus, and her daughter-in-law, Marie Dreher
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