On the morning of January 23, 2017, a violent attack inside a Darmstadt, Indiana home left 52-year-old Sherry Loehrlein dead from a gunshot wound to the upper back. The attacker also wounded the couple’s adult twin daughters with gunshots and stab wounds; one daughter escaped to a neighbor’s house to call for help, while the other hid in a closet and reported their father had shot her and remained in the house.

When deputies arrived, they found Sherry deceased and encountered her husband, 54-year-old Clint Michael Loehrlein, armed with a knife. He refused to surrender, inflicted injuries on himself, and had to be tased and taken into custody. The daughters were transported to hospital for treatment.

Clint Loehrlein was charged with murder, two counts of attempted murder and two counts of aggravated battery. At trial he testified about depression, lack of sleep and amnesia for parts of the incident, claiming insanity at the time. A jury convicted him in August 2018 and he was sentenced to 150 years in prison; the Indiana Supreme Court later affirmed the convictions in December 2020.

Did anyone in the Darmstadt community have contact with Sherry or the family in the weeks before January 23, 2017?