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 Si
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