The call that keeps him awake: Steven Platel and the family horror

The call that reveals it all: Steven Platel and the family horror: The murder of Katie Fusco and her family A 911 call in the early morning of April 12, 2018. A mother confesses that her son has just murdered his wife, her father, and their seven-month-old baby. But the real trap began eighteen years earlier when an abandoned baby was adopted, and years later returned to seek her biological father, unaware that she would fall into a cycle of manipulation, incest, and violence. In this episode, we explore how Steven Platel, a lonely man without a father figure, contacted a fifteen-year-old girl online in 1995, how the girl born from that contact was adopted and grew up in a stable family, and how the in-person reunion in 2016 triggered a chain of legal and familial transgressions that ended in multiple homicide. We analyze the contradictions surrounding the illegal marriage, Steven's abnormal calmness in the face of accusations, and the lingering question: how did a legal system allow a man released on bail and under a restraining order from his victim to travel nine hundred kilometers to execute three people? Victim: Katie Fusco García Date: April 12, 2018 Location: Milford, Connecticut; Dover, New York Status: Case closed. Perpetrator deceased by suicide. - Steven Platel was released on bail in March 2018 despite accusations of incest and illegal marriage to his biological daughter. - Katie Fusco was murdered along with her adoptive father Anthony Fusco in an assault rifle attack at a traffic intersection in Connecticut. - Katie and Steven's son, Bennet Kiram Platel, seven months old, was suffocated and left in a closet before Steven drove nine hundred kilometers to New York. - Steven's mother, Grace Platel, was the only witness to the full confession of the crime, made during a real-time phone call to North Carolina. Katie Fusco García, Milford Connecticut, Dover New York, 2018, murder, incest, manipulation, adoptive family, criminal psychology, homicide, domestic violence, true crime Spanish To listen ad-free and access premium episodes, start your 30-day free trial at obomedia.com OBOMEDIA presents true crime storiesa true crime podcast built on real cases. Every true crime story in our crime files follows the crime investigation from the missing person report to the trial: investigators and police building a murder case, a police investigation gone cold, justice for the victim and those who survived. We open the unsolved murder, the cold case reopened decades later, the mysterious death, the disappearance, the serial killer, the family murder, the murder mystery; the missing persons  a missing woman, a missing girl, a missing man found dead and the missing and murdered. From the infamous case to the unsolved case, from classic true crime to dark true crime and disturbing true crime: true crime reports, real crime stories, real murder cases, true murder stories and unsolved mysteries one true crime case at a time, from the OBOMEDIA true crime vault. © 2026 Created with OBOMEDIA technology. All rights reserved. This episode and its content (audio, text and related materials) are the property of their respective creator and are distributed under the OBOMEDIA name on platforms such as Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Amazon Music and Pocket Casts. Reproduction, distribution, editing or commercial use, in whole or in part, without prior written permission is prohibited. For permissions, licensing and business inquirie