A Missouri a pastor reveals how he warned police of a mother killer from his herd after the killer’s husband and 26-year-old son died quickly from antifreeze poisoning.
Pastor Jeff Sipi made the anonymous call in 2013 after two members of his congregation in the Lutheran Church of the Redeemer died in the same way.
“I shared that I am a pastor and have a family that has survived two deaths in a short time and has another family member in the intensive care unit,” Sippi told ABC’s 20/20. “I have never had two family members die in the same situations,” he added.
He concluded that the authorities should investigate.
“Now I see someone fighting for their lives in circumstances and events that are simply completely foreign to me,” suspecting a sinner in his flock.
Pastor Jeff Sippi, pictured, revealed how parishioner Diane Stoud reported to the cops after her husband and son died in quick succession. Stoud was later convicted of their murders
Diane Stoud admitted that she tried to kill her other daughter in the same way. She “joked and laughed” with nurses at the hospital where her daughter Sarah was admitted in critical condition
Poisoned: Sean Stoud, 26, died in September 2012 after his mother poisoned his Gatorade and soda loaded with antifreeze
The victim is Mark Stoud. In 2012, Mark and Sean Staudte died six months apart from natural causes, or so everyone thought. In the years to come, it will be revealed that Diane Stoud, Mark’s wife and Sean’s mother, with the help of her daughter Rachel Stoud, actually killed Mark and Sean with antifreeze.
Sarah and Rachel Stoud (right) in a photo from October 9, 2012, published by Diane. Rachel helped their mother try to poison Sarah
Sarah survives poisoning, but now lives in care after suffering nerve and brain damage
The call led to the subsequent arrest of Diane Staud, 58, who poisoned her husband Mark and two of her children, killing one and disabling the other.
Mark died on Easter in April 2012 from what was then considered a natural death.
Five months later, Mark and Diane’s son, Sean, 26, was found dead in their home after flu-like symptoms.
Finally, in June 2013, daughter Sarah was taken to the intensive care unit with cerebral hemorrhage and organ failure, and doctors believed she had been poisoned.
Diane and daughter Rachel Stoud were taken in for questioning, where the mother and wife admitted to using antifreeze by pouring it into Coca-Cola and Gatorade, drunk by their children and husband.
The photo shows Diane, Mark, Sean, Rachel and Sarah in June 1990 in Overland Park, KS, in their apartment where they lived there for a short time.
She filed a lawsuit in Alford on two counts of first-degree murder. Alford’s pleas acknowledge that prosecutors have evidence to convict someone without the defendant admitting the crime. Diane Stoud is serving a life sentence without parole.
Rachel Stoud pleaded guilty to second-degree murder in 2015 in a plea deal to testify against her mother. She was sentenced to two life sentences, but could be released on parole after 42 and a half years in prison.
In 2016, a video showed Diane Stoud telling Missouri police in unprecedented tapes that she had killed her 26-year-old son, Sean, because he did not want to help in the house.
Staudte also admits to poisoning her daughter Sarah, who survived a brain injury, saying she did so because her daughter had debts in college that she was unable to pay and refused to find work.
However, Diane now claims innocence in an interview with ABC News.
Satute now claims she did not commit the murders
“I said what I was told to say – I say there is more to it than people know,” Staudte said. “Mark was with some people who are very dangerous – people have disappeared,” she added.
She now believes that someone “came in and gave him something” in the case of her husband Mark.
Authorities say they have no evidence that anyone other than Diane and Rachel committed the killings.
Staudte claims that he killed his wife Mark, then 61, because she “hates his insides” and accused him of domestic violence, the records reveal.
Between 2012 and 2013, Staudte and daughter Rachel planned and then plotted to poison the rest of the family with antifreeze.
Diane Stoud was questioned by the Springfield Police Department in 2013
According to additional tapes received from ABC, Rachel said she and her mother bought the antifreeze online because store-bought antifreeze added a bitter chemical to prevent it from being consumed. It tastes slightly sweet.
On the tapes, Staudte can be heard telling employees that he has added “one or two teaspoons” of the chemical to Coca-Cola and Gatorade, which he serves to Sean, Sarah and Mark.
Mark died suddenly in April 2012, but due to his unhealthy lifestyle, doctors determined his death was natural.
The same thing happened after Sean died five months later because he had a history of seizures.
Sarah now lives in care as she handles the effects of the poisoning, while the youngest daughter, who has never been identified, lives in foster care.
Diane Stoud can be seen in some of her Facebook photos
At the sentencing hearing, Sarah Stoud said in court that she forgave her sister.
Rachel Staud also spoke and said that “despite the bad, there are those who forgive.”
She also apologized for her involvement in the killings instead of confronting her mother. She said she was scared, “but being afraid is not an excuse.”