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In a sad conclusion to a disturbing relationship, a woman who married her birth father and gave birth to their child was laid to rest this past weekend, along with her baby and her adoptive father, after investigators said the birth father killed them all in a murder-suicide. Steven Pladl, 42, was found dead in early April in his vehicle in Dover, N.Y., several miles from the New Milford, Conn., murder scene where Katie Pladl and her adoptive father, 56-year-old Anthony Fusco, were discovered. In 1995, Steven Pladl was 20 when he met a 15-year-old girl named Alyssa on the Internet. Alyssa Pladl said in an interview last week that they put the girl up for adoption when she was 8 months old.

A man punched a 13-year-old girl inside a RaceTrac convenience store, knocking her unconscious as her parent pumped gas outside, Pinellas deputies reported. Kolbe Wayne Smith, 27, of St. Petersburg now faces charges of aggravated child abuse, violation of probation and resisting arrest without violence. According to a Pinellas County Sheriff’s Office release, Smith and the victim were in the store on the 2500 block of 54th Avenue N about 3 p.m. Saturday. He did not know the girl and punched her in the face unprovoked, deputies said, causing her to lose consciousness and fall to the floor. Other customers prevented Smith from leaving the store until deputies arrived. Smith then refused to be placed

These stunning images reveal the remains of a more than century-old sunken ship that has been preserved beneath freezing Lake Superior. The ship looks almost exactly the same as it did the day it sunk beneath waves all those years ago. At 60 meters long (approximately 198 feet), the Gunilda sunk after it struck some rocks and was not saved. Now, these stunning images have been captured 107 years after the sinking when a small group of divers revisited the vessel. (Caters News) See more news-related photo galleries and follow us on Yahoo News Photo Twitter and Tumblr.