Just a day after his death, McFeeture had also gone to the ATM and used Matt’s bank card. Matt had been too afraid to leave the relationship because he was afraid to lose time with his children, Mark said. “There was some incidents that happened, sometimes they had to um, have the police show up,” Mark said. Watch More 'Dateline' Episodes In Our Free App Matt’s brother Mark also knew there had been problems between the couple and said Matt felt McFeeture was controlling and demanding. Although McFeeture’s sister insisted she had been crying in the car before the funeral, Matt’s family was struck by her seeming lack of emotion during the service. He was supposed to get a promotion and I think there were some people who didn’t think he deserved it.”īut Matt’s family believed the culprit may have been someone much closer to home. “It was his uncle’s company and um, people I think were a little jealous. “There was some people at his job, they had not liked him,” DeLuca said. Matt had worked at his uncle’s industrial plant. Mike Quinn was assigned to the case about three years after Matt’s death.Īccording to DeLuca, McFeeture believed that someone from her husband’s job may have been poisoning him. Without the formal designation as a homicide, the case stalled out for years until Detective Sgt. However, the coroner could not determine the manner of death. Three months later, the coroner determined that Matt had died of ethylene glycol poisoning or antifreeze poisoning. He died in the hospital, much his stunned family’s surprise. The doctor diagnosed Matt with kidney stones and gave him pills to dissolve the stones but four days later Matt was rushed to the hospital in agonizing pain. “She finally said, ‘You need to go, obviously something’s not right,’” DeLuca recalled. McFeeture’s sister, Chrissy DeLuca, said that McFeeture had been the one who finally convinced Matt to go to the doctor for the pain. His doctor prescribed him antidepressants but then Matt began having terrible back pain. Within just a few years, Matt, an amateur hockey player, had gone from being a bachelor to being a dad to three children, including a colicky new baby, and the stress took its toll.Īs the hockey season wrapped up in 2006, friends and family said Matt had lost money gambling on the internet and complained of feeling depressed. Matt was also helping raise McFeeture’s daughter from a previous marriage. About nine months after the couple met, they welcomed their daughter, Samantha, and their son, Josh, followed soon after.
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