The Daily Star has been doing some digging about the tragic Mothers' Day murder of 65-year-old Daisy Schultz in her apartment in a Walton house, and a picture of Richard Utter, her 74-year-old former boyfriend and alleged killer, is coming together.
According to friends Betty and Neil Northrup, who went to social dances with Schultz and Utter, and who also happen to be related to Delaware County District Attorney Richard Northrup, Utter had a pacemaker and kidney problems. He lived in a trailer park in Norwich, and his wife died in 2009. And there were signs that something was amiss:
"He was very, very quiet," Neil Northrup said of Utter ... "He was the last person you would ever think would do something like this," Betty Northrup said. "But he also seemed very needy and when Daisy broke up with him for a while he wouldn't stop calling her or showing up at the dances looking for her."
Utter shot Schultz at the end of a day of Mothers' Day activities, ending with a visit with her daughter:
Utter took Schultz out to dinner on Sunday and they went to spend time at Laura and Brad Northrup's house Sunday night. She said Utter left first and it was unclear whether Schultz knew that he was going back to her apartment on Union Street. Betty Northrup said the other tenants in the four-apartment building heard Schultz cry "No! No!" before hearing gunshots.
According to WBNG, Utter shot Schultz multiple times.
