Investigators suspected a drug-dealing operation and burglary ring; they found marijuana, stereo equipment and a bulletproof vest.

“This was a wild one,” Capt. Jeff Berkler of the sheriff’s office told the State Journal- Register after the raid.

Eric pleaded guilty to unlawful use of a weapon, obstructing justice and vandalism. He went to prison, but he didn’t change his ways. He was out the following year and charged with armed robbery – police files show that two sisters fingered him as a suspect in a series of 2007 drugstore holdups. He pleaded guilty and received a six-year sentence.

A wild boyfriend, a young mother Eric’s brother, Marc, isn’t the sort most parents would want their daughter dating.

Besides a long list of traffic offenses, Marc has been convicted of shoplifting and misdemeanor assault. The assault conviction came in 2010, after prosecutors reduced the charge from a felony to a misdemeanor. According to Springfield police reports, Marc had thrown a jar of peanut butter at a stranger outside a convenience store after the stranger pointed out that Marc had just run a red light.

Marc has had plenty of other encounters with Springfield police. In a 2009 report on a suspected domestic battery that resulted in no charges, an officer reported that Marc threat ened to kill him after he was arrested. He banged his head against the window of the patrol car, and he struggled as he was taken to the booking area, yelling and screaming at officers, police reported. He calmed down, but only somewhat, when a nurse bandaged a cut he received during the melee at the jail.

“He continued yelling at officers and yelling to me that he was going to get me fired,” the arresting officer wrote. “He winked at me and blew me a kiss.”

That was about six months before Marc and Ostermeier became a couple. Four months after Ostermeier died, Springfield police in March released Marc after catching him in a pickup truck that also contained more than an ounce of pot and a suspected cocaine dealer. Marc told police his comrade sold in quantities as high as an ounce; the dealer said that he had possessed as much as a quarter-pound of cocaine at one time. Police released both Marc and the suspected dealer but seized the 2011 Dodge pickup, which had been purchased with a cashier’s check for more than $17,000.

Two weeks after police let Marc go after finding him with the suspected dealer, Springfield police officers arrested him after he reportedly ran from officers investigating a cab robbery. He was never a suspect, given that the robber was black, but police found a Halloween mask under his shirt, spent shell casings in his pocket, a bag of pot at his feet and a gun nearby, according to a “Police Beat” item in the State Journal-Register.

There is no indication in the public record of Ostermeier attracting the attention of law enforcement, and her mother says that she was never in trouble – just a typical teenager who loved peace symbols and Bob Marley.

“She named her dog Miley after Miley Cyrus,” Rowden says.