Woman Slain With 2 Children, Mother Was Recently Widowed

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ST. CHARLES—The man accused of killing a suburban St. Louis woman, her children, and her mother began dating the woman as she rebuilt her life following her husband’s death from cancer.

Several hundred people gathered on Dec. 31, at a candlelight vigil to remember 39-year-old Kate Kasten, who nursed her late husband, Kory Kasten, for six years before he died in April 2017. Relatives and friends said she moved to St. Charles that December and was in a new relationship with Richard Darren Emery, the St. Louis Post-Dispatch reported.