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A Florida bodybuilder accused of killing his ex-wife in a homicidal rage displayed disturbingly violent tendencies throughout the doomed couple’s eight-year relationship and once shattered a window during an argument, a family member who witnessed the outburst told The Daily Beast.
But while the relative said ex-Marine Ian Christopher Baunach “was all about himself from the get-go,” and had once been arrested for strangling his then-spouse, no one thought it would ever end in murder charges.
Baunach, 43, is now facing a slew of charges, including first-degree murder, in the death of 39-year-old registered nurse Katie Baunach. The couple’s two young children, ages 4 and 6, have been taken in by their grandmother in the aftermath of their mom’s shocking death, Annie Moore, Katie’s cousin, told The Daily Beast on Wednesday night. The family has been speaking with a therapist about how to break the news to the kids and help them through this, she said.