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Alleged child abuser had cult murderer father
Posted: 03.10.2010 at 1:51 PM
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CAMDEN COUNTY, MO. -- The man, who police say confessed to throwing his 3-month old girl across the room, breaking her skull, has a notorious father who was executed for killing five people.

Caleb Lundgren, 29, of Linn Creek, Mo., told investigators he was high on meth when he threw the infant 5-feet towards a baby swing. He also told investigators that in another instance the infant fell to the kitchen floor from a bar stool when he turned away to smoke meth.  (Read the story)

Birth records confirm Caleb's father is Jeffrey Lundgren.

Jeffrey Lundgren, a self-proclaimed prophet and former cult leader, was executed in 2006 for murdering a family of five in the summer of 1989, including a 15-year-old girl, a 13-year-old girl and a 6-year-old girl who were all shot in the head.

Jeffrey, who lived in Missouri, but moved his cult to Ohio, said the family was to blame for the group's problems and had to die. (Read the story on truTV.com)

Caleb's daughter is still listed in serious condition in the neonatal intensive care unit at University Hospital in Columbia but is "slowly improving" according to investigators.