It's a farm owned by wealthy german immigrants, the Gruber family. It includes the patriarch Andreas, his wife, their widowed daughter and two grand-children. There is also a maid/hired help. Come to think of it you haven't seen them lately...
He's moderately wealthy and has no known enemies. It's not occurred to you lately as everything else has been going on, but they have been conspicuously absent. The maid had been fairly new as the old one left complaining the farm was haunted.
It's then that you notice (spot roll plz)