article_snippet.sent: It was revealed that the mother's stepson has a long criminal record and was jailed again just days after the mother's stepson disappeared, a report suggests.
article_snippet.sent: Iona's husband died in 2012 from a heart attack, and Iona's husband is believed to have been 'under a lot of stress' because of a legal battle with four of Iona's husband five adult children from previous marriages.
article_snippet.sent: The New York Daily News reported Iona's stepson Costello Jr, 45, was visiting Hamptons Bay, New York, at the time, and relatives said Iona's husband has never got on with the family.
article_snippet.sent: Iona's husband has a long history of drug arrests and is currently in Palm Beach Detention Center following an arrest for a 'domestic dispute' when Iona's husband returned to Florida.
article_snippet.sent: Iona's mother, Diana Malcomson, had also insisted George Jr wouldn't want to harm the pair, but said George Jr was a 'mixed-up kid'.
article_snippet.sent: Iona, who was her late husband George's third wife and inherited her late husband
article_snippet.sent: George's third wife entire estate along with her daughter, had been 'under a lot of stress' because of a legal battle with four of her late husband George's third wife five adult children from previous marriages. '
article_snippet.sent: Amanda Hurwitz, one of George's daughters who now lives in Connecticut, refused to comment to Daily Mail Online on the report or Iona Costello stepmother's disappearance.