Some Cases are just too sick for words:
As police frantically worked to figure out how his fiancée’s 24-year-old daughter had vanished, a Michigan pastor who had turned to God to shed his violent past went to his flock with a request: pray for her.
But all along, authorities say, he knew the sordid truth about where the young mother was.
The pastor, ex-convict John D. White, later confessed to killing the woman to fulfill a fantasy of necrophilia, police said Friday. White drank four or five beers before going to the woman’s mobile home and repeatedly striking her head with a mallet and strangling her with a zip tie, according to court documents….He kept saying he’s a bad person, he’s a pastor, he felt bad for the people in his church. … I don’t recall him bring real remorseful at all with regard to the victim or anything else,” Isabella County Sheriff Leo Mioduszewski told The Associated Press….Houghton said the congregation was aware of White’s criminal past when he joined the church. He was released from prison in 2007, after serving nearly 12 years for manslaughter in the death of a 26-year-old woman in Kalamazoo County, according to the Michigan Corrections Department.
He had previously been sentenced to probation for choking and stabbing a 17-year-old Battle Creek girl in 1981.
No gun anywhere in this story. Those who use the metric of “Gun Death” often ask “Why would you carry a gun in Church?”. The simple response is bad people can do violent things, and sometimes religious bigotry is a driving factor, or other times domestic abusers know when the object of their obsession will show up every Sunday morning.
In this case the monster was the man of the cloth himself, who the system was nice enough to release after repeat violent offenses and lenient sentences, and a congregation who trusted him despite doing things that none of them could ever have dreamed of.
I’ve never killed somebody, I’ve never choked and stabbed a teenaged girl. This isn’t just lack of opportunity, these actions are alien to me, as I’m sure they’re alien to most of you. They weren’t to this beast.
Even tho he didn’t have a gun, he was more dangerous than any of the armed people I know.
Hey but only “Gun Death” counts, right?
h/t Barron and
