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They went from praying to preying...
Priests, pasters, ministers, and nuns: they are the men and women of God. We trust them unconditionally, tell them our darkest deeds, turn to them in our most desperate hour. We would never, in our wildest dreams, expect them to be...cold-blooded murderers. Now, peek into the confessionals of eleven clergymen and -women who did the unthinkable-- who broke the most sacred commandment: Thou shalt not kill.
Pastor Edmund Lopes could bring a congregation to its knees. Little did they know that years before, after murdering his wife and stabbing his girlfriend, he had found religion in prison and jumped parole to become a Baptist minister-- until police caught up with him, ten years after his escape.
Sister Sheila Ryan De Luca, having left her Franciscan convent after allegations of a lesbian affair with another nun, stands accused of brutally murdering a man who she claims raped her. Ultimately she served ten years in prison until her conviction was overturned.
Reverend Freddie Armstrong heard the voice of God telling him to "kill the Antichrist," so the schizophrenic ordained priest took a sharp butcher's knife and proceeded to stab and decapitate 81-year-old Fred Neal, a beloved local minister who happened to be in the wrong place at the wrong time.
Read on for more stories of clergy who raised cain with eight pages of shocking photos!
Amazon.com Review
John Glatt's For I Have Sinned tells the compelling, lurid, and all-too-true stories of 11 clergy--priests, ministers, and even a former nun--who have committed murder. Each tale is told meticulously, providing motivations, details, and graphic descriptions of the killings. Although Glatt's conjectures about the internal dialogue of the killers stretch at times, his overall approach is clear and methodical. The common thread to most of these stories, apart from the killers' vocations, seems to be their sense of entitlement. They murder to save their reputations, to punish those who have wronged them. Most seem unduly concerned with their public images and ironically unconcerned about the consequences, both spiritual and legal, of their actions. The brutality and the selfishness of these murders stand out more than any spiritual or ethical motivations on the part of the murderers. Men and women of God, it would appear, kill for the same reasons that everyone else does: jealousy, revenge, and greed. --Lisa Higgins
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