He later claimed his victim looked like Jonah from the Bible and sent him telepathic messages: "Hey, man, pick me up and throw me over the boat. Kill me so that others will be saved."
Shortly thereafter, Mullin began having doubts about the hallucinatory instructions he believed were from his father. This uncertainty led Mullin to attend St. Mary's Catholic Church in Los Gatos on November 2, 1972, with the aim of confessing. While in custody in 1973, Mullin alleged that the priest he spoke to in the confessional, Father Henri Tomei, volunteered to be his next sacrifice,[20][22] which led Mullin to hit, kick, and stab Tomei to death on the spot before fleeing.
William Lee Neal
外號 Wild Bill Cody
受害人數:3
He was named after a family pastor, William Lee, and one of his uncles was a minister. Neal considered work in the FBI or as a minister, crediting his father taking him to museums in D.C. and his devotion to Christ through his uncle.
Nelson was subsequently sent to live with his maternal grandmother Jennie Nelson, a devout Pentecostal who raised him alongside her two younger children.Nelson exhibited increasingly bizarre, manic behaviors in his childhood, such as talking to imaginary people, compulsively quoting Biblical passages, and watching female family members undress
Nelson, well-versed in Christian theology, often studied his worn Bible, using it to keep his victim at ease and off-guard.
Dorothea Puente
外號: Killer Landlady, the Death House Landlady
受害人數 9
Holding her identity, she assumed the name Sharon Johansson and portrayed herself as a devout Christian. She established her reputation as a caregiver, providing young women with a sanctuary from poverty and abuse without charge.
Stephen D. Richards
外號: The Nebraska Fiend, The Ohio Monster
受害人數 9
Richards described his mother as a devout Methodist, and his father, a farmer, as having "made no profession of religion". Richards attended school in Mount Pleasant; he claimed that the teachers considered him well behaved. At his mother's insistence, he also attended Sunday school and church regularly.
Richmond's last words were "I'd like to extend my deepest apologies to all the victims' families and their loved ones. I'd like to say that I'm not a man that shies away from his responsibilities. I'd like to say that I hope that now, through my death, that y'all can move forward with your lives. Thank you and God bless you."
John Edward Robinson
外號: Slavemaster. the 1st Cyber Murderer
受害人數 8+
Robinson enrolled at Quigley Preparatory Seminary in Chicago, a private boys school for aspiring priests
He coached his four children's various sports teams in the Kansas City area. He was a Sunday school teacher.
Sarah Jane Robinson
外號: The Boston Borgia
受害人數 8–11
Robinson became a member of the Cottage Street Methodist Church, where she later on would meet her future partner-in-crime: Thomas R. Smith, a prominent church leader and one-time superintendent of the local Sunday school in Hyde Park. Both of them were well known in the community, with Robinson standing out for her constantly changing addresses in order to avoid paying rent and other bills. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sarah_Jane_Robinson
Don't know where God is but the Devil is in the details
He graduated high school in Fort Walton Beach, later attending Okaloosa-Walton Junior College before enrolling at Brigham Young University in Provo, Utah, where he became a Mormon.
After spending two years in Guatemala as a Mormon missionary, Rodriguez earned a law enforcement degree from Brigham Young University.He was also an active member of the Unity Church, occasionally delivering sermons there.
In the 1980s, he joined the Nation of Yahweh.After meeting founder Yahweh ben Yahweh in 1982, by 1986, Rozier had become an ardent supplicant to the Nation of Yahweh, a religious movement that "teaches that American blacks are the true Jews." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Rozier
Don't know where God is but the Devil is in the details
He then attacked Anderson with a wooden stick at the showers. He returned to his cell and informed a corrections officer "God told me to do it. Jesse Anderson and Jeffrey Dahmer are dead."
Juan Segundo
受害人數 4+
Segundo became involved in a local church and married a woman from that congregation in 2001.
defense attorneys Mark Daniel and Wes Ball called friends, family members. a pastor and church members to testify that Segundo has changed his hie since last being released from prison in 2000.
he dropped out of high school and ioined the mihtary. After he got out. he moved to Keene to raise his firnily in the Seventh day Adventist Church. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Juan_Segundo https://www.newspapers.com/artic ... pleads-f/120966799/
Don't know where God is but the Devil is in the details
Lydia Sherman
外號 The Derby Poisoner
受害人數 11
she worked as a tailor and met her first husband, Edward Struck, at age 17 through the Methodist church.
She was slim and pretty, with blue eyes, dark hair and porcelain skin. She also had a strong attachment to the Methodist church. At 18, she attended a Methodist dinner and met Edward Struck, a widowed blacksmith with six children. Shortly afterward, he proposed marriage. She said ‘yes.’
When she was 17 she met her first husband, Edward Struck, at a Methodist church they both attended, and they soon married.
Andrew Lavern Smith
受害人數 4
Smith was born in 1960 in Anderson, South Carolina, to Ruth and Willie Smith. Growing up, he and his family attended Fairview African American (FAA) Methodist Episcopal Church.
Lemuel Smith
受害人數 6
Lemuel Smith was born in Amsterdam, New York in a very religious African-American household.
he had suffered further mental abuse as a result of overzealous religious convictions, especially from his father.