A pastor has been charged with murder after he was arrested in connection with the murder of his finances daughter in Michigan.
The pastor, ex-convict John D. White, acted as though he didn't know where Rebekah Gay, the 24-year old girl he beat and killed and asked his congregation to pray for her safe return.
Pastor White later confessed to killing Gay in a bid to fulfill a fantasy of necrophilia, according to a report by the Associated Press. 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.
"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 said.
"He just basically said he was attracted to her, thought she was a very cute girl. It's a crazy, tragic situation," the sheriff added.
Gay and White lived in the same trailer park in Broomfield Township, 85 miles northwest of Lansing, and White was engaged to Gay's mother who was a regular at his Sunday sermons, Houghton said. She said the pastor often watched Gay's son while she was at work.
