Posted on 11/24/2020 10:07:22 PM PST by Pontiac
An Alabama man diagnosed with terminal lung cancer confessed Wednesday to killing another man 25 years ago, solving a cold case murder that had "nothing else to follow up on," according to authorities.
Johnny Dwight Whited, 53, of Trinity, called the Decatur Police Department wanting to confess to the murder, telling police he wished to "lift a weight from his chest" and that he was prepared to “meet his maker," authorities said.
After the call, detectives met with Whited, who provided information that matched evidence and information in the case, authorities said. They said he led them to the crime scene and the area where he dumped the vehicle in the water, AL.com reported.
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Or may, just maybe this drug addict wants to get some free medical care at the expense of the state.
He wants the state to pay for his hospice care and pain relieving drugs.
He should have confessed in California where they’d probably throw him a parade if he killed the right type of person.
State’s going to pay for that anyway if he’s indigent or has inadequate assets.
Doubtless he felt guilty all 25 yrs as hiding the evidence is the first manifestation of guilt.
It’s not a bad plan really.
Hiding evidence is ‘I don’t want to go to jail’
>hiding the evidence is the first manifestation of guilt.
No, hiding the evidence is the first manifestation of trying to get away with it.
The bad news for him is that Biden is just about to cure cancer.
Ah, Mr. Whited? This is the doctors office. There was a mix-up and it looks like your test results are negative. Isn’t that great!?
he wants to come off as this poor man with a conscience....sorry, not buying it....its convenient now to confess, because he’s a dead man walking, but he lived a nice 25 yrs without paying the price....
Pray for his soul. Remember the thief on the cross.
”The older I get, the less ‘Life In Prison’ is a deterrent.”
Yes, I hope he hears the Gospel of Christ and accepts it.
It’s the only hope any of us poor sinners have (including me).
Perhaps some lurkers out there, looking for more information, can click on my username for my FR homepage.
Actually, I can say from personal experience that guilt catches up to you and you’d rather just face the consequences and move on with life.
of course I didn’t remotely come close to doing what he did!
And I ended up not getting any prison time. But even a year or two in prison would have been better than always worrying about a knock at the door and having a stained soul.
That was long ago and now at 52 the only guilt I have to worry about is my 87-year-old mother finding out that I took the last two donuts she had when I visited her last time :)
I guess she could charge me with petty theft :-)
Being a Catholic I would have to say that his soul is still stained. Unless he receives absolution from priest he still in in danger of eternal damnation.
On the other side of the argument you are correct he does need to receive Earthly justice for his soul to be cleansed. But I half suspect he may have waited a bit too long to receive justice and be made whole.
Since you brought up the matter of his soul I had to throw in my little bit of the Catechism.
Lock him in a cell with an endless supply of cigarettes.
Aww your mama would have packed the doughnuts in a bag and sent you home with them and a kiss on the cheek. :)
“Unless he receives absolution from priest he still in in danger of eternal damnation.”
So belief in the death and resurrection of Jesus for forgiveness of sins is insufficient for eternal life? There needs to be more?
” the only guilt I have to worry about is my 87-year-old mother finding out that I took the last two donuts she had”
If you took her bran muffins you would get the death penalty, old people are very possessive of their bran muffins......
He did the right thing anyways.
Being a Catholic means you are misled, which I can say based upon Scripture as a former altar boy, CCD teacher and lector, the latter two after I become manifestly born again thru deep repentance and faith in the risen Lord Jesus to save me on His account, by His sinless shed blood.
Besides New Testament pastors not being Catholic priests, rather than needing absolution from one, "The Lord is nigh unto them that are of a broken heart; and saveth such as be of a contrite spirit." (Psalms 34:18) The apostle Paul himself did not need absolution from such for being complicit in the murder of saint Stephan, and for torturing and otherwise being injurious to them, but was repentant and believed on the Lord Jesus and confessed him in baptism, which a certain devout disciple ministered to him. (Acts 9; 22) While believers are to confess their sins to each other, and can obtain mercy for souls as we see in the story of the palsied man in Mark 2, and in which case (likely chastisement for sins of ignorance) pastors normally are to be called, the only command in the NT for confessing sins is to God and each other in general. The infirm man in James 5 is not even told to confess sins, any more than the palsied man, which account relates to this.
For more on this issue versus Catholic contention, see a recent post on FR if you want. Or here.
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