Posted on 03/25/2004 7:52:20 PM PST by nuconvert
Police: 'Passion' Movie Prompts Man to Admit Murder
Mar 25, 2004
By Mark Babineck/ Associated Press Writer/
HOUSTON (AP) - A man who had gotten away with murder confessed to police after seeing "The Passion of the Christ" and talking with a spiritual adviser, authorities said Thursday. Dan R. Leach's viewing of Mel Gibson's cinematic depiction of the last hours of Jesus, along with the discussion with a family friend, led him to walk into the Fort Bend County sheriff's department earlier this month and confess to killing Ashley Nicole Wilson, Detective Mike Kubricht said.
A coroner had ruled her death by hanging a suicide,
Wilson's body was discovered Jan. 19 in her apartment near Richmond, southwest of Houston. All physical evidence pointed to suicide, Kubricht said, and the 19-year-old had gone off anti-depressant medications because she was pregnant.
The pregnancy apparently was the motive, Kubricht said, because Leach believed he was responsible and did not want to raise a child.
Leach, 21, wore gloves and left none of his own DNA behind, Kubricht said.
"He was very, very meticulous," Kubricht said. "It was very well-planned and well executed."
There was no answer at Leach's residence in Rosenberg on Thursday. He was arrested Tuesday, a day after his indictment for murder, and remained in county jail on $100,000 bond.
He was expected to get a court-appointed attorney, Kubricht said.
"Something (the adviser) said, between that and the movie, he felt in order for him to have redemption he would have to confess his sin and do his time," Kubricht said.
Leach faces up to life in prison if convicted.
My great aunt did in 1939. Hmmmm. Maybe I'd better look into this further. I think she probably did, but it would have been known that she was going to leave all her property to a lawyer's secretary. Hmmmm.
I never heard of any woman doing that, but in the novel "Peyton Place", a woman hanged herself in the closet.
Anybody else know of any deaths of women by hanging?
I think there are a lot of things I don't know. Some I would like to find out and some it is probably better if I don't. I went through a phase when I wasn't too well psychologically where I had to have double and triple locks on the doors. It was in kind of an old house that spooked me. I was down in the basement once and I got the distinct impression that someone had killed themself there. Later a neighbor told me that a former occupant had killed himself but I think they said it was in the yard, been awhile and didn't press for more details. Later I also found in some of the letters that my great aunt had to have triple locks on her doors. She died two years before I was born.
When I read this article, the thought crossed my mind maybe she didn't kill herself. She owned a couple of properties in Pasadena that would be worth a very lot of money today. But I think she did. She was mad at her family for some reason and filed a lawsuit against them about some farm property. Then she wrote everybody out of her will. Nobody tried to fight it, nor should they have necessarily, but I can't help wondering if her mental state influenced why she would leave all that property to the secretary of the lawyer who probably drew up the will and the secretary would have typed it. Isn't that an odd situation?
I do think things went down just as I pieced them together, and I never wanted to look into it too much.
On the offchance that she was murdered, and I mean offchance, sometimes people find peace when the truth is known. For a long time I've felt that something about her relates to my mental illness, possibly my father's depressions, my grandather's depressions, another flaky relative, another grand neice of hers killed herself by carbon monoxide in her garage. These things run in families sometimes.
Yes, you are definitely right about that. But sometimes the right kind of closure brings healing.
I think spooky things sometimes happen to people who are descended from people who commit suicide. There is a thread in the religion forum right now about an ex-catholic nun whose grandfather committed suicide and she as a child started getting what I would consider negative spiritual visitations. She is today a spiritualistic medium.
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