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Slain Minister's Wife to Be Charged With Murder
Fox News ^ | March 24, 2006

Posted on 03/24/2006 8:28:46 AM PST by Blogger

Slain Minister's Wife to Be Charged With Murder Friday, March 24, 2006 MEMPHIS, Tenn. — The wife of a Tennessee pastor found shot dead in his house Wednesday will face first-degree murder charges, authorities announced Friday.

Mary Winklerwas found Thursday night with the couple's three daughters in Orange Beach, Ala., about 400 miles south of their home in Selmer.

Investigators with the Tennessee Bureau of Investigation said she was interviewed during the night and the charges were being prepared.

"We've interviewed her and she was cooperative," said Jennifer Johnson of the TBI, adding that once a warrant with the charges was drawn up, extradition proceedings would begin to have her returned to Tennessee.

Matthew Winkler was found shot to death in the bedroom of his parsonage Wednesday by church members who began searching for him after he failed to show up at an evening event at Selmer's Church of Christ.

Police said there were no signs of forced entry, but Winkler's wife and children — Breanna, 1; Mary Alice, 6; and Patricia, 8 — were gone.

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; News/Current Events; US: Tennessee
KEYWORDS: banglist; churchofchrist; deathcultivation; homicide; marywinkler; matthewwinkler; minister; pastor; tennessee; winkler
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To: MississippiDeltaDawg

I think you're smoking catnip. First, the girl is 8 years old and doubt she could or would shoot her own dad. Secondly, he's dead. If anything his wife is probably crazy.


41 posted on 03/24/2006 8:51:25 AM PST by bahblahbah
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To: Thrusher
$20 says the MSM will find some way to use some element of this story to try to trash Christians.
And blame the husband too. Not unlike what the FemiNazis are trying to do with Andrea Yates' husband.
42 posted on 03/24/2006 8:51:41 AM PST by oh8eleven (RVN '67-'68)
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To: Blogger

Speechless, almost.


43 posted on 03/24/2006 8:51:52 AM PST by tutstar (Baptist Ping List Freepmail me if you want on or off this ping list.)
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To: LYSandra
Anything is possible, but just yesterday I was chatting with a coworker about a friend of mine who's wife for the fifth time left the house and demanded a protection order and alleged child abuse. Today they made up and are back together.

Why he keeps letting her back in the house I don't know, but she does suffer from severe depression. Nevertheless, it not for me to judge and my coworker commented that if you drive down any residential street there are dozens of couples with varying degrees of challenges in their lives.

This case of course ended very tragically.
44 posted on 03/24/2006 8:52:32 AM PST by baltoga
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To: jacquej

Oh I never intended to sound like I approved of it. I was just a bit shocked that everyone immediately thought he was to blame. He may well be, but no one seemed to think the wife could have been the one messing around.


45 posted on 03/24/2006 8:52:38 AM PST by Romish_Papist (St. Jude, pray for my lost cause. St. Rita, pray for my impossible situation.)
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To: tabsternager

They're morons buying into that all guys killed by their wives are either child molestors or wife beaters. It's pathetic.


46 posted on 03/24/2006 8:52:39 AM PST by bahblahbah
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To: tabsternager
Why is it that most people tend to think that the husband must have deserved it?

Given the amount of planning she invested, it's clear that Mary seems to think he deserved it.....

I'd say there's a family problem here -- her fault, or his, I don't know.

47 posted on 03/24/2006 8:52:53 AM PST by r9etb
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To: Thrusher

If they deserve to be trashed in this instance, then it is what it is. Just because the MSM trashes something, doesn't mean it's sometimes deserved.


48 posted on 03/24/2006 8:53:06 AM PST by joesbucks
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To: pnz1

Post partum depression is also getting a tad overused don't ya think?! You kill 5 kids and it's post partum depression. What about in the 50's when everyone had 10-15 kids? Everyone in our neighborhood when I was growing up had at least 7-8 kids and several had 10 and more and none of the kids ended up dead cause the mom was a little blue! These shrinks are handing out these labels like candy- bipolar-post partum depression etc. DEAL WITH IT! I know someone whose kid was feeling depressed. Mom sent him to a shrink and he came home an hour later with a label, yes Bipolar and a handful of pills! After one hour! She threw the pills out. The kid is out of his slump and doing fine!


49 posted on 03/24/2006 8:53:32 AM PST by LYSandra
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To: punster
I have heard of a number of cases, where a minister was engaging in domestic abuse, specifically wife beating and child beating.

And what number would that be - 3? 300? 3000? And from what source did you "hear" this?
50 posted on 03/24/2006 8:54:21 AM PST by oh8eleven (RVN '67-'68)
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To: bahblahbah
They're morons buying into that all guys killed by their wives are either child molestors or wife beaters. It's pathetic

Hmmmm. A bit twitchy today, are we?

51 posted on 03/24/2006 8:54:52 AM PST by r9etb
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To: mlc9852

But someone has to be able to say "I told you so" , we are so inclined to try and solve murder mysteries.


52 posted on 03/24/2006 8:54:54 AM PST by tutstar (Baptist Ping List Freepmail me if you want on or off this ping list.)
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To: Romish_Papist; All

Whatever happened, we can all be sure Screwtape is congratulating a young tempter in hell for this...


53 posted on 03/24/2006 8:55:04 AM PST by jacquej
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To: r9etb

"There is always the divorce option"

---Laci's mother


54 posted on 03/24/2006 8:55:08 AM PST by babaloo
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To: LYSandra

Yeah, blame the husband/father right away, forget the fact that some women are just psycho.

Maybe she just wanted out of the whole "religious" life.


55 posted on 03/24/2006 8:55:53 AM PST by kx9088
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To: babaloo
"There is always the divorce option"

LOL ... yeah, there is. One has to wonder about what extremity would have driven her to do this.

56 posted on 03/24/2006 8:56:37 AM PST by r9etb
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To: jacquej

Well said.


57 posted on 03/24/2006 8:56:55 AM PST by Romish_Papist (St. Jude, pray for my lost cause. St. Rita, pray for my impossible situation.)
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To: LYSandra
My money is on either he was physically abusive to wife or sexually molesting daughter(s). Thoughts?

I'm not jumping to any conclusions. There is no excuse. It's tragic. It struck me that this is a very small church to support a minister, wife with three children.

It is difficult to be a minister's wife and raise children. Everybody expects everything to be perfect; your life is under continual scrutiny.

I'm thinking that that life was too confining for her, maybe it will turn out to be something else, maybe we will never know.

Obviously something is/was very wrong. She can't have been thinking too clearly that she could get away. Glad that the children were not harmed, but they will always have scars now.

Very sad all around.

58 posted on 03/24/2006 8:58:09 AM PST by Aliska
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To: jacquej

What an all around lose-lose scenario.....poor kids....
whatever the motives or deeds....she needs to be in jail for a long long time....and likewise for those like her too.


59 posted on 03/24/2006 8:58:37 AM PST by tflabo (Take authority that's ours)
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To: Blogger
Just a guess.

What sez she was depressed and was prescribed an SSRI by an MD?

b'shem Y'shua


60 posted on 03/24/2006 8:59:51 AM PST by Uri’el-2012 (Trust in YHvH forever, for the LORD, YHvH is the Rock eternal. (Isaiah 26:4))
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