Yes About 15 years ago Toowoomba Australia A brother was on a TV pro-gramme pleading for anyone to come forward re his wifes disappearance. He was convicted and jailed when they found her body in a lake weighed down by concrete blocks Her parents his in-laws (prominent family in Caboolture) supported his claim of innocence saying he was framed by persons unknown that wanted to discredit the Organization because he was a JW. Last I heard he remarried
Do you know of any witnesses that went to Jail/Prison? What did they do?
by Iamallcool 35 Replies latest jw friends
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Luo bou to
My ex and I knew the couple personally Both committed pioneers always used at assemblies as a role model They had no intentions of ever having children
Paragraphs 6 & 7 read: "A post mortem found no injuries that could have caused her death, but blood and tissue tests revealed she ha d ingested three anti-depressants - Aropax [Paxil], Parnate and Effexor, the court heard.
Her husband had been prescribed the drugs for depression in the preceding month Mr Rutledge said.
______________________________________________________________________________Husband killed wife with drug mixture, court told. By MURRAY DAVID.
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16 June 1998
Courier Mail
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(c) 1998 Queensland Newspapers Pty Ltd
A MAN allegedly gave his pregnant wife a lethal mixture of drugs before weighing her body down in a dam, the Supreme Court at Toowoomba was told yesterday.
The man, a committed Jehovah's Witness, had contacted police and newspapers claiming his wife had gone missing, the court was told.
Ian Patrick Reilly, 37, has pleaded not guilty to a charge of murdering his wife Sylvia, 35, at Toowoomba between August 27 and September 22, 1997.
Crown prosecutor Paul Rutledge yesterday told the court a fisherman found Mrs Reilly's naked body at Perseverance Dam, 50km north east of Toowoomba, three weeks after she disappeared.
The woman, who was about four months pregnant, had been dumped in the dam after being tied to two Besser Blocks, Mr Rutledge said.
A post mortem found no injuries that could have caused her death, but blood and tissue tests revealed she had ingested three anti-depressants - Aropax, Parnate and Effexor, the court heard.
Her husband had been prescribed the drugs for depression in the preceding month Mr Rutledge said.
A search of the couple's Price Lane house found Besser Blocks matching the two used to weigh down Mrs Reilly's body, he said. The rope used to tie the bricks to her body appeared to be the same rope Mrs Reilly had used to make curtains, the court was told.
Mr Rutledge said Reilly had contacted police on Sunday, August 31, claiming his wife had gone missing after leaving for Caboolture to see her mother on the Thursday. The court was told Mrs Reilly had never arrived at her mother's house and McCafferty's bus staff could not recall her boarding a bus.
The court was told a Mitre 10 hardware worker would give evidence that the couple had come into the store together to pay a bill on the Friday, a day after she was supposed to have disappeared.
In a police interview played to the court, Reilly said he had a loving relationship with his wife and both were devoted Jehovah's Witness members who had been in full-time ministry until they opened a furniture business. They had only been away from each other twice for a few days during their 15-year marriage.
The trial continues today.Can't post urls but hear is one story
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doofdaddy
When I lived in Hong Kong many years ago, I met that Chinese witness who spent 21yrs in solitary. Nancy someone...I actually went to the dinner at a wealthy witnesses place where a rep from Brooklyn interviewed her for an Awake article. Geez I forgot that one!
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doofdaddy
PM for Luo bou to
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snakeface
I know of a few separate cases where murders were comitted during robberies and the offenders got death sentences.
If your county sheriff's office has a website where you can look up public records, start doing searches on names of people in your ciricuit. You'll be surprised at what you'll find. In my county I found out that one elder had been arrested for indecent exposure. Several other brothers had DUI's, and others had driving-related arrests such as driving with a suspended license, attaching a tag from a different vehicle, and so on.
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Band on the Run
Besides not serving in the military which does makes sense when reading the Gospels. this thread isn't fair. All religions have serial murders, pedophiles, incest doers, burglars, rapists. The Witnesses probl have a disproporitinate number b/c the religion requires extreme impulse control to do all the boring, mindless stuff.
I believe when a Witness commits a crime, it is a man biting a dog and becomes news. So the relgion is highlight. Mormons, Scientologists, other fringe groups are also flagged. It provides a human interest element. Being Catholic or mainstream Protestant is not news. It is ho-hum.
The Church tried these crimes in many jurisdictions until the establishment of nation states when the fictiion of breaking the king's peace was created to let the crown have control. All that was needed for amnesty was to ride fast to church land and read the clergy, the opening words in Latin of a certain Psalm. All criminals knew that much Latin. People would be outrageoud. The church took a cut of the loot.
Christians will sin.
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Luo bou to
Christians will sin.
Sure but the JW's claim to be morally superior and constantly criticize other religions in their publications. They set themselves up.
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MrFreeze
I knew a brother who was df'd and about a month later he got arrested for beating up some woman and dragging her with his SUV. I couldnt believe it was him when he was on the news.
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Mandette
One for rape of a former girlfriend.
The other for raping his young granddaughter(not his only victim) He was protected in the past. Not this time. i'm sure he's getting exactly what he deserves in prison.
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aristeas
OK, Luo bou to, you can't just leave us hanging like that! If 15 have passed, surley the trial must have finished. Was the SOB convicted or not?