Pastor charged for killing

BROOMFIELD Michigan (AP):As police frantically worked to figure out how his fiancée's 24-year-old daughter had vanished, a pastor in Michigan in the United States (US) who had turned to God to shed his violent past went to his flock with a request: pray for her.

But all along, authorities say, he knew the sordid truth about where the young mother was.

The pastor, ex-convict John D. White, later confessed to killing Rebekah Gay to fulfil a fantasy of necrophilia, police in the US said last Friday. 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, according to court documents.

Police said White stripped her dead body but does not remember if he carried out his sexual fantasy.

After dumping the body early last Wednesday, he returned to Gay's home and dressed her three-year-old son in his Halloween costume, then later dropped him off with the boy's father.

no remorse

"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 being real remorseful at all with regard to the victim or anything else," Isabella County Sheriff Leo Mioduszewski told The Associated Press.

"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.

The case shocked the pastor's roughly 14-member congregation and raised questions about how a man who had found religion after a criminal past could return to his dark past.

White was in jail without bond over the weekend after he was charged with first-degree murder in Gay's death.