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Article: Beliefwatch: Mrs. Pastor.(Mary Winkler trial)
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- Newsweek
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- April 23, 2007
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Byline: Matthew Philips
In Selmer, Tenn. (population: 4,600), last week, the murder trial of Mary Winkler began with defense lawyers painting the soft-spoken pastor's wife as the victim of an abusive marriage who accidentally pulled the trigger on a 12-gauge shotgun that killed her Church of Christ pastor husband last March. Although prosecutors say the act was purposeful and premeditated, when police caught up to Winkler a day later along Alabama's Gulf Coast, she alluded to a steady flow of criticism and abuse as her motive. "I guess I just got to a point and snapped," she told police.
Though Winkler's case is, to say the very least, extreme, her ...
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