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Article: Investigators: Grudge over divorce, annulment may have led to abbey shootings
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- AP Worldstream
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- June 13, 2002
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Dateline: CONCEPTION, Missouri
A grudge over a 43-year-old divorce and later annulment could be the
motive behind a shooting rampage at a Roman Catholic abbey, investigators
say.
Lloyd Jeffress, 71, was said to be upset about the way he was treated
by the church after the breakup of his five-year marriage. Investigators
said that bitterness was the best lead they had as they seek to determine
why he killed two monks and wounded two others at Conception Abbey
before killing himself.
The abbey was expecting several hundred mourners at Thursday's wake
and Friday's funeral for the Rev. Philip Schuster and Brother Damian
Larson. Both men were well-known: Schuster, 85, had ...