Thursday, December 30, 2010



Killer-turned-pastor preaches redemption, but victim's son outraged

MADISON, Tenn. – Maury Davis doesn't look like a low-life murderer.

Striding across the platform of Cornerstone Church, flanked by massive television screens, a choir and a small orchestra, he looks like the successful preacher he is.

Middle-aged. Impeccably groomed. Beloved pastor of a church with more than 6,000 members, host of a Sunday television show watched by 125,000. International evangelist. Husband of 23 years, father of four.

He's all of that – but he's also a killer.

"I did something heinous, not just awful," says Davis, who slit the throat of 54-year-old Jo Ella Liles in broad daylight in a peaceful middle-class Irving neighborhood in 1975. "Unless you go to a Charles Manson level, it's out there."

After a jailhouse conversion and eight years in prison, Davis became a prominent evangelist, inspiring many with the story of his remarkable redemption. It has brought him phenomenal success.

... sure ...
... sounds like a career path ...
... welcome to amerika ...
:)

# posted by intcoex : 7:19 AM




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