Associate Pastor Leo Ingram arrived at the church expecting to meet Pastor Wendell Martinson to set up for the Easter sunrise service.

Instead, he found Pastor Martinson's bloody body and called 911.

Who would do something like that to a man of the cloth in that place on that day?

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