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S01E34 Dark Side of the Pulpit pt 1 When Pastors Kill
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Church is supposed to be a place of sanctuary. But behind the robes and pulpits, some pastors and priests carried out the darkest of crimes.
In this special episode, The Mighty Philbert takes a haunting look at:
- Pastor Arthur Burton Schirmer, who staged his wife’s death as a car crash.
- Father Gerald Robinson, convicted of the 1980 chapel murder of Sister Margaret Ann Pahl.
- Reverend Paul Jennings Hill, who called his shotgun murders a “holy mission.”
And finally—the countless quiet cases you’ll never hear about on the news, where violence hides under the guise of faith.
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