Police probe congregation in murder of former youth pastor
Police in the Chicago area, investigating the slaying of five women in a Lane Bryant clothing store earlier this year, have sent 11 officers from Illinois to Texas to investigate what role a church may have played in the killings.
The murder by an unknown gunman, previously reported as a botched robbery, now invites more sinister speculation as police draw a suspected connection between the collapse of a Chicago-area church and one of the shooting victims, Rhoda McFarland.
McFarland served as an associate and youth pastor of Embassy Christian Center in Crest Hill, Ill., but left the church in 2006 and became the manager of the Lane Bryant store where she and four other women were killed execution-style six months ago....