John Douglas White was a minister in the small town of Mount Pleasant, Michigan. He was also an ex-convict with a history of attacking women over the past three decades. John had dark fantasies about his fiancé’s daughter, which would result in Rebekah Gay’s death in the early morning hours of Halloween 2012.
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