Murdered for the perfect prom: New podcast details how 17-year-old slaughtered his pastor father, his stepmother and two young stepsisters in 1989 because he was banned from driving to the dance
Pastor Bob Pelley, his wife Dawn, and her daughters, Janel, eight, and Jolene, six, were found murdered at their home on April 30, 1989 in rural Lakeville, Indiana
Churchgoers went to the parsonage after Pastor Bob did not show up for service
Investigators suspected Bob s son, Jeff Pelley, then 17, who the pastor had grounded and would not allow to attend his prom s before and after events
Prosecutors contend this was Jeff s motive for shooting his father, and then he killed his stepmom and stepsisters in order to leave no witnesses to his crime
This Day in History — April 23
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This Day in History — April 23
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By Bob Wessel
This is the final installment in a series of six articles on Christian churches founded in Lenawee County in the 19th century.
Methodism
The Methodist Episcopal churches, discussed in the first article in this series, gave rise to several later iterations of Methodism in the county the African Methodist Episcopal Church, the Methodist Protestant Church, the Free Methodist Church, and, in the 20th century, the United Methodist Church.
August 1858 witnessed the organization of Bethel African Methodist Episcopal (AME) Church in Adrian in the home of Henry Russell. The congregation met in various members’ homes until 1869 when property at Butler and Locust streets was donated by a local lawyer and a building, which had been a meeting hall, was purchased and moved to the site.