Pastor arrested in alleged murder plot

[Bluebear]

FRESNO, Calif. - A preacher was arrested at the Mexican border and accused of deliberately crashing his pickup truck and killing an 85-year-old farmer in a scheme to get his hands on the man's multimillion-dollar trust fund.

Howard Douglas Porter, 55, of La Grange, was being held without bail Wednesday in San Diego on suspicion of murder, attempted murder and embezzlement from an elderly person.

Porter headed the Hickman Community Church, a nondenominational Christian church, when he befriended Frank Craig, a resident of the little town 450 people about 110 miles east of San Francisco.

Craig, who had about $4 million in stocks and real estate left to him when his brother died, had asked Porter to help him build a museum to house the farm equipment he had collected, said sheriff's Deputy Royjindar Singh. Eventually, Porter was named trustee of Craig's trust, and the church was named as heir, Craig's family told authorities.


http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20061130/ap_on_re_us/pastor_murder_plot

[QMPMom]

1. Aw darn! I clicked on this hoping to see my ex-brother-in-law's

face and name. It would really have made my Dad's Christmas if the asshole was in jail.

Oh well. Maybe next time.B-)

[RB TexLa]

2. Sick. Also not so smart crashing the car to do it

Especially the second one where any number of ways he could have drown as well. Too bad it didn't work out that way.

[tularetom]

3. I saw this in the local paper and didn't pay any attention

but when I saw the name Frank Craig in your post I had to do a double take. I'm almost sure he's the man who used to let us shoot pheasants on his property 20 or 25 years ago. If so he was a real nice old guy and I'm sorry he had to get mixed up with a fuckin preacher. These assholes are nothing but hucksters and if this story is true I'd like to be on the jury for his trial....