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U.S. Victim of 419 Scam Shoots Preacher Husband

Wow -- I had been aware of most of this story for a couple of months now, but this is the first that I've heard of a link to a 419 scam.

Lester Haines writes in The Register:

A row over money which provoked a US woman to shoot dead her husband may have been exacerbated by the couple's fleecing by 419 scammers, AP reports.

Mary Winkler, of Selmer, Tennessee, allegedly shot her preacher husband in the back with a 12-gauge shotgun as he lay in bed on 22 March. The body of Matthew Winkler, described as "the popular minister at the Fourth Street Church of Christ", was discovered later that evening by members of his church.

His wife had fled the scene with her three young daughters but was arrested the following day in Orange Beach, Alabama.

posted by Fergie @ 7/20/2006 09:39:00 AM