Micah Moore, the man who confessed to the murder of his religious sect leader’s wife appeared in court today.
After the hearing he was freed on a $250,000 cash bond.
He is due back in court in February.
In this edition of Religion News Briefs: Micah Moore is indicted for first-degree murder in the killing of Bethany Deaton. He is free on a $250,000 cash bond, and his next scheduled hearing is January 17.
The trial of Malcolm Fraser has been moved to January 16. Fraser is the assistant pastor of the contrversial ‘Sound Doctrine Church’ in Enumclaw, Washington.
Plus: a study by the Pew Research Center’s Forum on Religion & Public Life concludes that worldwide more than eight-in-ten people identify with a religious group — while one-in-six people have no religious affiliation.
A man who confessed to the murder of a woman whose death had initially been considered a suicide made up the story, his defense attorney claimed in court on Wednesday.
Earlier this month Micah Moore told police he had killed Bethany Deaton at the instruction of her husband, his spiritual leader, to stop her from revealing she was being sexually assaulted by fellow members of her husband’s spiritual community.
Bethany Deaton’s murder bears an eerie similarity to the murder of a woman in the fictional book, House of Lies.
The author says she has now come under attack by some people within the International House of Prayer.
The International House of Prayer in Kansas City, Missouri, has tried to distance itself further from Tyler Deaton, the leader of a controversial religious group whose wife was murdered — allegedly at his command.
Meanwhile, the media reports that people have long expressed concern at Deaton’s manipulative behavior