A married Alabama pastor was arrested and charged with murdering his wife then fleeing to Europe to be with his much younger boyfriend.
According to the NY Daily News, Richard Shahan prayed for his wife’s early death in emails he sent to his boyfriend in Europe.
Shahan’s wife, Karen Louise Shahan, discovered Shahan’s double life as a down low homosexual. But rather than leave him, she remained by his side like a good wife would.
A God fearing woman, Karen Shahan wrote in an email about the ultimatum she gave to her husband:
“I told him that he cannot keep both lives. That he will have to lose one of them,” Karen Louise Shahan wrote, according to the documents obtained by Al.com. “I said that if he was having any interactions that were not right before God that he should go to God and be completely honest with him because he knows anyway. I told him that God will reveal it to me. I told him that any texting or gmailing that does not bring glory to God has to go…”
Shahan complained bitterly about his wife in an email to his male lover.
“There is only one way I could become legally ‘single’ and I have to wait until God grants me that gift,” Shahan wrote in an email. “It will come; the woman I live with is slowly killing herself — she is diabetic and refuses to take care of herself physically.”
Shahan noted that his wife’s mother died of diabetes. But Karen Shahan’s death from diabetes didn’t come soon enough for Shahan.
So I pray and wait.” Shahan wrote. “It will happen in God’s timing.”
Shahan was interrogated by police after his wife was found stabbed to death in 2013. The wayward minister was arrested on New Year’s Eve 2013 as he tried to board a flight to Germany to be with his boyfriend.
Police say Shahan planned the trip to Germany months in advance, but his lawyer’s said it was just a mission trip.
Shahan’s trial is expected to begin in 2016. His church has cut ties with him.
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