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TOLL IS RISING.
Announcer: LIVE, THIS IS
"24 HOUR NEWS 8".
OFF THE TOP TONIGHT, WE
ARE LEARNING DETAILS ABOUT
THIS MAN.
A PASTOR AT AN ISABELLA
COUNTY CHRCH NOW ACCUSED OF A
PERVERTED KILLING.
THE DEATH OF A 24-YEAR-OLD
WOMAN, TONIGHT, A FRIEND OF
THAT VICTIM REBEKAH GAY IS
TELLINGS THAT THE SUSPECT WAS
IN A RELATIONSHIP WITH GAY'S
MOM AND PLANNED TO MARRY HER
AND WE ARE LEARNING ABOUT
JOHN WHITE'S BACKGROUND.
HE FIRST TRIED TO KILL A GIRL
IN BATTLE CREEK BACK IN 1980
THEN IN THE '9Os, HE
SUCCEEDED HE KILLED A 26 YEAR
WOMAN IN KALAMAZOO COUNTY.
TONIGHT JOHN WRIGHT ADMITTED
TO POLICE HE HAS KILLED
AGAIN.
RYAN TAKEO IS LIVE IN MOUNT
PLEASANT TONIGHT TO TELL US
MORE ABOUT THE BIZARRE
KILLING, RYAN?
Reporter: BRIAN, GOOD
EVENING.
WHEN REBEKAH GAY DID NOT SHOW
UP FOR WORK YESTERDAY AT THE
GOOD WILL STORE, THE
COWORKERS GOT WORRIED.
THE CRIME SCENE TAPE AT THE
MOBILE HOME WAS ALREADY THERE
WITH THE OTHER HALLOWEEN DECK
RATIONS AND AFTERNOON PRESS
CONFERENCE, THE POLICE
DETAILED JOHN WHITE'S
CONFESSION.
FIRST, THEY SAY, EARLY
HALLOWEEN MORNING, WHITE WENT
THROUGH UNLOCKED DOOR AT
GAY'S HOME AND SHOT HER IN
THE HALLWAY.
HE TOLD THE POLICE HE WANTED
TO ACT OUT A FANTASY OF
KILLING A BECOME AND HAVING
SEX WITH HEARTED BODY.
THE SUSPECT HAD HIT HER OVER
THE HEAD SEVERAL TIMES WITH A
RUBBER MALLET AND WHILE SHE
FELL TO THE FLAR, HE THEN
TOOK A LARGE ZIP TIE, PUT IT
AROUND HER NECK AND STRANGLED
HER.
POLICE SAY WHITE CONFESSED
TO DUMPING THED DY GETTING
RID OF IT IN THE WOODS AND
DRIVING HER CAR TO A NEARBY
BR TO MAKE IT LOOK LIKE
ABDUCTION.
THEN CONFESSION, PLUS SAID
WHITE TOLD THEM WHERE THE
WOMAN'S BODY WAS.
HE HAD PROBLEMS WHEN HE
WAS YOUNGER.
IT SEEMED TO ME THAT HE HAD
COMPLETELY TURNED THEM
AROUND.
I BELIEVE HE THOROUGHLY IS A
MAN OF GOD.
WHITE IS A PASTOR.
GAY'S NEIGHBOR, A FRIEND TOLD
US, HE IS DATING THE WOMAN'S
MOTHER.
THEY PLANNED TO MARRY BY
PHONE, THE CHURCH ELDER AT
WHITE'S CHURCH FOUND OUT HIS
CONFESSION FROM US.
I MEAN WHEN YOU HEAR THIS,
I MEAN, DOES IT DO SOMETHING
TO THE PIT OF YOUR STOMACH?
YEAH.
GREAT BIG STONE.
I CAN'T BELIEVE IT.
IT JUST SEEMS BEYOND THE
CHARACTER THAT I WOULD
RECOGNIZE.
Reporter: GAY HAS
3-YEAR-OLD SON WHO SLEPT JUST
A ROOM AWAY FROM THE CRIME
SCENE.
HOURS LATER, THE SUSPECT
DRESSED UP THAT 3-YEAR-OLD
BOY FOR HALLOWEEN SO THE BOY
COULD GO TRICK-OR-TREATING.
LIVE IN MOUNT PLEASANT, RYAN
TAKEO, "24 HOUR NEWS 8".
"24 HOUR NEWS 8'S" TOM
HILLEN CONTINUES OUR TEAM
COVERAGE TONIGHT.
TOM, CAN YOU TELL US MORE
ABOUT THE CRIMES HERE IN WEST
MY? I.
BRIAN, SUE.
WE HAVE BEEN KILLING THROUGH
THE PAST LOOK AT OLD
NEWSPAPER ARTICLES REALLY TO
PIECE TOGETHER WHAT JOHN
WHITE DID OVER THE PAST THREE
DECADES.
WHEN HE WAS 22 YEAR YEARS OLD
IN 1980 HE STABBED A
17-YEAR-OLD GIRL 14 TIMES IN
THE BACK AND THE CHEST JUST
LIKE THIS WEEK'S KILLING, THE
VICTIM WAS HIS NEIGHBOR.
SHE WAS AT HIS HOME.
SHE WAS SHOWING HEAR SLOT CAR
RACING LAYOUT HE HAD SET UP
IN THE BASEMENT.
SHE BARELY SURVIVED.
HE WAS SENTENCED TO FIVE TO
TEN YEARS IN PRISON BUT HE
ONLY SERVED TWO YEARS.
14 YEARS LATER.
HE STRUCK AGAIN, THIS TIME,
IN KALAMAZOO COUNTY, AND
JULY 1994, 26-YEAR-OLD VICKY
SUE WALL WAS SEEN GETTING
INTO THE 37-YEAR-OLD'S TRUCK
IN THE PARKING LOT OF THIS
MEIJER IN COMSTOCK TOWNSHIP.
THE WOMAN WAS HAVING AN
AFFAIR WITH WHITE AT THE
TIME.
HER BODY WAS FOUND SEVERAL
WEEKS LATER.
HER BODY WAS SO DECOMPOSED
THAT THE POLICE MERV
DETERMINED HOW SHE DIED.
ACCORDING TO THE "KALAMAZOO
GAZETTE," WHITE ONLY SAID IT
WAS A TRAGIC ACCIDENT.
HE WAS SENTENCED TO 8 TO 15
YEARS UNPRISON ON INVOLUNTARY
MANSLAUGHTER CHARGE.
HE SERVED 12 YEARS THEN
RELEASE.
THIS TIME, WHITE IS FACING
OPEN *** CHARGES WHICH
CARRIES A SENTENCE OF LIFE IN
PRISON.