After a witness came forward with a diary entry from September of 1975, a cold case was cracked when police arrested a pastor for the murder of an 8-year-old girl. Kristen Dahlgren reports.
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Literally a wolf hiding in sheep’s clothing.
God surely works in mysterious ways. Protector of all the lunatic preachers but not a protector of those that can’t defend themselves against God’s holy men
This is what a trans looked like in 1975. Before they could just dress and drag now and be there teacher… and be protected by there gender inequality….. 😂😂😂😂😂😂 such a stupid world….
Wait….so he can get arrested, but the woman who lied on Emmett Till confessed that she lied and was the reason he was murder…and was able to walk free and live her life out??? 🤔
“Lied about” not lied “on”. To “lie on” someone means to put your body atop theirs, like one lies on a bed. Carolyn Bryant lied about Emmett Till, most definitely not on him.
I only trust GOD
ATTENTION EVERYONE IF YOU FIND YOURSELF IN DANGER SAY JESUS JESUS JESUS JESUS JESUS JESUS OVER AND OVER AND IF YOU CAN TAKE PHYSICAL ACTION AT THE SAME TIME. JESUS SAVES. JESUS LOVES YOU. 🙏❤️
Keep trusting your children to these strangers called “pastors”, “priests” or the so called “Man of God”
He has gone through his entire life not paying for this. He’s gonna spend a few years in jail at most. They should look into more cold cases. If this other little girl suspected he tried to kidnap another little girl on more than 1 occasion, then there may be missing children elsewhere he has been.
This is why I hate religion
What if a pastor saves your life? Still will hate it? You’re painting everyone very broad 🙄
Protestant Ministers 🤦♂️
1975 wasn’t more than 50 years ago.
It’s never the drag queen, folks. It’s never the drag queen.
But I thought only trans people did this not pastors 🥺
If we don’t have Christ where will ethics come from?! :::Old Testament calls for murder of innocent children::: 🤦🏻♂️ when will we as humanity leave the myths and superstitions of 2000 years ago. Self forgiveness is one of humanity’s greatest psychosis’s. Peace to the family.
Really not fair. He’s got to live as “respected man”, now i don’t think he cares about this bc he’s goin to die anyway. RIP girl 🙏
Wow what the heck! Seriously some of these pastors need to be really evaluated
Old towns 👀
Anyone know if the Christian Reformed Church has publications or documents that help review the man’s history as a pastor? Any evidence the CRC overlooked moral failures? Anyone know if he is living off some chuch pension?
I know that the URCNA (United Reformed Churches in North America) broke away over theological reasons, so they may have people that knew this man also.
Not surprising
A pastor having a sleepover.
Wake Up Parents.
there should not be a statue of limitations on ANY heinous crimes.
I was born 20 years after this murder
Please let the general population take care of him!!
So incredibly sad. And no shocker it’s a pastor/priest or whatever. Disgusting. He should not have gotten to live a peaceful life this long with what he did
There is no church that isn’t going through a time of self-examination, all too often, by force. None of this makes me question my having left the church, to the contrary. They’re no different than anyone except to be more self-righteous. Pastors are actually paid to be.
Nobody gets away with murder
How about the zodiac killer?
Trust more your kids to these pastors!It is not a first case in history!
Worse than the criminal is the lawyers that are protecting him.
You mean it wasn’t a drag queen?
“ Every single day “.
Hopefully the prisoners take care of him
The case of Nikki Campbell has been reopened. The Fairfield Ca police suspect that she at 4 years old fell victim to David Zandstra in December 1991. Evidently, Zandstra had been a pastor at the Christian Reform Church Fairfield Ca from 1990 – 2005. This so called pastor is a real creep.
He lived a full life, hers was cut short.
Still not a cross dresser right?
Religion is the Poison of Humanity! 😡😡😡😡😡
Nasty
Atheist. Forever.
wow•
Beautiful little girl. RIP 🙏🏽
That’s evil but the real deeper evil is the Spiritual crime…using religion, posing as a person using your higher power name and anything in thought, words or actions from a religious person that leads to the harm of a person or group of people. That list is long and it’s the devils troops list for centuries. That’s a real crime.
At the same time my compassion wonders what created him?
Was he molested as a child by his mother or woman? Was it subtly expressed in school but ignored as ‘no mother would do such a thing’ or ‘no system to address that?’ It started from somewhere. Jail hasn’t stopped it yet nor won’t
And this why you don’t let an 8 year old child alone like that
*see kids, this is what happen when you go to church to worship a GOD that don’t exist but to get brainwash by the people who want to touch you.*
Well that sucks. He already lived his prime years and most of his life.
So sad
The church is full of WOLVES IN SHEEP’S CLOTHING.
Interesting note: Anyone can call themselves a pastor, You don’t have to be ordained, like a priest would.
Nobody really KNOWS anyone. That sweet granny down the road that makes an apple pie you would die for, might have 20 bodies in her crawl space. You just never know. 🤔
I wonder how many victims suffered by his hands. old b*stard
May the lord keep blessing you ❤and restore everything you need keep the faith!! Don’t worry God brought you back and God ohmighty will heal you in Jesus ohmighty name Amen much Love ❤Always
You sound weird, stay away from posting you only make me angry 😡😡😡
Always White and always religion. 🇺🇸
death penalty.
So very sad for the family God has always had her ❤so glad that this man was caught thank you ohmighty God
He got to live a full life but cut this little girls life short, super short. She was 8, she missed all the beautiful things life had to offer her.
Always a “man of god” who does the most evil things. Imagine that 😢😢
How many more got away with it back then? Open all the cases!! 50 years ago this dude lived all that time knowing he killed a child just now being caught. See this is yet another example of why teaching the history of this country matters. Sorry to say but 60’s 70’s people got away with it because they were white period. Nobody wanted to lock up a white guy. How many got away with it? Some sick crime done in the 60’s and 70’s dna equipment wasn’t the same not very many cameras how many got away with it !!!!
Creeps me out to know that their had to be at least a few others who knew, or at least strongly suspected, that the kidnapper and murderer was the pastor and said nothing. I have no doubt there were more. On her way to church camp? First place I would have looked was the church. People had to know. He was a Christian Reformed Church Minister with five congregations from 1965-2005. Might want to check the list of other missing or murdered children in those communities too. It’s not a stretch to think there were others. Maybe other ‘holding secrets” will start to come forward since they know he has been arrested.
Can’t anger anger God. Lol.
How many other victims are there? Trust no one alone with your kids.
I wonder if Gretchen’s family ever suspected him?
Highly unlikely that this murder was the only one he has perpetrated. Sickening POS!
this monster is gone die in prison,better late then never great police work !
That monster had successfully evaded the authorities for years by hiding behind the facade of religion. Makes you wonder how many more so called pastors, priests and elders use their ordained/appointed positions to lure trustful and innocent children?
🙅🏻 But it’s the Drag Queens… Ending, it’s an Evangelical Pastor, a preacher of God… Blah.. blah…😳
Guess he almost got away with it “in a small town” Jfc 😂
Wow .. Monster grow up in our community and disguise themselves in the church
He thought he got away with it. Lol
Oh look. Once again, it’s a straight white pastor, not a drag queen or trans person.
Rest In Peace, baby girl 💞. Condolences to her family
Death by lethal injection!
Wolf in sheep clothes!
To the church, he pastored: DEFROCK, FIRE, and EXCOMMUNICATE bodily if necessary immediately!!😮😮 To the judge, indict, convict, sentence to death via electric chair!😢😮 To executioner: Ask him; “Do you want your justice regular or extra crispy” right before throwing the switch!!😮😢😮
Why is this not everywhere? Oh wait cuz they want to protect the church 😑😑😑😑😑😑😑
Whats sad is his conscience didnt drive him to confess.
My ma says “Some were sent & Some just went” not speaking about your anointed ones Lord but it seems like this one is one of those that just went. So sorry for this families pain so glad they found this murderer. So 😡 he got away with it for so many years. Continue to R.I.H. little Angel.
He def had to have more victims
DEATH PENALTY!
Ridiculous how they stay quiet. Why?
God does it again. No protection for the innocent.
If only this family had spoken up sooner
Religious leaders are continually abusing their power and authority.. sick how often this happens
About time
It’s weird to see all these old cases from the 70’s and 80’s get solved in the 20’s really cool the technology
1975……
Nothing surprises me anymore. I have become cynical to the point that I’m a full misanthrope.
Wow a pastor, who would have guessed….
*sarcasm*
Who let their kids sleep over a man’s house? Religion allowed naivety
What a sick F!!! I wish they’d give him the electric chair!!! Let him feel pain since he can’t obviously serve a long term 😑
Can anyone explain the difference of charging him with murder AND homocide?
Uh…are they not the same thing?
God would have caught him. And pretty soon
Typical being Pastor always a murderers
A pastor, what a surprise. NOT.
All in the same of “Christianity” I just bet. Just plain Evil the devil himself 😤🤬 He’s old and probably sick and about unalive.
Not trans
65 years ago a lot of things weren’t said about pastors they got by with things because people believed pastors couldn’t do things like that. And it is still going on these days because they are sheep in wolf clothing it is why a lot of people don’t go to church. But he well get it in the end. Bless the family after all these years.
No sentence will make amends. He basically lived his full life.
What is religion? Something sickos can hide behind!
Well, not only in Catholic Church things happen for those who harshly criticize Catholics 😟. May that beautiful child now Rest In Peace.
Sick man how many other victims could there be
This is WORSE than the POPE AND HIS CREW OF PRIESTS……
“No man is alone with a woman but the Shaytaan is the third one present.” Narrated by al-Tirmidhi (1171) and classed as saheeh by al-Albaani in Saheeh al-Tirmidhi.