A Change of Identity - June 15 2020 - Daily True Crime

Morning Cup of Murder

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🗓️ 15 June 2020

⏱️ 6 minutes

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June 15th: Rev. John David Terry Kills (1987) At some point in all of our lives, even if it’s just a fleeting thought, we have imagined what it would be like to just become a new person. To mend some bad decisions and start all over again. But, most of us will just think of all the good in our lives, count our blessings, and move on. Not men like John David Terry. He decided, on June 15th 1987, that his desire for a new life outweighed his concern for taking a human’s life. Become a supporter of this podcast on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/morningcupofmurder Follow Morning Cup of Murder on Twitter: https://twitter.com/cupofmurder @cupofmurder Follow MCOM on Instagram: @morningcupofmurder Have a Murder or strange true crime story you want to share, email the show here: [email protected] Morning Cup of Murder is researched, written and performed by Korina Biemesderfer. Follow Korina on Instagram: @kbiemesderfer Information for this episode collected from: https://murderpedia.org/male.T/t/terry-john-david.htm Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	There were two more murders, 15 miles away in the Silver Lake section of...
0:03.9	We have a weird...
0:05.8	...described by one investigator as reminiscent of a weird religion.
0:09.5	A cop of murder.
0:11.4	At some point in all of our lives, even if it's just a fleeting thought, we've imagined
0:16.8	what it would be like to just become a new person, to mend some bad decisions and start all over
0:23.1	again. But most of us will just think of all the good in our lives, count our blessings, and move on.
0:29.7	Not men like John David Terry. He decided on June 15, 1987, that his desire for a new life outweighed his concern for taking a human's
0:39.9	life. So if you like your coffee hot, but your bones chilled, so back and start your day with a
0:45.4	morning cup of murder. Reverend John David Terry was the associate bishop overseer at
0:53.6	Emmanuel Church of Christ and the pastor
0:55.8	of the Emmanuel Church of Christ oneness Pentecosta in Nashville. He was a husband, a father,
1:02.1	and an all-around nice guy who was very important to a number of people. Despite all of this,
1:08.2	triggered by the death of his mother, he was unhappy with the way his life had turned out and wanted out.
1:14.2	But instead of just leaving in the middle of the night to never be heard from again, he wanted to make sure his wife and children were financially taken care of.
1:22.4	So he came up with a plan.
1:24.9	One night while perusing Soldier of Fortune magazine, John saw an interesting
1:29.5	ad that read, How to Get Lost, How to Disappear. He answered the ad and was sent a book about
1:36.0	how to establish a new identity with the standard tricks like obtaining documents from dead
1:40.4	relatives or friends. John found the obituary of seven-year-old Jerry Millam, a boy who died in 1951, while searching old
1:49.1	newspapers.
1:50.3	He obtained a copy of his birth certificate, got a driver's license, and social security
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