Death of a Deacon - A Wife's Mission
Cold Case Files
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4.1 • 8.2K Ratings
🗓️ 23 June 2026
⏱️ 49 minutes
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Summary
When a church deacon is found shot to death it looks like police may have stumbled upon a multi-party murder plot. And, a wife remains a key suspect in her husband’s murder case for six years, until she attempts to prove her own innocence.
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| 0:00.0 | This program contains subject matter that may be disturbing to some listeners. |
| 0:04.0 | Listener discretion is advised. |
| 0:08.5 | There are over 100,000 cold cases in America. |
| 0:12.8 | Only 1% are ever solved. |
| 0:15.9 | This is one of those rare stories. |
| 0:33.1 | I start screaming and yelling at him and telling him, this wasn't supposed to happen. |
| 0:34.8 | You were just supposed to scare him. |
| 0:36.1 | You're just supposed to tell him. |
| 0:37.9 | Don't mess with married women. You weren't supposed to kill him. You're just supposed to tell him. Don't mess with married women. |
| 0:39.9 | You weren't supposed to kill him. |
| 0:46.2 | In a San Bernardino interrogation room, police watch as a wife talks to her husband. |
| 0:51.4 | And I'd talk to him if I ever said anything that he would kill you and kill a kid. |
| 0:55.0 | The topic of conversation is murder. Why is the hell of those people going to do this study? |
| 1:01.0 | It's a story that begins almost 10 years earlier with the end of a marriage. |
| 1:06.0 | He took his ring off and he put it on the counter, and I took mine off and put it on the counter. |
| 1:11.6 | And we're just real quiet. |
| 1:14.6 | It's 1992 in Rancho Cucumanga, California, and Christine Perry's life is coming apart at the seams. |
| 1:21.6 | Her husband, Phil Perry, a deacon at the local church, is having an affair with a member of his congregation, |
| 1:28.7 | and now he wants a divorce. |
| 1:31.3 | I laid down, and I couldn't even talk, and he just laid down next to me. |
| 1:35.2 | There was a quiet resolution, it's over, it's done, it's done. |
| 1:40.1 | Phil Perry leaves the house the next morning. |
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