Death of a Deacon
Cold Case Files
A&E / PodcastOne
4.1 • 8.2K Ratings
🗓️ 10 June 2021
⏱️ 28 minutes
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Summary
Deacon Phil Perry was having an affair with a member of his congregation. Shortly after he told his own wife, his body was found in the trunk of a car in Mexico. He had been murdered. Who killed Deacon Phil Perry? And how did his body end up south of the border?
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| 0:00.0 | Thank you for listening to this Podcast One production, available on Apple Podcasts and Podcast One. |
| 0:08.0 | Thank you for listening to this Podcast One production, available on Apple Podcasts and Podcast One. |
| 0:16.0 | An A&E original podcast. |
| 0:19.0 | This episode discusses stories of intense violence, which may be disturbing to some listeners. |
| 0:25.0 | Please listen with caution. |
| 0:32.0 | Phil Perry was 40 years old. |
| 0:34.0 | He was serving as a deacon at his local church. |
| 0:37.0 | On April 13, 1992, he left the church and seemed to have disappeared. |
| 0:43.0 | His wife reported in missing, though she told police that she didn't always know where he was. |
| 0:49.0 | Their relationship was rocky at best. |
| 0:52.0 | Mr. Perry had been having an affair with a member of the church congregation, Lisa Bragg. |
| 0:58.0 | Phil was found three days later in Mexico and the backseat of a car. |
| 1:02.0 | He'd been shot and abandoned. |
| 1:04.0 | The car was registered to Carl, Lisa's husband. |
| 1:10.0 | From A&E, this is Cold Case Files the Podcast. |
| 1:14.0 | I'm Brooke and here's the renowned Bill Curtis with a classic case, Death of a Deacon. |
| 1:25.0 | I start screaming and yelling out of intel and this wasn't supposed to happen. |
| 1:28.0 | If you were just supposed to scare him, you're just supposed to tell him. |
| 1:31.0 | Don't mess with married women. You weren't supposed to f***ing kill him. |
| 1:35.0 | In an interrogation room, police watch as a wife talks to her husband. |
| 1:40.0 | And when he talked to her if I ever said anything that he would kill you, kill a kid. |
| 1:46.0 | The topic of conversation, murder. |
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