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On December 8, 2000, a bishop ordained a new minister in his church.

The procedure for this sort of thing varies depending on the denomination.

But in this case, the ceremony didn't take place in a church.

There was no ceremony, and there wasn't really much of a church to speak of.

There's not even any evidence that these two men ever met face to face.

The ordination took place through the mail,

and by the time William Fink was holding the envelope containing his certificate of ordination,

it had already been opened.

Federal prisons opened most of the mail, sent to the people they house.

A few years into his 14-year sentence for beating a man to death while working as a corrections officer in New Jersey,

Fink felt divinely called to reinterpret the Bible.

He even learned ancient Greek to create his own translations of biblical texts,

all in service of proving that Jewish people were the descendants of Satan.

And this certificate made it official.

He was a Christian identity minister.

Today, William Fink is one of the leading purveyors of Christian identity propaganda.

The man who ordained him, Frank Smith, is dead.

I'm Molly Conger, and this is Weird Little Guys.

This is the story of Frank Smith's final evolution.

He was a bank robber, a bomber, a hitman, a lone shark, a Nazi, and for the latter half of his life, a minister.

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