EPISODE 101: "Be Healed.....Or Not": The Life and Crimes of Rev. Leroy Jenkins

Carolina Crimes

Matt Hiers and Danielle Myers

True Crime

5 • 1.3K Ratings

🗓️ 23 January 2023

⏱️ 64 minutes

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Summary

In this weeks episode, we cover the eccentric life of the self proclaimed Reverend Leroy Jenkins. From his tent revivial days as "The Man with the Miracle Arm", selling tainted well water, stealing from the elderly, to planned arson, we examine the scams, conspriacies and threats that adorned the faith healer's life.

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Sources:

https://www.columbusmonthly.com/story/news/2017/06/22/from-archives-leroy-jenkins-starts/20445684007/

https://azdailysun.com/evangelist-combines-a-little-bit-of-jesus-and-a-little-bit-of-elvis/article_0c9e5110-f346-56e5-9179-f5e4437f183b.html

Greenwood Index-Journal

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=xpo_nvQBtHA

https://groups.google.com/g/alt.recovery.catholicism/c/z4rhWLDkKfE

https://www.wvxu.org/politics/2018-04-14/the-famous-faith-healer-who-was-not-at-all-interested-in-my-health?_amp=true

https://www.upi.com/amp/Archives/1994/11/03/Evangelist-arrests-in-Florida-scam/1938783838800/

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0:00.0	For over 350 years, the state of South Carolina has been the setting for some of the most
0:11.7	horrendous crimes ever committed.
0:14.9	Some have gained global notoriety.
0:17.8	Some have been forgotten, and others have been swept under the rug completely.
0:23.0	Now, two South Carolina natives and two crime enthusiasts have teamed up to examine these
0:29.0	heinous acts in detail, giving their perspective of the evil that has resided in the Palmetto
0:35.1	state.
0:36.1	You're listening to Carolina Crimes.
0:42.4	And welcome back to Carolina Crimes episode 101.
0:47.0	The triple digits now.
0:49.2	That's right.
0:50.2	I'm one of your host Matt Hires along with.
0:52.0	Danielle Meyers.
0:53.0	And we're excited that you joined us here this week in, uh, Danielle.
0:57.9	That's a feedback about episode 100 as, as could have been expected.
1:03.0	Yes.
1:04.0	Um, P.W.
1:05.0	Gaskins and just how disturbing he was, his life was, how many, I think it frustrated
1:10.5	people how many times that he should have stayed behind bars, but did not.
1:18.4	Thank you so much for the outpouring.
1:20.4	We, we appreciate it.
1:21.4	We put a lot of hard work into that one.
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