It was unimaginable.

A man of the cloth accused not only of sins of the flesh, but also the deadly sin of murder.

News of Nick Hackney's arrest spread through his community and his church,

much like the fire that killed his wife Dawn almost four years earlier.

Annette Anderson was stunned.

It was terrible.

I can't imagine that kind of thing at all.

That's just impossible for most people to come up with.

But, you know, I can look back on a lot of things and that fits.

Dawn's mother learned from police that her former son-in-law had been arrested.

The day they told her happened to be September 12th, 2001.

This was like the day after 9-11?

Yes.

So, like, everybody in the world,

certainly everyone that you knew

was thinking about something else

and dealing with this fresh horror.

Yes.

And then suddenly, police say,

and by the way,

we need to talk to you

about whether or not your daughter

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