REOPENED: Death of a Deacon

Cold Case Files

A&E / PodcastOne

True Crime, Society & Culture, History, Talk Radio

3.8 • 8.1K Ratings

🗓️ 23 January 2024

⏱️ 33 minutes

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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? Skims: Believe the hype - SKIMS has over 100,000 five star reviews for a reason. SKIMS Bras are now available at SKIMS.com Plus, get free shipping on orders over seventy five dollars! If you haven't yet, be sure to let them know we sent you! After you place your order, select 'podcast' in the survey and select our show in the dropdown menu that follows.

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0:00.0	This episode discusses stories of intense violence, which may be disturbing to some listeners.
0:05.6	Please, listen with caution.
0:11.6	Phil Perry was 40 years old. He was serving as a deacon at his local church.
0:17.0	On April 13, 1992, he left the church and seemed to have disappeared.
0:22.0	His wife reported him missing, though she told police that she didn't always know where he was.
0:30.0	Their relationship was rocky at best.
0:32.0	Mr Perry had been having an affair with the Their relationship was rocky at best.
0:33.0	Mr. Perry had been having an affair with a member of the church congregation, Lisa Bragg.
0:38.0	Phil was found three days later in Mexico, in the backseat of a car.
0:42.0	He'd been shot and abandoned. The car was registered to Carl,
0:47.0	Lisa's husband.
0:51.0	From A&E, this is Cold Case Files the Podcast.
0:55.0	I'm Brooke, and here is the renowned Bill Curtis with a classic case, Death of a deacon. I start screaming and yelling at him and telling him this wasn't supposed to happen.
1:08.8	You were just supposed to scare him.
1:10.3	You're just supposed to tell him.
1:11.8	Don't mess with married women. You weren't supposed to tell him. Don't mess with married women.
1:13.0	You weren't supposed to fucking kill him.
1:15.0	In an interrogation room,
1:18.0	police watch as a wife talks to her husband.
1:21.0	And I talked about if I ever said anything that he would kill you. husband. Why the hell of this fucking people going to do this study?
1:35.0	It's a story that begins almost 10 years earlier with the end of a marriage.
1:43.0	He took his ring off and he put it on the counter and I took mine off and put it on the counter and I took mine off and put it on the counter and we were just real quiet.
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