S3E1: The Emmanuel Church of Christ
Heaven Bent
Heaven Bent Media
4.3 • 897 Ratings
🗓️ 12 September 2022
⏱️ 38 minutes
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Summary
It's the morning of June 16th, 1987, in Nashville, Tennessee. Shortly after midnight, firefighters are called to a blaze at Emmanuel Church of Christ. What they find in the ashes would change this small Pentecostal congregation forever. Thirty-five years later, Tara Jean Stevens begins to unravel this shocking crime. On the journey with her is Sharon Edwards. She was just a kid when the fire tore apart her church family. Today, she wants to know the truth about what happened.
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| 0:36.8 | This season will include the graphic details of a murder and stories of religious and |
| 0:42.4 | spiritual trauma. Listener discretion is advised. |
| 0:48.4 | It's the morning of June 16, 1987. |
| 0:53.0 | Nashville, Tennessee. |
| 0:57.0 | Music June 16th, 1987, Nashville, Tennessee. |
| 1:07.0 | Shortly after midnight, firefighters are called to a blaze at a church on the east side of town. When they arrive, Emmanuel Church of Christ on Oneness Pentecostal is fully engulf in flames. |
| 1:14.8 | And the congregation's beloved pastor, David Terry, is missing. |
| 1:21.0 | Once inside, the building still smoldering, firefighters find a body, a headless body, with its right forearm missing. |
| 1:32.2 | News spreads quickly that brother Terry, husband and father of four, is dead. |
| 1:40.2 | And for several hours, they all very much believed this to be true. |
| 1:45.3 | His family and the entire Emmanuel congregation, they all believed this to be true. |
| 1:51.8 | But as it turns out, the body is not David Terry's. |
| 1:57.1 | And if it isn't, then whose is it? |
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