Slain For Her Own Salvation

True Crime Historian

Richard O Jones

True Crime, Documentary, Arts, Society & Culture, Performing Arts

4.4 • 729 Ratings

🗓️ 18 October 2023

⏱️ 69 minutes

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Summary

The Boy Preacher and His Teenage Wife

Episode 245 tells the scandalous tale of a young preacher with a David complex. who in order to save his wife's soul, takes her life--and the life of her mother, just so he could get away.

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0:00.0	Popular.com
0:03.0	Solvenia, Georgia, June 1922.
0:19.2	Jealous because of her attention to 19th, 1922.
0:25.7	Jealous because of her attention to other men,
0:28.0	Elliot Padrick, 20,
0:29.9	who claims to be a preacher,
0:33.9	shot and killed his 18-year-old wife and his mother-in-law,
0:37.1	Mamie Lou Dixon, late this afternoon. Patrick was placed under arrest as he was
0:40.9	coming here and was immediately placed in a car and taken in the direction of Augusta, presumably
0:46.3	to be lodged in the Richmond County Jail for safekeeping. He made a complete confession to the
0:52.4	officers, saying that he had come from Warrington, Georgia,
0:56.2	where he had been making his home for the last several months, especially for the purpose of slaying his wife.
1:02.9	The scene of the tragedy was located near the Ogichi River Bridge, a short distance from Dover, Georgia,
1:10.0	and Patrick stated that he first considered throwing
1:12.4	the bodies into the river to hide the crime. However, he reconsidered and journeyed a foot to
1:18.7	Dover where he secured an automobile and was making towards this city when he was arrested.
1:24.9	The crime was discovered by automobiles as the result of the Dixon car
1:29.3	blocking the road. Members of the party opening the Ford sedan door found Mrs. Dixon dead,
1:36.4	her body leaning over the steering wheel. She was shot twice through the heart. Mrs. Patrick was
1:43.1	still alive and told who committed the deed. While she was going
1:47.6	into details as to how the crime was committed, implicating her husband, she breathed her last.
1:55.7	The double killing brought to an end the domestic troubles of Mr. Mrs. Patrick, which have extended for some time
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