In
a story that is as brief as it is disturbing, authorities in the Northern California
town of Eureka say a popular priest was found dead in the rectory of the church,
and a murder investigation has been started.
AP reports that Gary Lee Bullock is charged
with breaking into the church rectory and beating the Rev. Eric Freed with a
wooden stake and rusty metal pipe before making two unsuccessful attempts to
burn the body and burn down the church.
No
motive was given in the charging documents for Bullock’s alleged slaying of Rev.
Freed. Police have surveillance video of
Bullock climbing into the rectory with the stake and pipe. A security guard saw Bullock outside the
church around the time of the murder and sent him on his way. Bullock has
pleaded not guilty. There is a special
charge of torture and arson.
The
AP report, when going through all the things that Bullock did to try to burn up
the priest and burn down the church, points out what Bullock did wrong, and
what he should have done to effectively burn up the priest and church. I will not repeat those here and am frankly
dumbfounded at why AP would have gratuitously provided such information.
Apparently
Bullock had been jailed a few hours earlier for public intoxication, but when
confronted outside the church, was sober, but not in a normal mental state. That
is an understatement. Whoever killed
Rev. Freed, if it was Bullock, committed a horrific crime with no given motive
aside from pure evil itself becoming manifest.
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