On the morning of December 26, 1997, Nick Hacheney left his home in Bremerton, Washington, to go on a duck hunting trip. Just after 7:00 that morning, one of the neighbors noticed smoke billowing from the nearby home. After firefighters made quick work of the blaze, the severely burned body of Nick’s wife, 28-year-old Dawn Hacheney, was discovered. The newly widowed Nick was the youth pastor of Christ Community Church, a congregation that believed in prophecies and messages from the man above, and Nick had decided that God had told him to kill his wife, or, at least, that was the story he tried to sell to his mistress.
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