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To: Karen Lawrence who wrote (61845)	3/24/2006 2:23:15 PM
From: T L Comiskey	Respond to of 362779

Not with a whimper... but a bang.. <g> Authorities Say Minister's Wife Confesses By WOODY BAIRD, Associated Press Writer The wife of a minister found dead in the church parsonage has confessed to shooting him and fleeing to Alabama, where she was found the following night with their three young daughters, authorities said Friday. Mary Winkler told investigators she shot her husband on Wednesday, Selmer Police investigator Roger Rickman said. "Our concern at this point is why the crime took place," he said. "There have been no specific accusations made by Mrs. Winkler." Rickman said Mary Winkler had been "very cooperative" and authorities expected to learn more once she was back in Tennessee. She was charged Friday with first-degree murder, and police in Alabama said she agreed to waive extradition and was expected to be returned to Selmer in the next few days. Matthew Winkler, the 31-year-old minister at Selmer's Church of Christ, was found dead Wednesday night in a bedroom of the parsonage after church members went looking for him for the evening service. Police said the home didn't appear to have been broken into, but Winkler's wife and children — Breanna, 1; Mary Alice, 6; and Patricia, 8 — were gone. Mary Winkler, 32, was spotted Thursday night with the children as they left a Waffle House restaurant in Orange Beach, Ala., 340 miles south of their home.