Halloween Episode Ends with Evil Imprisoned for Life

[XLFD]

Halloween, a movie by John Carpenter came out in 1978 and generated a lot of hoopla.  It introduced a character named Michael Myers who would go on to star in seven sequels.   A common characterization is that Michael Myers is pure evil.  John Carpenter has described the character as "almost a supernatural force - a force of nature. An evil force that's loose," a force that is "unkillable".

Myers is depicted as a mythic, elusive bogeyman, one of superhuman strength who cannot be killed by bullets, stab wounds, or fire.  Carpenter's inspiration for the "evil" that Michael would embody came when he was in college. While on a class trip at a mental institution in Kentucky, Carpenter visited the most serious, mentally ill patients. Among those patients was a young boy around twelve to thirteen years-old.

The boy gave this schizophrenic stare, a real evil stare, which Carpenter found unsettling, creepy, and "completely insane".  The ending scene of Michael being shot six times, and then disappearing from the ground outside the house, was meant to terrify the imagination of the audience.  Carpenter tried to keep the audience guessing as to who Michael Myers really is.  He is more than human; he may be supernatural, and no one knows how he got that way.  The succeeding films would show he had a predilection to kill on Halloween, with no remorse, no humanity, and receive a perverse pleasure from the act of killing.  

 

 

In our own neck of the woods, just last year we had a sinister force acting early on Halloween Day.  This force was no less evil than Michael Myers, but at least he will be locked up for the rest of his life.  Here is hopefully the end of his story which just happened this week.  Halloween the film took place in a sleepy Illinois village called Haddonfield, this one is set near the sleepy CMU campus at Mt. Pleasant, Michigan.  Though the words Gay, White, and Pleasant feature prominently in this tale, the sad events are anything but.

MOUNT PLEASANT, Mich. (WOOD) - A Mount Pleasant pastor has pleaded guilty to killing 24-year-old mother  Rebekah Gay as her son slept in the other room.

John Douglas White, 55, pleaded guilty Thursday in the Isabella County Trial Court to second-degree murder as a habitual third offender. White admitted to  beating his neighbor Rebekah Gay over the head with a rubber mallet... in the early hours of Oct. 31, 2012, according to court documents.

White was soon arrested and told police he had been fantasizing for about two weeks about killing Gay and having sex with her dead body, the documents show.  

Up until he confessed to the heinous crime White arranged prayer chains for the “missing” Gay and acted the concerned pastor. He even let the other trailer park residents know that she was missing and that her car had been found at a bar.  Gay's naked body was found the next day in a wooded ditch not far from the mobile home park where she and White lived. 

Her  3-year-old son, who slept in another room of the mobile home while his mother was murdered,  was not hurt.   White dressed the boy in his Halloween costume and dropped him off with his father.

Under a plea agreement,  White's minimum sentence will be no less than 45.8 years in prison, according to a release from the Isabella County Prosecutor's Office. The agreement does allow the court to impose a longer sentence.

Official sentencing proceedings are set for April 18. But under the terms outlined in the plea agreement, it's likely the 55-year-old White will spend the rest of his life in prison.

White  previously pleaded guilty to involuntary manslaughter in 1995 the death of  Vicky Sue Wall of Comstock Township, with whom he had been having an affair. He was released from prison in 2007.

He was also convicted of assault with intent to murder in 1981 after  stabbing then-17-year-old Theresa Etherton 15 times in the basement of his Battle Creek home. He was later appealed the conviction and was released in July 1983.

In 2009, White became the pastor at Christ Community Fellowship Church in Mount Pleasant.

Read more at:  http://www.woodtv.com/dpp/news/local/central_mich/man-pleads-to-bea...

Rebekah would have turned 25 on Tuesday. 

[Lisa O'Brien]

I think church's should start doing background checks.

[XLFD]

Good point.  Just about anyone can start their own church, so if you don't know the full background of your pastor it would behoove yourself to do your own check into their past if you have any doubts. 

[Willy]

There are a lot of these kinds of people walking around. Many of them have the urge to kill but they control themselves. They know it's wrong so they fight the need to harm people but for many they just cannot control it. I had a childhood friend who told me at an early age about all the crimes who was going to commit when he got older. I thought he was joking. Well, no he wasn't. He has spent much of his life in prison.

[XLFD]

White will be in jail for the rest of his life, 56-85 years for the killing of Rebekah Gay.

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