
This week Grave Secrets examines the case of Rev. John David Terry, a pastor who took a very dark path indeed. Nashville, June 16, 1987, and the 44-year-old pastor is found dead after a fire at the church where he preached but the investigation soon reveals something is amiss. Terry’s path to crime partly stemmed from his feeling of having failed in life, a feeling he claimed became stronger after his mother died in 1983. He then hatched a plan to fake his own death and befriended 32-year-old down on his luck father of one James C. Matheny. He wanted to fake a...read more