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PASTOR KILLS BLIND MAN FOR INSURANCE MONEY (OH, THE LENGTHS SOME PEOPLE WILL GO)

PASTOR KILLS BLIND MAN FOR INSURANCE MONEY (OH, THE LENGTHS SOME PEOPLE WILL GO)
Posted By: Siebra Muhammad on May 13, 2009

For the past two months, the murder of Lemuel Wallace was another unsolved crime in Baltimore. The blind, mentally disabled man was found shot to death in a bathroom stall in Leakin Park February 5. Now, city police have charged a 32-year-old pastor with the slaying of Mr. Wallace and their account of the crime is a tale of greed and deceit made all the more despicable by the chosen victim, a vulnerable disabled man.

Mr. Wallace lived in a group home in the 4500 block of Maryknoll Road that was affiliated with Arc of Baltimore where the accused, Kevin Jerome Pushia, worked until he resigned in January. The alleged circumstances of the Wallace murder: a contract murder to collect on a series of insurance policies that were fraudulently taken out. Police allege Mr. Pushia convinced Mr.



Wallace to name him as a beneficiary on several policies.

When someone tried to collect one for $200,000, the Globe LIfe Insurance Co. made a routine check with police, which tipped investigators off to a possible motive for the crime and their first suspect.

This reads like a made for TV crime with an online twist -- the insurance policy was taken out over the Internet. It includes the classicly, stupid mistake by the suspect -- during a search of Mr. Pushia's home, police found a date book and a notation on the date of Mr. Wallace's murder ("L.W." project completed") -- a confession and an accomplice. A second person was arrested over the weekend in South Carolina and charged in the crime.

Nice work by the police, who also suspect there may be other victims. But it's a grim reminder of the lengths some people will go to enrich themselves.

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Craig Amos
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Doesn't surprise me at all. Most "pastors" know that there is no "judgement day" awaiting them at the end of this life, so they prey on the "blind and the gulible" as long as they can get away with it.

Blacks are the most gullible people on the planet as histoy has proven and continues to prove. Sheeple.
Wednesday, May 13th 2009 at 11:41PM
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