The Pastor’s Wife
Diane Fanning · author’s official book page
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2006 · Selmer, Tennessee
Matthew Winkler
The Selmer minister’s death and a manslaughter verdict
Matthew Winkler, a minister at Selmer’s Fourth Street Church of Christ, was fatally shot in March 2006. His wife, Mary, was found with their three children in Alabama the following day. At trial, she alleged abuse and said the shooting was accidental; prosecutors disputed that account and sought a murder conviction. The jury instead found her guilty of voluntary manslaughter in 2007. The linked reporting and book explore the trial without treating contested testimony as established fact.
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The Pastor’s Wife
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2 itemsThe Christian Chronicle · April 19, 2007
Jury finds Mary Winkler guilty of voluntary manslaughter
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ABC News revisits the Winkler trial
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