Donald Lafferty
From Danny Wicentowski at Riverfront Times / 03.15.2016:
A thoroughly wild story out of southern Missouri has a local pastor accused of orchestrating a murder plot so convoluted — and so filled with drama, violence and sex — that it seems ripped from the pages of a Coen Brothers screenplay.
Last week, a Scott County judge sentenced 71-year-old Donald Lafferty to 50 years in prison after a jury convicted him on charges of attempted murder, arson, armed criminal action and financial exploitation of the elderly.
Lafferty was the pastor of Beech Grove Church, a Baptist congregation in rural Bloomfield, Missouri.