More than 300 people came to a small church to say farewell to two nuns killed in their MS home.
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Sanders was convicted a year ago on a felony charge of driving under the influence and was sent to prison, said Grace Simmons Fisher, a spokesman for the Mississippi Department of Corrections.
Sanders was released from prison last December and has a criminal history that spans three decades including felony DUI charges and armed robberies.
In 1986 he served six years in prison for an armed robbery in MS, and last year he was convicted of a felony DUI. He was sentenced October 17, 1986 for that conviction.
A man arrested over the murder of two nuns at their MS home has confessed to the killings, a sheriff said.
“With the cooperation of the Durant and Kosciusko Police Departments, Holmes County Sheriff’s Department and the Attorney General Office this heinous crime has been resolved”.
He says the investigation is ongoing.
Father Greg Plata (PLATT-ah) of Greenwood, Mississippi, is sacramental minister at St. Thomas Catholic Church in Lexington, where the Sister Margaret Held and Sister Paula Merrill had led Bible study for years.
Their bodies were discovered Thursday after they failed to show up for work at a clinic in Lexington, Mississippi, about 10 miles from where they lived.
Merrill is to be buried Friday in Kentucky following services organized by her order, the Sisters of Charity of Nazareth, her nephew said.
Sanders is being held in an undisclosed detention centre awaiting his initial court appearance. Both were 68. They were found dead Thursday in their home in Durant, a town of roughly 2,600 north of Jackson.
As ABC News previously reported, Strain said Sanders is “not quite homeless”, but is “nomadic”. Held, a member of the School Sisters of St. Francis in Milwaukee, Wis., and Merrill had worked together for about three decades, he said.
He said Merrill would want him to forgive whoever killed the women, but he hopes the perpetrator is arrested, convicted and executed.
“She doesn’t deserve to die like this, doing God’s work”, Morgan said, shaking his head.
“The word “sister” has many meanings, and they fulfilled all of them”.
Merrill said his mother, Rosemarie, and uncle, John Vincent Merrill Jr., plan to travel to Mississippi Saturday evening to attend a wake and funeral Mass for his aunt. But nothing was taken from the house, according to a law enforcement official who has been briefed on the investigation.
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The Catholic Diocese of Jackson expressed grief over “the murder of two sisters in our diocese”. “They always made you feel like you were the most important person they had ever come in contact with”. This includes the preparation of derivative works of, or the incorporation of such content into other works.
