“So they let us use their kitchen and we cooked out of that, and everything”, said neighbor Patricia Wyatt.
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Authorities are offering a $2,500 reward for information leading to the arrest of their killer.
The abandoned Toyota Corolla was found undamaged late Thursday, barely a mile from the home and authorities were looking for clues inside it.
A cause of death has not been released, but Plata said police told him the sisters were stabbed.
Many of Plata’s 30 or so parishioners mourned the women’s passing Thursday night at the church.
Two years later, she moved to the South and found her calling in the Mississippi Delta community, according to a 2010 article in The Journey, a publication by the Sisters of Charity of Nazareth.
CNN stated that Merrill served as a nurse practitioner in MS for more than 30 years and had worked with patients at the Lexington Medical Clinic since 2010, any of which were poor and uninsured.
Two religious sisters were found murdered in their MS home today, according to police.
“These sisters have spent years of dedicated service here in Mississippi”.
He said Sister Merrill would want him to forgive whoever killed the women, but he hopes the perpetrator is arrested, convicted and executed.
“I have an bad feeling in the pit of my stomach”, said Lee, the assistant police chief, who is Catholic.
When asked about her ministry, Merrill was humble, according to the article.
“We always considered Margaret just part of the family”, he said. Margaret served together as nurse practitioners in central Mississippi. Both nuns were 68.
The Sisters of Charity of Nazareth (SCN) confirmed the deaths on Thursday (Aug. 25) of the two women, who worked at a medical clinic in the town of Durant.
Mississippi Department of Public Safety spokesman Warren Strain said it appears the nuns were homicide victims.
Genette Pierce, who works at a home health and hospice business a few doors down from the clinic, said: “Their patients all of them they’re going to be lost without them right now”. Authorities have said they found a vehicle.
Friends of the victims say their auto was missing.
The two sisters worked as nurse practitioners at the nearby Lexington Medical Clinic, and when they had not shown up for work on August 25 co-workers called the local police to check on them.
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They raised money to help treat the poor and uninsured for free, the clinic’s owner, Dr. Elias Abboud, told the Clarion-Ledger.
