Suspect chillingly admits to crucifying elderly pastor, reveals Christian leader hit list in deranged jailhouse interview

A suspect accused by police of crucifying an elderly pastor in his Arizona home has given a chilling jailhouse interview confessing to his alleged crimes — and revealing a hit list of other targets across the country he reportedly planned to murder before he was caught.Adam Christopher Sheafe, 51, confessed to killing 76-year-old William Schonemann, whose body was found in his bed covered in blood with his hands nailed to the wall on April 28, during an interview with Fox 10 News at the Coconino County Sheriff’s Office, where he is being held on charges unrelated to the killing of the beloved New River pastor.Sheafe was previously named as a suspect in Schoneman’s murder, in what was described as the most “tragic and bizarre” case ever handled by Maricopa County Sheriff Jerry Sheridan in a press conference on June 12.He described driving from Phoenix at around 2 in the morning on Easter Sunday before he allegedly “executed him” and then placed a crown of thorns on his head in a sick crucifixion ritual in the interview from prison.Sheafe calmly said he planned to kill 14 Christian leaders in 10 states across the US using the same gruesome method of crucifixion.“I was going to start in Phoenix and end in Phoenix, and circle the nation.Ten cities, 14 pastors, 10 states,” he said.He was on his way to kill two priests in Sedona when he was arrested by police, he told his interviewer.Justifying his sickening actions with religion, Sheafe claimed that Christian pastors were leading people onto a false path by following Jesus, and that Schonemann was the first in his plot that he called “Operation First Commandment,” he said.“Christian, Catholic, Mormon.

Anyone preaching that Jesus is God, essentially, the Trinity, a concept created by man, by Paul.He’s not God.

God, the father alone, is God,” he said.Asked whether he was ever victimized by a Christian, he replied no, and said his family is Christian and that he had a good childhood.“I don�...