Coleman Family Murders Update 29 May

Coleman, whose father pastors Grace Church Ministries in Chester, Ill., was working as a security guard for Joyce Meyer Ministries until he resigned after being questioned about a violation of the organization's moral conduct policy.

He stayed with his father and mother in their home in Chester – 48 miles southeast of the crime scene in Columbia – after the killings and before his arrest there last week.

Roby Walker, a spokesman for Joyce Meyer, told the St. Louis Post-Dispatch that the organization is working "together with representatives of Sheri Coleman's family and are gathering the information requested."

He declined to tell the press, however, what violation the ministry had questioned Coleman about.

According to investigators, Coleman called police from a gym on May 5 and asked a Columbia police officer who had investigated prior threats related to the family to check on them after calls to the house allegedly went unanswered.

When police got to the house later that morning, they found the bodies of Coleman’s wife, Sheri, 31, and their children, 11-year-old Garett and 9-year-old Gavin - all strangled with some type of wire, rope or cord. Spray-painted across the walls of the house, meanwhile, were obscenities that appeared to have been directed at Sheri Coleman, including the words “punished,” “wh*re paid,” “u have paid,” and “I saw you leave, [expletive] you, I am always watching.”

Though some of the Colemans’ neighbors said the family had received threatening letters and that their mailbox was tampered with, police arrested Coleman last Tuesday after more evidence came forward.

Coleman, who pleaded “not guilty” last Wednesday, has since remained in jail and denied bond by a judge.

A preliminary hearing has been set for June 10.

You have to give Joyce Meyer Ministries credit. They could have buried their head in the sand and pretended that the murders had nothing to do with them. But instead they are willing handing over the materials that Sheri Coleman's family are requesting. And they held Chris Coleman to the morality clause in his contract. Because it doesn't look good to have employees whoring around on the company's dime when you are a church.

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