Prosecutor to talk with clergy about slain pastor

[August 26, 2009]  ANADARKO, Okla. (AP) -- An Oklahoma district attorney is to meet with pastors in a town where a preacher was brutally killed inside her own church.

Prosecutor Bret Burns said he wanted to meet with the pastors on Wednesday to talk about the case. The body of 61-year-old Carol Daniels was found Sunday in the Christ Holy Sanctified Church in Anadarko (AN-uh-DAR-koh). A preliminary autopsy found she died of "multiple sharp force injuries."

Burns says the crime scene was the most horrific he's seen in nearly 20 years as a prosecutor.

He declined to elaborate and Oklahoma State Bureau of Investigation spokeswoman Jessica Brown would not discuss the details of the case, including when Daniels died, a possible motive or what evidence was found at the church.

[Associated Press]

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