This is a news article I was just informed off that is about a wonderful man we knew in Phoenix! I cannot even begin to share how shocked I was to find out about this! He was in a recovery program we helped with and he never was able to fully "surrender" over his demons and serve the Lord mightily as he so desperately wanted! He completed some wonderful programs, gave his life to Christ, but just never could get past his sins that needed to be addressed! I know that the Lord is with Mike and that he will have a long road ahead of him. I am very sad for him and very sorry for the lady who died and her family. Just shows me how close we are to desperate wickedness. How close we each are to the ugly reality of sin. Please pray for Mike and for the opportunity to share an amazing testimony. What a leap of faith he has taken. He turned himself in the anniversary day of the murder, he couldn't go forward until he owned up for his sin and gave himself over to be punished. I hope that his testimony will bring others to that same place of broken surrender. May God have mercy on him!
By LAURA ITALIANO
June 9, 2007 -- The devil may have made him do it, but it was Jesus who made him confess.
An Arizona man shocked cops in the East Village this week by walking into the local precinct and announcing that he'd strangled a woman on East 13th Street during an argument in 2004 - and that Jesus Christ wanted him to turn himself in.
Authorities said the confession has solved the previously cold-case murder of Myrna Gonzales, a 45-year-old homeless woman whose body was found folded into a large steamer trunk in a vacant lot at East 13th Street and Third Avenue.
"We wish Jesus would solve more of these," one law enforcement source said.
Michael Mohr, 51, might have gotten away with the slaying. But he'd recently had a religious conversion, and realized Jesus wanted him to do the right thing.
Gonzales' body was found June 6, 2004, in a vacant lot outside Mohr's building.
"He was relieved," said one law enforcement source. "He was a little emotional. He was just glad to get it off his chest." |
