Dead Woman Found on Toilet
Sick.
Tammy D. Lewis, 35, and Alan A. Bushey, 57, both of Necedah are each charged with two felony counts of causing mental harm to a child, according to a criminal complaint filed Friday. Lewis also faces one count of obstructing police.
The two, who are also known as Sister Mary Bernadett and Bishop John Peter Bushey, along with the dead woman, Magdeline Alvina Middlesworth, were all part of a small Bible-based church led by Bushey, Juneau County Sheriff’s Brent Oleson said.
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According to the criminal complaint:
The sheriff’s office was asked on Wednesday to check on Middlesworth’s welfare by the woman’s sister, Bernice Metz, because Metz had not heard from her in “some time.”
When a deputy arrived at the home, Lewis initially claimed Middlesworth was on vacation, but after her body was discovered told the deputy that she had been dead for about two months.
Lewis said she had been helping Middlesworth put on an undergarment when she passed out in her arms and she had left her propped on the toilet after Bushey, whom she referred to as her “superior,” said to leave her on the toilet and pray.
Lewis told the deputy that “God told her Alvina would come back to life is she prayed hard enough.” Bushey told the deputy that “Lewis was obedient and served the Lord just as she should.”
The 12-year-old boy later told investigators that after Middlesworth died, Bushey told him her appearance “was the result of demons attempting to make it appear that Alvina would not come back to life. The boy also reportedly said that Bushey told him that if Middlesworth’s death was discovered, he and his sister would have to go to public school and get jobs because the woman, whom the boy referred to as his “grandmother,” was paying the bills.
Hope the house had a second bathroom. Sounds like the motivation to keep her “alive” was to collect her Social Security.
Reminds me of the 1980 comedy movie “Used Cars” - the owner of the lot dies a natural death (induced), and the salesmen and his daughter hide the death, because some evil real estate developer has an option to buy it by a certain date if the owner forfeits.
Thanks to YouTube, here are 2 scenes:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QC-R3YUy9Wg&NR;=1
(where he dies - Death by 1957 Chevrolet)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a3iHI3kuV_E
(where he makes his final “appearance” in 1958 Edsel)
Posted by on May 10, 2008 at 0827 hrs
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