A very strange but true story: Politics, mystical visions, and murder

[Ivan Seeking]

That is, at least part of it is true...

BIRMINGHAM, Alabama (AP) -- More than five years ago, Rod Spraggins made a sensational charge at a candidate forum, publicly accusing a political opponent of murder with nothing to back up the allegation except, it turns out, a vision.

Now police say Spraggins was right.[continued]

http://www.cnn.com/2006/LAW/02/10/political.whodunit.ap/index.html

 

[Cyrus]

I would sue him for slander. (until they find out he was right and throw me in jail )

 

[Ivan Seeking]

he accused Waites of killing his wife and dared the man to sue him for slander if he was wrong.

I would bet that he knows something but doesn't want to say how he knows it.

 

[zoobyshoe]

When I lived in Minnesota there was a story about a woman who'd been found stabbed to death. She had been engaged at the time, so the paper interviewed the finance. His comment was something like "Well, there goes all our plans for a happy marriage." I was instantly convinced he did it, just because of the selfish tone of the remark.