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'The Waster': Ominous Letter Spooks Dozens of Churches in Tennessee, Georgia
NBC News ^ | 11/18/15 | M. Alex Johnson

Posted on 11/18/2015 6:31:10 PM PST by marshmallow

Law enforcement agencies in Tennessee and Georgia are looking for an anonymous man who sent ominous, eerie letters signed "The Waster" to dozens of churches.

The photocopied, handwritten letter - which criticizes "you preachers, ministers, and chaplains" for not teaching all of the commandments of the Bible - has been sent to at least 50 churches in the last two weeks in McMinn and Monroe counties in Tennessee and in Murray County, Georgia - and likely elsewhere, authorities said.

It doesn't include an explicit threat, meaning no crime has technically been committed, but "it's better to be safe than sorry," Blake Witt, a detective with the McMinn County, Tennessee, Sheriff's Office, told NBC station WRCB of Chattanooga.

The Murray County, Georgia, Sheriff's Office said a copy of the letter was slid under the door of Tennga Baptist Church in Tennga last week.

"The intent is unknown," the agency said. "There doesn't appear to be any specific threats involved, but they [the letters] are very suspicious in nature."

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1 posted on 11/18/2015 6:31:10 PM PST by marshmallow
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To: marshmallow

The Laws of Noah? The Ten Commandments? The 613 Mitzvot?


2 posted on 11/18/2015 6:38:41 PM PST by onedoug
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To: onedoug

That’s my question too.


3 posted on 11/18/2015 6:42:06 PM PST by Fiddlstix (Warning! This Is A Subliminal Tagline! I reallyRead it at your own risk!(Presented by TagLines R US))
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To: marshmallow

Wow.

When did the WBC learn to write?


4 posted on 11/18/2015 6:43:48 PM PST by Califreak (Hope and Che'nge is killing U.S. Feel the Trump-mentum!(insert ireallysupportCruzdisclaimerhere/))
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To: marshmallow

I call BS. However, I will say that I personally know that 4 members of our music ensemble pack something a little extra in their instrument cases. And it ain’t an electronic tuner.


5 posted on 11/18/2015 6:51:42 PM PST by RushIsMyTeddyBear (I'm fed up.)
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To: marshmallow

Anyone wonder what the world’s reaction, including us on FR, will be when the two witnesses start telling us we are all sinners and calling down punishments?


6 posted on 11/18/2015 7:14:31 PM PST by FreeAtlanta (Restore Liberty!)
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To: FreeAtlanta

They won’t be sneaking around like candyasses, slipping anonymous letters under doors.


7 posted on 11/18/2015 8:06:19 PM PST by wideawake
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