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Howard DeYoung, owner of the Radio Shack in Dorr, Michigan, was arrested in July on charges that he had secretly videotaped his young female employees’ sexual activities after encouraging them to use the store after hours for meeting their boyfriends. DeYoung was contemplating selling his store because, he said, “It’s pretty hard to get somebody to come work for me right now.”
A London minister and police chaplain, described by a colleague as a “gifted preacher,” was sentenced to 18 months in jail in June. He was convicted of having lured young girls into posing naked for him by telling them they would be illustrating “kidnap and rescue” stories for the church magazine.
Glynn “Scotty” Wolfe, 81, a Baptist minister in Blythe, California, announced in July that he planned to divorce his 27th wife, Daisy, 19, after five years of marriage, in order to marry her 15-year-old sister.
Doug Pearson, 47, shot himself to death in Melbourne Beach, Florida, in May after taking a hostage inside the church for which he was building-committee chairman. He was upset that the committee outvoted him to add trim to the copper steeple and to remove the baseboards inside, which he had personally installed.
