5 disturbing claims from suspect in crucifixion-style killing of Arizona pastor
1. Chose his victim for 'breaking the first commandment'
Sheafe said he was on a divine mission to execute more than a dozen pastors and priests in what he said was an act of obedience to the first of the Ten Commandments: "You shall have no other gods before me."
"Yahava alone is God," he said, using a pronunciation of the Tetragrammaton. "It's the first commandment; it's the most important commandment of them all." When asked what specifically led him to kill Schonemann, he later said, "There's a commandment that if somebody is preaching that somebody other than God is God, we are to execute them and rid evil of Israel, so I'm obeying that commandment."
After admitting to the murder, he acknowledged that he had no previous contact with the 76-year-old Schonemann and that Sheafe's "only criteria" used to determine his victim was "breaking the first commandment."
"There's nothing worse than breaking the first commandment," he added. "You replace who my daddy is, I'm going to nail you to the wall."
"That's brutal," replied Whitney.
"Well, life is brutal," Sheafe shot back. "Satan is brutal."
