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Good evening everyone, I’m Jim Chesney, live at the CNN world headquarters in Atlanta. Tonight, a CNN Newsroom special report, The Apostle Killer.

Here’s what we know. The identity, unknown. The motive, unclear. The terror? Unfathomable.

Fear is gripping the southeast this Friday as seven young women have been found drowned in campsites and motels stretching from Asheville, North Carolina to New Orleans. Authorities believe the suspect’s method of murdering his victims by drowning is some form of bizarre baptism. That, coupled with the fundamentalist religious literature he leaves behind at the scenes has earned him the moniker, The Apostle Killer.

Police are on the lookout for a white male with brown hair, blue eyes, and of average height and weight. A young woman who asked that her name not be released saw a man of this description walking into a room at the Richland Inn outside of Lewisburg, Tennessee that ultimately became the third of the seven crime scenes he’s left behind. Police have also released a sketch of the man. If you have seen this person please contact the Orleans Parish Sheriff’s Office at 504-822-8000. They recommend no one approach this man under any circumstances, he is considered armed and extremely dangerous.

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Lover, let’s say a prayer
To our unseen father
In the red twilight

Watch over us
In you place our trust
We render unto you your long lost lamb

Tuesday is gone
And forgiveness abounds
Freeing the lost
From the sin that surrounds
Lord, we thank thee
Let these praises resound
Now lay we down
Now lay we down
Now lay we down

Breathe in, take just a moment
Given your confession
You have seen the light

Let His precious love
Fill your empty cup
Your sins will wash away and you’ll float up

Tuesday is gone
And no one’s around
Freeing the lost
From the sin that surrounds
Lord I thank thee
Let these praises resound
I’ll lay thee down
I’ll lay thee down
I’ll lay thee down
To rest

Stop your squealin’
Stop your fightin’
This is for your own good

Askin’ for it
All your whorin’
You girls so Hollywood

That’s it, now she’s still
She floats as was Your will

I lay thee down
I lay thee down


Sweet Jane
It’s over now
No pain
In our Lord’s house
As you float
There asleep
Take my hope
And our Lord’s peace

Always this, the peace of leaving
Leaving them alone but with a view
I’ll be back to Mississippi
Maybe then I’ll find somebody new

I’ll see you there underneath the cedar trees
Where the water meets the wind so I’m told
A dragon’s tail, a winding road, the coolness of a breeze
Bringing in God’s children from the cold
Bringing in God’s children from the cold
Here in Louisiana make my home
Here in Louisiana ends the road