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Why the Robber Chose a Church as his Victim?

This is an older news report that I recently read and found that it had some very interesting items in it. The mentality of why the robber chose a church to invade is very enlightening. This provides an insight into the mind of a mentally disturbed criminal. What seems to be an ordinary person can go over the edge when they let things get out of hand.

Evil ‘mummy’ pleads guilty in church robbery

Samurai sword-wielding man terrorizes church full of Jehovah’s Witnesses


Jim Farrell
The Edmonton Journal

EDMONTON - When Bill Sokolik buzzed the stranger into the 121st Avenue Kingdom Hall last September, the first thing through the door of the church was a 60-centimetre- long Samurai sword.

An apparition straight out of Curse of the Mummy followed. Anthony Alan Burton, the man who came to terrorize and rob the Jehovah’s Witness church on the night of Sept. 3, 2002, had lengths of hospital gauze wrapped over the top of his head. His face was covered with silicone caulking putty and he had smeared pink foundation makeup over the putty. To add to the effect, his eyes were obscured by a large pair of glasses. Latex gloves encased his hands.

“I am the evil that you have read about,” the 42-year-old Burton yelled out to the terrified worshippers in the hall that Tuesday night. “This is the face of evil.”

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