Wednesday, June 09, 2010


Victim's Family: Pastor Led Double Life
HOUSTON - Did the preacher do it? A 5th Ward pastor, his girlfriend and his son are accused in a murder plot that ended with the death of the pastor's wife. The murder happened a week after his church mysteriously burned down.

The Gulf Coast Violent Offenders Task Force arrested the trio Tuesday morning and brought them to the Harris County Sheriff's Office for questioning. ...

...Sources close to the investigation tell Fox 26 Burleson ordered his son to torch the church to collect money. Ross says his mother found out about the alleged plot.

"He orchestrated that to get rid of my mom and collect insurance money. He had too much to lose if he allowed her to open her mouth so he had to shut her up," he said.

Our sources tell us Fuller, the son, was the trigger man.

"He took a whole lot away from our family, and we're damn mad about it," said Joyce Bingham, Paulette Burleson's sister.

The victim's family says Paulette wanted to leave her husband because he was unfaithful to her.

"He was a womanizer, a user. He was not a man. He did not have a backbone," said Ross. ...