The wife of a slain minister confessed to shooting him at their church parsonage, then fleeing to Alabama, where she was found the following night with their three daughters, authorities said. Mary Winkler told investigators she shot her husband, Matthew, on Wednesday.

The wife of a slain Tennessee preacher will be charged with killing him, the Tennessee Bureau of Investigation said today. Mary Winkler, 32, will face a charge of first-degree murder, the TBI said. Matthew Winkler, preacher at the Fourth Street Church of Christ in Selmer, Tennessee, was found dead at his parsonage on Wednesday night. After a daylong search, Winkler's wife and children were 340 miles away in Orange Beach, Alabama.

Two days after charismatic Tennessee minister Matthew Winkler was found shot to death in the church parsonage, authorities say his wife is being charged with first-degree murder. Mary Winkler was found Thursday with the couple's three daughters in Alabama, about 340 miles from their home

The wife of a slain Tennessee minister will be charged with killing him, the Tennessee Bureau of Investigation said today. Mary Winkler, 32, will face a charge of first-degree murder, the TBI said. Matthew Winkler, minister at the Fourth Street Church of Christ in Selmer, Tennessee, was found dead at his parsonage on Wednesday night. After a daylong search, Winkler's wife and children were 340 miles away in Orange Beach, Alabama.

The wife of a charismatic Tennessee minister found slain in his parsonage will be charged with killing him, authorities told CNN. Mary Winkler, 32, was found in Alabama on Thursday with the couple's three daughters. The previous day, church members found the body of pastor Matthew Winkler, who was shot in the back.