lds policy on clergy-penitent confidentiality?
Posted: Fri Sep 30, 2022 6:09 pm
That last sentence linked to an article that contained this:Former candidate for governor suspected of murdering Jonelle Matthews admits he lied to investigators
BY CLAIRE ST. AMANT
UPDATED ON: AUGUST 3, 2022 / 2:03 PM / CBS NEWS
When Steven Pankey took the stand in his own murder trial, he braced the jury for surprising testimony about the 1984 disappearance of Jonelle Matthews.
...Pankey, 70, frequently veered off topic as he attempted to explain why he inserted himself in a high-profile kidnapping and murder that he says he did not commit.
...Although he once named himself a person of interest in the case...
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/steven-pan ... stigators/
so much for the lds church's passionate stand on clergy-penitent confidentiality....In 1989, Pankey moved to Ketchum, then Shoshone. The 12-year-old's disappearance followed him to Idaho, however, he said.
When he was baptized in the LDS church, he said, a bishop with the church asked him if there was anything he needed to confess. Pankey said he told the church leader that a girl had disappeared in Colorado when he lived there, and that his conversation about it still bothered him.
LDS leadership passed the information along to a Sun Valley police lieutenant, who interviewed him about the Matthews case and communicated with the Greeley Police Department.
https://www.ktvb.com/article/news/local ... d0179b8375