‘What Happens In the Darkness Always Comes to Light’: Pastor Who Killed Mistress on Wedding Day After Staging Her Suicide Must Serve Life Sentence After Georgia Supreme Court Ruling

A pastor convicted of murdering his girlfriend on the night before he was set to marry his other girlfriend will remain in prison for the rest of his life. William Pounds, who served at King’s Chapel Memorial CME Church in Perry, Georgia, had appealed his conviction of killing fiancée Kendra Jackson, saying the state’s case against him was insufficient. The Georgia Supreme Court ruled against Pounds last week, saying the evidence against him was “ample.” He was accused of leading a double life: Preacher by day and a shady womanizer at night. Pounds, also a senior master sergeant assigned to the 116th Air Control Wing at Robins Air Force Base, had been dating Jackson and the woman he was supposed to marry, Vicinda Crawford, for 10 years. William Pounds is serving a life sentence for the 2015 killing of Kendra Jackson. (Photo: X/@poundforlb) “Pounds was repeatedly able to convince each woman that he had left the other and wanted to be with her,” the court said in its opinion. The “other women” met for the first time in May 2015, on National Pastor Appreciation Day. They showed up separately to surprise Pounds and were certainly successful in achieving that. The...