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Oklahoma City pastor found slain in Anadarko
MICHAEL KIMBALL
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Published: August 25, 2009
Oklahoman
ANADARKO — Before the Rev. Carol Daniels was found dead inside a weatherworn church in Anadarko on Sunday, she told her mother that she had a "calling” to continue to pastor the church whether anyone ever showed up to worship there.
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On the morning she was killed, Daniels knew the only people attending that morning would be some friends from the metro area, but she made the 65-mile commute from her Oklahoma City home, just like she had every other Sunday for the past six years or so.
"I asked her one time, ‘Why do you go down there when you don’t have anybody coming some Sundays?’” Daniels’ mother Charlesetta Dunlap said.
"She told me that ‘When the Lord tells me not to go, I’ll stop.’”
The pastor’s guests arrived at the Christ Holy Sanctified Church on E First St. about 11:30 a.m. or so, Dunlap said.
Daniels’ vehicle was there, but her friends realized something might be wrong because the doors were locked and no one would answer them.
"They’re the ones who called the police,” she said.
The investigation
Investigators are releasing little info about what was found at the church, and Daniels’ own mother doesn’t know yet how her daughter died.
Oklahoma State Bureau of Investigation spokeswoman Jessica Brown said the pastor had "trauma to her body,” but officials would not talk about the nature of those injuries.
Brown said investigators have no suspects and have not determined a motive.
Daniels was a graduate of Douglass High School in Oklahoma City and the University of Central Oklahoma in Edmond, a family member said.
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