Just over a month after pleading guilty to attempting to murder his family in kansas because he didn't want them to discover they were being evicted from their foreclosed home, former crossroads christian church children's pastor, matthew lee richards, was sentenced wednesday to nearly 30 years in — a children's pastor has been charged in a shawnee house fire that injured seven people saturday morning. A former shawnee youth pastor will spend more than 29 years in prison for attempting to kill his family and set his house on fire in 2023.
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Matthew lee richards was sentenced to nearly 30 years in prison. Matthew lee richards, 41, has been charged in the attempted murder of his wife and children following a saturday morning fire, attack in shawnee, kansas, according to police. A youth pastor in kansas will spend nearly three decades behind bars for stabbing his wife and kids because the family was going to be evicted from their home due to his piling debt.
— a former shawnee youth pastor has been sentenced to more than 29 years in prison for stabbing his family and setting his home on fire.
Matthew lee richards was sentenced Matthew lee richards of shawnee, kansas, has pleaded guilty to two counts of attempted murder. The former children's pastor was accused of attacking his wife and children with a knife before setting his home on fire. The incident occurred in the early morning hours of sept.
At the time, richards was a pastor on the staff of A youth pastor in kansas has pleaded guilty to stabbing his wife and kids because the family was going to be evicted from their home due to his piling debt. Richards was the children's pastor at crossroads christian church, 5855 renner road in shawnee, kansas, according to the church web site. The victims sustained laceration injuries.

The incident happened on the early morning of sept.
16, 2023, at a home in the 6600 block of goode drive in shawnee. Former shawnee pastor who attacked family, set house on fire to hide financial troubles, pleads guilty. Matthew lee richards pleaded guilty to two counts of attempted first degree murder. In the johnson county district court.
He did not enter a plea during the hearing because he did not yet have an attorney. On the 15th anniversary of their wedding on aug 9, 2018, former crossroads christian church children s pastor matthew lee richards thanked god for his wife, stephanie, and the five children they. Pastor charged with attempted murder of wife and kids lost triplets in 2008. The shawnee kansas police department announced in a

A former shawnee youth pastor will spend more than 29 years in prison for attempting to kill his family and set his house on fire in 2023.
— the shawnee youth pastor who confessed to stabbing his family, including his wife and the couple's five children, matthew l. Richards, 41, told investigators that he Matthew lee richards, 41, also faces one count of aggravated arson with risk of bodily harm, according to a spokesperson with the shawnee police department. There are six victims total, with two
Matthew richards, a johnson county youth pastor, is charged with attempted murder for the stabbings of his wife and children and the arson fire at their shawnee ks home. — a former shawnee youth pastor has been sentenced to more than 29 years in prison for stabbing his family and setting his home on fire. Matthew lee richards was sentenced Matthew lee richards of shawnee, kansas, has pleaded guilty to two counts of attempted murder.

The former children's pastor was accused of attacking his wife and children with a knife before setting his home on fire.
Matthew lee richards, a youth pastor in kansas, allegedly attempted to kill his wife and five children by stabbing them after setting a home on fire, police say. Kansas youth pastor matthew richards, accused of stabbing his wife and five children at their shawnee home on sept. 16, was afraid of being evicted, according to police. A kansas youth pastor is accused of trying to kill his wife and five children in their shawnee home before allegedly attempting to set the home on fire, accordi.
— the shawnee child pastor accused of trying to stab his family to death then setting their home on fire appeared monday in johnson county district court.






