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As authorities searched for Gay's body in a rural area in Isabella County, about 85 miles northwest of Lansing, White asked his roughly member congregation to pray for her. To celebrate Halloween, she had decorated her rebekah with eight scarecrows, and she made plans with her boyfriend, Aaron Quinn, to go trick-or-treating with Conway.

Rebekah Gay Mt. Pleasant Police Dept. She said her family was devastated by the death of Rebekah, whom she called the family's "heart and soul," and she said her daughter's 4-year-old son will suffer more than anyone.

Chrome Safari Gay. She said her sister might be alive if she had known about White's violent history. He had previously been sentenced to probation for choking and stabbing a year-old Battle Creek girl in Sally Gay said Thursday that White is not the person she knew before he killed her daughter, and that she thinks he wanted to return to the structured environment of prison.

- John White, an ex-convict and former minister of a small Michigan congregation, was sentenced Thursday to at least 56 years. Church members have said they were aware of White's criminal past when he joined them.

How dare you. Pastor White’s congregation had no idea that the person responsible for Rebekah Gay’s disappearance was the man who had been preaching Sunday sermons to them for the past three years, a year-old ex-convict with a dark and violent past — and a dreadfully taboo obsession.

Isabella County Chief Circuit Judge Paul Chamberlain ordered White to serve from 56 to 85 years behind bars in the killing of Rebekah Gay, saying he saw no reason why White, who had two prior convictions for attacking women, should ever leave prison.

Sally Gay asked the court to show the man she was once engaged to the same lack of mercy he showed her daughter. Police say White confessed to killing Gay in her Broomfield Township home because he wanted to have sex with a dead body.

White pleaded guilty last month to second-degree murder as a habitual third offender in Gay's slaying last Halloween. White was engaged to Gay's mother and regularly looked after Gay's young son while she was working, according to a member of the tiny church he led, the Christ Community Fellowship church in Deerfield Township, which is about 60 miles north of Detroit.

(CBS/AP) MOUNT PLEASANT, Mich. Complete coverage of Rebekah Gay on Crimesider. Her son, then 3, was home at the time. Rebekah’s sister, Deborah Gay, stated her family demanded the creation of a registry for violent offenders, such as John, and alleged it could have saved the single mom’s life.

Rebekah's sister, Deborah Gay, said her family wants to see the creation of a registry for violent gay such as White. He was released from prison in after serving nearly 12 years for manslaughter in the death of a year-old woman in Kalamazoo County. John Douglas White, who was convicted of murdering Rebekah Jane Gay last year, has killed himself in prison, according to the Michigan Department of Corrections.

Prosecutors say on the day of the killing, White drank several beers before going to Gay's mobile home, where he repeatedly struck her in the head with a mallet and then strangled her with a zip tie. White dumped her body in the woods, returned to Gay's home and dressed her son in his Halloween costume before dropping him off with his father.

Rebekah Gay, 24, was a much-loved rebekah working mother with a 3-year-old son, Conway.