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Man Accused of Beating Wife, Son to Death Over "Devotion" to LDS Church

Man Accused of Beating Wife, Son to Death Over "Devotion" to LDS Church


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(KSL News) -- A Massachusetts man is in police custody accused of beating his son and wife to death because of her devotion to the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.

Police say 30-year-old Jeremias Bins was "jealous" of the amount of time she was spending at church.

They say Bins, a carpenter, beat his wife and their 11-year-old son to death in their apartment with a hammer.

Bins took off with the couple's five month old baby, but he did not hurt that child.

Bins has turned himself into police.

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