UPDATE::Pastor told gay ‘paramours’ he wished God would kill his wife months before she was found murdered

A Baptist preacher from Homewood, Alabama, wrote to two of his gay lovers that he was praying and waiting for the death of his wife months before her murder, reports AL.com.

Richard Shahan was arrested in January 2014 for the murder of his wife, Karen Shahan, as he attempted to board a plane bound for Germany, where he claimed he would be working with the Children’s Ministry of Bible Mission International.

Karen Shahan was found stabbed to death, with her hands showing defensive wounds, in the couple’s home in July of 2013.

Documents released by prosecutors show the pastor had been confronted by his wife over multiple gay affairs he was having with men outside of Alabama. In an email to an unidentified friend,  she wrote, “I said that if he was having any interactions that were not right before God that he should go to God and be completely honest with him because he knows anyway.”

Prosecutors say that email and text message conversations between Richard Shahan and his two lovers — described as “paramours” — include explicit sexual comments as well as wishing for his wife’s death.

Pastor told gay ‘paramours’ he wished God would kill his wife months before she was found murdered