Police in Illinois are currently investigating allegations that
Harvest Bible Chapel founder James MacDonald sought to find a hitman to
commit murder.
“A subject came in and filed a report and we are
doing an investigation based on that report,” Wilmette Deputy Police
Chief Pat Collins confirmed with The Christian Post Monday.
The allegations regarding MacDonald’s efforts to commit murder were first reported by independent journalist Julie Roys, who cited Chicago radio personality Mancow Muller
and Emmanuel “Manny” Bucur, a deacon at HBC and former confidant and
volunteer bodyguard of MacDonald’s, as the individuals making the
claims.
Muller alleges that MacDonald asked him at least twice in 2018 if he
knew a hitman he could hire. Initially, he thought that the HBC founder
was joking but it became clear to him during a conversation in December
that MacDonald was “really serious,” Roys reported.
Bucur alleged
that about three years before that, in 2015, MacDonald asked him to kill
his former son-in-law, Tony Groves, and offered to help dispose of the
body. He argued that he did not report MacDonald because he was angry
about his daughter allegedly being hurt, and chalked up the proposal as a
momentary lapse in judgment.
Megachurch founder James MacDonald allegedly sought murder for hire, police investigating - The Christian Post
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