The Halloween Killer Who Hid In Plain Sight

On Halloween morning 2012, three-year-old Conway was dressed in his Spider-Man costume and handed over to his father by his grandmother's fiancé, Pastor John White. Conway's mother, 24-year-old Rebecca Gay, was supposed to pick him up at 4:30 that afternoon for trick-or-treating. She never came. Her car was found abandoned in a bar parking lot. Inside her trailer, there was blood on the carpet, the walls, and the back door. Her purse, wallet, and ID were left on the table. The driver's seat was pushed back for someone much taller than her.

The Man Everyone Trusted

Rebecca Gay was a single mother and a devoted cosmetologist who had recently taken a management job at Goodwill. She had moved into a trailer park in Mount Pleasant, Michigan, to be close to her mother, Sally, and Sally's fiancé, Pastor John Douglas White. White was beloved in the community—a handyman who cleaned elderly neighbors' gutters, watched children for struggling parents, and preached sermons about forgiveness and second chances. He told his congregation that he had spent time in prison as a young man, but that a woman had died of a drug overdose in front of him and he was wrongfully convicted. He served two years before the case was thrown out. Everyone believed him.