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Podcast: True Crime Uncensored with Burl Barer and Mark Boyer
Episode: Dangerous Vows -- A Polygamous preacher has a wife who (gasp) wants an education. So, he murders her. Sean Goff is guest
Description: Sean Goff was a dynamic Pentecostal minister who was already running his own church by the age of twenty-two. He had wed a pliable teenager and bent her to his will, eventually convincing her to agree to his secretly taking a second wife named Joy. Although at first the clandestine arrangement worked well, problems soon began to surface.
Leif Wright, Sean’s friend and co-worker, confronted Sean about his hidden polygamous lifestyle, which threatened to scandalize their employer, a world-famous televangelist.
Sean’s foray into polygamy led to his association with an online community where he e...