Mich. Man Admits Killing Woman in Sex Fantasy A 55-year-old ex-church employee in central Michigan is accused of beating and strangling a neighbor to fulfill a sexual fantasy. John D. White was arraigned Thursday in Mount Pleasant on first-degree murder charges and jailed without bond. Wearing a "suicide prevention suit," John D. White is arraigned in the Isabella County Courthouse on Thursday, Nov. 1, 2012 in Mount Pleasant, Mich. John D. White, a 55-year-old ex-convict has confessed to beating and strangling a 24-year-old neighbor as part of a sexual fantasy, hiding her naked body and then returning to her central Michigan trailer home and helping her 3-year-old son get costumed for Halloween, authorities said Thursday. (AP Photo/The Morning Sun, Lisa Yanick-Jonaitis) Close White told investigators he repeatedly struck Rebekah Gay's head with a mallet then strangled her with a zip tie at her Mount Pleasant trailer. He said he stripped her but does not remember if he carried out his fantasy of having sex with Gay's dead body. Gay's 3-year-old son was home during the attack. A county sheriff says "hopefully he was sleeping." White told the judge he was a church employee until Wednesday. Church elder Donna Houghton told WOOD-TV that White was a pastor at the Christ Community Fellowship in Mount Pleasant.