Nonprofit wants to buy home of slain lawyer to house trafficking victims
The children of a slain Tennessee lawyer and his wife are interested in selling the couple’s property to house victims of human trafficking, according to a nonprofit group that would run the operation.
Rest Stop Ministries director Rondy Smith told the Tennessean that the couple’s children “saw this as a potential legacy to honor their parents.”
Retired lawyer Jon Setzer, 74, and his wife Marion, 72, were killed in February by a bomb disguised as a lamp. The lamp was left on their front porch with a note instructing the couple to plug it in. The bomb went off after the lamp was plugged in.
The Setzers’ son-in-law, Richard Parker, pleaded guilty in August in a deal for life imprisonment.
Rest Stop Ministries wants to buy the couple’s home, along with the nearby home where Parker lived, and about 25 acres of surrounding property, the story says. Each home would serve as transitional housing for up to eight residents.
Some neighbors are opposed to the idea, according to the story.
