[USA; 1982] Fanatical Religious Couple shot Dead

Uploaded to TheYNC on January 11, 2008, but occured on July 3, 1982

Occured near Jasper, Arkansas. Here is the backstory:

Two religious fanatics hijacked a bus, then begged police to kill them and finally turned their guns on themselves Saturday as part of a bizarre cult ceremony in which both hijackers were killed on a remote mountain highway bridge.

Fifteen other people aboard the Continental Trailways bus were freed unharmed before the explosion of gunfire that wound up the four-hour ordeal.

The hijackers -- a man and his wife -- both were wounded by police bullets as they advanced on their knees toward state troopers who ringed the bridge spanning the Little Buffalo River in Jasper, a tiny community of 400 residents in the Ozark mountains of Northwest Arkansas.

The hijackers, identified as Keith Haigler and his wife, Kate, had begged police to kill them -- vowing they would be resurrected in three days. When police fire only wounded them, they turned their guns on each other, witnesses said.

Haigler's .22-caliber pistol misfired. Mrs. Haigler then put her .38-caliber pistol to her husband's head and fired once, killing him. Finally, she fired a single shot through her own eye, the witnesses said.

Mrs. Haigler was rushed to a nearby hospital, where a spokesman said she died.

Police said the two may have had explosives on the bus. Officers removed a brown paper bag with what appeared to be several sticks of dynamite wrapped in black tape and threw it into the river below the bridge.

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