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In a twist straight out of a soap opera, the seemingly prim and proper wife of a US missionary, murdered in Africa, was reportedly having an affair with one of the family’s security guards.

But the drama didn’t end there. According to local authorities, she took things a step further by hiring her much younger lover to help her husband meet an untimely end. Clearly, the missionary’s “blessed” life had a lot more going on than anyone realised.

Jackie Shroyer, a 44-year-old mother of five, allegedly offered her secret lover and two accomplices a cool $50,000 to take out her husband, Beau Shroyer, a former police officer, last month in Angola.

The Minnesota couple had been living in the Southern African nation with their kids for the past three years but clearly, things weren’t exactly as peaceful as they appeared in their “expat family” life.

 

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Jackie’s lover, 24-year-old Bernadino Elias, worked at the family’s home as a security guard, police said, according to a report from the Angola Press Agency.

Jackie reportedly did not want to leave Angola when her husband’s mission to the African country had ended – he was the former lead pastor of Lakes Area Vineyard Church in Detroit Lakes.

 

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Elias along with alleged accomplice Isalino “Vin Diesel” Kayoo, 23, were arrested for Beau’s murder, while a third suspect, Gelson Ramos, 22, is still at large. All of the men suspected in the slaying have criminal records, including charges of armed robbery and kidnapping, per The New York Post.

Police say the three men lured Beau to a remote area by pretending to have engine issues with a rental car and stabbed him to death on Oct. 25.

Detectives recovered an American-made knife at the murder scene that Beau had given Elias as a gift, according to Manuel Halaiwa, the rep for the superintendent of criminal investigation.

Police said they found about $5,000 at the crime scene and that Jackie was pretending to be distraught when police arrived.

 

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Jackie and the two Angolan suspects are being held in jail while the American Embassy monitors the process, with contact having been initiated with family members.

Current Lakes Area Vineyard Pastor Troy Easton announced Beau’s death — and his wife’s arrest — to his congregation last week.

The pastor said he did not “have words to express” the community’s “disbelief and sorrow” over the news.

He added that the couple’s five children were being “well cared for” by the church.

 

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[source:nypost]