‘Forgive me father’ read note left on woman found dead near Ypsilanti

WASHTENAW COUNTY, MI – There was a handwritten note saying “forgive me father” on the body of a woman found dead last week with nine wounds, a detective said. Donna Marie Johnson’s stepdaughter had called police April 11 to a home in the 1100 block of Duncan Avenue in Ypsilanti Township after discovering Johnson’s body on the floor in a bedroom, Washtenaw County Sheriff’s Detective Howard Shaffer said during a swear-to hearing April 12. Johnson’s body was cold and stiff to the touch. Luke Junior Edwards, Johnson’s husband, had called...