Former Las Vegas youth pastor dies days after being charged in wife’s fatal fall
Key takeaways
- Zion national park near Springdale, Utah, in 2015.
- At a scheduled extradition hearing on Thursday, a Las Vegas judge announced that David Vander Meer was deceased, according to KSNV.
- The woman, now an adult, relayed to investigators that David Vander Meer had told her they could only be together if Bernadette was not alive, according to court documents.
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Zion national park near Springdale, Utah, in 2015. Photograph: Rick Bowmer/APView image in fullscreen Zion national park near Springdale, Utah, in 2015. Photograph: Rick Bowmer/APLas Vegas Former Las Vegas youth pastor dies days after being charged in wife’s fatal fall David Vander Meer was recently arrested for the death of his wife in national park 20 years ago after new information revealed
Prefer the Guardian on Google A Las Vegas man and former youth pastor died dead days after he was arrested and charged with murdering his wife, who plummeted thousands of feet to her death while hiking in Utah’s Zion national park in 2006.
At a scheduled extradition hearing on Thursday, a Las Vegas judge announced that David Vander Meer was deceased, according to KSNV.