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A father-of-five pastor has been found dead in his car submerged in the Des Plaines River near Chicago one week after he vanished without a trace.
And now, a fellow pastor is claiming that it could be foul play.
Warren Beard, 53, who was an assistant pastor at New Israelite Missionary Baptist Church in Chicago, was last seen on July 2 when he went to Joliet, Illinois, to visit friends.
He failed to return home that night and didn’t show up to work with the Preservation of Affordable Housing Wednesday morning.
His wife Wanda said, prior to his body being found, that it was unlike him not to come home.
“My husband goes to work. He comes home, he goes to work out and he goes to church. For the most part, that’s… …