Norman J. Sirnic, 46, and his wife Karen Sirnic, 47, of Weimar, Texas, were bludgeoned to death on May 2, 1999, by a sledgehammer in the parsonage of the United Church of Christ, where Norman Sirnic was a pastor. Worried church members found the couple when they failed to turn up for Sunday service. Their car was found in San Antonio and fingerprints linked their case with the Claudia Benton case.