The supposedly buttoned-up wife of a US missionary murdered in Africa was having an affair with one of the family’s security guards — and hired her much younger lover to help kill her hubby, local cops say.
Jackie Shroyer, a 44-year-old mom of five, allegedly paid her illicit boyfriend and two other men a total of $50,000 to kill her former police-officer husband, Beau Shroyer, 44, last month in Angola, where the Minnesota couple had been living with their kids for the past three years.
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.
Elias and alleged accomplice Isalino “Vin Diesel” Kayoo, 23, were arrested. 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.
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 Oct. 25.
Jackie reportedly did not want to leave Angola when her husband’s mission to the African country had ended. Beau was the former lead pastor of Lakes Area Vineyard Church in Detroit Lakes.
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 indicated that Jackie was pretending to be distraught when police arrived at the scene.
Jackie and the two Angolan suspects are being held in jail.
Halaiwa said the American embassy is monitoring the process and that contacts have 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.
The Shroyers were missionaries for the organization SIM.
The pastor said the couple’s five children were being “well cared for.”
SIM said in a statement that it was “working closely” with the Lakes Area Vineyard Church to “care for the Shroyers’ five children.”
Before his mission, Beau was a member of the Detroit Lakes Police Department and a real-estate agent.