MN Missionary’s Wife Plotted With Lover To Murder Husband: Police

ANGOLA, AFRICA — A Minnesota missionary’s wife conspired with her lover to have her husband killed where they were living in Africa, according to local authorities.

Jackie Shroyer, 44, is accused of offering her secret lover and two accomplices $50,000 to murder Beau Shroyer, also 44, in Angola, the Angola Press Agency reported.

Authorities believe Jackie Shroyer, — the "mastermind" behind the killing — was romantically involved with the couple's security guard, according to the news outlet.

Jackie Shroyer was reportedly concerned about leaving Angola once her husband’s mission there ended. She and two others — including the security guard — have been arrested in the case.

On Friday, Oct. 25, Beau Shroyer was lured to a remote area where suspects were pretending to have car problems, police claim. Investigators seized a knife and Angolan currency worth about $5,000.

With the support of their Detroit Lakes church — Lakes Area Vineyard — Jackie and Beau Shroyer and their five children moved to Angola in 2021.

Beau was killed in an "act of violence" in Angola, the church's lead pastor, Troy Easton, announced last month.

Easton later wrote that "our grief and sadness has deepened immeasurably as we’ve learned that his wife, Jackie Shroyer, has been arrested in connection with his death."

Easton said the Shroyer children "are well cared for" through SIM USA, the Christian missionary organization the family is a part of.

Before the family left for Africa, Beau Shroyer was a Detroit Lakes police officer and real estate agent, the Star Tribune reported.

The Shroyers were one of the first SIM USA families to move to Angola after COVID-19 pandemic lockdowns began to ease in 2021.

Founded in 1893 and based in Charlotte, North Carolina, SIM USA "has been a catalyst for cross-cultural mission work for 130 years" and "have maintained our identity as a diverse group of people joined together by the shared belief that no one should live and die without hearing the good news of the gospel," states its website.

Easton concluded his most recent letter by asking church members to "cry out to the Lord for his grace, mercy and comforting presence for the Shroyer children and family. We must honor God and love each other by how we communicate about this, and we must continue to stand together, asking God to do in and through all of this what only He can."