Joe Hunter
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In hindsight, Jacob says, Pastor Lewis had too much control over him.
Darrell Snedeker was a deputy in the Solano County Sheriff's Department and a member of the church at the time of Joanna's death.
He wasn't involved in the investigation back then.
At the church, he says, it didn't take long for him to lose all faith in the place and the pastor.
Was there a fear then amongst the people who attended the church?
Joe already knew Mark Lewis all too well.
And the years after Joanna's death were filled with anguish and frustration.
There were still so many questions about what happened that night.
Why didn't Mark cut Joanna down or try to administer CPR?
And Joe found it particularly hard to believe Lewis was actually playing basketball for six straight hours.
But all their attempts to get the sheriff's office to take another look at Mark Lewis were getting no results until Patricia got a knock on the door.
Joanna had been dead a little more than two years.
Pastor Mark Lewis had been arrested, accused of violence against another woman.
On that crisp fall day in 2011, when Pastor Mark Lewis said he found his wife dead, he never called Joanna's family.