Gordon Phillip Winrod (December 30, 1926 – August 29, 2018) was an AmericanChristian Identity minister who was sentenced to a 30-year prison term for abducting six of his grandchildren in 1994 and 1995.[1][2] Winrod was also ordered to pay up to $26 million after two of his grandchildren brought suit against him.[3]
Gordon Phillip Winrod was born inWichita, Kansas, on December 30, 1926, toGerald Burton Winrod.[4] He attended a Lutheran day school (grades 1 through 8), finished high school at Hesston High School inHesston, Kansas,[citation needed] and attendedSt. John's College inWinfield, Kansas.
From January 1945 to August 1948, Winrod served in theU.S. Maritime Service and theU.S. Navy. He married Genevieve Ann Dicke inTopeka, Kansas, in 1948. They had eleven children.
Winrod graduated fromConcordia Theological Seminary in Springfield, Illinois in 1955. He then served as pastor ofLutheran Church – Missouri Synod (LCMS) congregations inSan Antonio, Texas, and inLittle Rock, Arkansas.
In April 1960, Winrod began publishing The Winrod Letter. Soon thereafter the LCMS expelled him from its ministerial roster. He then became the chaplain for theNational States' Rights Party.[5]
Winrod moved toGainesville, Missouri, in 1965 and established Our Savior's Independent Christian congregation. He was sentenced to a 30-year prison term for abducting six of his grandchildren in 1994 and 1995.[1][2] He was also ordered to pay up to $26 million after two of his grandchildren brought suit against him.[3] He was released from prison in 2012, and died inRutledge, Alabama, on August 29, 2018, at the age of 91.[6]
Winrod was an anti-Jewish propagandist. Winrod openly attackedJews and Judaism in his writings. He described Jews as child-molesting perverts who hateGod, practice the religion ofSatan, run a "Secret Jewish World Government of anti-Christ", and said that the Jews have butchered, burned, and bled Christians (drinking warm Christian blood) down through the centuries.[7]
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