year before it had overturned the practice of mandatory prayers in public schools. Murray later worked in various industries in the private sector, including the airline industry. He had a daughter, Robin, with his high school girlfriend, who stayed with his family after running away from home. In 1980, Murray became a Christian. Learning of his conversion, his mother commented: "One could call this a postnatal abortion on the part of a mother, I guess; I repudiate him entirely and completely for now and all times. He is beyond human forgiveness." He became a Baptist minister. He and his mother Madalyn Murray O'Hair were estranged by his action, as he was from his daughter and brother, who shared his mother's household and were deeply involved with the American Atheists organization. O'Hair had legally adopted Robin. In 1995, his mother, daughter Robin, and half-brother Jon disappeared from their home and office. It was learned that they were kidnapped, held for about a month, and subject to extortion of $600,000 before they were killed in a remote area outside Austin, Texas. Their bodies were not found until January 2001. The plot was led by David Roland Waters, an ex-convict and former employee of the American Atheists, who had been fired for theft of $54,000; and two accomplices. Bibliography My Life Without God. Harvest House Publishers, 1982 . The Church Is Not for Perfect People Harvest House Publishers, 1987 Let Us Pray: A Plea for Prayer in Our Schools 1995 Stop the Y2K Madness! 1999 The Pledge: One Nation Under God. AMG 2007, , . Freeware written by Todd Akin Utopian Road to Hell: Enslaving America and the World with Central Planning WND Books 2016 , References External links Religion Freedom Coalition - Official RFC website Government is Not God - William J. Murray's blog 1946 births Living people Baptist ministers from the United States Converts to Protestantism from atheism or agnosticism