Nearly four years after a minister was brutally slain inside her downtown Pentecostal church, some of this city's 6,600 residents remain on edge.

Who killed the Rev. Carol Daniels, 61, remains unanswered. So, too, do questions of whether her killer was a stranger passing through town, or more frightening to those who live here, someone they know.

“Things are different,” said Carla McBride, Carolyn McBride's daughter who also works at the Anadarko Daily News. “You don't feel safe. I think that's what most people feel. You don't feel safe.”

About noon on Aug. 23, 2009, police found Daniels mutilated body inside the Christ Holy Sanctified Church on E First Street. Even though she had few regular congregants left, Daniels, who lived in Oklahoma City, still made the drive every Sunday to Anadarko to minister to anyone who might drop by the tiny weatherworn building with the large black cross hanging above the front door.

As details of her killing leaked out, concern in the community grew. Daniels had been stabbed multiple times, her head nearly severed, her hair lit on fire. The killing didn't appear random. The motive didn't appear to be robbery. The killer posed her body as if crucified, took her clothes and sprayed a chemical to destroy DNA evidence.