Detectives in San Bernardino may have caught a break in a more than two-year-old missing persons case that they are now investigating as a possible homicide.

Emilio Ghanem, 40, vanished in May 2023 while on a trip to the Inland Empire. He was last seen at a Starbucks in Redlands.

At the center of the investigation into Ghanem’s disappearance and possible murder, according to the Redlands Police Department, is a Hemet-based religious group known as His Way Spirit Led Assemblies run by a woman named Kathryn Martin who goes by the title “prophetess,” and her husband, Pastor Muzic.

A former member of the organization who did not want to be identified explained to KTLA that the group believes the prophetess is God on Earth.

“When the spirit of God comes over her, everything changes in her,

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