Jim Murphy

Pastor Jim Murphy was a pastor that lived in Blue Earth, Minnesota as a pastor. He was a hunter (though how exactly he came to be one is unknown), he was a good friend of John Winchester's, close enough that John would leave Dean and Sam with him when they were either too young to stay by themselves or when a hunt was too dangerous for them to be apart of. In 1989, he watched Dean and Sam briefly while John attempted to hunt a shtriga after it had gotten away after Dean had left Sam alone, only to come back to find the thing about to kill Sam.

By the year 2006, he and John had lost contact with each other, he and John had not spoken with each other in more than a year. In mid-2006, he is tragically killed by Meg in order to get John to surrender the colt gun. He tries to fend her off in the hidden basement of his church but his throat is slashed, bleeding out. Several associates of his were shown to be greatly upset by his death. John, Dean and Sam were both shown to be stricken by his death, John vows to kill the demon that got Jim.