COLUMBIA, ILL. — Attorneys for Sheri Coleman's family are seeking additional information from Joyce Meyer Ministries in their wrongful death civil suit against Chris Coleman.

The ministry says it's an unfair "fishing expedition."

Sheri Coleman's family's attorneys this week submitted a second round of interrogatories to the ministry, where Chris Coleman worked as security chief before he was arrested for allegedly strangling his wife, Sheri, and two young sons on May 5.

The questions ask about Coleman's computer, cell phone, home security system and travel to Hawaii, where police say he carried on an affair with one of Sheri Coleman's high school friends.

Both Joyce Meyer Ministries and Ronald Coleman, Chris Coleman's father, are named as respondents in discovery in the suit. They are not defendants. The attorneys representing Sheri Coleman's family have said they are simply trying to find out what the ministry knew ­— and when.

An attorney representing Joyce Meyer Ministries released a statement to the Post-Dispatch on Thursday, saying:

"Joyce Meyer Ministries had no knowledge and no indication that Chris Coleman posed a danger to the lives of Sheri Coleman or her children," said Michael King, an attorney for the ministry. "No reasonable person would suggest that any employer should be responsible for the criminal acts of its employees committed against his or her family outside of work just because that person is an employee."

Last month, the Fenton-based ministry unsuccessfully asked a judge for a confidentiality order to keep secret any information provided by the ministry.

Police allege that Chris Coleman attempted to make the crime look like the work of an enemy of the ministry, sending threats to his family over a computer network registered with the ministry and spray-painting hate messages on the walls at the murder scene.

Plaintiff's attorneys are asking the ministry to provide "any and all death threats received by Joyce Meyer Ministries Inc. in the past 36 months."