Wednesday, an Oklahoma woman was sentenced to life in prison with the chance of parole after she admitted asking her lover to murder her abusive pastor husband.
Mother-of-three Before her husband David Evans was killed on March 22, 2021, Kristie Evans, age 49, gave her lover a firearm, a box of ammunition, and an unlocked back door to her home.
Yesterday, Pontotoc County District Judge Steven Kessinger gave the 49-year-old a life sentence; she will be eligible for parole in 2060, after completing the majority of her 45-year term.
The pastor and his wife were married for three decades, but they led a covert swinger lifestyle in which Evans, 50, often “pressure” his wife into engaging in group sex with other men.
Evans said Tuesday during a sentencing hearing that she had urged her boyfriend, Kahlil Square, to murder her husband as he slept in their Ada, Oklahoma home.
The married couple met with Square, 27, for threesomes on a regular basis at the beginning of 2021, before the two of them formed their own romance behind David’s back and she begged him to murder her husband.
Kristie first stated that an intruder had murdered him, but then confessed that the guilt “ate her alive” and was arrested with Square in March 2021.
She testified in court that her spouse was aggressive towards her, describing him as dominating and manipulative behind closed doors. She alleges that Evans forced her to sleep with 50 to 100 men, sometimes more than one.
She ‘understands there has to be accountability for her actions, and she’s prepared to serve whatever sentence is handed down,’ said her legal counsel Joi Miskel, according to NBC News.
He said, “She is not a danger to society.”
The convicted mother of three informed news outlets from prison that her husband subjected her to years of psychological and verbal abuse.
She said that she pleaded with Square to execute the murder in order to escape her marriage: ‘I was desperate.
‘I wanted to be free from that. I knew of no other way.’
David, pastor of the Ada Harmony Free Will Baptist Church, is said to have referred to his wife as a “frigid b*tch” due to her inability to meet his intense desire for group sex.
When she once threatened divorce, he once placed a.357 pistol under his chin.
She said that he would also limit her income and physically abuse her.
Long, the pastor’s daughter, and Zachary Evans, one of their two kids, both characterised their father as physically violent.
According to the children’s siblings, he would smack their heads together, pick them up by their hair, and force them to clean the home at night while berating them.
After reporting their father’s conduct to the police in April 2010, the three children were put with their maternal grandparents due to the escalation of the violence.
Kristie disclosed that her spouse had put a pillow to her face while locking her arms down, but she never reported the incident since no physical proof existed.
Square invaded the house of the Evans family when David was asleep and murdered the pastor in his bed.
The wife heard the gunshot, saw Square flee the home, and discovered her lifeless husband bleeding from the forehead.
In his last moments, the wife said: ‘I held his hand and told him I was sorry.’
Kristie called 911 and reported that an intruder had murdered her husband.
Four days later, she admitted to her daughter Brittney Long that she had “begged” her boyfriend to murder her father. She then reported herself to the authorities.
According to the papers, Kristie informed officers that she had handed Square the firearm, a box of ammunition, and an unlocked back door to her residence.
In connection with the incident, Square, 27, was also charged with first-degree murder. His next court hearing is scheduled on August 25.
According to evidence during his preliminary hearing last year, he also admitted to committing the crime.
It has never been discovered.
Jean Richardson, the mother of David, defended him by stating that he was not as domineering as Kristie alleged.
She stated that if the relationship had been so tumultuous, she could have left her husband or sought assistance rather than imposing a “death sentence” on her son.
Kristie’s daughter, who is now married and has a young child of her own, said that she does not know what finally caused her mother to take things into her own hands, but hypothesised that it was a sense of despair.
‘At least now [she] has some control and say so in her life that she didn’t have before — as twisted as that may sound,’ Miskel concluded.
Long also recalled when her mother confessed to the killing and said, ‘Even if I spend the rest of my life behind bars, I’ll be more free than I was with your dad.’