A Deadly Love Triangle
David Evans was murdered by his wife’s boyfriend, but the impetus behind the crime is far scarier.
After 30 years of marriage, David Evans and his wife Kristie still seemed very much in love. To outsiders, the pastor of the small Baptist church in Oklahoma was living the dream, but behind closed doors, it was all but perfect.
The couple met at high school in a small town just outside Arkansas in 1991. They married a few months later and went on to have three children. David wasn’t religious at the outset, but over the years, he became more involved in religion and eventually stepped into the role of the pastor of Harmony Free Will Baptist Church.
When news spread that 50-year-old David had been shot, the community was stunned. Kristie had awoken to find him struggling to breathe and called emergency services, telling them an intruder had broken into their house while they slept.
“Someone shot my husband,” she told the 911 operator. “He’s in a pool of blood and I heard a loud pop.”
David died at the scene, and an investigation into his murder began, but it was short-lived as Kristie quickly confessed and told Ada Police Department about another accomplice.
