Episode 240

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early two thousands, Tuscan style decor was in vogue. You know, the
beige wallpaper cracked to look like age stone with a few clusters of grapes here
and there. The two thousand and eight financial crisis had just toppled most people's
plans for the future, but in the years following Teresa's Stone and her husband
Randy, came up with their own plan. They worked in Ensured, but
Randy didn't want to answer to anyone anymore. He wanted to be in charge
of his own job security, so branching out and opening up their own firm
was the obvious solution. Randy, being the guy that he is ex marine,
dies into his own business and his own right and thrive on his own
financially. You guys are doing okay, yeah, I mean we're starting to
struggle because of well we weren't early struggling, I guess, but it's tough
when you have a kid in a Christian college and you have another one in
a Christian school, right, you know, and you're starting a new business
on your own and all that. And our business with Farmers, we pay
out everything, We paid for everything, and we have our home step.
But we weren't really struggling, but we were just trying to be very careful
and we were basically starting over, So it was going to be very tough
and very tight interstand, but that's something we were willing to do. This
was a town they knew. After all, Randy and Teresa had lived in
Missouri their whole lives. They knew each other as children before Randy left for
the Marines. When he came back, they got married and settled in Independence,
quickly establishing themselves as inseparable pillars of their small community. No, we
we hardly ever fight. We hardly ever fight, and if we do,
for like maybe five minutes. Yeah, and we're just anohing mobile steam up.
Yeah, we've argued a lot. We were younger when we first got
married. Of course, it's hard, you know, when you're separated for
a whole year of your first marriage. And yeah, then your son is
born the day after he gets back from the military, and lokis you have
to do. Randy and Teresa did everything together. According to Teresa, neither
she nor Randy really had any friends of their own. They were perfectly happy
with their little family, their insurance business, and their church community. I
was deeply in love with my husband, and I just system't understand why someone
want to take him out of my life. I was understated it. Randy
and Teresa weren't involved in any CD activities, and they certainly didn't associate with
anyone who was. This couple, nearing their forties, attended church every single
Sunday and Wednesday night. Randy drove the church vehicles for events. He was
a Sunday school teacher, and he was close friends with the pastor, Brother
Love, with whom he shared administrative advice for the church. And I listened
to Randy or Randy gave a sermon one time, and I listened to that
because I wanted to try to get to know Randy, because so I just
feel like I need to know he's not just a name on a PC.
Was a wonderful they had. He sounded like he was very, very nice
guy, and everybody loved him. Yep, he was always right there beside.
We always did empty payed together and if we didn't do it together,
we'd find a way to do it together. Always. Teresa sang in the
choir and helped with food preparation at all church events. She had been attending
New Hope Baptist for thirty years since she was a child. Everyone who knew
Randy was at a loss when Teresa discovered her husband's lifeless body in their own
insurance office on March thirty first, twenty ten. I'm pretty sure I got
to the office Friday about tin till. Yes, maybe a little bit before,
maybe a minute or two before, but it was right pretty close to
tintaill. Okay, you get office. Only car out there is strands think
Parker next to his car always always. But when I pulled up, when
I pulled up in the driveway, I noticed the blinds were closed, and
that is not normal normal, okay at all. Teresa got our keys out
to unlock the door and noticed that it opened after just unlocking the dead bolt.
This was also out of the ordinary. If they locked the door for
any reason, they locked both the dead bolt and the handle lock. You
go inside, open the door, go inside. What do you see?
All the lines are often um, I yell, I say, honey,
where are you? And I walk into his office and I turned the light
on, and you know, the computers up. Everything looks fine. I
walk into the back ring back there and hurting the light on and he's not
back there. Which room is at the storage storage room? Up? Okay?
Then I walk around it, of course to your office. What do
you see? So you could see him lying on the floor then and the
light was off? What did you do? That's important? What did you
do once you saw him? There? Are you doing fin to wake up?
Did you shake him? Don't you? Okay? What did you?
And I apologize I don't mean to do. We just have to be a
little detailed at this because it's important. Did you see any I mean,
he was obviously on the ground. Um, I saw coming out of his
ear. Okay, blood coming out of his ear, and I was really
puffing, and his kid was really scot and I noticed see who was it?
Bray? But I didn't I didn't want to touch you about was that
fine? Scar? So? What did you do to help out? What'd
you do? From there? I went over? I stepped over. Yeah,
and now one of those heaters was on chercher by him too. Is
it is our stand up? Or did you doctor over get into them?
No? It was already laid down when I got there. All right,
Well I walked in the room, it was laying down. Okay. First
I thought he had his hand on it, but then when I saw the
blood girl out of his ear, I was, that's fine. Theresa didn't
know what had happened, thinking her husband may have fallen and hit his head
on the space heater in the office. Who did you get a hold of
when you called my mom? Okay? And what did you tell your mom?
I just told her. I told her, I said, mom,
rady is something's wrong with rady As and he's leading and he's not responding.
You thought, breathing, I need you going to go to the office now.
And I was saying it so fast ahead to repeat it several times okay,
and then I hung up and the old line one one from the office
phone. And did you stay in the office where he's at doing this or
did you outside? You know? When I got on the phone with the
operators, she told me to get at the office, okay, the dispatchers.
Yes, So I straight out of my purse. Yes I did,
Okay, I said over him and I walked out. Randy hadn't fallen,
though he had been shot. We talked before about this, but you said
you We asked you about weapons. Okay, what guns? Do you know
that he had a here at the office or anywhere? The only one that
I know of that he has yeah, was a little bitty thing. Yes,
what you said, a little bitty thing? It's little? Or do
you keep it? And I don't even like touching it? Where do you
keep it? He kept it in office? Okay, you know we're at
in this office that he particularly kept it. And you're gonna ask like that,
Like I said, if you don't know, that's fine. I am
pretty positive he kept it in the drawer at the back of his Prigenza.
Police had already located that weapon. It was not the one that had killed
Randy Stone. Okay, we'll want to ask you something again like we asked
you before you going in and find him like you did, and everything,
and here's the thing, and please don't take this wrong. I told you
before we had asked questions that we understand how people think and what goes on
sometimes with people. When you went into the how the office and you located
him laying there on the floor, and you checked him and yelled at and
everything. We found a cartridge by his feet, what cartridge shullcasing? Shellcasing?
Did you let's we're rescuing you. If there was a gun lane by
him or anything, you moved it. I didn't see anything. I swear
I did not see anything. That's why I didn't know where the blood was
coming from. I felt I saw blood under his head and coming from his
ear, and I saw his eye was sullen and his skin was discolored.
So I didn't see anything. I could not figure it out. That's why
I thought maybe he hit his head or something. Okay, I have no
idea. That's what we're saying here because we're talking to Joe and talking to
some other people. When I brought you up here, some scot hold me
too. He said, you're in side. Your husband does have the forty
colberhinga. He does, Yes, that's what we're saying. And beauty and
his wife you should have seen or known about it. The only one that
I have ever seen is that little vide hound. Now, like I said,
I don't go down in the safe downstairs, right so well, hot
as I know, what he has downstairs in the safe is his shotguns.
He carried this from his greepcase. He did. Okay, so it's same
information to work again. That's what we're took getting told. And that's forbody,
somebody that knows him really well. So so this is hopefully fris.
Okay, who's life away from me? Yeah, we're going. So we're
trying to work on here. That's what we're talking to you. First.
Teresa Stone was giving the impression that she had just learned something about her husband
that shifted the way she saw him. Why would he have this secret pistol
and why would he keep it hidden in his briefcase taking it to and from
work with him. I asked him this morning to bring a name on book
for me, and I assumed he put it in his briefcase. So I
opened his briefcase and it wasn't in there. But I didn't see a gun
in there. Okay, I didn't see anything in there because I opened it.
I don't touch guns. He knows I don't like them, and I
don't touch them at all. What could he have gotten involved in that led
to this assassination? These were the questions everyone was asking, including Randy's church
family. Brother Love, Randy's best friend and pastor of New Hope Baptist,
gave a touching sermon at Randy's funeral, hoping to quell the unsettled spirits of
those who had just lost someone they may never have known at all. This
is what he said. Randy Stone's name was on the sign over his office
at the insurance agency. And how many here really know that Teresa was an
agent of that place. She was the cement and the glue, wasn't she.
We come to the Word of God to try to reconcile the difference between
man's point of view and that death seems so permanent, and God's point of
view that death is precious. The Bible says in Psalm one sixteen fifteen.
Precious in the sight of the Lord is the death of his saints. We
said here today, and we weep not just because of the separation from our
loved one, but because of all the questions that death brings, questions like
why why him? Why now? Without answers, death seems so cold,
death seems so distant, It seems so long, death seems so permanent.
How can this death be completely turned to victory? Nothing here looks like victory
to me. The church knew one side of Randy, a god fearing ex
marine and family man, but maybe the entire congregation, Randy's family and those
who worked with him were simply kept in the dark about another side of Randy's
life. Only time, and a murder investigation would tell. On March thirty
first, twenty ten, the body of forty two year old Randy Stone was
discovered on the floor of his insurance office in Independence, Missouri. The father
of two had been shot dead, a shell casing left next to him.
This was a confus using scenario given Randy's good reputation and high regard within the
church, but the crime scene soon revealed more clues. A case with several
leads is better than one with none at all. Teresa and her co worker
Peggy were first asked about any odd occurrences at the office. Had anyone's strange
come in? Were there any resentful former customers wanting revenge? As just before
too, There's been no problems with anybody, what sort of no strange people
come in lately? I can kind of odde and will threaten to kill anybody.
Well, not trying to kill anybody, But there was one guy that
came in probably, and Peggy can vouch for this too, because she was
there when he walked in. In fact, he came in. He came
in once when all three of us were there, and then my husband said
he came back once when he was there by himself. You know this guy
is no I have we have never seen him. I'm in February. Okay,
this is in February, and I'm sorry, Hoop's richer. Who's Peggy?
She is another lady that works in our office one day a week.
She were every Friday, so she's like a customer service person. Also,
yeah, yeah, she's she might be well, she's licensed to she writes
business for us too. Here's what's really weird in this. And this is
just coming to me because I had laid a twenty dollar bill, which is
probably stupid of me. I probably shoudn't done this, but I late a
twenty dollar bill on her on her computer screen because we were just we were
giving her some money for write a policy force. So I late twenty dollars
on her thing. Well, he came up missing the day after, that
guy walking in our office. They described the man as average height, white
and probably not homeless, but appearing very unkempt. I just remember I think
he asked pay you for many He wanted to buy a bus ticket or something
like. I said. I wasn't in there, so I really didn't hear
the conversation. Take him into more we talk to her, Yeah, she
would probably know more about that. And your husband said he showed up once
before. Yeah, because he told me. He told me on the phone
and told me that this same guy walked in. Then there was the former
family friend that tried to kiss Teresa at an event. They all agreed to
put the incident behind them, but it was awkward and the friendship ended.
His name was Matt Brewner. Yeah, he's a client of ours, and
he kind of forced himself on me, and so it kind of came out
in a conversation and Rady was not happy when he found out about it.
Okay, he forced himself on you. Okay, that's office. No,
this is at his house. We were all in his house for a birthday
party. Oh. And he's like a friend to the family him. He's
a client, and he's and and he's a good and he is a good
friend. And he and he called and apologized for what he did and everything's
been fine. This was probably going to a half two years ago. Yeah,
so everything's been everything's been fine. Okay since then, I just wondered
why Randy kept the apology letters you wrote for that long. He keeps everything
every card, every letter I write. There's a card too. Yeah,
he keeps everything. I keep everything. Was there anything between you and man?
No? Absolutely not. He trying to make moves on you? Yeah,
but he didn't do anything specific. What was what angered or? I
mean you said he try to force himself on you? And he was he
trying to physically touch you and a man or kiss you or yeah, he's
trying to kiss me. He we were at their house looking at the stub
band and in the basement, and um, I just went into the bathroom
to look what all the stuff they did, and he came in and kind
of pushed me up against them all and I say, get away from me.
And that was about all that. How could that was about it?
It's a bad guy. He's married, Yes, he's married and has two
children. Nice. Well that's a little odd. Randy held on to the
apology letters this guy sent Teresa. At first, Teresa made it seem like
things were fine between the couples, even to that very day, but she
then went on to give a very different impression. Look here in town,
busy, he was far enough away if you can stay there, I don't.
I don't start trouble for anybody, right, So that's okay, Yeah,
so, oh, I guess police searched every part of that crime scene.
There was money on the desk that the assailant had completely looked over,
and Randy still had his wallet and keys on him. There was the forty
caliber shell casing on the floor next to Randy's body, and there was a
trash can holding some helpful garbage. Back to the letters, that yellow that
would in your trash canning head letter just made written about having birthday and all
that. It's about this big it's all toro and it says about you know,
something like you're the most beaut of a person or some kind of thing
like that. It's always big ramblings of good stuff about you know, it's
about that ball. But the biggest white letter and it's black writing, and
it's a it's all too now. Teresa gave the officer a confused look,
furrowing her brow and apparently trying to remember what this ripped up note was all
about. There's a bottle of your trash can in your office. Oh,
it's a happy birthday at the top of it, and then at the bottom
that's happy. It had always initials on the bottom like they're initials meaning something.
We'll think about it. I'm gonna sit lad into a pictures like can
show it to her, and she let me refresh her her Fine, you
know, I'm just sucking right. I heard of Now listen carefully to Teresa
in the interrogation room by herself. Did you hear it? We had to
amp up the volume to the max to hear what she had to say,
but Teresa whispers very quietly. Great, I forgot about that picture of it.
The collected it so may see it because it's on property. But he
about it. Yeah, I remember um, and I've had it for a
very long time because I kind of had a sacred admirer. It was left
on my car door. I oh no, no, no, oh no,
no, no, no no. Happy birthday, Love. You were
very precious to my heart. You possessed the most tender spot in my heart.
I care for you more than anyone on earth, and I desire to
be with you every moment of every day. Your birthday is my favorite day.
I remember nine years ago telling you I had something for you in my
office that was me. I wanted to give you me that kiss you took
and then you gave me one back, I felt like it was my birthday.
Now your birthday has become a sort of anniversary for me. I love
this day so much, and it is all about you, the most amazing
woman in all the world. I love you so much. I woke up
way before my alarm and all I could think about was you having a super
birthday. I'm not in control of things yet, but when we are fully
to other, your birthday will always be exciting. Where was your car out
at the office. It's not even the car that I have now, Okay,
I believe it was. It has been invest been several years ago,
and I just found it the other day. I was looking for um my
um what do you call it? Dental card? And I found it in
there? And where was that? No, No, it wasn't my It
wasn't my purse. I have a little thingy that I keep all my credit
cards in. Yeah, and it was in there. Secret. I don't
know who he is. Well, I've never gotten another note from him ever,
No calls and nothing, because we're getting calls it all the lately,
with hips hanging up anything. Yes, my let me think was it today
or yesterday? But the calls showed up private. So I have no idea
because my husband answered the phone a couple of times and well, no,
it was probably more than that, and he said, well, I don't
know who they are. They keep hanging up. It's never so we're too
you got her drive. I never answered it. He did, and he
never told me, so I don't know if there's any breathing. I don't
know if he didn't say Teresa's got a lot of admirers, doesn't she?
What kind of stranger leaves a note this specific? If it was really a
stranger, this is the kind of letter you go to the police about.
This is some I'm gonna skin you and dance around wearing a skin suit kind
of shit. Would there be any problem if we look at your phone,
look at some of the text messages on it, just confirmed to listen to
call if he ran call logs and stuff like that. Helped yourself? Oh
agency too great? These are always full. Oh unlike it. These detectives
were getting suspicious. I'm not one to not what am I looking for?
Cooperate? And I was sitting there to thank you, and your wife said,
I was thinking, what he is? This something that I would have
to have my lawyer present with or and I don't why I would. Yeah,
and I want you to just be wrongest I think you've been there on
the Secret Admirer. Do you know who this hers? I don't. I'm
sorry, I have no idea I have. I'm going to Detective Stewart had
said he had said something about said something about a happy birthday on it.
Yeah, I mean, so did this person know? Evidently they evidently they
know me. I don't know who they are. I couldn't tell you left
from right who the heck he is. I assume he is a guy.
Okay, Sorry, I didn't mean that to be funny, but I don't.
Seriously, I have no idea who he is. It has been several
years. Like I said, I just found it. I wasn't looking for
it. I just ran across it and couldn't believe I still had it,
So I thought I better get rid of it because I surely didn't a want
my husband to find it. And if he did, I mean, I
would just explain to him that it was just left in my car window.
Just like I'm telling you, guys, I'm being honest with you, and
I have no idea who he is. I don't know. It's been several
years ago, so I honestly don't know. I have never gotten any more
letters. Nothing. I've never gotten phone calls, no mysterious phone calls,
no, no, nothing. So I know, no affairs on the side
or anything like that. He hasn't had an affair with someone, and just
be several years ago he did, Okay, but that was right after we
got married. Okay, it was a long time ago. Okay, but
nothing recently. You guys haven't been separated or anything. I mean he had
he and I just say this, but I feel like to be honest,
you know, I mean anything. Um, he he had troubled with pornography.
So trouble with pornography. Yeah, but we got through all that.
Okay. When you say, in trouble with pornography, was he watching him
on TV or on computer? He would pull it up on the computer.
Okay, but that was it's been several it's been several months, probably a
year or so. Okay. So but within the past year, when we
say he having trouble with pornography, what do you mean by that? Well,
he would just go on websites and just look at them. Okay.
Oh, so he liked porn like every other normal adult in the world,
and I approached him about it. So, okay, we got that out
of the way. When you say he got it out the way, what
do you mean by that? Well, he that's why his computers the way
it is now. He switched his computer so I could see everything cocked because
it used to be like this, so I couldn't see anything. So he
turned it like this, so whenever I did walk into his office or walk
past his office, I see everything he was working on. Because he wanted
to be honest. If he didn't go in, any counsel wouldn't. It
wasn't, Betty, And it didn't cause any friction that you guys were wanting
to get separated or never had to leave the residents. Ory that no one
left the residence or anything. No, never, absolutely not ever never never
never never never. It never got that bad. Anything else you can think
of that would be that would be helpful to us? Oh, I can't
think of anything. I hope this is megan sense. Guys, I'm sorry,
but it's fine. Oh you're fine, You're great, You're great.
We're just we're just trying to fit together. Like I told you with your
knowledge of what we don't know. Okay. The small gun Theresa told police
Randy in the office with him was located, but the gun that killed him,
presumably the glock he kept in his briefcase, was nowhere to be found.
Police searched the house to no avail that gun was gone. Someone wanted
Randy dead, not for his money or his assets, And now it was
looking less like Randy was the party involved in suspicious activity. To police,
it seemed like Teresa might know more than she was letting on. She continued
to maintain her stance. She had been on her way to the office after
running errands, which she detailed to police with timestamps, and she arrived at
the office to find her husband dead. She claimed she had no idea who
on earth would want Randy Stone dead. Oh, we're trying to hard and
understand, you know, I don't even know what what to say one where
I'm set now with somebody in this situation. I never tried that would ever
be in this situation. Ever. We were supposed to grow old together and
to retire together. And you had a beautiful wife, and didn't you read
from a year you got two great kids you had a good young, good
head business, and I'm sure you probably have a beautiful home. All I
can say is like God has just blessed us tremendously through all of our lives,
through became married, and our children, and our church family and our
business. I mean, it's all because of what God has in for us.
It's not because of what we've done. It's because of what God is
in. We're just trying to encaple to him. And I guess that's why
I feel like that I've just tried to leave everything in his hands because I
know He's in control of everything. Even though I tell my pastor and my
youth pastor, I know want a supposed to question him, but it's so
hard not to. Well, you just have to everyone when you wake up.
You just have to remember that you have family and friends that love you.
I know I support you, and the Lord's going to look after you.
You know. I go on to run every morning. I tried to.
Yeah, and I just I talked to God and I talked to my
baby. Even sounds corny, it's not corny at all. We're gonna keep
doing. We're going, We're gonna We're gonna find out, who did this?
I guarantee. We look to this casket and the body here, and
all the flowers and all the things gathered around, and we say, but
we anticipated that he would grow old. We anticipated that we would do more
things together. What with the word anticipation and death being swallowed up in victory,
how could this be good at all? But Isaiah twenty five anticipates something
about God. But anything that defies God, anything built up that defies God.
He is saying here in Isaiah twenty five, in these first three verses,
that you can anticipate if something is built up to defy God, God
will judge that. You can anticipate that God will judge this. A couple
of weeks passed, Randy and Teresa's life insurance agent noted that not twenty four
hours after Randy's death, Teresa was calling him asking about the life insurance payout
and when it would hit. She believed she'd be getting seven hundred and twenty
five thousand dollars Richer. Police continue to gather evidence, trying to match up
the handwriting on the mysterious note with someone on their radar. They pulled Teresa
Stone in for questioning again on April twentieth, three weeks after Randy's murder.
This time she had a little bit of explaining to do money and John.
All right, missus John. Now he's working with me on a lot of
this. Okay, I guess they here's the old Teresa, here's the deal
Detective Rule Roseworn has done. I mean, he's been hundred some of this
with you, David's and custody, and he's talking. Okay right now as
your chance, and you probably have about ten minutes to tell us everything go
on with this because a lot of the things you're saying it doesn't make sense.
Okay. It's like Detective Rosemarren said to you, is the first person
that comes in and as being one hundred percent truthful, it's the one that's
the letter, right, Okay, Yes, When did David get to go?
That's the most important thing right now. I don't know. All he
told me is that he had a way to get it. The detective keeps
mentioning the name David. They had just arrested someone for the murder of Randy
Stone, and his name was David Love. A few weeks Scepter Randy Stone,
a father of two, was shot dead in his insurance office. On
March thirty, first, twenty ten, police and Independence, Missouri had finally
made an arrest. We begin with breaking news from South Carolina tonight. Well,
that's where police arrested former Independence pastor David Love. He's charged with fugitive
of justice. Lisa Benson's in the news room with all the details. Now,
Lisa, Well, we have new information on the murder of a metro
man. Love is the person of interists and the murder of Randy Stone who
was killed back in March and his farmer's insurance office. Now, according to
relatives, Stone's wife admitted to having an affair with David Love so and was
also an active member of the New Hope Baptist Church where Love was the pastor.
At one point in the investigation, officers right at the church, but
never revealed what they found. Love resigned as pastor after the church was rated.
That's right, everyone, the loving, doting and devoted wife Teresa Stone
was having an affair with her own church pastor, her husband's best friend.
Tell me again this time to be truthful to what was the nature of relationship
with David Truly, if you can't even do that much, I can't help
you. Truth. If you can't even be honest about that, I cannot
help you. Well, obviously he was in love M and I guess I
was at one point, and just recently, probably a couple of weeks ago
now, well, probably about a month ago. M. About a month
ago, you felt like you were in love? No, no, no,
no, and then to go. I wanted it to end. I
wanted to start my life fresh with Randy. Let's back up to nine years
ago. Well, I need to know what kind of things had been going
on between you and him before you decided that you wanted to put an end
to this thing. David Love, by the way, was also married with
a family. The police made it seemed to Teresa like David was in custody
telling them everything. This was far from the truth. Brother Love seemed to
know how to deal with police. Oh man, I'm finding her name.
Sorry you ever to see here, Sonny. It's been it's been a long
night for everybody. Okay, it's been a long night for Teresa. She's
been up here for a while. I guess you know why you're up here,
probably nor secret why we need to talk to you. Yeah, yeah,
she's going point in time. So yeah, well she's been up here
for about eight hours now, Okay, we're fun. We've learned quite a
bit. I'm gonna tell you right now that that this is not easy because
I know that you are I've spent your life, you know, working for
the Lord, and that you are the leader of a of a church.
But what I know now, I mean, this is hard. It's not
gonna be easy. Okay. Um, you just need to probably find it
in your heart to have the courage, you know, to be truthful with
and you know, except putting the Lord's hands, that you need to be
truthful with me in this room because if you're not, you know, if
you're not in, it's probably not going to go to real world for you.
And then the form of your rice he wished to talk to me,
Well, I'd rather definitely rather have a longer present. Do you think that
would be? You are middle to night and still I would rather have a
longer present. I don't have one. Okay, I probably get long for
you have to do that. David Love may have kept his lips tightly sealed
in the interrogation room, but similar to the tragedy of Romeo and Juliet Teresa
thought David had already perished, so she committed metaphorical suicide by confessing. Only
later wi she learned that she alone exposed the two of them for what they
were are selfish teenagers masquerading around as valuable members of society. I'm telling you
this is the motive. This is the reason that your husband is dead.
It's up to you to tell us exactly what happened that exactly what was going
on. All right now, I've got I've got about twenty detectives out here.
I'm gonna be honest with you. I got about twenty detectives out here
that want to take this to a ran jury today tomorrow. They think we
haven't. They think there's enough evidence against you to have you charge because they
think you involved in this either not that you killed him, but that you
have something to do with this. Do you know why? Because of this?
Because your statement that you gave the other night to Detective Stewart is full
of inconsider sees as un truth. What they have, I'm telling you they
have. They have torn out a statement of a park. We have a
page and a half of things that's not jiving, all right, what I
have told you, everything that happened on that day, Well, I'm telling
you that I have things to show you. My time was with me.
What are you saying? That's what I'm telling I'm telling you that there's there's
trouble here, Teresa. There's trouble here. You have got to tell us
what happened that thing. And if you don't tell us, then I'm telling
you. I've been doing this for twenty four years. I'm telling you I
can see the direction that this is going. And if you're not truthful with
me and tell me everything that's going on and what you know, you're going
to be. You're going to be a soul out on a plank all by
yourself. My investigators believe that you are involved in this either in the cover
of the is no way to you. I would not I would never see
anything of her my husband. After quite a bit of prying, Teresa finally
spilled the beans. She knew about the whole plan, and this affair wasn't
just a one time thing either. Teresa and pastor David Love had been having
an ongoing intimate relationship for get this ten years, Teresa, he doesn't our
bosses are out there and they're not very nice. Yeah, I understand.
And when you sit here and you're saying, I have to think about this,
I have to think. You know what the conversation is, and I
understand. All he told me was all he said was I have a way
to get togne. I have a way to get the done. I can
make it happen. And did you say, how do you ever way?
I said no. I kept telling him to leave it in God's hands.
If he wants us to be together, God will put us together. Just
leave it alone. I just kept telling him that. I kept telling that
all the time. Just leave it alone. Let God take care of it.
If he wants to be together, we will be together, Okay,
he told me. He just kept telling me that love will make you do
crazy things. He said, I will. He said, I will kill
for you. And he told me and I said, no, you won't
leave it alone. Did you know he was talking about Randy When you were
saying this, I was hoping not, Come on, now, who else
would he even be talking about? This whole thing went much deeper than anyone
realized. Police soon uncovered a history that included a miss carriage between Teresa and
David Burner phones, secret meetings, wedding plans, and plans to murder David's
wife. Also, this was something they often talked about how they'd like their
wedding to be. They discussed flowers and colors, all from their Burner phones
that they purchased to communicate only with each other. That certainly explains why Teresa
was so willing to hand her personal cell phone right over to police early on
in the investigation. By February of twenty ten, just a month before Randy's
murder, David Love had purchased an engagement ring for Teresa. On March sixteenth,
Randy sent David Love an email letting him know that he was resigning from
his duties at New Hope Baptist Church, unbeknownst to Teresa, who thought that
after Randy's death, she would receive all the life insurance payouts. Randy had
changed the beneficiaries of his policies to his children back in two thousand and five.
It's almost as if Randy knew what was coming. We know that Randy
was killed with his own luck went out to your house or your parents house
and got showcases. Okay, from when he used to target shoot and yeah,
we already told you. They told you that night that they found a
showcase and well the ballistics that was all that was checked out. They were
saying, same same weapon, vitor showcases. Right. I want to know
how anybody could get into that office, get that glock and shoot your husband,
because we're talking about the former warm guy, the marine, the guy
who knows karate, the guy who was on his game, the guy who
was always little looking around and looking around for you. How would anybody get
that gun away from you? I don't know. I have no idea.
I keep asking myself that all the time. We don't understand it. We
know whoever went in there. One knew the gun was in there and how
to find it, and I didn't even know he had it in the honest,
or two somebody gave the gun to them and they walked in there with
his gun. But if that makes more sense, because nobody Randy's not going
to let just anybody going to his office and going through dresser George. Right,
I'll be honest with you right now. I mean, we've talked to
all kinds of people. You've been married to this man for twenty years and
he's laying there the way he's laying with all that trauma, and to see
that, that would send most people flying out the door, flying out the
door, screaming for help. If nothing else. People they want to get
away from that. They want to get away from that. What did Teresa
do? You actually walked over the top of it. I was trying not
to panic, but you had a cell phone. But are just so abnormal?
Listen to me. I'm telling you all these whole things that people see.
People see these things, and they say, that doesn't sound like somebody
that just walked in the found found her her spouse. Did that looks like
somebody who may be expected to see that when they came out, did not
expected to bad for hours, Teresa tearfully exclaimed that she had nothing to do
with the planning of Randy's murder, but the evidence suggested other wise. The
evidence was telling detectives that Teresa was involved and that she was lying. And
it could be it could be that influence that David has over you. You
just you yourself might not even be identifying. Teresa. You're saying that you
may not know the power he has over you. I'm telling you everything I
know. I being honest with you? I am. I know he does?
And how are you telling you? He knows what you did? Does
he know what he should? He knows what I did. I did not
do anything. He knows that I had a relationship with David. He knows
what we had talked about, and he knows my heart, and he knows
what I tried to do or did you try to? I tried to tell
you to leave it alone. He wouldn't. What do you think you'd happen
to David? What do you think you're happen to? Day of Love?
I don't know. What do you want to? Everybody? Put him in
for life? You're doing my other his life. What do you want happen
to you? I just I want to come back to my family. The
only person that can do that. Iss you? What else, Teresa?
I am telling you the truth. You're not telling all the truth. I
even, Teresa, I don't understand what you want it for me? What
else? I don't? I know? I'm not missing anything. Please help
me if I am. I want to know if I'm forgetting something, but
I I know I'm not. I never told him to do anything like that.
I go into my house, I never said anything like that. I
told him. After Teresa allowed David Love to murder her husband, she then
allowed him to preside over Randy's funeral. Doesn't get much more evil than this.
I came to the city eleven years ago, and in March of nineteen
ninety nine, I met Randy Stone. Randy Stone was still in the reserves
in the army, and he was active in the military, and he would
tell me things about his military service. Y t K. Anybody can relate
to Y t K raise your hand y t K. Now, Randy was
capital Y two K. I met Randy. He said, Hey, I'm
putting mrs in my basement. I've got water, he said. Now,
one thing about Randy Stone. I loved it when I was around him,
but I usually wanted my wife to be between Randy and me because if you
would ever sit by him, he would bruise your arm, now, wouldn't
he? He said, every airplane is going to fall out of the sky
at the moment of Y two K. All the money in the bank,
you'd better get your money out of the bank. He was just big on
that, you know what. He was anticipating a storm and he was making
his refuge. That's what he knew to do. That was Randy preparation.
The final word is preparation. You see, there is nothing more that we
can do for Randy Stone. There is nothing more that we can do for
him. He'll never have another thought in this body, or another ocean,
another hunger pain. He'll never be able to sign another policy or kiss his
wife on this side of glory. The preparation now is all about what he
did before last Wednesday. To be precious in the sight of the Lord at
death, you got to make a preparation. He prepared himself to meet Jesus,
and only Jesus can take his soul to heaven. Clara, I'm glad
you didn't have any more Randy's, but boy, did you have one.
Randy's death is not in vain. The truth is really the exact opposite of
the sacrilegious eulogy given by David Love. Randy's death was in vain, and
he had not prepared to meet Jesus. David knew all this, and yet
he still stood behind the pulpit, the one that had served him well over
ten years, and told lies over the dead body of his best friend.
Randy's mother, Clara, sat and listened to the speech at her son's funeral,
having no idea that both the pastor and her own daughter in law were
responsible for the entire thing. We always had to have Aspergus because he loved
Aspergus, and we only buy green Giant, you know, just silly things
like that. But I as a couple of Christmas as I eat Fergus and
I'll take a bait, and now I'm taking him. I'll say ten,
this is for you. I was proud of my son. I thought he
was a good father and husband, but maybe wasn't a good husband. I
don't know. I would have rather she'd followed for divorce, even though I
don't believe in divorce. But I'd rather do that. If you're that unhappy,
divorce him, don't kill him. When David Love was arrested in November
of twenty ten, he had already moved to South Carolina and had begun a
new job as a truck driver. I wonder if it's because he started to
feel a little uncomfortable in the church, maybe a little maybe a little hot
under the collar, if you know what I mean. He played guilty to
second degree murderer a year later, and was ultimately sentenced to life in prison
with the possibility of parole after twenty five years. You will be eligible in
twenty thirty six. As for Teresa Stone, she pled guilty to conspiracy to
commit murder and received an eight year prison sentence eight years for murdering your husband.
I got nothing. She has since been released and is living a happy
life with a new man. Her new name is Teresa Greenawalt and she lives
in Kansas City. By the way, just a side note, I think
Trisa needs help. That's what hurts bad is I love Teresa, but I
just wanted her at least get enough time to sit there and think was it
worth it? You know? Why don't I just get a divorce? At
least I've had my son, and the kids would have their father. Teresa
Stone and David love together in many instances of selfishness and stupidity, ruined so
many lives in pursuit of their immature romance. How could these people, holier
than Thou raised to know God? How could they have come to the conclusion
that murder was the best solution here? How are human beings so literally goddamn
hypocritical? If they really believed the things that they preached. How could Teresa
and David have been stupid enough to think that the God they believed in would
just let them get away with it? All Right, that's gonna do it
for another one. Thank you for joining us once again. We'll see you
next time. Stay safe, right uh Hi? I just listened to the
most recent episode about Amelia thessum my first time calling it. I have to
say, the stories you select and the production value is just impeccable. It's
so good. But I just wish you would stop fucking talking, like your
commentary makes me stupider every time I listened to it, Like you are the
most misogynistic, ridiculous human being, and like the show would be better if
you would just leave your opinion out of it, Like just stop talking,
just stop talking, just stop talking. Just Jesus Christ NT