Kristie Evans

Summary

Snapped: Women Who Murder – "Kristie Evans" (January 18, 2026)

Podcast: Snapped: Women Who Murder
Host: Oxygen
Episode Theme: The murder of pastor David Evans in Ada, Oklahoma, by his wife Christy Evans and her lover, Khalil Square. The episode explores the investigation, shocking family secrets, the swinger lifestyle, manipulation, abuse allegations, and the ripple effects on the Evans family and community.

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Episode Overview

This episode examines the shocking case of Christy Evans, who orchestrated the murder of her husband, David Evans—a respected pastor—in their small Oklahoma town. The story unfolds through the investigation, revealing a web of abuse allegations, marital secrets, a clandestine affair, and a murder-for-hire plot that devastates a family and community. Through interviews with family, law enforcement, attorneys, and Christy herself, the episode interrogates motives, morality, and the consequences of secrecy and manipulation.

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Key Discussion Points & Insights

1. The Murder and Initial Investigation

• Incident: On March 22, 2021, Christy Evans calls police after her husband, David Evans, is found shot dead in their bed.
  • Christy’s initial statement: She heard “this loud pop sound,” and believed it was an intruder ([00:07–00:59]).
  • Crime Scene Details: No weapon found; David was shot in the head while sleeping.

    "The way he was positioned, the blood had dripped down his neck and down the side of the bed to the floor." – Investigator ([00:11])

• Community Shock: David Evans, as the Harmony Free Will Baptist Church pastor, was a well-known spiritual leader.

  "People were just irretrievably shocked." – Prosecutor ([03:13])

2. The Evans’ Background

• Family History: David and Christy met young, married at 18, and had three children. Both played strong roles in the church, projecting an image of an ideal couple to the public ([03:31–08:52]).

  “If you saw them out in public, you would have seen two people that were madly in love.” – David Evans’ child ([08:30])

• Career Struggles: David cycled through jobs before becoming a pastor; Christy supported the family financially and within the church.

3. The Investigation Shifts Focus

• Early Theories: Police consider a church member as the suspect, noting prior death threats over David’s moderate preaching style ([14:02–15:15]).
• Key Evidence Emerges: A mysterious white Mustang is seen at the Evans’ home while David was away, belonging to Kahlil Square, a man with a violent criminal record ([16:00–17:37]).

4. Family and Sexual Secrets Unveiled

• Affair and Double Life: Christy admits to an affair with Khalil while David was on a mission trip. The couple are revealed to be swingers, meeting men through Craigslist for threesomes, a secret that shocks the conservative community.

  "They are what people would refer to as swingers." – Prosecutor ([19:48])

• Violation of 'Rules': Christy’s secret solo contact with Kahlil violates the couple’s agreement for non-monogamy ([21:11]).

5. The Murder Plot

• Christy’s Confession: Under pressure, Christy confesses to orchestrating David’s murder, claiming coercion, marital abuse, and being trapped in the marriage.

  "If you love me, you’ll do this. If you love me, you’ll take care of my needs." – Family Member, quoting David ([24:08]) "I just felt like the only way out was to have him murdered." – Prosecutor, relaying Christy's statement ([24:28])

• Role of Kahlil Square: Christy lures Kahlil into the plot, offering sex, promises of David’s life insurance, and a vision of a future together.

  "She promised him $160,000 and that she would buy him a brand new truck and the two of them would live happily ever after." – Defense Attorney ([34:03])

• Execution of the Plan: Christy drugs David, leaves the door unlocked, and encourages Kahlil to kill him as she and David lie in bed ([25:32–26:06]).

  "She pulls him up on his feet and says, ‘Go do it now, go do it now.’" – Defense Attorney ([35:31], [01:16])

6. Motives, Abuse, and Manipulation Allegations

• Christy’s Claims: She portrays herself as a victim of verbal, emotional, and sometimes physical abuse, manipulated into sexual acts and isolated from support ([27:39–29:09]).
• Family’s Perspective: Children and relatives have mixed feelings, acknowledging both abuse and times of genuine love.
• Prosecution’s Perspective: Asserts Christy’s manipulation, greed, and calculated moves, highlighting her explicit jailhouse letters and her attempts to seduce and control Kahlil for financial gain.

  "She used her sexual prowess to get him to do whatever she wanted, which included murdering her husband. She screwed him stupid. I mean, she played him like a fiddle." – Prosecutor ([34:18])

7. Arrests, Confessions, and Trial

• Kahlil’s Capture: He confesses involvement after being confronted with Christy’s statements. Both are arrested for first-degree murder ([31:04–32:24]).
• Defense Strategy: Christy’s team tries to argue coercive control akin to battered woman syndrome, but Oklahoma law does not allow coercive control as a legal defense ([38:49]).
• Change of Plea and Sentencing: Christy pleads guilty in April 2022 in a blind plea. During sentencing, letters surface where she brags about her sexual power and jokes about how she could have avoided being caught ([39:14–41:11]).
• Final Sentences:
  • Christy Evans: Life in prison with possibility of parole after 40 years (eligible at age 88).
  • Khalil Square: Also pleads guilty and receives life.

8. Aftermath and Reflection

• Family Devastation: The Evans children are left without both parents, divided in their loyalties, and haunted by abuse and regret ([41:49–42:27]).
• Christy’s Message: She urges listeners not to isolate themselves and to seek help from domestic violence resources.

  "Just don’t isolate yourself. Find somebody that you can talk to, reach out to somebody. Because when you’re in the middle of this situation, you are not going to be thinking straight." – Christy Evans ([42:27]) "God’s the only one who can give you mercy." – Christy Evans ([42:27])

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Notable Quotes & Memorable Moments

• On the murder scene:

  "It was pretty obvious this individual was deceased." – Investigator ([02:28])

• On their pastoral image:

  “They seem to be like what you think the ideal couple should be.” – Church Member ([08:15])

• On the lasting impact:

  "My grandkids are not affected just by the death of their father. They're affected by having a mother who is serving a life sentence. They have lost, in effect, two parents in this situation." – Family Member ([41:58])

• On Christy’s self reflection:

  "I needed to make some kind of right out of what had been wrong. The main catalyst, I guess for me turning myself in was my family." – Christy Evans ([27:39])

• Defense and Prosecution Standoff:

  "He really had to wrestle with this whole concept of, you mean this is our only way out?" – Defense Attorney, on Khalil ([33:18]) "She played him like a fiddle." – Prosecutor ([34:18])

• Explicit jailhouse letter:

  "I'm so good in bed that any man would have killed my husband." – Prosecutor, reading from Christy’s letter ([36:09])

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Key Timestamps

• 00:07 – Christy recounts the gunshot, initial chaos
• 03:01–03:05 – Pastor David Evans’ community role
• 09:01–09:05 – Christy and David’s marriage and church partnership
• 16:00–17:37 – Mystery white Mustang and identification of Kahlil Square
• 19:48–20:34 – Swinger lifestyle and Christy’s affair revealed
• 24:08–26:06 – Christy’s confession, justification, and details of the murder plot
• 29:55–30:26 – Family and child abuse allegations
• 34:03–34:18 – Promise of life insurance, manipulation of Kahlil
• 36:09–36:23 – Explicit jailhouse letters surface
• 41:02–41:11 – Christy’s life sentence delivered
• 42:27 – Christy’s message to abused women

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Tone & Language

• Narrative style: Immersive true-crime storytelling, with direct quotes from investigators, family members, church members, and Christy Evans herself.
• Tone: Somber, sensational, and reflective. The podcast maintains a non-judgmental but investigative stance, balancing Christy’s claims with prosecutorial rebuttal and family testimony.

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Useful for Listeners Who Haven’t Heard the Episode

This summary provides a chronological recounting of the crime, social and emotional context, investigative twists, revelations about family and sexual dynamics, and the courtroom drama that followed. It incorporates the main speakers’ perspectives and verbatim expressions to capture the episode’s authentic storytelling.

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This is a summary of a true crime podcast episode and reflects the complexity and tragedy of real events as shared in the original broadcast. For those affected by domestic violence, resources such as the National Domestic Violence Hotline [phone]-SAFE) are available.

Transcript

[Narrator]

A man of faith is murdered in his bed in the middle of the night.

[Christy Evans]

I just heard this pop, this loud pop sound.

[Investigator]

The way he was positioned, the blood had dripped down his neck and down the side of the bed to the floor.

[Narrator]

But is it a random act of violence or a targeted attack?

[David Evans' Child]

We were just confused and scared and didn't know what happened.

[Church Member]

It was his first time being pastor. Dealt with some opposition. You know when you come in and change things, people don't like change.

[Narrator]

The investigation takes detectives in an unexpected direction.

[Prosecutor]

There's this mysterious white Mustang parked out in front of their house. And they see that he had already been to prison.

[Narrator]

Until a host of shocking family secrets are dredged up.

[David Evans' Child]

If you want to combat sexual sin in the world, purify your own life and stay committed and pure in your own marriage. The community was shocked that they found out about the whole lifestyle that my parents had.

[Family Member]

He just kicked after her. If you love me, you'll do this.

[Christy Evans]

I think his view of love and what that was was warped.

[Narrator]

And an unexpected culprit is brought to justice.

[Defense Attorney]

She pulls him up on his feet and says, go do it now, go do it now.

[Prosecutor]

She screwed him stupid. She played him like a fiddle. One thing we all agreed on is that he never in a million years would have committed this crime. But for.

[Narrator]

March 22, 2021. It's a little after 1am when police in Ada, Oklahoma receive a frantic call from 47 year old Christy Evans.

[Prosecutor]

She was crying, saying that something had happened to her husband, believed to have been an intruder in the home.

[Narrator]

Officers quickly respond to the address and find Christy waiting for them.

[Prosecutor]

Are you the only one here besides?

[David Evans' Child]

I think so.

[Narrator]

In the bedroom they find her husband, 50 year old David Evans, lying dead from a gunshot wound to the head.

[Investigator]

Mr. Evans was in bed with covers on, with his head turned slightly to the side. The blood had came through his mouth and nose, driven down the side of the bed to the floor. It was pretty obvious this individual was deceased.

[Narrator]

Homicides are a shocking occurrence in a small town like Ada. But this one is even more alarming because the victim is one of the community's most prominent spiritual leaders.

[Prosecutor]

He was a pastor of the Harmony Free Will Baptist Church in Ada.

[Church Member]

He led that church in trying to help people out in the community and just trying to help their needs any ways that he could.

[Prosecutor]

Several of the members of the Ada Police department actually went to that church. They knew David and Christy personally. People were just irretrievably shocked.

[Defense Attorney]

281 Central.

[Investigator]

We're going to need a detective.

[Narrator]

David Evans was born on October 9, 1970, in Camden, New Jersey, one of six children raised by Letha Richardson and William Evans.

[Family Member]

He was a baby. He had an older brother that had cerebral palsy. So his mother, she had to devote most of her time away from the job to the older brother. So he roamed and went anywhere he wanted to go.

[Narrator]

By the time David was a teenager, his parents had moved the family to Rowland, Oklahoma. He quickly developed a crush on a new classmate, freshman Chris Christy Armour.

[Family Member]

Christy is part of a large family. We always attended church. I don't think she missed a church service in the first five, six years of her life. She was working part time at a little drive in, earning her own money.

[David Evans' Child]

They basically met in a car. My dad was like, hey, he gave her a number and that's just what he did. My dad always liked my mom. My mom was very shy. She was just very nice, sweet, caring.

[Narrator]

Since Christy was nearly three years younger than him, David waded until her senior year to ask her out.

[Family Member]

David had kind of a bad boy image. He had long hair. He was a little wild. I believe he liked to party every weekend. I think Christy was going through a rebellious stage in her life. She had always been close to us, close to home, and I think Christy wanted a taste of the wild side, if you will.

[Narrator]

They'd only been dating a few months when they decided to get married in 1991.

[Family Member]

She turned 18 on May 29. They got married on June 4. I found them a job with a magnet, owned a motor rebuilding facility. Then they moved into an apartment somewhere in Fort Smith.

[Narrator]

Within a year, Christy and David started a family.

[David Evans' Child]

She just always wanted to be a mom and a wife.

[Family Member]

My granddaughter was born Feb. 14. She was the first grandchild and the only girl. Her brother was born March 1st of the following year, so there's a year and two weeks between them. The next child, the baby, was a boy. He was born in 1998. Couldn't think of a greater blessing in my life at the time.

[Narrator]

Over the next 15 years, the family stayed in the Fort Smith area as David struggled to find a lasting career.

[Family Member]

She got a job as a cna, worked in the hospital systems for a while. David went to work for Hastings, Fort Smith, which was kind of a comic book game, toys thing. They hired him as a manager. He worked there for two or three years. And then there was a small Bible bookstore that had opened up at Fort Smith. They offered him a job. David began to see a lot of preachers and deacons come in. So David started taking some night courses at a college actually in Moore, Oklahoma, ministry courses. Christy was a big part of that.

[Narrator]

By 2007, David was ready to pursue a higher calling.

[Church Member]

When I met Dave, he was going to college to be a pastor. Dave was working with the college and career class.

[David Evans' Child]

The way that they taught my dad was you're supposed to win people. Jesus trained them to become basically the vessels of the Lord. He felt like this was his calling to do.

[Narrator]

Christy and David quickly became pillars of their congregation.

[David Evans' Child]

Growing up, I was a pastor's kid. He was one of five on the staff. And I literally was there till sun up to sundown. My dad told me, nobody can do your job but you. Like no matter what he did, he gave it 100%. We want lost people in our church so they can hear about Jesus.

[Narrator]

In 2015, David's hard work paid off when he was named head pastor at Harmony Free Will Church in Ada, Oklahoma. And Christy was right there by his side.

[Church Member]

The kids are older and by the time David moved to Ada, they already had their own families and had moved out of his house. Christy Clarked clean the church. She led worship. He would talk about how much she means to him and how supportive she was of his ministry.

[David Evans' Child]

She worked as a dietary aide at the Mercy Hospital while my dad was preaching. She would be working with the kids and stuff.

[Church Member]

Dave was really quick witted and Christy could give it right back. She would give jokes too. And you know, you had to kind of be on your toes with both of them together. They seem to be like what you think the ideal couple should be.

[David Evans' Child]

You know, if you saw them out in public, you would have seen two people that were madly in love with each other. They might pester or annoy each other, but it was like one of those sweet couples that you see walking down the street that they're just teasing each other and you're like, aw, I want that.

[Narrator]

The devoted couple's dreams for their beloved church come to a horrific end after David is killed during an apparent break in.

[Christy Evans]

How long have you guys been married for? 30 years. 30 years. 30 years of June.

[Prosecutor]

Oh my God.

[Christy Evans]

He just went on a trip to.

[Narrator]

Mexico and just got back Saturday.

[Church Member]

Dave loved to help people and he. That was one of the last things that he did was go on a mission trip to Mexico and we're helping the underprivileged there.

[Prosecutor]

Tell me again exactly what happened.

[Christy Evans]

I was kind of in and out of sleep. I haven't really been fully asleep, but what time did you go to, what.

[Family Member]

Time did you go to bed?

[Christy Evans]

About 8, 30, 9 o'.

[Prosecutor]

Clock.

[Christy Evans]

I mean, we've been in the bed.

[Family Member]

Since we got home. Church.

[Christy Evans]

Oh my God.

[Narrator]

Christy explains that she awoke in the dead of night to an alarming sound.

[Christy Evans]

I just heard this pop, this loud pop sound. It startled me and so I stood up and I was like, do you hear that? And then he made this darkling noise and I was like, David. I looked at him and he's bleeding out his mouth and his nose and he had a hole in his head.

[Narrator]

Terrified that the shooter was still there, Christy acted fast.

[Prosecutor]

She then goes out to see if someone was in fact running from the house.

[Family Member]

Did you happen to go out, check the back door or anything?

[Christy Evans]

Yeah, unlocked.

[Prosecutor]

Do you guys keep everything locked every time?

[Christy Evans]

Yeah, we're diligent because there's people that break in.

[Narrator]

While officers speak with Christy, another inspects the crime scene.

[Investigator]

He began initially to do a cursory check of the bed and the area around the bed visually without disturbing the covers or any potential evidence. And one of the things that he noticed was there was no weapon to be seen.

[Defense Attorney]

They were satisfied that David did not commit suicide. The evidence was pretty apparent. This was not a self inflicted wound. So somewhere there was a killer running loose.

[Narrator]

Coming up, detectives uncover bad blood in the congregation.

[Church Member]

I thought Dave had probably been murdered by a church member.

[Narrator]

And a lucky break leads to a suspect.

[Prosecutor]

He had already been to prison for committing an act of violence.

[Narrator]

Police in Ada, Oklahoma, are investigating the murder of Pastor David Evans, shot by an unknown assailant while he and his wife were sleeping.

[Investigator]

We decided pretty quickly because the connections of a couple of the investigators at the time had with that church, that it would be in everybody's best interest to contact OSBI and have them come and take lead in the investigation. They pretty quickly arrived on the scene and took over the forensic analysis of the scene.

[Prosecutor]

There was no signs of forced entry. Anything of value that could be potentially pawned or sold for some type of profit is what you look for to be gone in a home invasion. And none of those things were missing.

[Narrator]

If robbery wasn't the motive, detectives must determine why David was killed.

[Prosecutor]

Christy is saying she doesn't know that they have any enemies, doesn't have any idea who possibly could have come into their home and shot David.

[Narrator]

David's loved ones are also at a loss to explain his death.

[David Evans' Child]

It was Monday. I woke up around 11 o'.

[Prosecutor]

Clock.

[David Evans' Child]

I get a call from my sister and literally she said that dad's been Shot. I called for my wife to come here, and, I mean, I was crying. He's screaming my name. He said, kel, Kel. And I come running into the room and I'm like, what? What happened? And he starts bawling his eyes out. It didn't feel real. We were just confused and scared and didn't know what happened. We went over everything of who would have killed my dad. It was just so crazy. He says, who did this? Who did this?

[Family Member]

Why?

[David Evans' Child]

There was no thought to what was going on or who could have done this.

[Narrator]

But as investigators speak with those closest to DAV, insights into his approach as a pastor pique their interest.

[Church Member]

When he went to Harmony Church here in Ada, Oklahoma, it was his first time being pastor of his own church. And I know when he first went there, he dealt with some opposition. You know, when you come in and change things, people don't like change.

[David Evans' Child]

They basically, they wanted an old style of preaching. And my dad was more moderate in preaching. There are some things in church that you have to just talk about. It does make people uncomfortable, like abortion, like other sins, drinking and stuff like that. My dad would preach what he felt like was needed to be told. This church seems to have a marriage sermon every other month. They ignore the difficult topics, rarely speaking about sexuality at all. Because let me let you in on a little secret. God designed sexuality, and it is good. It is good. Sexuality is not a sin.

[Church Member]

My dad's a pastor. Even if they don't intentionally mean to, they eventually offend somebody or somebody didn't get their way, and people get really upset. My dad's had death threats, so that's kind of why I thought David probably been murdered by a church member.

[Narrator]

Investigators question whether a congregation member could have hated David enough to kill him. Hoping to find possible leads, state investigators talk to the Evans neighbors and church members.

[Investigator]

It was quite a shock for our community. If you're not related to somebody, then you're related to somebody who knows that somebody.

[Prosecutor]

Agents start canvassing the neighborhood to see if they saw anything suspicious. And they did see this white Mustang that was at the home that they knew did not belong to David and did not belong to to Christy. And they noticed that it was at the home the entire week that David was on a mission trip in Mexico.

[Defense Attorney]

That drew their attention. One, this vehicle was one that hadn't been over there before. Two, they knew that David was out of town and thought it odd.

[Narrator]

Police catch a break when they discover that one of the Evans neighbors has a security camera install one of the.

[Investigator]

Individuals that lived across the street had her video doorbell, and they were able to identify the vehicle that had been there a couple times.

[Narrator]

Detectives begin by looking at the footage from March 17, 2021, the first time the Mustang was spotted.

[Prosecutor]

There's this mysterious white Mustang parked out in front of her house.

[Defense Attorney]

This car was unique in that it wasn't in the best condition, so it was easy to catch the eye, especially in ada, especially at that hour of the morning.

[Narrator]

It doesn't take long for detectives to come up with a person of interest.

[Prosecutor]

We got surveillance videos from some businesses in the area, and the license plate was visible, and they were able to run the tag, and it came back to court. This person named Kahlil Square, they run his criminal background check to see that he, in fact, has a criminal record. Khalil Square, in fact, had already been to prison for committing an act of violence against another person.

[Defense Attorney]

It was assault and battery with a deadly weapon. He and a guy had a confrontation, and Kahlil stabbed him. That, of course, landed him in prison. He was there a span of four years.

[Narrator]

Investigators begin to dig into Khalil Square's background to see if in the two years since he got out of prison, there was any connection to Pastor Evans.

[Defense Attorney]

Khalil came from a very loving family. He was raised by his grandparents. So Kahlil was surrounded by people that likely influenced his life in a positive way. But some of the choices that Khalil made along the way got him in trouble. So it caught their attention that Khalil's vehicle was coming over there and David was out of town.

[Narrator]

With David out of town, investigators suspect there is only one person who may know why Khalil's car was parked outside of the Evans home. They start by reviewing the statements Kristi has made so far.

[Defense Attorney]

Not only was this vehicle coming over there for the time in which her husband was gone, but there are some things that Christy was saying. The dots just were not connecting.

[Prosecutor]

The inconsistency started with when she describes the scene that she heard a pop and stating to police officers that she had been in the room.

[Investigator]

If she were in bed next to the person that was just shot with a 9 millimeter pistol, it would have been very loud and it wouldn't have been a pop.

[Prosecutor]

You wake up and you find your husband who's clearly been shot, and you think that an intruder's running from the house. Most women are not going to go chase that intruder. That was just another thing that raised suspicions with our investigators.

[Investigator]

You can pick out inconsistencies in their statements, the descriptions that they make, pretty quickly, they just felt like something was off.

[Narrator]

Coming up, Christy drops a bombshell.

[Prosecutor]

They are what people would refer to as swingers.

[Narrator]

And a surprising tip unearths more family secrets.

[Prosecutor]

She believed she couldn't leave, that he would kill himself, potentially kill her.

[Narrator]

Less than 48 hours after David Evans murder, Oklahoma State investigators are trying to determine the connection between Christy Evans and potential suspect, 26 year old Khalil Square. Police bring Christy in for further questioning.

[Defense Attorney]

When confronted, Christy, that was my boyfriend.

[Prosecutor]

She begins to tell the police that she's been having a sexual relationship with Khalil and in fact that she and David are what people would refer to as swingers. They would meet up in Oklahoma City and have their affairs in different hotels and motels and whatnot.

[Defense Attorney]

But there was established rules that her and Mr. Evans had, which was that they were to not have any contact with any of their participants. They weren't even to use their real names.

[Narrator]

Kristi says the affair with Kahlil began three months ago when David initiated a threesome.

[Defense Attorney]

He found Khalil through Craigslist, arranged a meeting with Khalil in Moore, Oklahoma, where Khalil was living at the time, to engage in a sex act.

[Narrator]

Christy says they met up with Kahlil again a week later. But then Christy decided to see him alone.

[Prosecutor]

After one of their threesomes that they had had at a motel in Oklahoma City. She had left her phone number on a piece of paper and had dropped it on the floor and Kahlil had picked it up. And they then began to secretly communicate with one another.

[Defense Attorney]

Which was in violation of all them rules of engagement that the two of them put together.

[Narrator]

Christy managed to keep the affair a secret by meeting Kahlil out of town. But when David went to Mexico, the opportunity was too enticing to pass up.

[Investigator]

Mr. Square had came, stayed at the residence, and they had had several encounters and he had spent the night there.

[Defense Attorney]

Christy said she didn't come forward with that information immediately because she thought that it would just make it look bad. Okay, that I had someone coming to the house while my husband was away.

[Narrator]

Kristi claims she knew about Khalil's violent past, but never thought he would do something like this.

[Defense Attorney]

She's allowed to leave. However, it immediately became number one on their list to engage in further investigation.

[Investigator]

Within three days after Mr. Evans death, we had identified Mr. Square as a potential suspect.

[Narrator]

As detectives begin the process of tracking down Kahlil, they get an unexpected text from Kristi's daughter.

[Prosecutor]

On March 25, she contacts OSBI agents, tells them, my mother needs to come back in. There's something that she needs to tell you about this case.

[Narrator]

When investigators meet with Kristi, her story changes once again, but this time it includes a confession.

[Prosecutor]

She finally admits that, in fact, Khalil Square killed her husband at her request. Christy told the police that David had been verbally abusive to her, had been controlling. She claimed that they got into the swinger lifestyle because of his sexual perversion, that she didn't really want to do it.

[Family Member]

He just kept after her. If you love me, you'll do this. If you love me, you'll take care of my needs.

[Prosecutor]

David would go on verbal tirades. According to Christy, when she didn't do what he was wanting her to do, she felt that he was a sexual addict. He wanted to watch her have sex with other men.

[Defense Attorney]

He is the one that would go out and establish connections between would be participants.

[Prosecutor]

Christy has stated that she's probably slept with anywhere from 50 to 100 men and that he coerced her into doing it. Christy tried to say that she believed she couldn't leave, that he would kill himself, potentially kill her, and that she just felt like the only way out was to have him murdered.

[Narrator]

Christy says when David went on his mission trip, she saw an opportunity.

[Prosecutor]

While he is there. Christy invites Khalil up to their home in Ada, and he stays with her. She said she cooked meals for him and kind of envisioned what their life would be like together once David was gone. And they engage, of course, in sexual intercourse. And that's where they finalized the plot to murder David.

[Defense Attorney]

The plan was for it to actually occur while she was in bed with David.

[Prosecutor]

Christy told police that she was going to give David a sleeping pill, make sure that he was good and asleep. She was going to leave the back door unlocked for Khalil. And that's when Khalil was supposed to come in, shoot David, and then leave.

[Narrator]

Two days after David returned, she and Kahlil put their plan into action.

[Investigator]

He went back and basically executed Mr. Evans while he was asleep.

[Prosecutor]

Leave.

[Narrator]

Christie is immediately arrested and charged with first degree murder.

[Church Member]

People were texting me, hey, did you hear what happened? Christie shot Dave. She's the one that murdered him. And I was shocked. It was like a bad dream.

[David Evans' Child]

The community was shocked that they found out about the whole lifestyle that my parents had. My family drove over. They all got out and said, hey, my mom went to jail. He's just sitting there, stuck on a curb, just bawling his eyes out and freaking out like, why? Why did this happen? Just completely and utterly devastated.

[Narrator]

Coming up, Christy tells all.

[Christy Evans]

The main catalyst, I guess for me turning myself in was that I needed to make some kind of right out of what had been wrong.

[Narrator]

And the sordid details of her marri spread through town like wildfire.

[Prosecutor]

She used her sexual prowess to get him to do whatever she wanted.

[Narrator]

It's been three days since David Evans murder. And now in the wake of his wife Christy's confession, police are ready to hear her her story.

[Christy Evans]

I knew that if I wanted to have any kind of peace with God that I needed to turn myself in or make some kind of right out of what had been wrong. The main catalyst, I guess for me turning myself in was my family. And they loved me and they supported me and just the guilt was overwhelming. David loved us as much as he could love anything. I think his view of love and what that was was warped. It wasn't love, but it was what David knew as love. If something wasn't done, maybe his pants weren't washed, he would yell at me like, what are you doing all day? Why can't you get this stuff done? David dame called a lot stupid, idiot. And then it graduated to cuss words and slut and whore and you like to sleep around. Mr. Square had said how beautiful I was, how lucky David was to have somebody like me. I didn't believe those things, but I wanted to because David just constantly put me down. I like the positive feedback from the guys.

[David Evans' Child]

The police did come to me. They asked me how my dad was like. I told him that he was nice to be around when we were at church and stuff. But when we got home, sometimes it was a different story. They had the Life360 at. You can track their location, where they're at precisely every, like every minute, every hour. That's how controlling it was.

[Christy Evans]

After we moved to ADA and were isolated more from family and friends, sex was his escape. I was his escape, his entertainment from the burden of being on staff at the church. The swinger lifestyle didn't come into play until we had moved to ada.

[David Evans' Child]

If you want to combat sexual sin in the world, one of the best things you can do is purify your own life and stay committed and pure.

[Defense Attorney]

In your own marriage.

[David Evans' Child]

He worked long hours at the church. My mom would do basically everything that he wanted. I feel like they really loved each other and like when they were good, they were great. But when they were bad, it was crazy. It was abusive, it was chaotic. Like, no one should ever have to go through that.

[Narrator]

And Christy wasn't the only target of David's abuse.

[Family Member]

He was very abusive, sometimes physically and violently abusive to his children. They were scared of him.

[David Evans' Child]

My dad did have a hot temper. When it wasn't my mom, he would take it out on me. Sometimes you just get so mad that he would hurt me. I mean, I went to school with concussions and stuff. I didn't tell my teachers. I couldn't really tell anybody because I still love my parents.

[Prosecutor]

I've been a domestic violence Prosecutor for over 20 years now. The issues that we had with Christy asserting that as some form of mitigation for her actions was that she didn't fall into the pattern of what we usually see. Number one, she had a job, so she had her own debit card, and she had co workers that she could reach out to. However, I certainly don't condone anything that David Evans did.

[Narrator]

Hours after Kristi's arrest, detectives tracked down her lover, Khalil.

[Investigator]

The OSBI did a search of his cell phone and were able to ping that cell phone in the Norman area. And they sent a tactical unit to the location of the phone and took him into custody without incident.

[Prosecutor]

When Khalil was questioned by police, he tried to initially deny involvement. But then when confronted with, hey, here's what Christy has said. He then quickly confessed to his involvement, including that he, in fact, was the shooter.

[Narrator]

But there's one major difference in their stories. According to Khalil, it was Christie who manipulated him into pulling the trigger.

[Defense Attorney]

They had multiple sexual trysts, and it sort of, for a better lack of terms, blew Khalil's mind. He immediately developed feelings for her.

[Prosecutor]

He felt that they were in a relationship. He said he loved Kristi, that they were going to have a life together.

[Narrator]

At first, the feelings seemed to be mutual.

[Defense Attorney]

Christy called Khalil no less than three times a day. She texted him even more.

[Investigator]

She.

[Defense Attorney]

She would FaceTime him just so she could see his face and make him feel special.

[Narrator]

But the tone of their conversation soon began to change.

[Defense Attorney]

Kristi began her campaign. Everything from telling him stories of how horrible the marriage was, how she was being abused, and that if David found out that the two of them were in fact, still talking to each other, that there would be some consequences and how she felt like that the two of them would never see each other again.

[Narrator]

Eventually, Christy told him there was only one way for them to be together and end the abuse. Khalil would have to kill her husband.

[Prosecutor]

Kahlil really loved Kristi and really saw a future with her. But he did not want to help. He'd been to prison for a violent crime, did not want to go back.

[Defense Attorney]

It was also a set of morals and values that Khalil had. He really had to wrestle with this whole concept of, you mean this is our only way out?

[Narrator]

But Khalil says Kristi is hard to resist.

[Defense Attorney]

Khalil sincerely believed that Christy Eric Evans loved him. He just had pretty intense sexual encounters with Christy. That's what's left in his mind and how he wanted that.

[Prosecutor]

Again.

[Narrator]

Sex wasn't the only thing Christy was offering Khalil. David's $250,000 life insurance policy gave him plenty of incentive as well.

[Defense Attorney]

She promised him 160,000 and that she would buy him a brand new truck and the two of them would live happily ever after. That was the plan that was planted in Khalil's mind.

[Prosecutor]

She used her sexual prowess to get him to do whatever she wanted, which included murdering her husband. She screwed him stupid. I mean, she played him like a fiddle.

[Narrator]

According to Kahlil, Christie not only came up with the plan, but she also provided the murder weapon.

[Prosecutor]

She was going to leave the back door unlocked for Kahlil. Khalil didn't have a gun, and so she was going to leave a gun that had been given to David and leave it there for Khalil.

[Defense Attorney]

He was simply to walk into the bedroom, put the gun to David's head, and pull the trigger.

[Narrator]

But Khalil claims that when the moment finally arrived, he got cold feet.

[Defense Attorney]

Once he got inside, something happened. He just absolutely could not do it, and he couldn't move.

[Narrator]

That's when Christy took charge.

[Christy Evans]

I told him, I said, you've got to do this. I can't do this. I don't know how to use. I don't think I can do this without having to shoot him multiple times. And I don't want to do that.

[Defense Attorney]

She pulls him up on his feet and says, go do it now. Go do it now. He, at that point, felt like he had no options. How would this play out if he were to wake up and catch me? And so it was under that mentality, coupled with the pressure coming from Christy, that he carried out the actual.

[Narrator]

Coming up, Christy takes the stand.

[Christy Evans]

You want the judges to have mercy on you, but God's the only one who can give you mercy.

[Narrator]

And the prosecution reveals damning evidence, the.

[Prosecutor]

Letters where she says, I'm so good in bed that any man would have killed my husband.

[Narrator]

By April of 2022. Kristi Evans trial is quickly approaching. Between Kahlil's testimony and Kristi's own statements, her defense team knows they're facing an uphill battle. So they come up with a plan.

[Prosecutor]

The big part of their argument was that she was a victim of coercive control. Basically, I'm going to mentally control what she wants us to believe that she was so afraid of David, the only thing she could do was murder him.

[Christy Evans]

He started controlling me early, early on, and he was controlling what I wore already and who I talked to on the phone. If I didn't agree to do these sexual things with him, then he got very irate and his whole mood changed, changed from being loving and you're the best and you're beautiful, to you're such a rigid bitch. I can't stand the sight of you. You're so fat, you're ugly.

[Narrator]

However, prosecutors are convinced the jury will see through that argument.

[Investigator]

She was tired of that relationship. She wanted to enter into a new relationship. There was a chance of some financial gains, a fairly large life insurance policy that she would have. She wanted to have Mr. Evans deceased as opposed to divorcing him.

[Narrator]

As the trial date approaches, the community becomes increasingly split over who's to blame.

[David Evans' Child]

It has divided my family. There has been a part where it's just my side or dad's side and then mom's side. I kind of play a little bit of favor of both. I do sometimes lean towards more of my dad, but this has devastated my whole family. I talked to my mom when she was in the ADA county jail, and she told me that she already felt like she spent enough time in there. I'm not a judge, but I still felt like that she should have more time in there because, I mean, she did take somebody's life.

[Narrator]

But before the case makes it to court, Kristi's defense falls apart.

[Prosecutor]

In Oklahoma, while battered women's syndrome is a defense to a crime, coercive control is not. So all of this evidence about him being mentally abusive, him controlling the money, him forcing her into all of these sexual acts, none of that evidence would have been admitted. At jury trial.

[Narrator]

In April 2022, Kristi surprises everyone by deciding to plead guilty.

[Prosecutor]

Kristi entered into a blind plea where she asked the judge to sentence her because we could not reach a plea agreement. And strategically, it was very smart on the defense attorney's part because anything you want to put in front of the judge in a sentencing hearing is admissible. And so they decided that they would have a better chance at getting a reduced sentence.

[Narrator]

Four months later, on August 9, 2022, Christie's sentencing hearing begins. The judge has to decide whether Christy Evans was an abused woman acting in self defense or a seductive con woman driven by lust and greed.

[Prosecutor]

She didn't meet any of the criteria for a battered woman. Was her husband a cruel man? Absolutely he was. Was he a sympathetic victim? No, he was not. But he didn't deserve to be murdered. She had options.

[Narrator]

The prosecution comes armed with new evidence. Explicit jailhouse letters Kristi wrote to Kahlil and other men.

[Prosecutor]

Letters where she's bragging about her sexual prowess. She says, I'm so good in bed that any man would have killed my husband. One of the letters, she says, I guess I should have paid more attention to dateline episodes. You know, basically saying that then she wouldn't have been caught. Now that sounds like a woman who's full of contrition, doesn't it?

[Narrator]

On August 10, on September 10, 2022, the judge reaches a decision.

[Investigator]

Christie Evans was sentenced to life in prison with the possibility of parole.

[Prosecutor]

The judge said, you know, you've put out this public Persona of what you've wanted people to see, but here's who you are. Your own words tell me who you really are.

[David Evans' Child]

I feel like that the judge made a good love and care about my mom dearly, but this is the choices that she's made.

[Prosecutor]

One thing we all agreed on is that but for Christy Khalil Square never in a million years would have committed this crime.

[Narrator]

While David's killers have been brought to justice, the Evans family continues to struggle with his loss.

[Family Member]

My grandkids are not affected just by the death of their father. They're affected by having a mother who is serving a life sentence. They have lost, in effect, two parents in this situation.

[David Evans' Child]

I feel like a lot of it. They made my dad to be this monster, but he wasn't like that all the time. When he was good, he was what a father should be. But no matter how wrong that they did, I still love them. They're still my parents.

[Christy Evans]

If I could say anything to the women out there, just don't isolate yourself. Find somebody that you can talk to, reach out to somebody. Because when you're in the middle of this situation, you are not going to be thinking straight. I really do think my sentence is fair. Overall. You know, you want the judge to have mercy on you, but God's the only one who can give you mercy. In September 2022, Khalil Square pled guilty and received a life sentence. Kristie Evans is eligible for parole in 2062. She will be 88 years old.

[Narrator]

Abuse is never okay.

[Christy Evans]

If you or someone you love isn't.

[Narrator]

In an abusive relationship, there is help available.

[Christy Evans]

Call the domestic violence hotline at 1-800-799-SAFE.