Sword and Scale - Episode 240

Episode Date: May 15, 2023

Independence, Missouri has never seen much crime, let alone against middle-class churchgoers. When 42-year-old Randy Stone was found dead in his insurance office in 2010, the list of possibilities was endless. Ultimately, a ripped up note in the trash can would lead detectives down a promising path.See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Sword and Scale contains adult themes and violence and is not intended for all audiences Listener discretion is advised I said mom ready is something's wrong with radios and he's bleeding and he's not responding You stop breathing and I need you at scum in the office now. Hello and welcome to season 10 episode 240 of Sword and Scale, a show that reveals that the worst monsters are real. If you love the show and want to support it and want to get a whole bunch of additional content you won't find on the regular feed, from an independent podcast in a sea of corporatized garbage, well the place to do it is at swordandscale.com slash plus. Join and get 135 episodes at least of exclusive content along with bonus episodes, all kinds of extra stuff like store discounts. Just go on over there and check it out, see if you like it. Starts at just 10 bucks a month and your support keeps us here.

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So branching out and opening up their own firm was the obvious solution. Randy, the guy that he is, next Marine, and now he's into his own business, his own drink, and thrive on his own. Financially, you guys are doing okay. Yeah, I mean, we're starting to struggle because of um... well we were really 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. And you're starting a new business on your own and all that. And our business with farmers we pay out everything. We pay everything. We have our our hunts that 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.

I understand. 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 hardly ever fight. Okay.

We hardly ever fight. And if we do, it's for like maybe five minutes. Yeah. And we're just nothing but a little steam up. Yeah. We used to argue a lot when 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 then your son is born the day after he gets back from the military and a lot of cash enough 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 just don't understand why someone would have taken that in my life. I was so happy to get 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 40s, attended church every single Sunday and Wednesday night. Randy drove the church vehicles for events. He was a Sunday schoolteacher, and he was close friends with the pastor, brother Love, with whom he shared administrative advice for the church. And I listened to Randy, Randy gave a sermon one time, and I listened to that because I wanted him to try to get to know Randy because I just feel like I need to know you. He's not just a name on a piece of course.

He's a wonderful man. He's not like you. He's a very, very nice a piece of clothes. He's a wonderful man. He's not like you. He's a very, very nice guy. And everybody loved him. Yep. He was always right there. Beside me, we always did everything together.

And if we didn't do it together, we'd find a way to do it together. Always. Lisa sang in the choir and helped with food preparation at all church events. She had been attending New Hope Baptist for 30 years since she was a child. Everyone who knew Randy was at a loss when Theresa discovered her husband's lifeless body in their own insurance office on March 31, 2010. office. Only car out there is stranded. And you park up next to his car. Always. Always. But when I pulled up and when I pulled up in the driveway, I noticed the blinds were closed. And that is not normal. OK. At all. Teresa got her keys out to unlock the door and noticed that it opened after just unlocking

the deadbolt. This was also out of the ordinary. If they locked the door and noticed that it opened after just unlocking the deadbolt. This was also out of the ordinary. If they locked the door for any reason, they locked both the deadbolt and the handle lock. All the lights are off. Oh, my gosh. I'm so sorry. I yell. I say, honey, where are you? And I walk into his office and I turn the light on. And, you know, the computer's up. Everything looks fine. I walk into the bathroom back there and turn the light on. And he's not back there. Which room is that the storage room?

Just storage room, yeah. Yeah, okay. Then I walk around it. Core. To your office. What do you say? So you could see him lying on the floor then and the light was off. What did you do?

It's important. What did you do? What did you do? I can't believe I'm doing it. I'm doing it. Did you shake? I thought you. Okay. What did you do? I apologize. I don't mean to.

We just have to be a little detailed at this. Because it's important. Did you see anything? I mean mean he was obviously on the ground. I saw a light coming out of his ear. Okay blood coming out of his ear. And his eye was really passing and his skin was really this cover. I just covered. I don't know if you guys are breathing, but I didn't, I didn't wanna touch you, but it's fine. It's just scared.

So what did you do to help out what you do from there? I went over, I stepped over him. And. Now one of those heaters was night grids or by him too. Is it our stand-up or did you drop it over again to them? No, it was already laying down when I got there. All right. Well, I walked in the room and it was laying down.

Okay. At first I thought he had his head on it, but I... I saw the blood coming out of his ear. 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 to hold up when you called? My mom.

Okay. What'd you tell your mom? I told her. I told her I said mom ready. It's something's wrong with radio, so he's bleeding. And he's not responding. He's not breathing. I need you guys to go to the office now.

And I was saying it. So I was about to repeat it several times. Okay. I didn't use that. I didn't use that. I didn't use that. I didn't use that. I didn't use that. I didn't use that. I didn't use that. I didn't use that. I didn't use that. I didn't use that. I didn't use that.

I didn't use that. I didn't use that. I didn't use that. I didn't use that. I didn't use that. I didn't use that. I didn't use that. I didn't use that.

I didn't use that. I didn't use that. I didn't use that. I didn't use that. I didn't use that. I didn't use that. I didn't use that. I didn't use that. so I sort of have my purse. Yes I did. Okay. I just sat over here and walked out. Randy hadn't fallen though. He had been shot. We talked before about this but you said you're we ask you about weapons. Okay what guns do you know if he had a deer at a office or anywhere? The only one that I know of that he has was a little bitty thing.

Black gun? Yes. So it's your setter? A little bitty thing. It's little. Nobody to keep it. And I don't even like touching it. Nobody to keep it. He kept it in his office. Okay.

Do you know where we're at in this office that he particularly kept it? I know you're going to have it. And 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 credenza. Police had already located that weapon. It was not the one that had killed Randy Stone. how the office and you located him laying there on the floor and you checked him and yelled at him everything. We found a cartridge by his feet. You shot a what? Cartridge. A showcase and showcase. Did you let's wear a rest in you? If there was a gun laid 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 swollen and his skin was discolored. So I didn't see anything. I could not figure it out. That's why I thought maybe he had his head or something. I have no idea. That's what we're saying here, because talking Joe and talking to some other people,

when I brought you up here, it's going to be to instead of your son, your husband does have the 40 caliber henga. He does? Yes. And that's what we're saying. And viewing his wife, you should have seen or known about it. The only one that I have ever seen is that little beauty one.

Now, like I said, I don't go down in the safe downstairs. Right. So, all the time, what he has downstairs in the safe is his shotguns. He carried this one in his briefcase. He did? Yeah. So it's the information we're getting. That's what we're getting told.

And that's from somebody, somebody knows him real well, so. So this is the police surprise. Okay. Someone to my hood is lying away from me. Yeah. We're going to, 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 an aval bit for me, and I soon 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. briefcase and it wasn't in there, but I didn't see a gun in there. I didn't see anything in there because I opened it up. 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 116, 15, "...precious in the sight of the Lord is the death of His saints. We sit 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. Now I have a loamy, and it's changed the way I think about my food waste. Loamy transforms my garbage into gold at the push of a button. Loamy is a countertop electric composter that turns food scraps to dirt in under four hours.

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A case with several leads is better than one with none at all. Teresa and her coworker Peggy were first asked about any odd occurrences at the office. At anyone's strange command, were there any resentful former customers wanting revenge? I asked just the four or two, there's been no problems with anybody. What sort of? No strange people come in lately,

I can kinda eyes and we'll threaten you, kill you, buddy. 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 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, we have never seen him.

How old were his? In February. Okay. This is in February. And I'm sorry, who's Peggy? She is another lady that works in our office one day a week. He was in residing. So she's like a customer service person also. Who's Peggy? She is another lady that works in our office one day a week. Okay. She works every Friday. So she's like a customer service person also.

Yes. Yeah. She's very beautiful. Well, she's licensed to, she writes business force too. Here's what's really weird in this eye and this is just coming to me. Because I had laid a $20 bill, which is probably stupid of me. I probably shouldn't have done this, but they just went on our bill on her on her computer screen because we were just giving her some money for right and policy force. So I laid $20 on her thing. Well, it came up missing the day after that guy walked 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, hey you for money, you wanted to buy a bus ticket or something. I like it said I wasn't in there so I really didn't hear the conversation. Take him into the morpher talk here. Yeah, she would probably know more about that. And your husband said he showed him once before? Yeah, because he told me, and he called 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 Burruna? Yeah, he was a client of ours, and he kind of forced himself on me. And so it kind of came out in a conversation.

And Randy was not happy when he found out about it. Okay, he forced himself on you, okay, at the office? No, this is at his house. We were all at his house for a birthday party. Oh. And he's like a friend of the family then? He's a client. And he's a good friend.

And he called and apologized for what he did. And everything's been fine. This was probably around a half, two years ago. That's what you said, yeah. So everything's been fine. This was probably a half, two years ago. That's what you said, yeah. Yeah. So everything's been fine since then. I was wondering why Randy kept the apology letters. For that long.

He keeps everything. Every card, every letter I write. Yeah, there's a card too. He keeps everything. I keep everything. Was there anything between you and man? No, absolutely not. He tried to move on you. Great. He didn't do anything specific. What anger? I mean, you said he'd

be trying to force himself on you. I mean, was he trying to physically touch you and a man or kiss you or? Yeah, he's trying to kiss me. Okay. We were at their house looking at the stuff they had done in the basement. I just went to the bathroom to look what all the stuff they did. And he came in and kind of pushed me up against the basement. And 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 happened. That was about it.

Is it some bad guy's married? Yes, he's married. And that's 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. You live here in town, does he? He lives far enough away. Okay. If you can say there, I don't start trouble for anybody. Right. So that's... Okay.

Yeah. So... Oh my goodness. 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 40 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 he had with, that was, in your trash can, they had letters that were made written, pre-bought, had a birthday and all that, it's about this big, it's all tore up. And it's just about, you know, some not here, the most beautiful person nurse and kind of thing like that is always big ramblings of good stuff about, you know, it's about that bomb that big. It's white litter and it's black writing and it's all this old for now. Teresa gave the officer a confused look for owing her brow and apparently trying to remember what this ripped up note was all about.

There's a bottom you're trash can in your office. Oh, it's a heavy birthday. At the top of it. And then at the bottom it's happy. Then how is initials on the bottom? Like there are initials meeting something? What I think about it. I'm going to say a lab, they're going to picture and I'll say it's like a show tour and see it. Do me a refresher. I'm fine. I'm just like, we'll be right out. I heard that. 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 whispered very quietly. Great. I forgot about that. Oh, that's my identity and picture of it. It collected it. So we can see it because it's on property. But it's a note about it. Yeah, I remember.

And I've had it for a very long time because I kind of had a secret admirer. It was left on my car door. I, I, 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 together, your birthday will always

be exciting. Where's your car at the office? It's not even the car that I have now. Oh, okay. I believe it was. It's been, it's been several years ago. And I just found it the other day. I was looking for my, what do you call it, dental card,

and I found it in there. And- What was that? Droid or? No, no, it was in my purse. I had a little thingy that I keep on my credit cards in. Yeah. And it was in there, huh?

It was a secret mark. I don't know who he is. I've never gotten another note from him ever. No calls. No calls and nothing. Have you guys been getting calls all lately with him, so may I hang it up, or anything? Yes, my...

Let me think. Was it today or yesterday? But the calls show a private. So I have no idea. Okay. Because my husband answered the phone a couple of times. And we'll know. It's probably more than that. And he said, Why don't I really be the hour they keep hanging up? a couple of times and will know it's probably more than that.

And he said, why don't I really be the other day, keep hanging up? Teresis got a lot of admirers. Doesn't she? But 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 get firm, well, I didn going to look at call-offing, random, call logs and stuff like that. Help yourself. Okay. Ooh, agency to the great. These are always for her.

Oh, gonna. Unlock it. These detectives were getting suspicious. I'm not one to not, um, I'm not looking for a cooperate. Mm-hmm. And I'm not looking for, uh, cooperate. Mm-hmm. And I was sitting here thinking when you wanted, I was thinking, what he, is this something that I would have to have my lower

present with or I would? I would, yeah. Yeah, I want you to just be rolling us. I think you've been there on the secret admirer. Um, you know who this hurts me. I don't, I'm sorry. I have no idea. And on the secret admirer, you know who this person is. I don't, I'm sorry, I have no idea. I, I, I'm going to what Detective Stewart said.

He said something about something about happy birthday on it. I mean, so did this person know? Evidently they knew when you were the big ones. Evidently they know me. I don't know who they are. I can tell you left from right who the heck he is. I assume he is a guy.

Sorry, I didn't mean to that, be funny. But I don't seriously, I have no idea who he is. It's 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 want my husband to find it. And if he did, I mean, I would just explain to him that it was just up to my car,

when though 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 nothing. So, I know, no affairs inside or anything like that. He hasn't had an affair with someone and just be honest. Several years ago, he did.

But that was right after we got married. That was a long time ago. Okay, but nothing recently, you guys haven't been separated or anything. No, no, no. I mean, he had, he, and I had to say this, but I feel like you know. And be honest with me because, you know, I mean anything...

I know. Can help us. He, he had trouble with pornography so... Yeah, trouble with pornography? Yeah, but we got through all that. Okay, when you say trouble with pornography, was he watching it on TV or hearing it on a computer? 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 this 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 we let that out the way. And when you say you got it out of the way, what do you mean by that? Well, that's why his computer is away in his 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 watch out for his office, I could see everything he was working on. Because he wanted to be honest with me. He didn't go to any counts like that.

No, it wasn't that he... And it caused any friction that you guys were wanting to get separated. No, no. Never had to leave the residence ring. Then no one wanting to get separated. No, no. I've never had to leave the residence ring. No one left the residence ring at the time. No, never. Absolutely not.

Ever. Never, never, never, never. It never got that bad. Anything else you could think of that would be... That would be helpful to us. I can't think of anything. I hope this is Megan's sense, guys. I'm sorry, but not-

No, you're fine. You're great. You're great. We're just trying to get like I told you. Your knowledge of what we don't know, OK? The small gun Teresa told police Randy kept 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 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. Yeah, get on with our life. It is so hard. I don't even know what to say. When I'm setting down somebody in a situation. I never dreamed I would ever be in a situation ever. We were supposed to grow all together. And we'd retire together. And you had a beautiful life. And we didn't you. You married for almost 20 years actually.

You got two great kids, you had a good business, and I'm sure you probably have a beautiful home. All I can say is that the God has just blessed us tremendously through all of our lives, through, can you married and our children and our church family and our business. I mean it's all because of what God has done for us. It's not because of what we've done, it's because of what God has done. We've just tried to take hold of Him. And I

guess that's why I feel like that. I've tried to leave everything in his hands because I know he's in control of everything. Even though I'm past or am I you past or I know I'm not supposed to question him, but it's so hard not to. Well, you just have to have everyone when you wake up. You just have to remember that you have family and friends that love you. Right now. And support you. The Lord's have to remember that you have family and friends that love you. Right now.

I support you and the Lord's gonna work after you. I know. I go on a run every morning. I try to. Yeah. And I just... I talk to God and I talk to my baby. Yeah.

He would have a self-corty. It's not corny at all. Um, we're gonna keep doing what we're doing. We're gonna, we're gonna find out who did this. I guarantee you. 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 would the word anticipation and death be swallowed up in victory? How could this be good at all? But Isaiah 25 anticipates something about God. But anything that defies God, anything built up that defies God. He is saying here in Isaiah 25 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 24 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 $725,000 richer. Police continued 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 20th, three weeks after Randy's murder. This time she had a little bit of explaining to do. Here's the deal. Here's the deal. Detective Rose Warren has done 90-100% of this with you.

David's in custody and he's talking. Okay. Right now is your chance and you probably have about 10 minutes to tell us everything that's going on with this because a lot of the things you're saying doesn't make sense. Okay, it's like Detective Rosemore said to you is the first person that comes in and is being 100% truthful is the one that's the winner.

Right. Okay. Yes. When did David get the gun? That's the most important Right. Okay. Yes. When did David get the gun? 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 two, was shot dead in his insurance office on March 31, 2010, 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, unjustly subventions in the newsroom with all the details now Lisa. Well, we have new information on the murder of a Metro man. Love is the person of interest and the murder of Randy Stone, who is killed back in Mars. It is Farmer' insurance office. Now according to relatives, Stone's wife admitted to having an affair with David Love. Stone was also an active member of the new Hope Baptist Church, where Love was the pastor.

At one point in the investigation officers raided the church, but never revealed what they found. Love resigned as pastor after the church was raided. 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, it was time to be truthful. Tell me what was in nature of your relationship with David. Truly. If you can't do that much, I can't help you truly. So if you can't even be honest about that, I cannot help you.

Well, obviously he was in love. Mm-hmm. And I guess I was at one point. How long ago? Just recently. Probably a couple weeks ago. No, well, probably about a month ago. But a month ago you saw like you were in love?

No, no, no, no. A month ago, I wanted its end. I wanted to start my life fresh, if I need it. Let's back up. I need to. Oh, nine years ago. Well, I need to know what kind of things you've been going on between you and him

before you decided that you wanted to put it into this thing. David Love, by the way, was also married with a family. Though police made it seem 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. Hey, don't let him. I'm fine, her name. Sorry, I'll see you in the next time I come to you. Uh, it's been a long night for everybody. Okay.

It's been a long night for a tree, so she's not up here for a while. I guess you know why you're up here. Probably no secret why we need to talk to you. Yes, you're going, but you wanted to talk. Yeah. Well, she's been up here for about eight hours now. Okay, we've learned quite a bit. I'm gonna tell you right now that this is not easy because I know that you are

to spend your life working for the Lord. And that you are the leader of a church. But what I know now, I mean this is hard, it's not going to be easy. Okay. You just need to probably find it in your heart. They have the courage, you know, to be truthful. And, you know, I've said put it in 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, then, uh, it's probably not going to go real well for you. Okay. Having been a former U.S.D. wish to talk to me. Well, I'd rather, definitely rather have a longer present. Except to you. I think that would be, you know, we are in middle of the night. David love may have kept his lips tightly sealed in the interrogation room, but similar to the tragedy of Romeo and Juliet, Theresa thought David had already perished.

So she committed metaphorical suicide by confessing. Only later would she learn that she alone exposed the two of them for what they were. Selfish teenagers masquerading around as valuable members of society. Exactly what happened that exactly what was going on all right now I've got I've got about 20 detectives out here I'm gonna be honest with you. I got about 20 detectives out here that want to take this to a ranger today Tomorrow They think we haven't they think there's enough evidence against you to have you charged because they think you're involved in this. It's either in a cut, not that you're killed. But that you have something to do with this. You know why? Because of this, because your statement that you gave the other night to the a steward is full of inconsistencies. What? Is that true?

What? They have, I'm telling you, they have, they have torn out the stable 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 they have told you. I have to see it, it's the show you.

My daughter was with me. What are you saying? That's what I'm telling you that I have to see it to show you my time was with me That's what I'm telling you There's trouble here Teresa You have got to tell us what happened that day and if you don't tell us Then I'm telling you I've been doing this for 24 years I'm telling I can see the direction that this is going. And if you're not truthful with me and telling me everything that's going on and what you know,

you're going to be a soul out on a plank, all right? All by yourself. My investigators believe that you are involved in this either in the cover of. They don't. I'm telling you. I would not. I would never do anything to hurt 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 have been having an ongoing intimate relationship for, get this 10 years. Teresa, he doesn't. Our bosses are out there. They're about very nice. Okay. And when you sit here and you're saying, I to think about the subject, you know what the conversation is and I understand you're scared.

I just, I, all he told me was, all he said was, I have a way to get the gun. I have a way to get the gun. I can make it happen. Okay. And did you say, how do you ever wait? I said, uh, no. I kept telling him to leave it in God's hands. If he wants us to be together, God will put us together.

Okay. 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 us 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. He told me. And I said, no, you won't leave it alone. Did you know you were talking about Randy when he was 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 miscarriage 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 2010, just a month before Randy's murder, David Love had purchased an engagement ring for Teresa.

On March 16th, 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 2005. It's almost as if Randy knew what was coming. We know that Randy was killed with his own walk. We went out to your house or your parents asked and got shell casings, okay? From what you used to target shoot.

Okay. And yeah, we already told you, they told you that night that they found a shell case. And at this scene, that was, well, the blistics that was all that was checked out,

they were same, same weapon fire, those shell casings, right? Okay. I wanna know how anybody could get into that office, get that block and shoot your husband. Because we're talking about the former war guy, the Marine, the guy who knows Crowley, the guy who is on his game, the guy who was always looking around and looking around for you. How would anybody get that guy away from you?

I, I don't know. I have no idea. I keep asking myself that all the time. We don't understand it. We know that we were one in there. One, knew the guy was in there and how to find it. And I didn't even know he had anything on his. Or two, somebody gave the gun to them and they walked in there with his gun. And that makes more sense because nobody, Randy's not going to let just anybody go into his office, can go through dresser drawers, 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 20 years and he's laying there the way he's laying with all that trauma And to see that that was sinned most people flying out the door 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 Theresa do? You actually walked over the top of it. So I was trying not to panic. But you had a cell phone. But why did you think that you were in action? Or just so abnormal? Listen to me. I'm telling you all these old things that people see.

People see these things and they say that doesn't sound like somebody that just walked in, the found her, you know, dispoused it. That looks like somebody that just walked in, the found her, you know, her spouse did. That looks like somebody who maybe expected to see that when they came here. How did that effect it to that? For hours, Teresa tearfully exclaimed that she had nothing to do with the planning of Randy's murder, but the evidence

suggested otherwise. The evidence was telling detectives that Teresa was involved and that she was lying. You may not know the power he has over you. I-I'm telling you everything I know. I am being honest with you. I am. He's the God in what you are. I know he does, and I am telling you. He knows what you did. I'm sure.

Does he know what we did? 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. And what did you try to do? I tried to tell him to leave it alone.

And he wouldn't. What do you think should happen to David? What do you think should happen to David love? I don't know. What do you want to happen to? How do you put him into a life? He took my husband's life. What do you want to happen to you?

I just want to come back to my family. The only person that can do that is you. I am telling you the truth. You're not telling all of the truth. I do. Theresa. I don't understand what you want from 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 know I'm not. I never told him to do anything like this.

I never told him to do anything like this. I never told him to go into my house and get a gun and get my husband. I never said anything like that. I told him no. 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 this city 11 years ago and in March of 1999 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.

Y2K. Anybody can relate to Y2K? Raise your hand. Y2K. Now Randy was capital Y2K. I met Randy. He said, hey, I'm putting MREs in my basement. I've got water, he said, hey, I'm putting MREs in my basement. I've got water," he said.

Now one thing about Randy's stone, I loved it when I was around him, but I usually wanted my wife to be between Randy and me, because if he 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 Y2K. All the money in the bank, you 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 emotion, another hunger pain. You'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 gotta 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 randies, but boy did you have one. Randie'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 10 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 a spergus because he loved a spergus and we only buy green giant, you know, just silly things like that.

But I last got a couple of Christmases I eat. Spirgues and I'll take a bite. And I'll take it and I'll say, son, this is for you. I was proud of my son. I thought he was a good father and has been, but maybe wasn't a good husband. I don't know.

I would have rather she'd fall for divorce, even though I don't believe in divorce. But I'd rather do that. If you're that unhappy, divorce them. Don't kill them. When David Love was arrested in November of 2010, 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 hot under the collar, if you know what I mean. He pled guilty to second degree murder a year later and was ultimately sentenced to life

in prison with the possibility of parole after 25 years. He will be eligible in 2036. 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 Greenewalt, and she lives in Kansas City, by the way. Just a side note. I think Teresa 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 not just give it a divorce? At least I'd have 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, raise to know God? How could they have come to the conclusion that murder was the best solution here? How are human beings so literally God damn 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? Alright, that's going to do it for another one. Thank you for joining us once again.

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