Married mom-of-three, 48, ‘who begged lover, 26, to kill pastor husband, 50, after they had threesomes together now claims she was victim of her controlling spouse’s abusive behavior’

Kristie Evans admitted to detectives she had given Khalil Square the gun, a box of bullets and left the backdoor of her home in Ada, Oklahoma open for him to enter through

Kristie Evans, 48, and her lover Kahlil Square, 26, face first-degree murder charges for the killing of her husband Pastor David Evans

She has pled not guilty to a charge of first-degree murder

Kristie and David Evans’ grown daughter said her mother confessed to her she ‘begged’ Square to shoot her husband in their bed, on March 21, 2021

Police said the trio had had group sex together multiple times, but Kristie and Square also has a separate affair running parallel to the threesome

Despite her earlier confession, Kristie and her family now claim she had been subjected to years of abusive behavior at the hands of her husband

David allegedly physically abused couple’s three children, controlled his wife and pressured her into having sex with other people, the defense said

David’s conduct, as described by Kristie, falls under a form of abuse known as ‘coercive control,’ where a man intimidates and humiliates a female partner

An Oklahoma wife and mother who has been accused of orchestrating the murder of her pastor husband in a twisted case involving the married couple’s younger lover now claims she was the victim of prolonged emotional, psychological and verbal abuse. 
Kristie Evans, 48, was arrested on March 25, along with Kahlil Square, 26, for the murder of the woman’s husband, David Evans, 50, the pastor at Harmony Free Will Baptist Church in Ada, Oklahoma.
Police at the time said Kristie and David Evans had multiple threesomes with Square, but the wife and the younger sex partner also had a separate affair just the two of them.
A week before the murder, David Evans, 50 penned a glowing tribute to his wife of 30 years: “And I know how amazing she really is. I don’t know much, but I know I should keep pursuing her just like when we first met.”
“I don’t own her. Can’t control her. She is my equal partner,” he wrote, adding “And I know how amazing she really is. I don’t know much, but I know I should keep pursuing her just like when we first met.”
Seven days later, Evans was shot to death while he lay in bed at home. Initially, his wife, Kristie Evans, 48, told authorities she awoke to the sound of a gunshot and found her husband bleeding.
According to a probable-cause affidavit released days after the killing, she said she neither heard nor saw a suspect.

According to reporting by NBC News based on extensive interviews with Kristie Evans, her grown children and her father, the homicide suspect allegedly had suffered from a form of abuse at the hands of her husband known as ‘coercive control,’ which is defined as a pattern of behaviors used to intimidate, humiliate, surveil and control another person, ultimately robbing victims of autonomy. 
‘coercive control allegedly, is mainly experienced by women and perpetrated by men in intimate relationships, and can take the form of threats; gaslighting; stalking; instituting arbitrary rules; withholding money and isolating victims from their loved ones. 
Kristie’s father, Ed Armer, told the news outlet that his daughter was trapped in an abusive relationship with no way out. 
‘She seized an opportunity to escape from her personal hell,’ Armer said.
On March 22, Square entered the Evans family’s home while the husband and wife were sleeping and shot the pastor dead in his bed, according to police.
Square then fled the scene and Kristie called 911, claiming an intruder had broken in and killed her husband. Four days later, she allegedly confessed to her daughter, Brittney Long, that she had ‘begged’ her lover to kill her father. She then went to the police and turned herself in.

According to charging documents, on March 22, 2021 Kristie Evans placed a 9-1-1 call stating an intruder had entered her home at 1420 Northcrest Drive in Ada, Oklahoma and shot her husband, Pastor David Evans.
When officers arrived at the residence, they found 50-year-old Pastor David Evans with a gunshot wound. He died at the scene.
The Ada Police Department requested a full investigation by the Oklahoma State Bureau of Investigation. Based on evidence collected and interviews conducted, Kristie Evans and a 26-year-old black man, Khalil Square, were identified as suspects in her husband’s murder.
Four days after the murder Kristie Evans met agents at the Ada Police Department on March 25, where she confessed and was immediately placed into custody. She admitted to detectives she had given Khalil Square the gun, a box of bullets and left the backdoor of her home open for him to enter through.
She has pled not guilty to a charge of first-degree murder.
She is due back in court on Thursday and her lawyer said the defense plans to argue self-defense. 
Kristie reportedly told investigators that her late husband of nearly 30 years was ‘controlling and verbally abusive.’  
Brittany Long, the pastor’s adult daughter, and one of their two sons, 28-year-old Zachary Evans, described their father as physically abusive. According to the siblings, he would slam the children’s heads together, lift them off the floor by their hair, and make them clean the house at night while berating them.
The abuse escalated to a point when in April 2010, the three children were placed with their maternal grandparents after reporting their father’s behavior to the police.
Kristie said her husband physically abused her, too, by holding a pillow to her face while pinning down her arms, but she never reported it to anyone because he never left marks on her.
Over the course of their marriage, David allegedly isolated her from friends and kept a tight rein on her spending, which are said to be textbook coercive control behaviors, the suspect claims
Private Facebook messages exchanged between the couple and shared by their grown daughter with NBC News revealed that beginning sometime in 2017, David had been pressuring Kristie to bring additional people into their relationship, have group sex and make things more ‘fun’ for him in the bedroom.

According to Kristie, her devout Christian pastor husband would place ads on Craigslist seeking sexual partners, harangue her about inviting a co-worker over to their home for a threesome, and urge her to perform sex acts with other men.
During one fiery exchange in April 2020, David allegedly called Kristie a ‘frigid b****.’ 
Kristie also said her husband threatened to commit suicide if she did not go along with his sexual demands. At one point, she said her husband aimed a gun at his chin as she spoke on the phone with their daughter, reassuring her that she and her dad were fine. 
David’s mother, Jean Richardson, defended her son, saying that he was not as controlling as Kristie and her family made him out to be, evidenced by the fact that her daughter-in-law had a job outside the home, drove a car and had a credit card. 
Richardson also argued that if the relationship had been as troubled as Kristie claimed, she could have left her husband, or sought help, instead of passing a ‘death sentence’ on her son. 
Long, Kristie’s daughter, who is now married and has a young child of her own, said she does not know what ultimately prompted her mother to take matters into her own hands, but she speculated that it might have been a feeling of hopelessness.
‘My mom didn’t see an end to it,’ she told the outlet. ‘I don’t think she had it in her to continue living that way.’