All language subtitles for Married.to.Evil.S01E06.1080p.WEB.h264-FREQUENCY

[Lindsey Kimbrel Keener]
I was Andy's little sister,

and, you know,
I always wanted to be
wherever he was.

Andy definitely wanted
to start a family.

The first time
he met Stephanie

I felt like, you know,
they would be a good match
for each other.

Stephanie didn't really
talk about her family
or about her past.

And it does make you wonder

if there was more
to this story than we know.

She definitely had that
Jekyll and Hyde
kind of behavior.

Looking back on it now,
there's some signs
that we probably missed.

[voice shaking]
It's hard to think that
somebody that I let in my life

is capable
of something so horrible.

[phone ringing]

[Stephanie] Oh, God!

[Stephanie sobbing]

Andy was my older brother.
Everybody loved him.

We did have
a great relationship

growing up.

I was 10
and Andy had just turned 16

when my dad passed away.

That was very hard.

Andy was there
and was ready to take on

anything he needed to take on
as the man of the house.

And he made sure
me and my mom were
very well taken care of.

Andy always wanted
to be a police officer
for as long as I can remember.

I worked many years
with Andy Kimbrel

on night shift

and through
different assignments,

and he was the nicest,
positive attitude, happy,
eager,

every definition
that you could think of

as a good friend,
a good police officer,
that would fit him to a tee.

[Capt. Johnny Evans]
When Andy came to work

for the Vestavia Hills
Police Department
in October 2002

he was assigned to my shift.

When you
describe a police officer
as to serve and protect

that's exactly what he did.

Always wanting to do things
for other people.

A real happy, positive guy.

[Lindsey] Andy and Dawn
were high school sweethearts.

Him and Dawn
had a great relationship.

You could just
feel the love between them
when you were around them.

Dated for years
before they got married.

They were,
you know, beyond excited

to welcome a child in it,
especially a little girl.

They were thrilled
to be parents.

He was the happiest
he could ever be

was when him and his wife
had the baby.

[Lt. Joel Gaston]
I'd say that it was
a dream come true for him.

And then subsequently
there were some
medical conditions

and medical issues
that took a turn,

and tragically
his wife passed.

To say that his world stopped

would be
an absolute understatement.

[Lindsey] Dawn passed away

shortly after
their daughter was born.

He struggled.

And I'm sure, you know,
having a new baby
was a lot for him

and then, you know,
shortly losing his wife

was, you know,
a whirlwind for him
at the time.

And, I mean,
he was never the same.

[Capt. Evans] Watching
one of your own officers

go through
what he had to go through

was very traumatic
for all of us.

[Lindsey] But, you know,

just like he did
when my father passed away,

he really just stepped up,
and did what he needed to do,

and was a great father
to Emma.

We always hoped that Andy
would find just
happiness again,

just genuine happiness.

He met Stephanie
at a school carnival.

Her son was the same age
as Andy's daughter,

and so they were kind of
at the same stage in life.

I felt like, you know,
they would be a good match
for each other.

When they were together
you could tell they were
enjoying each other's company.

And, you know,
there was an attraction there.

You could definitely
see that as well.

Andy would be kind of silly
and just very affectionate.

It was nice to see Andy happy.

Stephanie, you know,

her and I,
we would go out
to lunch occasionally.

You know, I always wanted
a sister-in-law,

you know, to be able
to be close to,

and I wanted
to get to know her.

I wanted to be
a part of their lives.

She was very quiet.

She didn't really talk about,
you know, her family
or about her past,

what her background was,

or any, you know,
personal details
about herself.

I remember not being
completely comfortable
to ask her those things

because she wasn't
sharing those things with me
automatically.

Her background
was definitely a mystery,

and it does make you wonder,
you know,

if there was
more to this story
than we know.

One day,
my mom came to me and said,
"I think Andy got married."

And I, of course,
was very caught off guard,

and I said,
"What do you mean?"

And she said,
"Well, he showed me
this piece of paper

and it looked like
a marriage certificate."

And I said, you know,
"Surely not."

I said, "Surely
he would have told us."

I was a little bit shocked
and, you know, obviously hurt

by, you know, the fact
that he had gone off
and gotten married

and didn't, you know,
tell us before or even after.

Those are things
you tell your family,

and if you're not
telling your family
those things

there's a reason
you're not telling them.

It felt wrong and, you know,
it made me wonder
whose idea was this.

I think there was
some manipulation going on.

After they had gotten married
you could notice
some problems.

They would seem to be arguing
quite a bit.

Stephanie
definitely had a temper.

I just remember thinking
something's not quite right.

Andy didn't really
go into a lot of details,

but, I mean,
he definitely struggled.

Kind of his whole world
had been rocked at the point.

She was very manipulative.

I feel like she did things,
you know, to deliberately
get a rise out of Andy.

Stephanie absolutely knew
how to press Andy's buttons.

Her behavior definitely felt
kind of mind gameish,
for lack of better words,

and then, you know,
so I definitely think

that was kind of
her lifestyle.

There were incidents
where their arguments

got out of control
and got physical.

You know,
there was one incident

she threw Andy's belongings
off the balcony
of their apartment.

They lived in
a very, you know,
busy apartment at this point,

so she had to know
that other people
were going to see it.

And she may have
very well done it
to embarrass him.

That's humiliating.

When Andy and Stephanie
would have arguments

Andy would go over
to my mom's house.

That was his escape
to get away

and kind of remove himself
from the situation.

Stephanie would follow him.

I mean, essentially,
track him down.

And Stephanie
did show up at the house,
banging on the front door.

She called him
and asked him
to come outside.

He went outside

and she went
immediately up to him
and kissed him.

He was
very caught off guard by it
and kind of stepped back

because this, of course,
is in the midst of an argument

and, you know,
asked her what that was about.

And she said,
"I just wanted to see
if there was anything there."

And she said,
"And there's not."

And I just remember thinking,
"Well that was, you know,
that was very odd."

It just seemed like
she was playing a game.

This is not normal,
this is not okay.

She definitely had
that Jekyll and Hyde
kind of behavior.

She was most definitely
trying to manipulate him
and assert her dominance.

That was definitely the moment

that I stopped
being friendly with her

and stopped
reaching out to her.

At that point I didn't know
what the future held
for their relationship.

I never in a million years
thought it was gonna
turn out the way it did.

[Stephanie sobbing]

I can definitely see Andy
trying to have his life

appear to be
as normal as possible.

This is a photograph
that Andy had posted
on Facebook.

Looks like a picture
that actually Stephanie took
of the two of them,

and underneath it
there is a comment
that Stephanie posted

that says,
"Oh, who's that hot chick
in your car?"

Stephanie, it appears,
has definitely
doctored the photo.

She seems to have
a filter on her face.

The post is all about her.

But I also think
that was in Andy's nature,

you know, to be all about her.

Andy responds with,
[Lindsey reading]

He thinks, obviously,
very highly of her

and seems to be
very much in love.

Thinking about it now, I mean,
it makes me feel a little bit
sick to my stomach.

Andy, you know,

even if he knew 100%
that that relationship
was not a good situation,

I don't think
he ever would have said to us,
"You're right."

He just tried to be
the tough guy police officer.

Andy would not have been
the aggressor, in my opinion.

Andy was not
that type of person.

He wasn't the type
that would run from anything,

but he was also
not the person that was trying
to provoke anything, either.

Looking back on it now,
there's some signs
that we probably missed.

[Lindsey] I definitely think
it was getting worse.

There was a situation
where Andy's daughter
was on the phone,

through Snapchat,
with a friend of hers.

And they could
see them arguing.

The friend could see
Stephanie and her behavior...

And had even
brought up the situation
to her mom.

The girl was that concerned
about what was taking place.

If that was
happening that night,

it was probably happening
much more frequently

than we heard about
or knew about.

In 2018,
when I got reassigned,
I would see him in passing

and there would be days
that he wouldn't be
as jovial as normal.

There was a change
in his demeanor.

[Lt. Gaston]
We had both moved on
to different assignments.

I think each of us knew,
deep inside,

that we wanted to talk

but we just never
went to that level.

[phone ringing]

[Lindsey] Andy was
secluding himself from us

and so that was very hard
to wrap our minds around.

[phone ringing]

The changes
in his personality alone

would show you
that he was struggling.

We never, you know,
openly saw him tearful,

but you could definitely tell
that he was struggling.

But it really got to the point
where he wasn't spending time
with my mom that much.

And one day
Andy had come over
to the house.

He had asked me
if I could print something
out for him.

You could tell he was not
in the best mood.

We were in
the living room together,

and my son was kind of
tugging on his jeans

and trying
to get his attention.

All he had to do
was kind of reach down
and pick him up,

and, you know, something.

And it didn't happen.

I knew something
was going on with him

because that was not like him
to do that,

you know,
to go from this doting uncle

to, you know,
somebody that's pretty much
ignoring him.

And that was really a moment,
I guess,

that was really
a turning point for me
to see that.

And so I very blatantly said,
"Hey, you know,

I don't know what is going on
with Stephanie
or anything else,

but, you know,
my child deserves to have
an uncle that he knows.

And I'm here to help
but I'm not going to be
the person you call

when you need something.

I want to be
a part of your life."

I proceeded to say
some pretty hurtful things.

Some I meant, some I didn't,

and our relationship
at that point

became pretty much
non-existent.

That was...

[voice shaking] That was
the last conversation
I had with him.

[Lindsey] I would
reach out to him periodically
just to, you know, to say hey.

I just didn't get
a response back.

But I remember hearing
their arguments
became more frequent.

The people that lived
in the apartment complex

reached out to us

and told us they saw them
arguing in the parking lot.

These total strangers
are reaching out to us,

you know,
to tell us these stories.

It's one thing
to have an argument
inside your home,

but when you are completely,
you know, oblivious

to that
you're having an argument

in the middle of a parking lot
with people around,

and, you know,
I definitely think that shows
some sort of escalation

that things are getting
out of control.

There was one incidence
where he went
to my mom's house

and showed her
scratches on his neck

where Stephanie had
put her hands on his neck.

I don't know
how they got there,

if she was choking him

or just had
put her hands on him
in some form or fashion.

But there were
visible scratches on his neck

that appeared to be, you know,
pretty significant.

You think most people,
you know, including myself,

when they hear of
a domestic violence situation

you automatically assume
it's probably initiated
by a male,

but things are not always
what they seem.

My mother was upset.
She was obviously
very fearful for him.

Her words were,
"Please come home.

You need to get away from her.

She's going to kill you."

It wasn't a good situation
for Andy, or Stephanie,
or the kids,

anybody involved in it.

On all sides it was not
a good situation.

And it is heartbreaking
to watch.

He never came out and said,
you know,

"Yes, I know that
our relationship
is not right."

[Capt. Evans]
I think that Andy
just didn't know how to,

or didn't know
where to go to for help.

[Lt. Gaston] He was just
completely hiding it
from everybody.

I think that he was good
at turning it on

when he needed to turn it on,

that, "I'm fine, I'm good."

You know,
"Just let me go to work."

But knowing Andy
and the type of person he was,
he wanted to fix it.

We were frustrated
watching it all fold out,

and wanting to just
[laughs nervously]

take him and, you know,
and shake him,

and say, "Listen to us."

You know,
"Please do something."

[phone ringing]

[Stephanie] God.

[sobbing]

[dispatch]

[Stephanie]

[dispatch]

[Stephanie]

[dispatch]

[Stephanie]

-[Stephanie] Oh, my God.
-[dispatch]

[Stephanie]

[phone ringing]

[Capt. Evans] About 11:15
I received a phone call

from our
Deputy Chief of Police,

and he said,
"Andy Kimbrel's been shot."

And I was like,
"Where's he at?"

And he said,
"He's on his way to UAB."

Andy was still alive,

and I said,
"I'm headed to the hospital."

[phone ringing]

[Lindsey]
We were asleep in bed
and I got the call,

one of the captains from
Vestavia Police Department,

and his words,
I will probably
never forget them,

were...

"Andy's been shot
and it doesn't look good."

I remember just panic,

just absolutely panic
and just not knowing
what to do.

I didn't know, I mean,
I assumed it happened at work,
you know?

But I didn't know...

How do I tell my mom this?
What do I say?

What, you know, what's next?

I didn't know what to do.

[siren wailing]

[Capt. Evans]
They brought him down
to the hospital,

so I walked into
the emergency room

and I met with the nurse
and met with the doctor.

They let me in the room
where they were
working on him,

and, you know,
I just remember walking in
and seeing Andy laying there.

And his head was bandaged up
and I could see
one of his eyes,

but I just remember
looking at him
and going, "Wake up."

[machine beeps]

And that's when I found out
that he had been
shot in the head.

-[machine beeps]
-They had him
on a ventilator,

and they said,
"We're trying to track
his brain activity."

And everybody was frantically
trying to do

anything they could for him.

[machine beeps]

And so I remember
asking the doctor,

"If he's shot in the head,
I mean, is he gonna make it?"

[Det. Kyle Pannell]
When I first got the call,

my Sergeant called me

and told me that
there had been a shooting

at an apartment in Gardendale.

When I arrived on the scene
I entered the master bedroom.

The walk-in closet
is to your left,

and about middle-ways
down the wall

there's a door
leading in to the bathroom.

There was a bloody handprint
on the toilet.

Inside the closet
I could definitely see
blood splatter.

On one side of the wall

there was
a large pool of blood
in the corner.

At first glance
at the blood splatter

I could tell that it was not
a long-range shot,

that it was fairly close.

The gun was
a nine millimeter Glock.

Fairly standard issue
for law enforcement.

A shell casing
was right outside
the door of the closet

on the floor of the bedroom.

Whoever fired the shot
was standing in the doorway
of the closet

or very close to the doorway
of the closet.

After leaving the scene,

we returned
to the police department.

Stephanie had been placed
in an interview room.

We just kind of
introduced ourself

and she agreed to speak to us.

[Pannell] Mmm.

Stephanie told us that
he'd accused her in the past
of being unfaithful.

So, according to Stephanie,
you know, this argument

wasn't, you know,
wasn't out of the blue.

She was basically
painting a picture of her

being just an extremely calm,

non-combative,
non-argumentative person.

[detective]

[Stephanie]

I've been in law enforcement
for over 24 years.

I've never seen a gun
just go off.

On a Glock
the safety is actually
on the trigger.

So in order
to disengage the safety
you have to pull the trigger.

So, you know,
it was obvious
that the trigger was pulled.

[detective]

I know that
if someone is trying

to shove something at me
that I don't want

I'm not gonna reach for it,
you know?

I'm gonna back away
or I'm gonna put my hands up.

I'm not gonna grab it.

The longer she talked,
the more question marks
and red flags kept popping up.

[Will McComb] Under her story,

they were both standing up,

and Andy
had the gun in his hands,

and he shoves it
into her hands
when the gun went off.

But the fatal wound,
the only wound on Andy,

was a bullet strike
to his forehead

just about the hairline.

It just wasn't possible
for a gun to go off
at waist level

and the entry wound be
basically on the top
of the head.

It just didn't make sense.

So...

[woman] Paging Dr. Line. Line.

[Lindsey]
When we got to the hospital

one of the pastors
that the police department
uses was there.

I don't even remember
what he said

but made mention
of the coroner,

[voice shaking] and that's...

The moment that we learned
he had died.

And that's the moment
that I learned

that Stephanie had shot him.

I just remember
being in shock.

This has to be an accident.
This has to be, you know,
what could have happened?

Did she realize
what she was doing?

Did she, you know,
was it an accident?

Was it [stutters]
I never, and even to this day,
it's hard to wrap my mind

that she possibly could have
have a gun in her hand
and fire it at him.

It's hard...

To make sense of that.

[Det. Pannell]
I mainly kind of wanted
to just gauge her reaction.

And so, you know,
in the interview

you can see me
just kind of laser-focused
on her, really.

She sounded upset

but when
she raised her head up

she wasn't crying.

[Stephanie sighs]

You know, I looked
directly into her eyes

and they were dry as a bone.

There was no tears in her eyes
whatsoever.

What really happened?
What's really
going on here?

What Stephanie didn't know

was down the hall
we had several witnesses

that were present
in the house that night.

When I was told that,
it changed everything.

Down the hall

we had Stephanie's son
and Andy's daughter.

[Det. Pannell]
Andy's daughter
begins to talk,

you know, and she kind of
just starts describing
what she's been through,

and, you know, again,
the loss of her mom
at a young age

and now
the loss of her father.

It was very tough
not to get emotional
interviewing her.

[Det. Pannell] Mmm-hmm.

-[Emma]
-[Det. Pannell]

[Det. Pannell]
According to
what we were told,

Stephanie was
the physical abuser
in the relationship.

She was the verbal abuser
in the relationship.

That painted
quite a different picture

than what
Stephanie was telling us.

At one point in the evening,
she had received a text
from Andy saying,

"Lock your doors.
She's crazy."

[Det. Pannell]
Stephanie's son advised us

that he was asleep
the entire time

and he didn't hear anything.

[Det. Pannell]
Andy's daughter,

she was
a very important witness

because not only
was she directly across
the hallway from the incident,

she was awake the entire time.

When Andy's daughter
made the comment to us
it changed everything.

I know in my mind
this just changed

from an accident
to a possible murder.

We went back down the hall

and spoke
with Stephanie again,

and then we confronted her
with that detail.

[Det. Pannell] So you...

Her credibility,
in my eyes, was over.
It was done.

[Will McComb]
In the mugshot
she's clearly injured.

Defense attorneys
and certainly
members of the public,

they get to see the mugshot,

had some suspicions
as to how she got her injuries

and then
blaming the victim, Andy.

Like this comment here,

[Det. Pannell reading]

[Lindsey]
It's extremely hard
to read these comments.

Just absolutely heartbreaking.

The first posts says,

[Lindsey reading]

Andy was never abusive to her.

You want to scream it
from the rooftops,

but there are sone people
that are gonna, you know,
question the situation,

and especially after
seeing her booking photo.

This is a video
that was taken from
the jail surveillance footage

that shows Stephanie Keller
whilst she is in custody
and handcuffed.

This was taken a few hours
before her mugshot.

The video itself
was interesting,
to say the least.

And she, you know,
essentially takes a step
towards the vending machine...

She nails the vending machine
with her face.

It would seem to be
a very intentional act.

[Lindsey] It's very difficult
to not be able to reach out
to these people

that are saying
these horrible things,
you know,

and tell them
"You're wrong.
This is not how this is.

This is
a very different situation."

When we went to the trial

any doubt that I had
that this was
a horrible accident

just went away very quickly.

[voice shaking]
It's hard to think

that somebody
that I let in my life
and had a relationship with

is capable of something
so horrible.

[sniffs]
It's a hard pill to swallow
to think about that.

[Will McComb]
When Andy's daughter
testified,

her story was very impactful
for the members of the court.

It was impactful for the jury.

The judge did come down
for the sentence of 20 years

in the penitentiary
for Stephanie Keller,

and that was the maximum
under provocation
manslaughter.

[Lindsey] I think that
the sentence that she received
was appropriate.

I mean, you know,
nothing is ever enough.
It will never be enough.

But it also won't change it,
no matter what it is.

[Capt. Evans]
As a police officer,
we're usually the ones

that say, "Hey,
here's how you handle
this situation."

And when we can't do that
for ourselves

we question ourselves
as to whether we're a failure.

And so we have
to reach out for help

just like
everybody's reaching out
for us to help.

Losing Andy had very much
an emotional impact
on the department.

Every member
of the police department
was at the funeral.

[Lindsey]
People came from everywhere,
you know,

and they just heard about it
and wanted to come
and show their respect.

It makes you so proud
to be driving down the road

and seeing flags
[voice shaking]
that are, you know, for him.

It was definitely a moment
to be proud of him.

I mean,
I will always be proud of him.

He was a really great person,
and...

A great father.

You know,
I wanted to remember
all the good things

that he did
as a police officer.

Honestly,
if I could say anything to her
I would ask her, "Why?"

I think
she's a horrible person.

I think she...

I...

I don't even know
if I should say this,

but I think she is,

this could happen again
given the opportunity.