PART SIX OF SIX

Love’s secrets, finally revealed

Independence police detectives Keith Rosewaren and Christina Nunez hovered over the speakerphone at a South Carolina truck terminal and heard rising suspicion creep into David Love’s voice at the call’s other end.

Love’s supervisor had called him to come to the office to sign paperwork — a ruse, actually, so the Missouri detectives could arrest him.

Seven months after Pastor Love shot congregant Randy Stone to death in Stone’s Noland Road insurance agency, a Jackson County grand jury had indicted Love on a charge of first-degree murder.

PART FIVE OF SIX

A clearer picture of motive emerges

Clara Koehler’s wire passed the hug test.

As Teresa Stone greeted her mother-in-law at Smokehouse Bar-B-Que in June 2010, she didn’t notice the transmitter that Independence police had wrapped around Koehler’s waist or the microphone they’d hidden under the blouse at her shoulder.

The tension in Koehler’s gut eased, and the pair settled down to lunch and a chat about the police investigation into the murder of Randy Stone, Teresa’s husband and Koehler’s son, at his Noland Road insurance agency three months earlier.

A wary, sleuthing wife helps detectives

Kim Love agrees to speak with Independence police and share the details of her own investigation of her husband David’s odd relationship with Teresa Stone.

Videos | Police interrogate David Love and Kim Love

These videos are from an interrogations of Pastor David Love and his wife, Kim Love, conducted by Independence police Detective Keith Rosewaren, on April 21, 2010.

Detective’s questions reveal lies, secret love

Detective Keith Rosewaren had scrambled successfully through the foothills of his interview with Teresa Stone. At 6:10 p.m., April 20, 2010, she signed a Miranda waiver, agreeing to be interviewed without an attorney. Now Rosewaren had to climb the mountain.