kevin was always good with children. this is a family friend who has known kevin all his life. good father. good father. dedicated father. absolutely. absolutely. kevin was a jack of many trades. a truck driver, a school bus driver, an emergency medical technician. lisa dedicated her life to social work, helping in caring for sexually abused kids. kaitlan was one of lisa s coworkers. she just wanted to help people. we worked in sex abuse. that s a very difficult subject a lot of people can t deal with. she really prided herself on helping these families and being able to help, you know, make a difference. everyone admired leases selflessness. her friend, carry, also worked with lisa. she took in foster kids while she was a single parent and was raising her own daughter, by herself. that feels like, sort, of going the extra mile and then some. she did. she was always there to help
i didn t know they were even considering splitting up or divorce. kevin, she said, asked whether, in a divorce, he would be able to take sabrina with him, as opposed to her staying with lisa. i just thought it was a little odd that he wanted to take a 17 year old girl, alone, in a home with just him. prosecutors, next, showed jurors cell phone activity. more evidence, they said, that indicated kevin and sabrina were having an affair. kevin was texting sabrina way more than his wife? substantially more. within a two-week period, kevin and sabrina texted and called each other almost 1500 times. that compares to just to 200 calls and texts between kevin and lisa. prosecutors then turn jurors attentions to kevin s behavior after lisa s murder. david strzok was one of kevin s close friends. strzok testify that kevin
kevin brought along his attorney. he would only add so the question about his wife s work. nothing about the murder? nothing about the murder. he also became suspicious of how kevin began filing claims for police is 800,000 dollar life insurance within hours of lisa being pronounced dead. and then, he started spending the money. he was buying cars. he was buying a camper. he was re-modeling his house, inside. all with leases insurance money? all with leases insurance money. all of that was enough for detectives, three months after sabrina accuse kevin detective arrested kevin and charged him with plotting a murder. sabrina agreed to testify as states star witness. in exchange, the district attorney s office agreed to recommend sabrina receive a
sabrina s flirty behavior had begun to take its toll on lisa and kevin s marriage, sabrina was demanding keven time, and keven was making himself available, to available as far as lisa was concerned. you have one actual text from lisa to kevin in which she is saying you are getting too close to lisa. in fact, lisa wrote cut the dam cord. spending too much time with her, and less with the real family, thanks a lot. lisa also became concerned about the relationship sabrina hard with her daughter haley. she acted like a mother to haley, on a regular basis. it may listen comfortable. lisa was not happy with, it no. it seems like one on things everybody agrees on is that sabrina was fixated on, fascinated with haley. she was. i think she was infatuated with
i mean, i would stick my life on that. sabrina also experienced a life sentence. but will be eligible for parole and 30 years. as recommended by the state. prosecutors feel justice was served. but lead prosecutor is quick to point out that cases like these bring a little satisfaction. this is really just betrayal on top of betrayal on top of betrayal. i mean, you have kevin betraying lisa. sabrina betraying lisa. then, you have kevin betraying sabrina, ultimately, sabrina betraying kevin. yeah. it s a perfect circle. the criminal cases have concluded. but the legal battles continued. lisa knoefel and father. in february of 2017, the girls were awarded $8 million in damages. the court also awarded them more than 1.2 million in