Relatively Evil (2019–…): Season 1, Episode 2 - No Secret is Safe - full transcript

From the face off,
back to the point.

Fakes the shot, passes to
the other point --

One-timer deflection in front,
off the post!

Who wants ice cream?

You know I do.

Yeah, I'll have some, pops.

This is the true story

About what happens
when an outsider is let in

And families are torn apart.

Hope you like chocolate.

Get down, old man. Get down!



Lies, betrayal, and murder.

It's all relative.

Firsts make anyone nervous --

A first kiss,
a first day of a new job

Or meeting your new
boyfriend's family

For the first time.

- Are you ready?
- Are you ready?

And on a beautiful day
in December 2010,

That's exactly what 39-year-old
sandy locklear is about to do.

The first time when I saw sandy
it was a family event.

65-year-old widower

Amos hatfield, has been secretly
seeing sandy for the last year.

We kinda was thinking,
well, that's kind of strange.

Why is she here?
I'd never met her before.



I was kind of mad
that he did bring her

Because it was just family
and she was not family.

Sandy, this is
my daughter sylvia,

And my granddaughter, amber.

Hi, sylvia and amber,
I've heard so much about you.

It's really nice to
meet you.

Amos played video poker
in north carolina

And she used to go
to the video poker place

And struck up a friendship
with amos.

Amos was a widower.

He has been lonely
since his wife passed.

This young woman
who was his junior,

He found her attractive
and they became involved

In a relationship.

Sandy had a daughter
in college.

She had a little girl
maybe 5 years old.

My grandpa seemed like
he was in love with her

And he was smiling again.

Hey, thank you very much.

Your blood sugar, honey,
remember?

She's a nurse.

He was a diabetic.

She was like, "you need
to watch out, you know,

That has a lot of sugar in it."

And we were like, "wow
she must really love him."

So we were relieved
because she seemed

Like she really cared
for my grandpa.

She kind of won
everybody over

Because she would dance.

And she was just
just happy go lucky person.

And I thought, "well,
maybe she is good for him."

There you go, sweets.

But not everyone in
amos' family is so warm

And friendly to this newcomer.

Sandy, this is my son, tommy.

If the hatfields have
a black sheep, tommy is it.

My grandpa,
they beat him big time.

He would be soft and give him
money whenever he wanted.

He lived with my grandpa.

Tommy isn't the type to welcome

Just anyone into his family

And he always speaks his mind
no matter what.

When were you born?

August of 1971.

Tommy,
where are your manners?

Tommy might have been
a little too blunt

The day sandy appeared,

But he's not the only one
thinking there's a problem here.

Sandy was over two decades
younger than amos

So I think that set off
a lot of red flags.

It was my uncle tommy
who had the main concern.

She was younger than my mom.

I'm sorry.

My apologies for that.

Despite their age difference,

Sandy seems to win over a few
in the hatfield clan,

At least for now.

I looked at her

And I said, "thank you
for making my daddy smile."

But tommy isn't budging.

He has his suspicions
about this much younger woman.

Why would she make friends
with his father so easily?

Tommy, he said,
"I don't like her.

I don't trust her.
There was something about her."

But I was like, "well, maybe
we should give her a chance."

Tommy has fallen on
hard times lately

And he isn't in the mood to give
this pretty young outsider

The benefit of the doubt.

He was separated
from his girlfriend

And was living with his dad

To help try and I think
get his life together.

My dad did anything
he could for tommy,

Anything in his power.

Amos wants to help his son,

But his goodwill has limits
and tommy is testing them.

Tommy, you could help me
clean up.

Look at this mess.

Amos is a retired
air force airman

Who has worked hard
his whole life.

My dad he was born
in cold mountain, west virginia.

Then when he turned 18,
he went off into the air force.

He loved serving his country.

His first place to go
was germany

And that's where
he met my mother.

He loved her so much
and when she passed away,

He was very lonely.

It was it was hard for me.
It was very hard.

Tommy and my mother
were very close.

She would always
try to nurture him

And she babied him
if he got in trouble

She would get him
out of trouble.

His mother's death
is not the only tragedy

Haunting tommy hatfield.

His son passed away
on my birthday

And he was only 6 weeks old
to the day.

And he also lost his daughter,
the car accident.

So he started leaning on drugs
to cope.

And it just took a toll on him.

This stream of
heartbreaking losses

Has sent amos hatfield's
only son on a downward spiral.

Tommy had some brushes
with the law in the past.

Nothing too serious,
but he had a drug past.

He was trying
to kick his drug habit.

The things that he went through
it completely changed him

And he was very depressed
after losing two children.

Now sandy has come
out of nowhere

And she is driving a deep wedge
between father and son.

With or without
his son's approval,

Amos is totally
committed to sandy.

What are we doing here, amos?

- I like this house.
- It's sold.

This is your house.
I bought it for you.

They must purchased her a house
in tabor city, north carolina,

Which is quite a few miles north
of where amos lived.

And sandy's home was
on a lovely manicured grounds

Just seemed to be a pristine,
you know, neighborhood home.

Sandy was able to find
someone who was willing

To take care of her,

Willing to take care
of her children.

- What do you think?
- It's gorgeous.

He was a family man and he
always was partial to children

And he had a lot of respect
for women.

A single mom of two,

Sandy had no support
and no help

Until she met amos.

Amos wanted to take
care of her and her daughter.

He saw a mission.

He saw somebody
he could take care of.

Amos...

He also bought sandy
a brand-new car.

He wanted to make sure
she was okay

And taken care of.

I don't know what to say.
It's beautiful.

He was just a good man
that was willing to

Take care of her
and love her.

But at what cost?

He didn't
have a lot of money.

He got paid just his little
check from the air force.

He retired, lived a simple life,
wanted to love his son.

That's one of the reasons
tommy was with him.

Which means
all of amos's generosity

Comes with one condition.

Let's just keep this
between us, okay?

He wasn't real giving
with information

Even to his own family members

About what was going on
in his life.

Of course.

- Okay.
- Thank you, thank you.

The house and the car
he bought for sandy,

Amos tries to hide it all,
especially from tommy.

But keeping things private
in small town

Loris, south carolina
proves impossible.

My uncle tommy was
very, very upset about it.

The question is why.

Is tommy hatfield
looking out for his father

Protecting him
from a stranger?

Or is he just looking out
for himself?

I think both of them
were obviously looking for

Attention financial
and otherwise from amos hatfield

And I think that they butted
heads for that reason.

Tommy, please?

How far will tommy go
to keep this interloper

From getting what he thinks
is rightfully his?

We were just a happy,
close family

And when this happened
it just kind of broke us down.

What do you need
the gun for?

In the summer of 2011,

The hatfield family
has someone new in their midst,

Someone who just showed up on
the arm of the family patriarch,

Amos hatfield and not everyone
is happy about it.

Tommy, he would tell me,
he said,

"I don't like her,
I don't trust her."

But tommy isn't
the only one

Who's been acting strange
since sandy locklear arrived.

I could tell there was
something wrong with him.

That just the way he acted.

Dad.

What are you doing?

I'm looking for that pistol,

You know, the pistol with
that pearl handle.

His brother had given amos
a small.25 caliber pistol,

Small semi-automatic
with a pearl handle grip.

What do you need a gun for?

And he said, "I'm gonna
let sandy borrow the gun."

And I said, "no.
Let her get her own gun."

And he said, "no, I'll just
borrow it for a little bit."

And he didn't let it go.

I thought, "well, that's weird
that he's looking at the guns."

Because my dad
was never into guns like that.

It was -- it was the strangest,
strangest thing.

Why does amos think
his girlfriend needs a gun?

If sandy's
in some kind of danger,

Why doesn't amos
just go to the police?

What the rest of
the hatfields haven't been told

Is that sandy
has a troubled past.

Sandy was married before
and had been abused

Before in relationships.

She'd suffered sexual abuse.

I believe that she felt that
she could not find love anymore.

So I think that sandy longed
for normal life

Something that I think she
hadn't had before in her past.

You know,
sandy wanted to be loved.

And amos is ready to give sandy

The life she's longed for.

He did everything for her.

He also said,
"look, you know,

"if you need anything else
you let me know

And I'll take care of you
completely."

What his family also
doesn't know is amos and sandy

Have gotten married.

This is because the ring
in their marriage

Comes with strings attached.

Yeah, I'm thinking we probably
ought to keep

This marriage to ourselves.

And amos has a bizarre
wedding gift in mind.

You know, if you're gonna be
here by yourself

You remember that gun
I told you I had?

Well, I found it.

You'd probably feel
a lot safer.

- You know, just to be sure.
- Okay.

Home invasions
were a big problem.

Burglaries are on the rise
and have been for some time.

Folks breaking into houses
looking for money and drugs.

People looking to
rob drug dealers.

My grandpa just didn't tell

My mom as much as he used to.

He just stayed to himself
a lot more.

I could tell that there
was something different

With my father.

He seemed like
he had something on his mind.

Amos tries keeping
their marriage under wraps

But once again,
life in a small southern town

Makes secrets impossible.

Morning.

A friend of mine she worked
at public records

And she found out that my father
got married to sandy locklear.

You married her
behind our backs.

That would be my business.

I don't know why he was
so private

With his relationship
with sandy,

But he didn't
tell people about it.

My mom felt like my grandpa
was betraying her mom.

I had never, ever
was aggravated with him

Until I found out
he married her.

I don't really know
what kind of relationship

She made him believe they had.

She might have been
really nice to him.

She might have been mean
to him we don't know

Because he never let us know.

And there's one last
bizarre secret

Amos has been keeping
from his own family.

You're not even
living with her!

We found out that sandy
didn't want to live with him.

We found that very odd.

The agreement was that
she would have her own home

And that he would, you know,
stay in his home with tommy.

He had taken tommy
back in the house.

I guess they kind of watch
after him take care of tommy.

You would think
if you're married you would

Live together.

Unorthodox relationship,
no doubt.

A woman who really loves
her husband

Would want to live
with her husband,

Be with her husband 24 hours
a day, seven days a week.

With this
most recent revelation,

The rest of amos's family
starts to turn on sandy

A vindication of
sorts for tommy.

I knew that he was
buying her things.

It's not that I was jealous,

But I didn't like to see my dad
being taken advantage of.

I need money
for the bills this week.

She completely flipped
once they married,

It was, you know, she didn't
try to impress us.

A few months later
I could tell he was broken.

This woman comes in his life
and all of a sudden

He's bought her a car,
bought her a house.

In my heart, I knew
that there was a reason

For her hanging around him
because she was so much younger.

Between growing
mistrust of sandy

And amos's long list
of secrets,

This family's bonds
are cracking.

How could you do
something like this to us?

There was definitely a change
with my mom and my grandpa.

It's like he didn't
trust anybody.

I could tell my dad was not
happy anymore.

After their secret marriage

And strange living arrangements
are revealed,

It's hard for the hatfields
to hide their disdain for sandy.

Need more money already?

Hey, that's enough.

I believe that the family
thought that she was going

To take him to the cleaners.

Amos knows his relationship

With sandy
has pushed the family

To the breaking point,
but he has a plan.

He brings tommy and sandy
together to try and make peace.

Sandy was asked by amos
to come over

And watch some golf with him.

She was gonna watch golf

And eat ice cream
with amos and stay over there.

My grandpa was happy
that she came over

Because she never came over
to hang out with my grandpa

And my uncle tommy.

So he thought, you know,

They were turning a page.

Who wants ice cream?

- You know I do.
- Yeah, I'll have some, pops.

Hey!

Hey.
I thought you needed help.

Yeah, sure.
Why don't you grab these two?

Let's go.

On August 19, 2012,

Two armed men invade
amos hatfield's home.

One of the suspects yells,

"we want our drugs
we want our money.

We've got you, tommy."

Dude!

You're gonna get it now,
tommy boy.

Guys, no!

But the attackers
are after more than money.

Sandy, amos' wife, was drug
into the back of the house,

Tied up with duct tape,

And reportedly
sexually assaulted.

Please don't hurt me.

Hurry up!

Amos and tommy
were in the living room

And she had heard shots.

Grab the keys.
Grab the purse.

Horry county police
arrive minutes

After sandy's call to 911.

I walked up the driveway

And I saw a woman who was upset
in the back of the police car.

She was crying, shaking.

I noticed there were some
duct tape on her arms,

Around her wrist.

Our first responsibility was to
take care of her and her needs.

She was taken away
from the scene as a victim

And a witness.

To have a criminal
sexual conduct,

A rape kit performed on her.

Walk in
and immediately to my left

I saw amos hatfield

And there was a pillow adjacent
to his head.

And I noticed tommy hatfield
aligned in the living room.

And he also had a pillow
adjacent to his head.

Both of these individuals
had been murdered

By single gunshot wounds
to the back of their heads.

Her car had been taken,
her cellphone had been taken,

Her purse had been taken.

No other belongings were taken.

There had been some break ins
around that horry in general

And in loris
that were drug related.

People stealing
prescription pills

And painkillers
stuff like that,

But this was not
the typical place

That we would have
a double homicide.

But I had two men that had been
brutally executed in their home.

I wanted answers.

A few hours later,

Police break the tragic news
to amos and tommy's family.

I fell to my knees
and I was screaming.

And I remember saying, "no, no."

That's all I remember.

After we found out
what happened we just

Stayed at the house.

We didn't go anywhere.

It was basically us
taking care of my mom

And just helping her
any way that we could.

It was a blur
because, you know, one minute

We're going to visit them
and the next they're dead.

As investigators begin
to theorize a motive,

There is no avoiding tommy's
past problems with drugs.

Where's the money?

When we have a push in robbery
or a home invasion robbery

And someone was involved
in drugs

May he put two and two together

And that's
the initial working theory

That this, in fact,
was drugs.

In a search for the proof,

Detectives turned to amos,

Sandy,
and tommy's phone records.

We contacted sandy's
cell provider.

We had her phone number
because we had amos's phone,

We had tommy's phone.

And said, "hey,
any information you have

With regard to call logs any
kind of information you had."

You know, if you were calling
somebody there might have been

Some ambient noise
in the background

Or if you were scared you
could have pushed a button

And recorded something.

People have done that
not even realized it.

As they wait
for the phone records,

Csi work at the scene continues

While detectives focus
on their only witness,

Sandy locklear.

We needed to get
these statements out

As quickly as possible

Because a got a couple guys

That she described
killing people.

This is a severe danger
to the community.

After she is checked
out at the hospital,

Sandy is brought
to the police station.

The hospital had
taken her clothes for evidence

That she was wearing hospital
scrubs that they had given her.

I wanted her to be comfortable,

I wanted her
to tell me what was going on.

The last thing you want to do
is put added stress

Into the lives of an individual

Who has just suffered
a horrific tragedy.

Sandy gives them a minute

By minute account
of the double murder.

I wanted her to feel safe.

I wanted her to know
that whatever happened

To her was a terrible thing.

We were sorry
that she had experienced this.

Sandy then tells
investigators about

A strange meeting
she had at a local gas station.

Who were these two men
could have just happened

To see sandy and go,

"hey, that tommy's stepmother.
We'll go ask that question."

So for someone lives
in lower south carolina,

That's not all that unusual.

What seemed like a harmless

Conversation at a gas station.

Looks very different
in light of the attack.

We had detectives going out
the convenience store

Seeing if there was videos

Of her interacting
with somebody.

Could these two men
be the killers?

It was all hands on deck.

Inside a south carolina

Interrogation room,

Sandy locklear tells police

Two men approached her
at a gas station

Asking about her stepson,
tommy hatfield.

Not long after, two men
stormed into the hatfields' home

Killing her husband
amos and tommy

And sexually assaulting sandy.

Officers are dispatched
to collect

Every frame of surveillance
video from the gas station.

I sent detectives up
to the location

Where she said it happened.

We need to identify
who these men were.

While they search
for the surveillance video

And go over her phone records,

Detectives continue
questioning sandy

And everything
she says bolsters

The theory
that tommy was the target.

My uncle tommy had

A long battle with drug use.

After my grandma died,
it didn't get any better.

The police focused
their investigation

On the entire family.

Tommy was a reported
drug user and had some problems

Before with police.

Police do talk
to the hatfields.

They tell a different story.

I knew something wasn't right
after they got married.

Sadie quit with the phoniness.

She was very blunt with
my grandpa after they married.

You could tell a change
in my grandpa.

My father would get
a phone call

And he'd go in another room

And we could hear him screaming
and yelling

And it didn't even
sound like our dad.

I even said, "how's everything
going with you, daddy?

Are you okay?"

And he just -- he looked down
and he looked at me

And he looked at my husband.

And he said, "just whatever
you do, don't trust people."

He said, "there are some
very evil people in this world."

At police headquarters
detectives ask sandy

For more details about
the attackers.

On her 911 call,

She described that there was
a white male

And a light-skinned male.

She changed from a white guy

And a light-skinned black guy
to, I believe,

Two black guys at that point.

First, her description
of the attackers changes.

And then detectives find another
problem with locklear's story.

They were able
to look at the video

And not only were these two men
not on the video,

Sandy was not on the video.

There is even more
that's not adding up.

Sandy told the detectives
she'd gone to the gas station

At 10:45 p.M.

She was very specific,

Had a date
and time where this happened.

And it didn't happen,
it just didn't happen.

And that's when I knew

That there was
a whole lot more to this story.

Sandy locklear's story
is falling apart

And investigators are about to
get their biggest break yet.

There was a knock at the door
and the captain of the unit

Had a piece of paper.

He says we have some
text messages and phone records.

That's a gotcha moment.

In that one moment,

The entire case
turns upside down.

Everything I had thought
about her being a victim witness

For the last many hours
I had to put that aside

And change complete course of
how I was gonna interview her.

Now with detectives
closing in on her,

Sandy locklear changes
her story yet again.

But what comes next
is the biggest twist yet

In this deadly family drama.

Sandy said to me,
"I sent the text messages.

This was something
we agreed to do."

And actually, it was amos
that opened the door for them.

An outsider
has slowly destroyed

The hatfield family
with her lies, deception,

And a cruel betrayal of the man
who cared about her so deeply.

Sandy locklear
might have fooled amos,

But after his and tommy's murder

There is no more
hiding the truth.

Big gaps of truth certainly
started to make me consider

That she was less of a victim
and more of a suspect.

But again,

I had a hard time believing
that a wife

Would murder her husband
and stepson in such a horrific,

Calculated manner.

After catching her
in multiple lies,

Detectives give sandy
one more chance

To tell them the truth.

When she finally
composed herself,

She admitted that she said,

"amos and I were trying
to scare tommy straight."

This was amos's idea.

My grandpa
and my uncle tommy,

They had it hard
because of my uncle's

Past relationship with drugs.

She just cried.

She's just cried
and said over again,

"nobody was supposed
to get hurt.

Nobody was supposed
to get hurt."

It certainly didn't add up
to what she had said before

And if that was the truth
why not start off with that?

Sandy then identifies
the shooters by name.

Eventually, she gave us name
of nehemiah james evans.

James had some run-ins
with the law, but not a lot.

And someone else she said who
ended up being odom bryant.

Police round up
james evans and bring him in

For questioning.

Loris is a small town,
everybody knows each other,

And sure enough
when I put the word out

That I was looking for james,

One of the other cops
knew the family

And james surrendered himself
to the sheriff's department.

Odom bryant
is found one month later.

I get a phone call from the u.S.
Marshal service that odom

Had been arrested
in north carolina.

And he was being detained
on charges there.

So we'd arranged
to interview odom.

I signed him out of jail,
took him across the street

To an interview facility

And sat him down
read him his rights,

And told him
what we were there for.

Evans tells his side
first and right away

He admits
he was part of this plot.

James evans had stated that

Sandy put him up to it,
that she had talked about,

"do you want to get rich?"

What he says next
is very different

From sandy locklear's version
of what happened.

According to evans,

Sandy was the mastermind
all along.

There are pinning it on sandy.

Seemed truthful
the way he told the story

Seemed to have some
legitimacy to it.

Let's go.

Evans' accomplice,
odom bryant, tells detectives

What happened
the night of the murders.

They came to
the residence that night.

Sandy text him that
the door was open.

Odom says the men
did not rape locklear

As she claimed.

And he says he wasn't even
in the room when tommy

And amos were gunned down.

He says, "I turn around,

"I walk out into the front of
the house

"and I see sandy standing over
the body of one of the men

With a pillowcase
over her hand."

He and james
ran out of the house,

Jumped in a car, and took off.

And that's the last contact
he had ever had

With sandy locklear.

Police never found
the murder weapon,

But they believe amos was shot
with the pearl handled pistol

He offered sandy for protection.

There was no way to actually
prove forensically

That was the gun,

But those were
the pieces of the puzzle.

They just seemed to make sense.

The statements by her
two accomplices and her own lies

Are enough for police
to charge sandy locklear

With the murders of amos
and tommy hatfield.

No, sir. No, no, no.

My god.
This is not happening.

One thing detectives
don't have -- motive.

Why did sandy kill the man
that gave her the world?

The answer to that question

Comes during
a search of the home

Amos bought sandy with
his life savings.

Got a search warrant
for sandy's house

Found an insurance policy

That said $1 million
life insurance policy on him.

And she was the beneficiary.

The life insurance papers
were definitely

Why she killed him.

Sandy would have
received $200,000

Had she collected.

If I could say
anything to sandy,

I would say why would you
have done something

So cruel to somebody

That would've gave you
everything.

And I know one day
she will have to answer to god.

Odom bryant and james evans

Are convicted of both murders.

Bryant is sentenced to
life in prison

And james
because he pled guilty

Got a 30-year sentence.

On June 12, 2014,

Sandy locklear's convicted
of two counts of murder

And she's sentenced
to two concurrent life terms.

This story's about greed.

Sandy was able to find
someone

Who was willing to take care
of her, her children,

And all he wanted in return
was companionship.

She thought she could get more
so she had him killed.

It's a cautionary tale that
you let people into your lives

That ultimately don't mean
you any good,

Only mean you harm.

The pictures, the videos,

That's all we have
left of them.

And just think of them
and the good times we had,

Not their last few moments.

Just the happy times.

Every time that I told
tommy goodbye,

He'd always blow a kiss at me
and put a cross on me.

You know, put a cross
and then he said, "I love you."

That was it.