On the evening of May 31, 2014, 49-year-old Theodore Scott Ted Kelbach was shot through the eye at close range in his Kearns, Utah, home after answering a knock at the door. A man was seen fleeing the residence in a car. Kelbach had been at home with a female acquaintance at the time.

Investigators focused on 31-year-old Douglas Dwayne Evans, who reportedly believed his girlfriend was secretly involved with Kelbach; detectives later concluded no such relationship existed. Evans was arrested June 2, 2014, and charged with murder and aggravated burglary. Prosecutors presented text messages in which Evans accused his girlfriend of cheating and threatened with a gun, DNA from a red hat found at the scene that matched Evans, and phone data placing him near Kelbach’s home. Witness testimony included the woman present who heard Kelbach deny seeing the girlfriend just before the shot, and a neighbor who saw a man with long dreadlocks at the house that night.

A jury found Douglas Dwayne Evans guilty of Theodore Kelbach’s murder. Does anyone have information about Kelbach’s life in Kearns or details from that night that could add context to the case?