[cheering]
[Tricia Corder] Our family' very important part of our lives.
We grew up together. We grew up in church together.
We had every single thing that we wanted.
They just always seemed like a perfect-looking little family.
[Keith]
I never thought in a million years this would turn out the way it did.
[Rachel] I immediately kinda shut down.
And I just started screaming.
[Tricia] And I don't want to know that kind of rage.
It almost feels evil.
[narrator] It's the Summer of 1993 in Tool, Texas.
Gerald Boykin walks his 25-year-old daughter Dorenda down the aisle.
[Dorenda Gentry] I got marri on the, June the 12th of 199
My whole family, my parents, were in church there, my sister and her husband.
My maid of honor was my cousin Judy.
Then, of course, I had my sister Belinda was a bridesmaid,
and Doris.
Doris was my sister-in-law.
She married my twin brother, Keith.
We all embraced her as part of her family.
She fit really well into our family.
And we always had a, a great time when she was around.
[Dorenda] She was excited for me, of course, getting married,
and wanted the day to be special.
[officiant continues indistinctly]
[Dorenda] Doris was a very beautiful lady,
especially when she would take the time to dress up.
So on my wedding day, when she walked down the aisle,
she knew everyone was looking at her,
and I'll bet you that she enjoyed every minute of it. [laughing]
She liked to cut up.
She was just as loud and obnoxious as the rest of us sometimes. [laughing]
Don't do anything I wouldn't do. [laughing]
[Dorenda] We all had a good time when we were together.
We all just loved her very much.
[Tricia] Doris was adopted by Georgie and Paul Hoskins
They were sort of pillars of the community.
Doris adored her mother Georgie.
Her brothers and sisters were probably old enough to be her parents.
The siblings were gone. They had their own families
and they were living their own lives.
She wanted that close family, too.
[Dorenda] My sister Belinda worked at a bank in town.
Doris was a teller there at the drive-through window,
and would often see my brother come through the drive-through.
And I suppose she must have asked questions about him,
because Belinda set them up on their first date.
When Doris and Keith started dating, I remember a change in Doris.
Uh, she was just so happy.
And she really thought that Keith was the one for her.
My sister Belinda introduced Keith and Doris in the Summer of 1989.
And they were married that following January 13 of 1990,
before Doris even completed high school.
[Tricia] Well, after Doris and Keith got married, I fel like Doris was very happy.
She kind of had that closeness that she had been yearning for.
She was gonna start her own family.
I felt like that was one of the things that she wanted.
[Dorenda] Hope was born on August the 15th of 1995.
Doris was very excited to be a mom.
Hope was the only little girl in the family, so she loved that.
[Dorenda] Keith was a very affectionate dad.
Hope was his baby girl.
And he would go to the ends of the earth for her.
[Hope Scott] On Sunday mornings, when we would go to church,
my mom would put me in cute little outfits and dresses with bows.
My dad would make sure that everything was videotaped,
whether it be birthdays, Christmases, Easter.
He wanted to make sure he ha documents of all of it. [laughing]
[Keith]
[Dorenda] Shortly after Hope was born,
they just always seemed like a perfect looking littl family and did a lot togethe
So I believe they were really happy at that time.
[Hope] Christmas was a big deal in my household.
My mom holding me, showing m the Christmas tree
and showing me my first ornament.
She tries to get me to touch the ornament. [laughing]
I'm not having it, though. [laughing]
You can see the love in her eyes.
You can see the happiness in her face and in her smile.
She was a, a beautiful soul.
[narrator] Doris gives birt to her second child, Rachel, in 1998.
[Hope] I felt very excited about having a new baby sister.
I wanted to always help take care of her.
[Keith]
[Hope] I always wanted to tr to read her a book when she was little.
But I was too young to be able to read just yet.
My mom and dad would help us bake cookies, like sugar cookies,
where you put the designs on 'em.
[Keith]
Every year, no matter what the circumstances were, um,
we had every gift that we had asked for, um, plus some.
[Keith]
[Hope] I remember this now.
It had all the little food that came like as if you went to McDonald's
so that I could play in my kitchen.
-[Hope] -[Keith]
[Hope] And there was years that we would think
that we weren't getting anything, because
it just hadn't been a good year for our family money-wise.
But they always made sure that we had every single thi that we wanted.
We were always their top priority with everything.
[narrator] Fast forward to Good Friday, 1999.
Rachel takes her first step with the help of Mom Doris and big sister Hope.
[Keith] Yay!
[Hope] I was always helping her.
[Hope] Because I was older, so I already knew how to do those things,
so I wanted her to know how as well.
[Rachel Dewberry] Hope wanted to walk with me,
and be right there by my side as I grew up through life.
[Hope] She's still my little handful, but I love her so much.
The girls were fun, and they kept Doris busy.
And that made Doris so happy, because she yearned for that.
That's what she wanted so much, was that family.
[Keith]
[Tricia] Keith was a very dedicated husband.
He worked multiple jobs to provide for his family,
and give his children and Doris whatever they wanted.
I think that life...
...became very difficult and stressful with having two small children,
a house, and just the stres of working multiple jobs.
And it wasn't very long after that that I knew that things
were not very good between Doris and Keith at that time.
[Keith]
[Dorenda] Doris loved doing anything with the family,
and of course, doing things for the kids.
Birthday parties, Easter egg hunts.
Was always a big deal.
Every Easter, after going to church services,
my family would meet at my parents' house,
and we would have our Easter dinner,
and then we would always hide Easter eggs for all the kids in the yard.
There were so many eggs, I don't even know if we ever found them all. [laughing]
But they had, they had a great time.
[Doris Andrews]
[Keith]
[Doris]
[Keith]
[Hope] My poor sister did ge the short end of the stick
most of the Easters, 'cause she was younger than all of us.
But my mom did help, um, make sure
that she had all the eggs that she could find,
and we were extremely happy and excited.
[narrator] In 2000, Doris takes a job as a teacher's aide
at her daughter's elementary school.
She hopes that the extra income will help the family finances.
[Tricia] When Doris started working for the school,
and she got the aide positio
she was working for a kindergarten teacher at one point in time.
And she loved her job.
[Rachel] Teaching was absolutely her passion.
It was the highlight of her life.
Um, being able to watch kids grow up and be successful
was something she was extremely passionate about.
And I think that she was very successful with that.
[narrator] Doris thrives in her new job.
But she and Keith are struggling at home.
[Keith]
[Tricia] During that time, Doris would confide in me,
and she would talk to me about her relationship with Keith.
And she would tell me some of the struggles that they were having at home.
He worked a lot. He was gone a lot.
And there was just a lot of stress and pressure on both of them
to try to make the home happy.
And it was just not happening.
[Keith]
[Dorenda] I don't recall even noticing that there wer any problems between them.
They always seemed happy and, and getting along.
You know, in front of the family.
[Keith]
[Doris]
[Keith]
[Doris]
[Keith]
There was never any tension or arguments that we would ever see.
We were sitting in our living room,
and my dad was like, we have something to tell yo
And of course, you know, me and my sister are both young, so we're,
we're jumping to conclusion on what it could be.
We were like, are we going to Disney, or are we going to Six Flags,
or where are we going, are we going somewhere?
Are we moving?
And then they kinda just came out with, no, you know
Dad's gonna go, um, live somewhere else.
He's gonna be moving out.
It was very devastating. I was in the third grade,
and I remember that day very vividly.
It broke my heart.
[Rachel] I think it was just a mutual agreement
that they grew apart from each other.
[Dorenda] I really thought for a long time that, you know,
things would be okay, they'd they'd work it out, whatever had happened.
But, uh, ended not being the case.
We started to realize, you know, Dad's in his own home,
Mom's in her own home.
And you know, they're not gonna come back together.
[Rachel] Shortly after the divorce,
Mom enrolled in Texas A&M University
to get her teaching degree in early childhood education.
Um, so she could go from a paraprofessional
into the teaching world, where she actually got to do everything on her own,
versus having to work through someone else.
[Tricia] She needed to have something that was stable.
She needed to have a good jo where she could not only have a job
and receive a good paycheck,
but she would be with her own children,
and she would have the same times off as her children.
I felt like that was a great choice for her.
[Rachel] Mom was a very independent person,
but I also think that she was scared to be alone.
I think that she was looking for somebody
to be there for her and to love her, and she wanted that so bad,
that she jumped into a relationship,
you know, it seemed like almost instantaneously.
[narrator] Doris meets 37-year-old David Schaeffer in early 2004.
And after a whirlwind romanc the pair marry just a few months later.
[Rachel] Me and Hope both got along with him really well.
You know, in the beginning, things were awesome.
He was a new person in our life.
Um, we were constantly getting to go, like, ride horses,
and do fun things when we were with him.
I feel like the relationshi was very energetic
and he was involved in, like, a lot of parties.
I think that wasn't my mom's cup of tea.
We were at our dad's for the weekend,
when we found out the relationship had ended
and she was getting a divorce from David
I noticed she had a turtleneck on, and I couldn't figure out why.
'Cause it's, it wasn't that cold outside.
And then I saw the bruise,
and he had done some not-so-nice things to her,
and she left.
[narrator] The marriage lasts less than a year.
Doris finalizes her divorce in late 2005.
I just felt like she wanted something so bad
and she wanted to have that family,
and she wanted that so much for her and her girls,
that she was willing to put herself in any situation
to try to make it work.
And she just was not choosing well.
[narrator] Doris meets 32-year-old Roy Ivey in early 2006.
She didn't like being alone.
She needed a companion.
So, you know, she found one that made her happy.
You know, she had moved on quickly.
[narrator] Doris and Roy marry in the summer.
I did like Roy. Um, Roy was definitely a lot better than David.
He seemed to have his life together.
[Rachel] He was an outdoorsy person.
He would take us to the local state park
and we'd go fishing or go swimming out in the lake.
And that was probably the happiest I had seen my mom in a long time.
She was constantly smiling, and happy.
And her being happy made the house more warm and welcoming.
But she just wanted somebody to care for her
as much as she cared for somebody else.
And then they split up.
I'm not sure if I'll ever know the real reason.
And, um, that just, you know broke her as a person.
I was very sad to see him leave.
[Tricia] She was looking har for something,
and I felt like she was going to make it happen,
which you can't do.
And we all know that you cannot make something out of nothing.
She just didn't have e a good choice in men, and, uh,
I wish that was different for her.
[Tricia] I felt like she wa still on the hunt.
She was still on that searc to find that person.
And unfortunately, I think that she ran into
a couple of more stumbling blocks.
[Dorenda] Doris got her third divorce.
She was a very independent person.
Not sure why she felt
that she needed to rush into marriages, or, you know,
why she constantly needed someone there.
But, uh, she may have had an insecurity, you know,
that none of us knew about.
It's probably what led to all of those marriages.
She was scared, you know, she was gonna be alone the rest of her life,
and she wasn't ever gonna find the perfect person,
'cause, you know, three failed marriages makes you nervous.
But she was looking for love.
[narrator] In September, 200
Doris meets 38-year-old truck driver Mark Andrews
at a football game in Eustace, Texas.
Mark is recently divorced from his fourth wife.
It was a more, reunification. They had gone, um, to high school together.
He was a little, little bit older than her,
so he graduated before she did,
but they knew each other from being, um, acquaintance in high school.
I think once they reconnected, it was love at first re-sight for them. [laughing]
Mark Andrews was a very funny guy.
You knew Mark was in the roo
You could hear him laughing you could hear him joking.
I was so excited, because the Mark that I knew was a wonderful person.
And I thought, this is gonna be great for her, it's gonna be great for her girls.
[narrator] Doris and Mark marry in March, 2010.
[Hope] Their wedding was at the church that we used to attend.
It wasn't a big fancy wedding, but my mom did wear a dress.
We wore dresses.
I definitely think that she thought this was gonna be her last, you know, wedding.
She seemed happy.
[Hope] I do believe my mom, um, felt that this was the one,
this is the one she was meant to be with.
This is the one God wanted her to be with.
[indistinct chatter]
Hope had her 20th birthday at our local Chili's.
[Hope] Either Mark or my mo told the waitress
without me realizing that it was my birthday,
so they made me stand in a chair and, uh, flap my little wings.
And they sing happy birthday to me.
I did move out, um, when I was 20.
My mom was definitely gratef that I was becoming very independent.
I would see them, um, quite a lot, even after I moved out.
Every Sunday after church,
we would go have lunch as a family.
When we were all there, she seemed very happy to have us all together.
[narrator] By the time Hope celebrates her 20th birthday,
the Andrews family has a new member.
Mark and Doris adopted eight-year-old Katie Jo three years earlier.
[Rachel] My mom was a teache
where she taught three-, four- and five-year-old special education.
It was my mom's first year teaching there.
Katie Jo was autistic. She was in her class.
My mom just knew that it was meant to be,
that she was supposed to take in that child
and provide her with everything she didn't have in her life.
I was extremely excited to have a little sister,
and to be able to play with her and help take care of her.
It was an exciting time for all of us.
[narrator] But away from his new family,
Mark develops an obsession with gambling.
Mark and my mom would go to concerts at the casinos,
play a couple of rounds of cards, then come back home.
But over time, Mark went from playing a couple hours at the casino
to playing all day at the casino.
You know, he would have bad days where he made nothing and he was in debt.
And there were some days where he would make a lotta money and be able to provide.
[narrator] In June, 2015,
four years into the marriage
lighting strikes.
Mark wins over $200,000 in one night.
[Hope] He won big, and he was very excited about it.
They did splurge a little.
They bought a RZR and a new trailer
for our vacation that we were going on in Jul
I think it definitely helped a lot and it made them a lot happier to know
that they were back on track, and they didn't have any financial worries anymore.
[narrator] Mark spends a portion of his winnings on a new camera drone.
He did get it stuck in a tree one time. [laughing]
My mom's kinda, you can hear her yelling in the background, like,
oh, my gosh, what did you do. [laughing]
[narrator] Friend Amy Skagg captures his climb on camera
[Doris] Whoo hoo!
[narrator] Mark is friends with Amy's husband, Don.
Amy and Don are searching for a new home
so Mark and Doris invite the couple
to live with them rent-free while they look.
Don and Amy would in return be what would,
you would call a nanny towards Katie Jo,
and just help out with, you know, bath time,
getting her ready for schoo in the morning,
after school care, when my m had to work late.
[narrator] Away from the camera, Mark's gambling escalates.
By Fall, 2015, he is spendin most of his time at a casino in Oklahoma.
[Hope] He quit the trucking job.
He definitely did start gambling more.
[Rachel] Eventually, Mark became a professional gambler.
There was times where money wasn't coming in
And he started borrowing money from people
in order to be able to continue the gambling.
The more he did it, the more he realized how much he liked gambling,
and it became an addiction that he wasn't able to get away from.
I think it, it definitely caused a lot of tension between them.
[Tricia] I didn't know that he gambled.
I was very stunned.
I mean, that, that makes you think, what's going on financially with them?
He was a good guy.
Uh, I never thought in a million years
that this would turn out the way it did.
[phone ringing]
[Dan]
[dispatch]
[Dan]
[dispatch]
[Dan]
[dispatch]
[Jim Rizy] Don Skaggs was the one that placed the call.
Don was talking to the operator, telling them that he needed an ambulance.
[Dan]
[dispatch]
[Dan]
[dispatch]
[Dan]
When the officers first got on scene,
uh, they had a tough time getting past the dogs.
In fact, one of 'em grabbed one of the officers trouser legs.
[Assistant District Attorney Kevin Boneberg] The animal control had to be called out
and a catch pole was used.
Katie Jo, Don and Amy and Ma
were there on scene.
Doris was in bed.
The injuries that they observed on Doris, she had been killed with a hammer.
Another injury to her neck.
And so it was obvious that she was taken by surprise.
[Rizy] The murder weapon was covered in blood, laying there on the floor.
In 30 years, I think I've heard that once or twice,
where somebody's actually observed the murder weapon, and usually, it's not there
[ADA Boneberg] There was an old antique safe that was, uh,
obviously used as a table between two big easy chairs
When the police arrived,
it was slightly ajar with no signs of forced entry to it.
On scene, Mark went through the house,
checking the rooms for a stranger.
Mark seemed very distraught at that moment.
Mark's theory that the stranger would had to have come in,
waken up Doris,
somehow gotten her to open the safe,
and then, um, get her back into bed.
She resumes a sleeping position.
Meanwhile, that person goes to the shed at some point.
Gets the hammer. Knows where it's located.
Comes back and kills Doris
as she lies sleeping in her bed, not touching Don and Amy at all.
Those dogs would have barke and awoken at a stranger's entrance,
uh, into the house. And they did not.
That seemed suspicious to them.
Uh, given Don's demeanor on the phone,
uh, the 911 call, the eviden did not point to him.
Everybody reacts differently to trauma when they see it or have it.
Mark Andrews is indicating that he was tearful and sobbing,
but there were, there were no tears.
That the safe was opened without any force being utilized
is a pretty good clue that somebody that opened it had the combination.
There's only two people that had that safe combination.
That was Doris and Mark Andrews.
Mark indicated to the officers that he hadn't gone to the safe,
but his wallet was sitting on top of the safe,
which would make you believ that he probably was the on that opened the safe,
leaving his wallet.
This wasn't about the safe.
This was clearly obvious that Doris was the target of, of the offense, here.
I was teaching second grade,
and was in the classroom,
and I just happened to get a text from one of my cousins
saying, what happened to Doris?
It wasn't long after that that my mother called, and, uh...
...it was shocking.
I'd always loved Doris.
Hadn't...
I'm sorry.
Hadn't seen her in a very long time,
but she was always a part of my heart.
So it was difficult, and of course, my first thoughts went to the girls.
What about the girls? Are they okay? Where are they?
[Hope] I got a knock on the door,
and there was...
...a cop, a chaplain, and Am standing at my front door.
Amy was in tears.
And the cop looked at me and said,
"Your mother has passed away."
And I said, "In a car accident?" Like, what?
I didn't know how to react to it.
I ran to my grandma's, and I just started screaming
and I laid my head on her, uh, shoulder.
And then she's like, what's wrong, what's wrong?
And I'm like, Mom's gone.
[narrator] Investigators interview Mark Andrews at Azle Police Station.
Mark indicated that when this offense occurred,
he got up in the morning, he headed to work at a casin where he normally gambles,
which is up in Oklahoma.
His story was that he had left the house in the mornin at around 2:15, 2:30.
He got a little bit North of Boyd and realized he'd left his gambling money,
which he routinely takes with him every day, at the house.
He texted Doris at 3:54, tha I gotta turn around, I forgo to grab my money.
And then he stops at race track, local gas station over here,
about five minutes from their home.
About 4:15 or so...
...the officers retrieved surveillance footage from the race track gas station
just up the road from their home there in Azle.
And in that video, Mark pumps gas,
comes into the store,
and it's extremely suspiciou because it's not just a wal in, pay for cigarettes and g
He walks in, stops and basically turns to every corner of the stor
as if, get my profile, this is gonna be my alibi, that I'm here at the store.
[ADA Boneberg] The officers believe that Mark did this on purpose,
put himself on video, sent that text message to Doris...
...all in constructing this, uh, scene in creating his alibi.
[narrator] Mark leaves the gas station shortly after 4:15 AM.
The 911 call goes out at 4:37 in the morning.
It was less than a five minute drive to his house.
[Rizy] So there's a large amount of time unaccounted for.
He never addressed that.
Very quickly, the investigating detective surmised
that, uh, Mark Andrews was the offender in this cas
[narrator] Investigators charge Mark Andrews with the murder of his wife, Dori
Mark's reaction to his arrest for the, uh, offensive killing of Doris
was pretty much a flat affect.
Except that he indicated he wasn't there.
[narrator] Detectives search the couple's past for a possible motive.
[Rizy] I know that in May of 2015,
Doris had talked with some friends
that she was concerned about Mark.
He wasn't working.
She was the sole provider of the family.
He was very controlling of h and the girls.
And Doris had voiced to a couple people that she was considering divorce.
Following the, the big win in June of 2015,
the family basically went on a spending spree.
They bought a trailer for the ATV,
the family took a vacation to Colorado for several days
When we looked at his financial records, we could see
that come November, he was getting to a point where he was pretty strapped for cash
He considered himself a gambler, thought he was pretty, pretty good at it.
Thought he could read number on, on cards.
Unfortunately, uh, he wasn' all that good at it.
By December, 2015, their bank accounts were back down to almost zero.
[ADA Boneberg] That seemed suspicious.
Mark was obviously on rocky ground.
Law enforcement was able to obtain a number of days' footage,
uh, of Mark in the months preceding Doris' murder.
[Rizy] He had several different casinos he went to,
but primarily to the WinStar in Oklahoma.
He did quite a bit of gambling.
He was making these large cash withdrawal to sustain his habit.
And he was losing it, most of the time.
[ADA Boneberg] He had losse over, uh, $60,000 from WinStar.
All of Doris and Mark's accounts were in the red.
[Rizy] He refinanced the ca
so that he could get some ready cash to be able to use to gamble
He had also taken two guns to a pawn shop up in Springtown,
so he could get additional $500.
This is all indication that he was looking for, for money,
looking for income to be abl to use in his, his gambling habit.
And Mark needed a lot of mon to sustain his habit.
Well, we looked at the records.
We found that Doris had a, uh, insurance policy
She changed the, the beneficiary to Mark.
So that paid him about $365,000 in insurance money.
The discovery of this $365,000 insurance
is a pretty good motive for him to take Doris' life.
[narrator] And investigator discover that Mark was capab of extreme violence.
We located four of Mark's previous wives. And, and a girlfriend.
There were a couple that indicated
that he was psychologically abusive to them.
The girlfriend had actually been assaulted to the point
where he was getting ready t to choke her out when her daughter came home
And she's convinced that he woulda killed her had the daughter not come home.
He was progressively gettin more violent and abusive to the women he was with.
[narrator] Investigators piece together the events that led to Doris' murder.
By the time of her murder, they were in the red on almost all of their accounts.
And, uh, Mark kept on gambling.
[narrator] The payout from Doris' life insurance
would give Mark
hundreds of thousands of dollars to spend at the casino.
[ADA Boneberg] Mark Andrews takes a hammer into the roo where he sees Doris.
The hit to the trachea would immediately have made her voiceless.
She couldn't have screamed out, whether that b for help or in pain.
And then she would have gone unconscious shortly after that.
Uh, not feeling the number of blows that followed,
but still, the scene was very violent.
Um, there was a lot of bloo in that bedroom surrounding her.
Other than the wounds, she seemed to have been layi as she was sleeping.
She didn't have a chance.
[narrator] Mark opens and empties the safe to stage a robbery.
Then, he leaves the house.
[Rizy] Based on the timeframes...
...uh, it would be most consistent with him having committed the offense,
driven the short ways North to be able to come up with an alibi,
sent the text to Doris...
...then gone to the gas station, then com home to rouse Amy and Don.
He had researched funeral cost,
uh, just shortly before her murder.
The placement of the hammer on the area rug...
...there was no sign of forced entry...
...the safe, slightly ajar...
...uh, getting on video at the race track...
...showed through the evidence that it was in fact premeditated.
Trial started on February 16 of 2018
and lasted for five days of testimony in the guilt-innocence phase
The jury found Mark Andrews guilty of Doris Andrews' murder
in approximately three hours...
...and having found him guilty,
sentenced him to life in prison in a matter of minutes.
It was heartbreaking to, to know
that who I saw as a father is...
...not actually the person I thought he was.
I didn't think that he was that type of person
that could commit such a horrible crime,
but obviously, I was wrong.
Uh, I don't know how he could do it to such a wonderful woman,
and a loving mother.
But he did.
Who'd ever thought I'd look this good.
[Keith] Yeah.
[laughing] That's good. Thank you. Thank you.
I have pictures throughout my house,
um, of my mom,
um, of her smiling face with us at Christmas togethe
Katie Jo is definitely a reminder every day
of, uh, of my mom.
Baba.
Daddy, look at my shoes.
Look at that.
[Rachel] I wouldn't be this person I am today without her,
if I had never met her.
You know, just the different impact that he has made on people's lives.
Not because of the relationships that she had in her life,
but because she was, uh, a passionate, impactful, kindhearted, caring woman.