Pleasant Garden, North Carolina, is a tiny, quiet community. Churches are common on every street corner and with its rolling hills and serene landscape; it seems like heaven on earth. However, on 9th October 1995, darkness fell on Pleasant Garden, when 28-year-old Patricia Blakely Kimble, a vivacious Sunday school teacher, was found shot and burned in her own house.

According to her family and friends, Patricia would go out of her way to help anyone and that the one mistake she made was in love. Patricia saw the best in Ted Kimble, the son of a minister, and she viewed him as a good Christian man, worthy of her love. To win his heart, she changed her appearance, losing weight and even attending modelling school to impress him.

Some people said that Ted was only after one thing and that was to get married, settle down and become the owner of a building supply business. Patricia and Ted married secretly in December 1993 and had a formal ceremony nearly six months later. For some time the couple seemed to enjoy life as newlyweds but the happy union soon took a turn for the worse.

Patricia told friends Ted didn't want to spend time alone with her anymore and that he had begun sleeping with a gun underneath his pillow. She said that Ted had changed and was not the man she married. Days before her death, she called a friend, distraught that Ted had taken out additional life insurance on her.

From the start, investigators suspected Patricia's husband had something to do with her murder. When Ted tried to collect on multiple insurance policies, authorities knew something just wasn't right. Ted had a solid alibi and detectives surmised that he must have hired someone to carry out the act. Armed with information that Ted's brother, Ronnie Lee, had been in town, detectives believed the two brothers were both involved but they needed more than instinct to solve the case.

Nearly two years and 100 interviews later, detectives got the crucial break they needed. Mitchell Whidden, a ministerial student and friend of Ronnie Lee Kimble, revealed that Ronnie Lee had confessed to the murder of his sister-in-law. Whidden went to his mentor, the Reverend Jerry Falwell, for advice. At Falwell's urging, Whidden came forward and gave detectives enough to arrest both Kimble boys for murder.

On 2nd September 1998, Ronnie was found guilty of first-degree murder of Patricia Blakley Kimble. Shortly thereafter, Ted Kimble pled guilty to second-degree murder. Today, both brothers sit in jail but they maintain their innocence and are fully supported by their mother, Edna Kimble, and father, Ronnie Sr., a man of the cloth. The parents say both boys never got along well and would never have been able to work together. Ronnie's defence attorney, Jack Hatfield, believes Ronnie is taking the fall for his brother; he even thinks Ted may have done the work himself.