Today's show has scenes that describe mental and physical abuse.

Please consider if this episode is right for you.

Hi, Ben.

My name is Ray, and my secret is about how I married a stranger in another country hoping for a fairy tale ending.

But my love story turned into a horror story.

It's a secret about domestic violence, but then it gets worse. It's

also about extortion, human smuggling, the illegal drug trade, and an ice manhunt. Oh, and a

strange hillbilly pollicule, too. Let's talk. Today, the secret room presents, Hungry for Violence.

His eyes were just blank like he was a doll.

No anger, sadness or anything, it was just blank. It was one of the scariest expressions I'd ever seen from him.

Today, Ray joins me in the secret room with her story of a fairy tale romance that wasn't.

She met a charming boy on a girl's trip to Belize who swept her off her feet.

She left her life in the U.S., for marriage and a future in the Caribbean, but it wasn't long

before her new husband Jordan's manipulative and abusive sides reared themselves.

She managed to flee to Venice, and in an iconic and powerful moment,

she summoned the strength to declare herself free as she tossed her wedding ring off the Rialto

bridge into the canal below. But that symbolic gesture, as we are about to learn,

would not be near enough to thwart Jordan's

obsessive hold over her. If you'd like to hear all the details listen to Episode 236, scratching the

surface. If you're caught up, let's join Ray, where I asked her what the first thing she said to Jordan

was after she tossed his ring. I told him I wanted to get a divorce that I couldn't handle this anymore, the way he

treated me.

...