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 Ben, 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. I'm done. I'd kind of come to terms with the possibility that he was going to kill me.

I was expecting it.

So the worst thing I could imagine wasn't that he was going to kill me.

It was that he would kill me and then nobody would know what happened to me.

Today my guest Ray had a whirlwind romance while on a girl's trip to the Caribbean.

She ended up leaving the U.S. behind, and she moved to Belize for love.

But when her husband's true nature surfaced, she fled to Europe and then back home,

only to have him track her down in person.

If you want to hear the full saga, download Scratching the Surface and Hungry for Violence,

episodes 236 and 237 of The Secret Room.

But if you're ready now, we're here for part three, the conclusion of Ray's secret.

We pick up the story as Ray tells us how her husband has work in another state,

but she still cannot escape his reach.

So I, every three... another state, but she still cannot escape his reach. So every threat that I received, I recorded it, I saved it, filed a police report, took it

to the magistrate's office.

Every time was a really brutal, emotional one-to-two two day process. Police officers and magistrates

started recognizing me. In the courthouse one time, random police officers I'd never met,

approached me to ask me about my case. They said that they would lock him up if they found him, but that they were misdemeanors.

But you knew where he was with Dante?

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