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He always say to me, I wouldn't do what your first husband did to you and just walk out on you and basically leave you with nothing.

And it's frustrating to be told you'll never have to worry about that again, Stacey.

It's just that like, how dare you?

How dare you promise so many things that you had to know deep down you were never going to be able to follow through?

Yeah. Hi, guys, it's Andrea.

In just two weeks, we'll be back with a brand new season of betrayal.

We'll be telling one story

over several episodes. I'll take you to Colorado, where we'll do a deep dive into a betrayal

of family and community. But before that, we wanted to give you an update on our family from last

season. In season three, we told you the story of Stacey Rutherford and her son Tyler.

Stacey was a single mom when she met Justin.

She knew on their first date she would marry him, and she did.

He was funny, adored her children, and had a bright future as a family physician.

Together, they had two more kids. Stacey loved Justin and the family

they created. After years of uncertainty, she finally felt grounded in stability. But Justin was hiding

a dark secret. For years, he was sexually abusing Tyler, Stacy's eldest son.

Once he was caught, he tried to organize a murder-for-hire plot to kill Tyler and prevent him from

testifying in court. For these crimes, Justin was ordered to spend decades in prison.

We'll hear from Tyler later in the episode,

but first, I wanted to share a conversation I had with Stacy.

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