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Bad Romance: Dark Waters (Revisited)

20/20

ABC News

True Crime

4.08.9K Ratings

🗓️ 4 February 2026

⏱️ 42 minutes

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After a military hero’s body is located, shocking revelations surface about what was really happening in his marriage to a Texas veterinarian. (Originally broadcast 3/5/24) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

This is Deborah Roberts. We're taking a few weeks off from new podcast programming on Wednesdays while we work on a new interesting series to share with you. So in the meantime, we're bringing back some of our installments from our classic series, Bad Romance. Here's this week's episode.

0:17.2

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0:40.1

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0:47.9

2020 welcome to bad romance a limited edition 2020 series you can watch on ABC Monday nights

0:55.6

right after The Bachelor.

0:57.6

Have a listen.

1:12.6

Am I ever gonna love again?

1:17.6

He's a military man who loves his career. He has a baby and a new wife.

1:19.6

But four months after the wedding, he can't be found.

1:22.6

One member of the family knows more than they're saying,

1:25.6

as they plunge into Dark Waters.

1:44.4

I'm traveling to the Gatesville Correctional Facility about an hour west of Waco.

1:51.2

I'm there to meet Wendy Mae Davidson, the former veterinarian, current convicted murderer.

2:02.4

From day one, she has insisted she wasn't responsible for the death of her husband, Staff Sergeant Michael Severance.

2:08.1

When you do interviews like this, you always wonder what it's going to be like looking into the eyes of a killer. But Wendy doesn't look or act like any of the killers I've talked to.

2:18.3

I'm going to cut to the chase and get right to business.

2:21.3

The first question is, you know, you've basically kept your silence for 15 years.

2:25.3

Why did you decide to do this first network interview?

2:30.3

I was kind of advised from the get-go.

2:33.3

It'd be best not to talk.

2:36.0

It seems like that that hasn't done me any favors.

2:39.0

So I want my side of the story of what happened heard.

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