This is an IHeart podcast.

Never, ever did I see that coming.

Ever.

I truly thought I was going into help someone else.

And then I'm the end question.

What do you mean?

I'm his wife.

This isn't a crime.

We weren't a crime.

We weren't a crime.

Yeah. I'm Andrea Gunning, and this is betrayal, a show about the people we trust the most, and the deceptions that change everything.

Hindsight's a powerful thing, and we share the stories so that hopefully somebody will see it,

and the light bulb might go off.

That's Brandy Dredge.

Her story is unlike anything we've ever heard before, and she's never found anyone with the same experience.

It's about a betrayal that only came into focus with hindsight.

And it's the story of a surprising legal intervention that forced Brandy to reconsider her entire life. As you're listening, you may think you know where the story is going, but everything here is a little more complicated than it seems. So let's start at the

beginning when she was growing up in the 80s in Missouri. You know, a lot of home-cooked meals, a lot of playing in the neighborhood until the street

lights came on and then you had to come home.

Growing up, her parents struggled to make ends meet.

My dad was a hunter.

I mean, he grew up rural country.

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