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She was screaming, saying, there's blood all over the car.

Oh, my God, oh, my God, the baby's coming.

I was, like, trying to talk her through it.

Just breathe.

Just take deep breaths.

Can you feel the baby's head? I'm Andrea Gunning and this is Betrayal, a show about the people we trust the most, and the deceptions that change everything.

Here at Betrayal, we've received hundreds of emails, messages from listeners telling us their

own shocking stories of deception. And we knew we had to find a way to share them.

So every Thursday, we'll be bringing you new stories of resilience in the face of devastating betrayal.

Some stories will be contained to one episode, and others will be released in two parts.

Besides hearing from listeners, our team has been researching and reading about some of the most unbelievable

deceptions and betrayals from across the world. Not just romantic betrayals, but familial and financial ones.

And in this story, it's somewhere in between. In the process of adopting a baby, Matt and Laura Trey were pulled into a twilight zone of deception and fraud.

Something switched in us, and we immediately went into attack mode.

Like, we can't let someone get away with this.

And so we started immediately making phone calls

to the sheriff's department, to, I mean, anybody that would listen.

And I remember the sheriff saying, well, it's not a crime to hurt someone's feelings.

This is Laura Trate and her husband Matt.

Matt and Laura met in 2005 when they were both in graduate school to become teachers.

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