This is a Glass Box Media Podcast. The woman is attached to a black leather medical table by red nylon straps attached to every limb. She is blinded and muted with duct tape.

On that floor with that metal bar that he used to strangle her with

and that puddle of blood.

It just looked like too much blood to come out of a tiny little 8 year old.

Being raped at gunpoint, like, what else do you do? Like, you can't do anything,

and it's two men against one woman. And I probably, you know, I weigh 98 pounds.

So it's not like I can take them down myself and I wasn't about to wrestle a gun out of their hands.

I was just trying to get it. Welcome to human monsters. Jane met a man who appeared to be a victim of emotional abuse and gave an Oscar-caliber

performance in the role of supportive partner and expectant father. To her horror, following the birth of her daughter, he became

abusive. Abuse led to stalking and death threats. The effects on Jane, her family, and her health continue to

impact her to this day. Great so thank you very much for joining us here today

Jane. You've been through a lot. I read through some of the information you provided to me.

You were in the relationship from hell.

So what I'm interested in knowing just from the get-go is they often say you know criminals you don't know

They're criminals at first whether if they are abusers they don't come across that way

Many of them are very charming and seem very normal at first.

So I just wonder if you could tell me about the circumstances under which you've met this

person and tell me what your first impression of them was like.

Sure, so I often compare him to the movie Catch Me If You Can

with Leonardo DiCaprio. He was like charismatic. He left so many people believing that he was something different than he was.

So when I met him, I was working. I was bartending for a time and he came into my bar that night with friends and he was you know having a good time

Very sweet then I learned he lived in my neighborhood well I learning that he lived in my neighborhood

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