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Brandon was the full package.

Flex your arm.

Yeah! Do it the other way now.

Very tall, 6'3", thick, brown hair,

very muscular build.

He was vulnerable, open, funny, honest.

Brandon was a good dad.

He adored her.

He was very much involved, very protective of her.

[laughter]

I loved him very much.

[laughs]

[tense music]

Stop, stop, stop talking!

God!

Obviously, it was too good to be true.

And I just was dumbfounded at what I was hearing.

I caught him cheating on me.

I went straight to my social media.

The floodgates opened, and more and more

women started coming out.

That was just the tip of the iceberg.

Just another way that he's able to control and manipulate.

The person that I thought he was, he didn't exist.

When you do break up with Brandon,

that is when the stalking begins.

[phone chiming]

I was really scared for her.

He was completely unhinged.

He knows where I am. He's following me.

That's when I found the tracking device.

Brandon was dangerous, and he was escalating.

He's everywhere, trapping me, holding me by my arms,

not letting me leave.

Duct tape. He had knives, zip ties.

I discover the crossbow.

I was terrified. I saw the devil in his eyes.

I knew something horrific was about to happen.

They should run for their life.

Who the fuck did I marry?

[glass shatters]

[blips]

In 2013, I was 35.

I had just moved to Portland.

I was ready to settle down, start a family, get married...

find a good guy, my Prince Charming.

So I started online dating.

I started getting the dings.

[phone chimes]

And then one day, I matched with a guy

called Brandon Johnson.

Brandon stood out. He really did.

Brandon was in Seattle, 3 1/2 hours away from me.

But the messages were incredibly sweet

and incredibly sincere and thoughtful.

And so I felt like, you know what?

I need to give this guy a chance.

We spoke for about a month

before we actually met in person at a bar in Seattle.

I just didn't know what to expect.

I'm sitting there.

Brandon comes through the door.

Hi.

And I remember just feeling so nervous.

He's very witty.

He's very charming.

Most importantly, how he made me feel.

And as the night was going on, I liked him a little more

and a little more.

And I just remember thinking, Okay, this is gonna be

the start of a good thing.

You like that, baby?

There was definitely a spark

very early on in the relationship.

Every weekend, we would just have the most incredible dates

and so much fun.

I got the cayenne on it.

Cayenne, okay. Now you need to chug it.

-Okay. -Is that pretty intense?

And I was so smitten that I just felt like I met my guy.

I think this is it.

We were just very happy for Amber.

He seems very friendly.

We were definitely hopeful that this would be the right one.

Maybe this would go somewhere into a relationship,

marriage, maybe a child.

Everything was going great.

About six weeks into my relationship with Brandon,

we were at a bar.

And out of nowhere, Brandon leaned over,

opened a box, and asked me to marry him.

[camera clicks]

I was absolutely not expecting that.

It was a beautiful moment.

It was a beautiful ring.

And I couldn't wait to marry Brandon.

Six weeks into their relationship, they got engaged.

I thought it was fast, but at the same time,

I thought, well, she's old enough

to know what she wants now. -Yeah.

When Amber first talked about Brandon

and all the great qualities that he had,

I was super happy for her.

He was somebody that was stable, financially as well as

emotionally, and was somebody who she could settle down with

and really have a great life with.

After we got engaged, it made natural sense

that I would be the one moving from Oregon up to Seattle.

Brandon was newly divorced from his first wife, Athena,

and they had a young daughter named Sydney.

And then Athena also had an older child called Lexus

from a previous relationship.

And that was his whole meaning for life, was this little girl.

Whoa!

Whoa.

Ow!

-You hit your butt? -Yeah.

I would never take a father from his child, ever.

Brandon introduced me to Sydney,

and she was the sweetest little thing ever.

She was four years old, very chatty, very open

to meeting me.

Whoo!

I loved her.

It was a very big step for Amber to move to Seattle.

She didn't know anybody in Seattle,

so it was basically relying on Brandon for everything...

social life, friends.

She was unsure about work.

He promised me the world.

So I quit my job, sold my furniture.

I was ready to take a chance.

A week before I was supposed to move to Seattle,

I got a message on Facebook that made my heart sink.

It said, "Amber, I think you should know something."

It said, Brandon was on match.com.

[suspenseful music]

♪

I wanted to die.

I about had a heart attack that day.

How could this possibly be happening to me?

Everything was so perfect.

And to make matters worse, it was actually a picture

that Brandon cropped me out of.

It was the same night that we had our engagement party.

I felt like my whole world was collapsing in front of my face.

I felt trapped because I had already quit my job.

I'd already sold half my belongings.

And I called Brandon.

He was begging and pleading and crying.

You... you don't understand, Amber.

It was just a lapse in judgment.

And the last time I put a ring on someone's finger,

it was my ex-wife, Athena.

And I've told you how horrible she is.

Brandon told me that he found out that Athena cheated on him

at her bachelorette party.

He's like, this was my family unit,

and now it's being all torn apart because of her.

I could hear it in Brandon's voice,

how hurt he was by Athena cheating on him.

The person that he had shown me all those weeks prior

did not align with this one action.

And when he said, I never went on another date, I...

I believed him.

I trusted him.

And I'm a forgiving person.

So I forgave him.

When Amber told me about the match.com profile,

it definitely was the first red flag for me.

That was like, mm, tread lightly

because this is not normal behavior.

But I felt that Brandon was worth the risk.

So I moved to Seattle.

Brandon said, hey, can you do me a favor

and block my ex-wife, Athena, on Facebook?

He basically said, Athena meddles a lot in my life,

and I just don't want her to get in between us

and cause trouble.

But I just... I don't know.

I had this gut instinct of, you can learn

a lot by what people post.

And so I wanted to know what this woman is all about

because I'm hearing from him, but I feel like I just wanted

more info than I was getting.

So I took a peek on Facebook.

First thing I see is a picture of Athena looking

beautiful but in a very sexy photo in her wedding gown

that she married Brandon in as her profile picture.

[intriguing music]

Then I see a little photo that says, I bumped into my ex,

and so I backed up and ran over him again...

clearly meant for Brandon.

So I kept Athena blocked.

I knew there were some issues, but I had no idea the extent

of how crazy she was.

He said that she took the credit cards

and just racked $100,000.

She demanded that he pay $30,000 for her wedding ring.

He said that Athena was a gold digger.

So yeah.

I remember Amber being very disheartened

and nervous about what Brandon told her about Athena.

She was jealous.

She wanted him back.

She was causing all kinds of problems.

[phone buzzes]

Brandon told me that Athena joked

about having a third child with him

so she wouldn't have another baby daddy.

That was kind of the shift for me.

I was doing good up until that moment.

And then I was like, ooh, now she's disrespecting me.

So at that point, I'm like, mm-mm, hard stop.

You have a crazy ex-wife.

♪

Athena. IV. Take 1.

Hi.

My name is Athena, and I am Brandon Johnson's ex-wife.

[suspenseful music]

♪ ♪

I am Brandon Johnson's ex-wife.

I am also known as the Puppet Master,

also known as Queen Bitch.

He also refers me to as the woman who has

sought out to ruin his life.

Brandon was seriously involved with a woman named Amber.

Brandon told me that Amber was very insecure

and very jealous of me.

Now that I knew Amber was gonna be a part

of my daughter's life, I felt I needed to meet her.

That's when I invite her to Sydney's

gymnastics performance.

Leading up to meeting Athena was a little nerve-wracking

because Brandon gave me a little bit

of a prep session before.

I was told she was gonna be fake.

Don't talk to her. Don't stand next to her.

It was nerve-wracking.

I didn't know what I was gonna walk into.

At that gymnastics practice, she was cold as ice to me.

I didn't wanna cause any trouble, but in my periphery,

I could just feel the daggers staring at me.

The way she acted towards me,

it felt like she was following orders,

that she wasn't allowed to speak to me.

It was so uncomfortable.

You could just feel it.

I felt like, oh, God, this is such a mess.

This is such a mess.

Brandon made it very clear to Amber

that she should stay as far away as possible from Athena.

I didn't have any communication with her,

so it was all what Brandon told me.

Then I'd have his family saying how terrible Athena was,

and then his friends would say, mm, yep, Athena,

she's a monster. She's the devil.

She's the worst ever.

Amber did not take a liking to my mom whatsoever.

We didn't know why.

She was, like, just so brash.

I was really just trying to start my new life

in a positive way, and I just felt this ex-wife

that was just constantly involved.

It was like this crying for attention.

[phone buzzes]

Then I'd be sitting on the couch, and she'd be calling.

He would just pick it up and be like, ugh, it's Athena.

And there'd be an emergency, and, oh, I need this.

Oh, can you do this?

Just the constant, constant stress

of him and her going back and forth.

It was collective over months and months and months.

I told him, you need to protect me and our relationship.

And that's on you.

You need to give her some boundaries.

♪ ♪

Sydney would say that she could hear them fighting

behind closed doors.

And it was a lot of fighting about me,

a lot of calling me names.

It pisses me off.

I felt like I did everything in my power

to help create some balance in this cop a renting situation.

And nothing was working.

I just... I couldn't do it anymore.

And so I just made the decision, I'm done.

I'm just done.

I felt like maybe if we could get rid of the toxicness

that was in Seattle, maybe if he came to Oregon,

we could cop a rent better in a long distance,

having some space.

When we moved to Oregon, Brandon told me

that we were court ordered to use a parenting app,

and the only way that we could communicate with Athena

was through that app.

You can communicate.

You can coordinate schedules.

There's calendars,

places you can upload pictures.

So when Sydney's at our house, we can upload pictures

of what she's doing.

I knew that in high-conflict relationships,

it was often advised to use a parenting app.

And according to this parenting plan that he gave me,

he told me, Amber, you are not ever, ever to reach out to her

and break this court order.

So I did what the court order told me to do.

So that was it.

You know, for the most part, the app was really good.

Get a little bit frustrated with cop a renting, sure.

She would just make excuses for why

she couldn't drop off or pick up Sydney on our agreed time.

It was like, you can work around my schedule,

is kind of the vibe, really.

So we got married in May of 2017.

It was a very quick and simple wedding in a park.

This was just kind of to make it official

because for me, I wanted to know

how committed he was to me.

Amber's moving back home lit a fire under Brandon,

where all of a sudden, he started coming back

with all the things that she had wanted

and had been asking for.

Amber wanted to have a house and have a family,

and he's finally committing.

So I think that felt good for Amber.

[ominous music]

♪ ♪

It's Halloween, and my phone dings.

I pick it up, and it's a woman asking me

if I was married to Brandon Johnson...

Because he's been trying to date

her friend for a few months.

And she immediately responded with a picture of Brandon

and Avery, her friend.

Stunned, I was absolutely stunned.

It was beyond shocking, what I was hearing.

I called Brandon, but I was not ready

for what I was about to hear.

What is going on?

Who is Avery?

[suspenseful music]

♪ ♪

I immediately reached out to Brandon.

He was in Seattle, and I was in Oregon.

So I said, what is this?

What is this? Who is this?

And he said, she's someone I went to school with.

And I reconnected with her on our ten-year reunion,

and she's been stalking me ever since.

He's like, I don't know what to tell you, Amber.

He's like, I promise.

I promise you that nothing has ever happened.

I've never cheated on you.

He had a full text string of their conversations,

of him repeatedly saying, I'm married.

I can't meet up with you for lunch.

I'm not interested.

You know, just putting her off and showing

that she was a stalker.

And I just couldn't believe this is happening to me,

could not believe it.

We just got married, literally just got married, and now this.

I asked him like, why?

Why didn't you tell me that you were having

a stalking problem with this woman?

I didn't think it was that big of a deal.

I didn't think that it would escalate to this level.

And I said, I wanna talk to her.

Put her on the phone.

And he did.

And she said, I'm so sorry for my friend reaching out to you.

There's never been anything between me and Brandon.

I've always had a crush on him.

But I respect your marriage, and I am so sorry

if there was any misunderstanding.

I'm feeling incredibly insecure.

So after this incident, Brandon went to the court

and said he got a restraining order on Avery.

♪ ♪

It was at that point where I thought

I was at the end of my rope with Athena

and five more crazy things happening.

And it's just... it's never ending.

I mean, I thought I only had one psycho ex to deal with,

and now I have two psycho women to deal with.

Brandon started working for Nike,

and he was gone more than normal.

Then he would send me pictures

flying on the Nike private jet.

Their airport that they fly out of

was about a mile from our new home in Oregon.

So it was very convenient for him.

But he would show me these pictures like, wow,

this is the most incredible private jet.

I just felt something was off.

It was just a lot of bragging, too much this,

too much that, too many stories.

And I don't know. It just didn't sit well.

Here's the Nike offices in LA.

They have this basketball court in there.

And he would just send these pictures.

I thought it was really cool and exciting.

I should be feeling better.

We're married, we have a house,

that things are going well.

I was still suspicious.

There's a woman named Avery that's stalking him.

We have Athena being problematic.

[phone buzzes]

How much more can I take?

And I was just...

I was at the end of my rope at that point.

He said, I have something else to tell you, Amber.

And that's when he said, I have leukemia.

[somber music]

I was shocked, obviously.

You have a million things going through your head.

I... when?

When did this happen?

I felt awful.

Of course, I don't want that to be true.

I don't want him to leave me or our family.

I don't want anything to happen to him.

Brandon was very specific that I was not to tell anyone.

He didn't want his work to know that he had cancer.

He didn't want his daughter to know he had cancer.

I had to be very tight-lipped about it.

I thought, well, how... how interesting.

Amber's really fed up.

I think she was probably getting to that point of being

ready to try to leave, and then all of a sudden, he has cancer.

So to me, it seemed like a convenient time for him

to have cancer.

Brandon immediately lost about 40 to 50 pounds.

He said, I was in stage 1, and it was jumping into stage 2.

When he started doing these treatments,

he said, well, this is a special treatment

only available in Seattle.

And he wouldn't lose his hair, but he was very confident

that in six to eight weeks,

they would get him in remission.

So it was very imperative that he stay in Seattle.

Everything seemed fishy.

Okay, he's just trying to stay up there more.

Super odd that he would never let her

go to a doctor's appointment. -Never once.

Who... most people would want their spouse with them

when they're in the middle of a cancer situation.

Yeah.

And he kept saying, no, no, no, you can't come.

You can't come to my treatments.

And he told me that he had the bloodwork,

the documentation from the doctor.

One night, I could hear him throwing up

in the bathroom violently.

And I ran to the door, and I said, Brandon, are you okay?

Do you need anything?

And he was like, it's the side effects.

It's the side effects.

I stood by him because I was his ride-or-die.

It was right around that time, for whatever reason,

I started thinking about Avery.

Avery lived about an hour outside of Seattle.

It had been months, a few months,

and I had talked to her on the phone.

She said, I respect your marriage,

and I'm so sorry there was any confusion.

So I should have been okay with that.

But for some reason, I started looking online.

And I found her.

There was a picture that she had posted

of Brandon and herself.

And I just... what?

Are you kidding me?

What is this?

You know?

And I reached out to her.

So I reached out to her and asked her,

why are you posting pictures of my husband and you?

And she basically says,

my boyfriend is not married to you.

My boyfriend, Brandon Johnson, is not married to you.

And she proceeds to say he's always been in love with me,

and I don't believe anything that you say.

And I call Brandon, where are you?

I'm... I'm on fire.

I wanna talk this out about Avery and what happened.

And he's saying, she's crazy, she's crazy, she's crazy.

And I said, well, we're gonna get on a FaceTime

with Ms. Avery because she's been

blowing up my phone all night.

He said, you can't contact Avery.

You'll be breaking the restraining order

if you do that.

Avery was not gonna go away that easily,

and she continued to stalk Brandon.

She continued to post pictures.

She continued to violate the restraining order.

And so eventually, I said, this is enough.

This is enough.

Like, she needs to be held accountable

for what she's doing.

So he said, I'm gonna send her to jail.

She's going to jail, tonight.

Brandon left our home in Oregon.

And he said, Amber, they're doing it.

She broke the law one too many times,

and they're ready to arrest her at her home.

And I want to see this.

He said, I need to see it with my own eyes.

She's terrorized me and you and our whole entire family.

So he drove up to Seattle to take a picture

of Avery getting arrested.

And I vividly remember sitting in our living room

with my phone... ding.

And there's Avery with her arms behind her back,

getting arrested.

The thing with Brandon is, weird became the normal.

It really makes you wonder, what is it about this guy

that he has such bad luck with women?

You have a crazy ex-wife.

You have a stalker who's just as crazy.

At a certain point, like, why?

[tense music]

2018, his behavior started to change.

And so while he was living in Oregon with me,

all of a sudden, the work travel was picking up.

And you're going to work with cancer,

and then every single night you're gone

for two to three hours for treatment.

There was more going up to get Sydney.

You know, and I... you know, I'm just so tired, Amber.

I'm not gonna drive back.

I'm just gonna get a hotel in Seattle.

It just... no.

I knew something was off.

Brandon's a very messy guy, and he would always

have mail laying around.

And, you know, I was picking things up

and saw some bills that were for a townhouse up in Seattle

that didn't make sense

and some parking tickets and things of that nature

that was not in line with what he was telling me.

The light bulbs went off, and I was on a mission

to figure out what the truth was, the real truth.

Regardless of the bad blood between myself and Athena,

she... she knew all about Brandon, being an ex-wife.

So I knew that she was someone that I needed to speak with.

I knew that calling Athena would violate

the no-contact order, but I didn't care.

I'm done with being kept away from her.

I need to speak with her.

Out of the blue, I get a text message from Amber,

and she's asking if she could speak with me.

And I'm completely shocked because

I haven't heard from her pretty much in a few years.

We speak, and she continues

to tell me information, what's going on.

I start discussing some of the conversations

that we've had on our FamilyWall app.

What's a fam wall?

And I'm like, you know, the FamilyWall?

What FamilyWall? Athena?

She keeps referencing FamCal thing, or whatever it was,

and I had no idea what that was.

Athena, the one that we've been using for the last year.

I had zero idea what she was talking about.

Brandon told me that according

to this parenting plan court order,

we are to only use the family app.

That was the only way I was communicating with her.

That's when I had to put my foot down.

There is no new parenting plan.

There is no court order.

I really... it took me a second

to believe that she didn't know what I was talking about.

And that's when she said, um, what?

Okay, hold on one second.

She logs in, takes screenshots of all of these messages.

It was a full year back and forth on a regular basis.

And I'm super confused.

And I kept telling her, no, that wasn't me.

What the fuck is going on?

It just... I'm like, what in the hell? Like...

And that's when we uncovered that

Brandon was pretending to be me.

I was like, you...

are you saying that he's being you for the last year?

Holy shit! Holy shit! Okay.

Oh, my God!

For an entire year, all of the messages from Athena,

all the canceled trips, all of it,

every single one of those problematic things

that happened wasn't Athena.

It was Brandon.

It was just so fucking weird.

And I'm just like, you fucking prick.

We were just dying, like, oh, my God!

He went to this length to keep us apart.

He's not even close to the person that I thought he was.

But we knew nothing.

That was just the tip of the iceberg.

[suspenseful music]

♪ ♪

It took a minute for all to sink in.

I had this feeling in this pit in my stomach.

He messed with my head the worst way possible.

My reaction was shock.

This had gone on for over a year

that he had that much time,

the back and forth conversations

that he had created between us.

Reading the content of what I was supposedly saying,

that really pissed me off

because he was portraying me terribly.

I... I couldn't even fathom that Brandon would

actually pretend to be Athena.

[sighs] Shock. I was shocked.

It's so strange how your brain...

it's almost like it goes blank, like you're mad,

but you're just... I... I don't even know what to think.

Like, what else?

♪ ♪

Me and Athena came together and compared stories

and just start throwing stuff out.

What about this? What about that?

What do you know about this?

And we just turned into these, like, FBI agents.

It was like all the dots were starting to connect.

Like, if... if this was a lie, was that a lie?

I had zero clue that Brandon and Amber ever got married.

And I just was like, ah, yep, we absolutely are.

Let me show you our marriage license.

So Brandon also claims that I ran up a bunch of debt

on his credit card.

And another lie.

To my knowledge, he never had a credit card

that I was ever aware of.

I remember telling Athena about Brandon's job with Nike

and that it was sending him all over the place

on a private jet.

Well, that was a lie.

And the pictures that he sent me,

those were pulled from the internet.

There was always more and more

and more information that we didn't know

that Brandon was doing.

So I told Athena that what Brandon told me

was that she cheated on him right before they got married.

He cheated on me.

I was the one that divorced Brandon

and not the other way around.

And incredibly, it turns out Avery wasn't a stalker at all.

She was actually Brandon's girlfriend.

Those messages that Brandon showed me,

they weren't from her.

That woman I spoke to on the phone who I thought was Avery,

well, it wasn't her at all.

I have absolutely no idea who I actually spoke with.

The picture of Avery getting arrested,

yet another pull from the internet.

Avery clearly was someone he was cheating on me with.

I told Athena about Avery, and Sydney said

that she had a bedroom at Avery's house,

and she was not allowed to tell anyone about Avery

or having any bedroom in her home.

And I had zero clue.

That once again pissed me off.

Brandon's having an affair and making her lie.

It was... it was heartbreaking.

Yeah.

I explained to her that at the beginning

of their relationship, he had told me he had lung cancer.

He had given me documents.

I cried at this restaurant, feeling sad for him.

I absolutely told her about the leukemia,

and she was dumbfounded. She... she had no idea.

And it was all kind of coming together that there was a theme

going on with his stories.

And it made us question whether these illnesses

were actually even real.

Brandon was just a master of tech.

So he could create email threads, fake message threads.

He would draft up medical records.

One of the craziest parts of

was that she had no idea that Brandon actually married me

and moved to Oregon.

I didn't even know they lived in Oregon.

Sydney was absolutely being shipped from Seattle

to Oregon multiple times.

He was making my daughter lie.

He was driving up and down from state to state.

He was waking her up at the butt crack of dawn,

putting her in the car, and flying up here with her

and forcing her to lie.

It was a clear disconnect.

Every single thing we were saying, we couldn't align with.

I was told this, but I was told this.

You know, it was just... it was the most bizarre thing ever.

From the very beginning, from the first time

Amber and I meet, Brandon was already

creating false narratives to make sure that

we did not like each other.

He had tricked Amber and made her

believe all of these things.

He said I would call or text him at all hours of the night.

But really, the ping on the phone

was him probably messaging one of his, you know,

mistresses or other secret girlfriends,

and he just used me to further enhance the evil witch Athena.

Brandon put me through 15 years of hell.

I met Brandon in 2007.

At the start, he just ticked a lot of my boxes,

and we had a lot in common.

The dating period didn't last very long.

Then shortly after he moved in, and then

a little bit after that, they were pregnant with my sister.

July of 2011, Brandon and I were married.

On the outside, Brandon and I appeared

like the all-American good-looking couple,

married, two children.

But on the inside, it couldn't be further from the truth.

And it was nothing as people probably imagined it was.

After they were married, it got pretty rocky

pretty quickly.

And we just kind of tiptoed around it.

From the beginning, he was always really

weird about our relationship.

He wasn't affectionate at all.

All he ever did was tell me what I was doing wrong

but never told me what I was doing right.

Watching Brandon's behavior towards Lexus,

it felt malicious.

And I said, like, knock this shit off.

And the way he acted towards me, that was horrible.

He was becoming increasingly controlling,

isolating me, accusing me of cheating on him.

And that's when I found out he cheated on me.

I discovered a phone that Brandon had

to communicate with another woman, and I read the text.

And he connects with this woman.

She sleeps in the hotel room. They have sex.

That was... that was the final straw.

I was done.

The marriage was awful, but when it started to end

is when things got really scary, really bad.

He refused to move out.

He did anything he could to try to win my mom back.

There was a time where I was upstairs.

I looked out my bedroom window, and he was in the backyard

at my swing set, trying to tie a noose to hang himself.

Threats of suicide and self-harm,

it is something he did multiple times with me.

And it was definitely a form of emotional abuse

and another form of control.

Finally, I just kicked his ass out of my house,

and he flipped from manipulating me to win me back

to now wanting to be in control,

of scaring me in a way to control me in a different way.

There's that quick change in his demeanor,

this coldness about him, the darkness

that kind of comes over him in his face, his eyes.

When he felt backed into a corner,

he would almost explode out of his skin.

I was really worried for my mom's safety.

I remember him punching holes in the walls,

slamming doors, just explosive behavior...

trapping me, holding me by my arms, not letting me leave.

I don't feel like he's in control of himself.

And I didn't know what he was capable of.

When he finally moved out,

I was always looking over my shoulder.

He's showing up everywhere I am.

Any time of day, work week, weekend, it didn't matter.

He wanted to make sure he knew what was going on every day.

Brandon went out of his way to sabotage everything...

I mean, essentially ruining my life, my reputation.

He creates the most disgusting,

horrible things about me, that I'm a whore.

I'm a terrible mom.

And then, um... [sniffles]

[indistinct]

What hurts the worst is him telling Sydney, our daughter,

I cheated on him, and that he divorced me,

and that he struggled with that big time.

And this change happened in her.

And she didn't wanna respect me anymore.

A huge part of me wanted to go, no, no, no.

Your dad did this. Your dad did this.

I'm not the one, I swear.

But a good mom would never do that.

And I knew that.

But he even lied to her.

She was three years old. Three.

And that just continued.

But he was essentially brainwashing her.

That is an evil soul.

By the time I finished talking with Athena,

I knew that Brandon was a sick and disturbed person.

I went straight to my social media,

and I posted something to the effect of,

be aware of who you end up marrying

because you may not know who they are.

And within a day, I had a woman reach out to me

and said, I need to talk to you.

Well, women like to talk,

and that's exactly what was happening.

The word was getting out in Seattle.

While it's a big city, it's actually a very small city.

So, you know, we were hearing from multiple women.

So very, very quickly, you know,

the floodgates opened, and more and more women

started coming out because we were all talking now.

All these women that are now coming forward,

they are all women that Brandon

is currently having affairs with

or was while in a relationship with Amber.

What I was hearing from these women,

some of them were saying they were stalked.

Some talked about having to get a restraining order on him.

It was absolutely horrifying.

I decided to do a deep dive into Brandon.

We initially thought we were gonna discover a few lies,

but what we uncovered was so much more than that.

Brandon had multiple protection orders

filed on him, dating all the way back to 1997.

I was stunned. I had zero clue.

Amber and I are now questioning,

why the hell don't we know this?

In detail was some pretty horrific facts

from these women.

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What is incredibly shocking is that

these restraining orders span decades...

the '90s, the 2000s, 2010s.

He's been doing this since he was a very young man.

The first restraining order

was from when he was 19 years old.

When I discovered what Brandon had done

and all the lies, I really just had two concerns...

one, how to help Athena protect her daughter,

and two, how to get away from him.

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You know, it... it did not sink into my head yet.

I felt, in a way, that he was never gonna treat me like that,

because he hadn't yet.

And naive as it sounds, I really didn't think

that he would ever do something like that to me...

until he did.

He's going to crack and explode.

Why are you doing this to me?

Please let me go. Please let me go.

He really is a monster.

Shut up. God!

What the fuck?

He's gonna take her to punish me.

Or I fucking shoot your fucking head off.

Fuck him.

We're gonna tell everyone what he did.

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