Transcript of You Got Served

We want to speak out and we want this to stop. Wow. Very powerful.

I'm Ellie Flynn, an investigative journalist, and this is my journey deep into the adult entertainment industry.

I really wanted to be a playboy, my doll. He was like,

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Jared has much to do and little time to do it. He intends to get the donation money back to anyone who wants it. He intends to get a lawyer to help him get out of his marriage with Christie. All the while, he believes Christie may have his missing pistol. But then, another twist enters the story.

Jared's mother-in-law, Sheila, wants to confront her daughter to check if Christie indeed has a c scar or if it's all a lie. But Sheila wants a psychologist present, knowing her daughter's fractured state. Jared, kindhearted to a fault, agrees to meet with a psychologist.

Long story short, we're in a car for it's a couple hours. I'm sitting in a car with her. I'm like, how did I get roped into this? Tell her the whole story, go through the whole 9 yards, tell her every little detail. It's just because she's kinda doing what we're doing and going through, hey, what happened here exactly?

And I'm giving her the whole entire kick and caboodle there.

The psychologist who was originally on board to help confront and talk to Christie, who now knows Jared is missing a firearm, who now knows the entire truth of what Jared has endured at the hands of his wife, gives Jared the following advice.

She basically said, your wife's bat shit crazy. You need to run as fast as you fucking can and never look back. Monday morning, go drain your bank accounts and go get a lawyer. At the end of the day, the psychologist was like, I'm not going down there. I'm gonna get in my car and leave without even talking to Sheila and her husband.

The psychologist decided after talking to Jared, going with Sheila to confront Christy was not going to be therapeutic. In fact, it could have been flat out dangerous. But how did she enter the picture in the first place? Here's Jared.

So Saturday night, I actually ended up going back to the rental house. She's sitting on the couch watching some movies. I'm only there maybe 15 minutes. I get a call from my father. Hey.

Meet me come meet me up at the bar up the road maybe 2 miles.

Jared's dad, David, didn't tell him why he wanted to meet, because he was afraid if Jared had him on speakerphone that Christy would hear what he was about to say, which was that Sheila had told him that Christy had faked a miscarriage in the past. Meanwhile, David had no idea that Jared already knew there were no changes. From what I can tell, David really just wanted Sheila to go down to the house and check to see if Christy had had a c section. That's what he wanted Sheila to do.

She had a c section. She should be cut. She should still be in the hospital.

Sheila apparently wanted the psychologist to be with her when she confronted Christy, and Sheila asked David if Jared would be willing to meet with her first.

My father actually called and said, hey. Your wife's mother and stepfather are there with a psychologist. They're gonna go down and confront Christie about all the lies, check for a c section. And long story short, ends up this psychologist gets in my car and wants to talk to me before she goes down and sees Christie. Yeah.

And it was, hey. I'm sorry to hear what happened. We just want you to make sure she's okay. I'm like, be careful going down there. At this point, I I actually tell her, hey.

I'm missing a firearm too, And through this entire episode, I haven't told anyone. I'm it's in the back of my mind. Hey. What happens if she has that gun? She she's already suicidal.

I'm worried about it, and I'm like, don't go down there unless you're you feel safe.

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The psychologist obviously didn't feel safe, and neither did Jared. We tried to get an interview with this psychologist who was initially responsive, but went radio silent after several attempts on our part to make a plan to meet. Jared has now told someone all that he knew, how he was feeling. And although initially he went home to the rental and spent 15 minutes with Christy, he was now having second thoughts about staying the night with Christie. He made an excuse to go to his parents.

Sat Saturday was the first night I didn't stay with her. I ended up telling her, I'm sorry. I was drinking and fell asleep on the couch, which was flat out lie. I was not drinking. I didn't sleep.

But it was now his turn, out of necessity, to lie.

Of course, my mind's running a 100 mile an hour. Hey. What's gonna happen? How do I keep this up? How How can I keep these lies without her finding out?

I mean, it's just the the pressure was kinda on. So Sunday is kinda when things start going south with her. I know, babe, it's gonna be hard, but we're gonna get through this.

I find a therapist that specializes in infant loss. I will be going.

That's good, babe.

Are you coming home to stay tonight?

I don't

think I can tonight. I'm gonna find someone to talk to and get an appointment.

Okay. I hope you can sleep. I love you.

I love you too.

I told them not to worry about staying. My brother should be here soon. I understand that you don't want to be around me right now. I won't do anything stupid. I just need time to cry and hurt, and I can't with people here.

Give Ada a hug for me. Good night.

Sunday, I ended up, going helping my dad. We were cleaning up the house. I had to keep up. Hey. I'm trying to get a house on here.

Still trying to work toward that. Hey. Here's what I'm doing. I'm not gonna have my phone.

Jared's lies and his distance from Christie continues as he plotted through the weekend. Monday couldn't come soon enough.

Jared, please answer my call. Please answer your phone. It's important. 8 is chasing deer up in the woods. Please answer.

Jared, she ran up over the hill and needs you to answer.

But Jared's distance only raised her suspicions further.

Doesn't seem like you care, but we finally got her after 30 minutes. Drop and hurt your parents, and then I'm leaving. I have therapy and stuff later. I hope you get whatever you need because I'm highly upset now and pissed off because I just had to chase her, and I thought I was gonna lose her. And I've been worried about your ass for the last 12 hours.

And at that point, I stopped replying so often. I did set my phone down every half hour, so I check it, say 1 word answers back, like, hey. I'm fine. She's going on and on. Like, hey.

You need to pay attention to me. I'm like, listen. I need my space just like you you have your way of coping. This is mine. I need a little bit of space.

And she kind of understood it, but you could tell there was like a something was nagging at her.

Jared has spent the bulk of 2 days away from his wife. Her suspicions now in overdrive, and Monday has finally come.

Monday, the wheels fall off the wagon. I mean, it just goes completely haywire because I know I have to make it to the lawyers. I have to make it to the bank and before she finds out what's going on.

Jared, please think about it. We both lost our kids, not just you.

I mean, it's like a whole new person was born. And she's losing her mind. Here is where I find out she's driving around looking for me. She's calling my brothers and sisters. She shows up in my parents' shop.

She's threatening to pack up everything that she owns at this rental house. She's gonna let my dog out, and I didn't really know what was gonna happen. I'm getting phone calls out to Wahoo. I can't even talk to my lawyer on the phone by the time it it's just beep beep beep, and you can't hear a conversation when you're getting a call like that, and it it was insane.

And it was about to get worse. We made several attempts to reach out to people in Christie's camp. We wanted to see the story through the lens of someone who knew Christie intimately. Was everything Jared told us the truth? Were there things he missed?

No 1 from Christie's world was willing to talk to us until we found Jenny, a hairstylist who at the time was Christie's best friend.

So Christie's ex fiance would come in with his son, and Christy would come in with them occasionally and get their haircut. And then 1 day, she just appeared and came in and got her hair colored and cut, and she started crying. And I asked her what was wrong, and she said that they were no longer together. She said that they broke up, and she was pregnant with this child. And I was like, oh, okay.

And then I guess that's where our friendship began. There was a time where she was having a miscarriage, and I do remember going to her apartment because we lived apartments away from each other. We all lived in same building type thing. Very weird. I know.

I remember going to her house after she said that she was getting the DNC. And she was I saw blood. I did see blood. But I never she never showed me, like, any proof of ultrasounds or anything like that. Just the 1 that she had put on Facebook.

Christie had posted a sonogram photograph of the baby she was expecting with her ex. But when Jenny went back to look for it on Facebook, it was gone. Jenny was very candid about her initial impressions of Christy.

Can I cuss?

You can cuss.

This bitch is crazy. There were some times where I was like, what is happening? What is going on? Like, it just seemed like she was go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, 20 4 7. Like, 20 4 7.

It was go.

But it wasn't just Christy's excessive energy that struck Jenny. She was warned not to be friends with Christy.

Yeah. There was I I obviously did my Facebook stalking before I became friends. And there was people telling me don't don't be friends with her. And I ignored it because she didn't seem that way towards me.

Jenny and Christy had a fast friendship, and Jenny genuinely loved Christy as a friend. But that didn't stop the warnings from coming in. People telling Jenny that Christy's crazy and a liar.

Like, she's crazy. Like, she Lies. She lies about, like, the like, being pregnant. And I'm like, there's no way. Like, I saw an ultrasound.

And I'm like, now I'm thinking back. When I asked to see that ultrasound again, she she wouldn't show me.

The person who was filling Jenny's head with reasons not to be friends with Christie was Christie's ex fiance's brother's girlfriend, that same ex fiance who was the reason that Christi and Jenny met, the same ex fiance Christi said she was pregnant by when the 2 became friends.

A girl that dated her ex fiance's brother. So she knew the family pretty well, and she was like, no. Like, don't. At first, I was thinking like, oh, okay. Like, I'll see how this goes.

Because she seemed nice, and I thought other girl was just, like, not wanting me to be friends with her because she didn't want me to be friends with her. And that wasn't the case. She really was telling the truth.

Everything Jenny tells me about how Christy and Jared met and started hanging out didn't have any new revelations. It was everything we already knew. But then something interesting came up out of her retelling.

COVID hit. We're having a party, and I was making drinks. Christy was drinking, and she started getting sick. And she was stirring up all day, It seemed like and close to the end where everyone was leaving and stuff, me and Jared's mom were sitting there saying, like, oh, like, what's going on? Maybe she was at the hospital.

And then Christy comes out, and Jared's mom says, maybe you're pregnant. I was making the joke, and I said, yeah. I was twins. And I think that's where it started, if I'm being honest, and she just went with it. The next morning, I get a phone call, probably she always called me so early in the morning, like, 7 o'clock, somewhere in there.

And she called me and she said, you're never gonna guess this. And I was like, what?

Christie was pregnant, this time by Jared.

Then it seemed like couple weeks went by, and she called me again real early in the morning. And she goes, I'm gonna kill you. And I'm like, why? And she goes, because I found out what I'm having. Like, how many?

I go, are you having 1? She goes, no. I'm having 2. I said, you're joking.

She said she's gonna kill you as if you were the jinx?

It was the jinx for sure. Next thing that happened, they got engaged. Not only was I in the wedding, she had asked me to be her maid of honor. And I said no. Because I don't like being in the spot like like that.

I not me at all. I don't even like wearing dresses. But I I sucked it up, and I did it. It was beautiful. It was a dream it was a dream morning.

It was everything anyone could've asked for. I know Jared's mom and family and friends worked so hard. I myself worked very hard on helping and doing and preparing for that wedding. There were days where I would literally just go up after whatever I was doing.

Jenny doesn't like to be the center of attention. She doesn't like a lot of pictures taken of her. She doesn't post a lot to social media, something she and her former best friend did not have in common.

Everything, and I mean everything, was social media. Anything that they did, anything that she was thinking, shared. She She was constantly sharing. She was constantly posting pictures. Anytime they'd go out or any family functioning, picture, picture, picture, picture.

Anything about the babies, picture.

Jared and Jenny aren't the only ones who thought Christy's obsession with social media was excessive. Gretchen did too.

As a, like, as a person even, like, I'm not I know parents, if you have a kid that goes into the NICU, you don't take those pictures and post them right away. You wanna make sure things, you know, settle down, go smoothly. I see it all the time, and she was just posting that.

Technically, Jared was posting the photos, but he was more like the other parents Gretchen describes. His instinct was to not post the photos of his newborn twins.

He didn't

want to. He initially said no. But Christy wanted those photos up on social media, and she would not relent regardless of the fact that they weren't her babies, and she had no twins of her own.

And I remember this 1 game night, she said I just got a text from my mom saying she's she's moving tomorrow and she's not gonna ever see our baby. It was just odd timing, which I guess, you know, sometimes families happen like that, but yeah. It's just very dramatic.

Christie didn't have a real relationship with her dad as far as we were aware. We knew that he doesn't live too far away and that Jared's father David and he were friends growing up, but he did not attend Jared and Christy's wedding.

I I never asked about history of Christie. Like, I never asked

about

her father. I knew she didn't have a relationship with him. I never asked about him. I never asked why. I never asked about her mom.

If she were to tell me, yes, that would have been fine. But I'm not I'm not 1 to cry.

Henry, of course, had a strong opinion of Sheila, and it wasn't a positive 1.

Like if, like if somebody said their kid's an asshole, I always say if you plant corn, you get corn. Corn. So the parent must be an asshole.

Jenny also felt pretty strongly that Christie experienced trauma in her childhood. That trauma helped shape the woman

We want to speak out. We want to raise awareness, and we want this to stop.

Wow. Very powerful.

I'm Ellie Flynn, and I'm an investigative journalist. When a group of models from the UK wanted my help, I went on a journey deep into the heart of the adult entertainment industry.

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Because at the center of this murky world is an alleged predator.

You know who he is because of his pattern of behavior.

He's just spinning the web for you

to get trapped in it. He's everywhere and has been everywhere.

It's so much worse and so much more widespread than

I had anticipated. Together, we're going to expose him and the rotten industry he works in.

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We were driving to Walmart to get supplies for the rental house, and we were passing a hospital. But on that road, there's, like, a bunch of houses that you can rent. And she goes, that house was the house that our mom pulled Christy by her hair and wouldn't let her go to the hospital to tell her tell to tell the hospital what was going on in the house.

It was Christy's younger sister that was telling Jenny the story as they drove past their old rental house.

I'm assuming because of mental abuse, physical abuse, all the above. I think that was the little sister's way of telling me that she wasn't up there, like, right because of

Whether she got the help she was seeking, we'll never know.

But this was not the only story of abuse and trauma

that we heard Christy experienced as a child. Henry recounts an extremely disturbing story of something young Christy witnessed at the hands of her mother, Sheila.

Her old man, they got back together, and they tried to work things out. And then she went fast shit crazy and run off the reservation and shot and killed all the farmers and Tried to burn her house down. Oh, yeah. She's certifiable. The mother is.

Like, slaughtered them in front of the kids. Yeah. It was, it was pretty crazy.

Henry claims Sheila got into a fight with her partner, was so enraged that she shot and killed her animals in front of her children, and then tried to set their house on fire. Another coincidence or a family pattern? Jenny also noticed an odd relationship between Christy and her mom, Sheila, specifically when they went wedding dress shopping together. It was Jenny, Christy, her mom, and her grandmother that participated.

I don't remember the exact conversation that I had with Christy about her mother, but I knew her mom was not the best mom. I think it was whenever we went wedding dress shopping. That was the first time I think I met her mom, and it was a little off. Everything was off that day, if I'm gonna be honest. I think the mom wanted it to be her way, like, everything to be about, like, the mom.

I feel like me myself, I'm, I guess, the protective friend. So, like, I will voice my opinion if I feel like it's needed.

Jenny's opinion was that Sheila was too focused on what she would like to wear rather than what Christy would feel good in, that she was being insensitive about the fact that Christy was a pregnant bride with a growing belly.

And I did have a conversation with Christy, and I was like, you know, like, this is your stuff. You, like, do what you wanna do, wear what you wanna wear, you know, like, you need to be comfortable that day because however far along she was, she could have been bigger,

you know?

And I I just wanted her to feel comfortable. Her grandma on her dad's side was there, and she I feel like she felt more comfortable with her there versus her mom being there.

It's Monday morning, and Jared has a lot to get done.

So Monday morning rolls up. 7:30 in the morning, I'm sitting at the bank parking lot waiting to go through the drive through because during all this, you couldn't go to banks because of COVID. So I'm sitting in the bank waiting for this bank to open up. Christie wasn't awake yet, so I'm not getting these phone calls. At this point, I had already went and called a lawyer.

I was waiting on a phone call back.

I would say he was sad. Yeah. He was sad and disappointed and maybe a little embarrassed.

This is Jared's lawyer again, Melissa. When she first met with Jared, she could not believe

what he was telling her.

I would say disbelief and sad. I had heard of phantom pregnancy, but I had seen the photos, and I was shocked.

Melissa actually knew Jared, though she had not seen him in over a decade. Before Melissa decided to go to law school, she worked at a preschool with Jared's mom, a preschool that Jared himself attended. And even though she liked Jared's mom very much, once she left to attend law school, they did not stay in touch.

And the fire that occurred with the home, I'm not friends with his family on Facebook because I hadn't seen them in so long. But I saw the GoFundMe on Facebook days before he came in. So when he came in, I started putting at least the fire and him together, and I was like, that's a lot to handle. And then my feeling was I am going to do everything I can to protect him, and I am going to try to resolve this for him with the least amount of pain possible that I can on the legal end.

So I end up 8:30 rolls around, I'm first 1 in line, and the problems begin. We get into we have this new license that you got because my old license burned up in the fire. Oh,

dear.

So the only picture they have on file is from when I was 16 years old. There was a 8 year difference there. So they they have to call my main bank. My main bank didn't open till 9 o'clock, so I have to sit there for a half hour.

Jared, please answer my call. Please answer your phone. It's important.

So, of course, now Christy's awake. I'm getting phone calls. So it ends up I'm I'm like, hey. I wanna withdraw all my money. They're like, it's Monday morning.

We don't have enough money in the bank to give this to you. Like, it's it's my money. Why can't I get it?

Jared is set on a course of getting back the money from the donations, but Christie has not been served, and she's threatening to leave.

Jared had never been involved in a

lawsuit, which is what an annulment is. Melissa had to impress upon him that in order for service of process to be effective, they need to serve her in person, and neither 1 of them effective, they need to serve her in person, and neither 1 of them can do it. The time for ignoring Christy

ends now. I I told him, I'm afraid she's gonna run. We're not gonna get her served, and this is going to take a long time, and I wanted this to be done for him.

They're like, hey, we can give you this much money, but you'll have to go to another branch. Ends up, I go to a second branch. Now, they're already open. I get in line. Phone's blowing up still because she's getting alerts that there's money coming out of these accounts.

I saw

you drain the bank account. I don't know what's going on, but you need to talk to me.

My bank calls, but they're like, what are you doing? I'm like, I'm draining my accounts. They're like, well, why?

I have no idea what's going on. I'm a mess, and you are too. I need you to talk to me. It's fine if you don't care about me or wanna be around me or love me or can't even look at me. My paycheck goes into our account.

Not much because maternity leave, but it feels like you have run away and left me with nothing. I'm worried about you. Please just answer me.

They get the sense of something's wrong because, I mean, I go to my I walk in my bank every Friday so that they know me by name. It's a small town. They're like, has your account been compromised? I say, yes. I think my account's been jeopardized.

They're like, okay. Go to this bank next. They'll have as much money as they can give you set aside, and then you come here and we should have the rest for you.

But Jared wasn't the only 1 at the bank. Contrary to what she was saying in her text messages, Christy wasn't just sitting at home getting alerts that Jared was taking money out of their bank accounts or driving to his parents' shop looking for him. Christy was at the bank too.

When that day happened, she was at my apartment that morning. And that morning, we went to the bank. And she wanted to take all this money out from all the donations and all that stuff. And come to find out in the morning, Jared already got

to it

and left her with $4,000.

I just need some time. I will meet you at some point today.

You took everything, and I have no money. What are your plans? Are we done? Are you leaving me with nothing?

I will talk to you later. I just need to think.

Melissa prepared the paperwork for an emergency annulment based on fraud. Annulments are rarely filed, and emergency annulments are even more rare. That's because in an annulment,

unlike a divorce, there are very high standards to prove

to the state that the

a couple minutes, and I will call you back. So I'm driving around, tending to the spot to go by. Hey, come up to my office. We need to go over to the courthouse. I have these emergency annulment papers drawn up for you.

You need to bring this much money in cash. We can't do a check because they put a hold on it. So I run up there, meet her, we we run over to the courthouse, get these papers signed, then I'm like, okay, what do what do I do now? She goes, we have to get someone who can go and serve her. She says, hey, I can't do it.

You can't do it. Let me call my daughter.

In case you're wondering, Jared grew up with Melissa's daughter as well. Did you go to preschool with her?

I didn't. Actually, I think I probably did.

Ada's at the rental house. I have her water and the last food packet there was. I love you always. I left, and I'm out of your

life. So as we're driving, Christie's blowing up my phone. Still saying, hey. I'm done with you. I'm tired of you not answering me.

You won't tell me where you are. I've been worried sick. You're withdrawing money. What what's going on? The lawyer then tells me, hey.

You need to answer the phone. I don't know why I had sticky notes in my car, but my lawyer's writing on sticky notes.

Jared was frantic, and they needed to be covert. The sticky notes were Melissa's way to guide Jared into getting Christy to come meet.

And, of course, I'm still trying to drive, but I'm having this conversation, and Christy can't know that someone else is at the car. Please, Christy. I do want to meet.

I knew how to get her there because if I were a female reaching out to my spouse or significant other and they had not been responding and I became suspicious, I knew what would bring me to come and meet them. I knew what I would what I would listen to.

Go. You've left me with nothing and scared me to death today. I had no idea where you are or what you're doing.

I'm just driving around. You know that's what I do to think.

I don't know if you remember, but I can't drive. I don't have a car or a house or any of my stuff. You also drained over 20,000?

Chrissy has told Jared that she is packed, ready to go, and she is leaving. As he sits in his truck at the bank drive through waiting for the last of the donation money, Jared and Chrissy have a phone call while Melissa continues to essentially help him woo a livid Christie into meeting.

This is all while I'm sitting in a drive through. So the this bank is hearing my entire conversation. I don't know what gossip was going on in that bank. Needless to say, I end up answering the phone, telling her all these things. Hey.

I I just needed some time. I love you. Let's meet at the parking lot. At this point, she also has my dog. I mean, that's about the only thing left that I have that that's mine.

It's it's my dog.

Chrissy told Jared she's going to let his dog, Ada, loose.

The emotions, I'm I'm furious. I'm afraid my dog's not gonna be around. Is she is she gonna shoot my dog? Because I mean, that that gun is still missing. She goes, okay.

I'll meet you. So we go to the parking lot. I pull up right next to the car. I'm probably 4 spaces away. I pull up.

There's no cars in between us. I get out. I'm walking toward the car.

It was under it was under an overpass. It was it it very much could be a movie like setting.

She opens the car door and up pulls my lawyer's daughter. Christy goes, who's that? I go, I don't know. Why don't you ask him? So the lawyer's daughter goes, hey.

Are you Christy Akran? She goes, yeah. Why? You have been served. I run to the car.

I never shut the car. If I run to the car, shut the door, and drive off. I don't say a word, I'm headed straight to the rental house to go check on my dog, get the dog, and get out of there as fast as I can because to get in there, it's only 1 way. The the end of the road is blocked off. As I'm driving too, I I call my lawyer alert.

She's like, hey. As soon as you do it, block her.

Okay.

These last 3 messages I get, and then this is verbatim. And this was 2 minutes after I served her. I'm I'm driving,

running red lights. She has an annulment some annulment papers

in the car.

She has the annulment papers. The 3 texts I got are, and and unquote.

Are you serious? What did I do to you? I have no words to say to you.

I really wanted to respond, but I knew better. See you later. Never. And I and I have not spoken a word to her.

We want to speak out. We want to raise awareness, and we want this to stop.

Wow. Very powerful.

I'm Ellie Flynn, and I'm an investigative journalist. When a group of models from the UK wanted my help, I went on a journey deep into the heart of the adult entertainment industry.

I really wanted to be

a playboy model. Lingerie, topless. I said, yes, please.

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As for Jared's beloved dog, Ada

Dog ends up being fine. I get her in a car, and I just drive. I don't know where I can go. I don't know what Christie's gonna do.

And as far as that missing gun goes, Christie never had it. Jared did.

I did end up finding the gun. So that was that was huge. It was it was a couple weeks after, and I'm cleaning out my car. I reach under the seat and grab trash out from under there. I feel the gun.

I'm like, oh my goodness. All that worry for nothing. And then then I start retracing my steps. It just it was always in the back of my mind. Where's that gun?

And I don't know if it was because she was in this mental instability or she had that mental instability and suicidal, and I didn't know. It was it set my mind, and I just wanna make sure everyone else knew about it too before they were put in danger.

In the aftermath of Monday's events, Jared sat down to write a letter. It was nearly 3,000 words. In it, he pours his heart out, his way of trying to make things right with the community.

To whom it may concern.

I had Jared read me the entire letter. Here he is reading some excerpts from the donations he and Christie received after the fire.

1st, I'd like to thank everyone for the help, prayers, and donations for my family in the fire on Sunday, December 6th. I'm trying to

contact everyone individually who

donated in a timely

fashion to thank them and see if

they have questions. To the night of the births. She told me they couldn't find a heartbeat and she had to have an emergency c section and I wasn't allowed in. I sat in the car waiting until I received a phone call from her saying that both children were born and both are healthy, and they had some fluid in their lungs and they were on oxygen. I got all the dates, waits for the Facebook post.

To Christie's arrest at the hospital.

2 officers walked her out of the car and told me that she was no longer allowed on property unless she has an appointment.

And finally, the moment when he uncovered the truth.

A doctor who calls me back and explains that Christy was never pregnant. There is a condition called a phantom pregnancy, and a woman can trick her body into looking and acting pregnant.

He ended the letter with a heartfelt plea and apology to all that were affected by the tragedy.

I want everyone to know that I am very sorry, and I had no idea about any of this. 1 day, I was going to have a family, and the next, I have no family or home. I want to apologize to all that have been hurt or feel betrayed, but I wanna set the record straight and at least try to give some relief to the rumors and that the children did not pass away. I would appreciate it if you could please respect my family and my privacy at this time as we mourn all of the losses that we have incurred. Sincerely, Jared Akron.

As much as Jared was bothered by Christie's obsession with social media during their marriage, he saw it as a useful tool in this moment. He would post this letter to Facebook.

That that may have been the hardest thing I've ever had to write, and it was even harder to click that send button to put that out there into the world for everyone to see. And once I saw how many people actually saw it and shared it, it was even more than the the fire itself. Really? Did a post about that and the Venmo's and all that. It was I I don't know what words can really describe how I feel other than that was the hardest thing I've done.

I wish I kinda know we were gonna do that, and I don't know if I would've said yes to doing this because that that's how strongly it still hits me. And, like, I feel myself sinking into my chair, and it's it's a tough thing to for me to sit here and still talk to you.

You wanna take a minute?

I think we can actually, I think I would.

Okay. With the donation money safely now in Jared's possession, he wanted everyone who donated to have an opportunity to get their donations back. Any donations he was still receiving by check, he immediately mailed back.

So I guess jumping back into the donations and what I decided to do there, I felt it was appropriate, and I want I didn't I didn't want all this money if it wasn't meant for me. So I I started the process of sending these checks that were still coming in the mail to my address and being dropped off to me. I decided that I'm gonna send them back. I just put a return post on there, put the stamp on Mhmm. Send them back to these people.

And to my surprise, it it it kinda left me flabbergasted. About a week and a half later, I start getting the same donation sent back to me.

Dear Jared.

Dear Jared. But instead of being in Christy and I's name, it's just written in my name, which and it was people that were closer to her than to me. It it was it was a weird thing. Now some people did keep their money, which

Fine. By

all means, that it's your money. I didn't expect it back or anything like that, but it was very heartwarming, and it was a funky feeling. Dear Jared, we got your letter. Thank you. But we cannot accept our check back.

Keep your head up.

Dear Jared, I hope this helps after all you've been through. And it wasn't just checks that Jared was getting. It was people's thoughts and well wishes.

And I think the other big thing was that I actually put that letter, I printed it out and put it in there with that check. The little notes I got back, I still have them all, honestly. They they I don't wanna say I wanna look at them, because I don't know how I'll react again.

But something made you keep them.

But something made me keep them, and it I don't know why.

And while Jared was starting to see a path forward, he was still picking up the pieces of being lied to for 9 months. And the question that kept rattling around in my head, had Christie lied about anything else?

I've really been waiting for you to ask these questions. I mean, it's I I could go on the rest of the time we have here. I don't even know where to start.

Next time on The Unborn.

It's the money. I think she was trying

to steal a baby and

sell it for the money.

And I had said to her multiple times, you need to stop that. Like, you need to block him, delete him, do whatever, like, just be done.

Just think what she could have done if she was up to good.

That car they bought was brand new, and somehow it has 20 some 1000 miles on it. They've only had it for 4 months. So how did that happen?

It could be that. It could be the money. It could have been the faking everything. It could have been because they faked it in the donations of the fire, of the babies. It could have been it could have been all of that.

It's just like a snowball effect that the lies that continue to come out, and I didn't see any of that.

That's next time. The unborn. The unborn is a production of Iheart podcasts, Audio Up, and Jesuits Press productions. Created by Trisha Laffache and Frank Rodriguez Mal. Produced by Alvin Cohen and Rachel Foley.

Executive produced by Jimmy Jelinek, David Thwaites, and Jared Gustave. Edited by Gerard Bauer and Preston Dawson. Sound design and mixing by Jeremiah Zimmerman.

We want to speak out and we want this to stop.

Wow. Very powerful.

I'm Ellie Flynn, an investigative journalist, and this is my journey deep into the adult entertainment industry.

I really wanted to be a playboy, my doll.

He was like, I'll take you to the top. I'll make

you a star. To expose an alleged predator and the rotten industry he works in. It's honestly so much worse than I

had anticipated. We're an army in comparison to him.

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