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The Unborn

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The Fire

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Speaker 1

The morning of December sixth, twenty twenty was a day Jared, We'll never forget because it was the day of the fire.

Speaker 2

Christy, my wife, ended up waking me up.

I remember seeing smoke hovering above the bed.

It was like a hazy, almost a fog looking smoke.

It was see through gray.

I don't know why I remember that vivid detail.

I tell her, go get the dog, get Ada, take her outside, make sure you're safe away from the house.

I'm gonna grab a few things, see if it's a small fire.

Speaker 1

But it wasn't a small fire.

Speaker 2

I opened that spare bedroom door that was shut.

There was a huge cloud of black smoke that just kind of engulfed me.

And when I as soon as I opened that door, it took the breath bright out of me.

And I haven't been exposed to a heavy fire before, so I'm thinking, okay, I'll be fine to see if I can walk in here and spray.

I had a bucket of water to myself, Okay, I can walk in your furnace on her.

No.

As soon as that smoke hit me, it was like there was nothing left to my lungs.

I wanted to collapse.

Looking back, it was probably a terrible idea.

I even open that door, but it's still my home.

I knew what was going to happen.

Then, all that fresh air, the cold morning, all that oxygen rich air is going to get in there.

And after that the flames took off.

Speaker 1

Jared realized he was not going to be able to extinguish this fire on his own.

He had to call nine to one one.

He went outside to join Christy and their dog ad Up, but Christie was gone.

Speaker 2

When I shut the door to try to contain it.

I run outside and when I go outside, her car's gone.

Like I'm like, where did she go?

I didn't see the car.

I knew I saw the car going up the drive and I could hear it, but then it was gone.

On refond, what if you're a emerger?

Speaker 1

Darn called nine one one and reported that his house was on fire.

He would eventually see Christy and ate it again at the house as the fire trucks began to arrive.

But where was Christie when he came out of the house.

He says that even though his driveway was five to six hundred feet long, if she was parked at the top of the driveway waiting for him as he asked her to do, he would have seen their car.

Why would you leave in the middle of a fire.

I'm Tricia la Fog.

I'm a writer, director, actor, and federal criminal defense attorney.

I'm going to tell you a story that's all too real about love, lies, and the lens people will go to for attention.

It's a story that will leave you questioning everything you thought you knew about truth, about reality, and about what happens when the two collide in the most unimaginable way.

From Audio Up and just Sweep Press Productions, this is the Unborn.

Jared's house is located in a rural area.

He's surrounded by farms and forests.

It's also located out past the final fire hydrant that is closest to town.

Speaker 2

And the big thing that's running through my head is when is the fire department to get here?

It takes them.

It seemed like an eternity.

They got to my house in six minutes.

Ends up, there were four, actually there were five fire stations that actually came to the house because there was no we don't have fire hydrants or anything like that.

You have to go haul water in to spradies, so there's spring set up for collecting water for fire trucks and things like that on probably a mile and a half away.

I think I want to say there was twenty trucks of water had to come through.

Speaker 1

With the fire chief Carl, along with Tyler, one of the firefighters from his house.

Their department was first to arrive on the scene, and they both participated in putting out the fire.

Coincidentally, Jared knew Tyler as a classmate.

He was a couple of years ahead of Tyler in school.

This is Tyler.

Speaker 3

We did the first ones on scene, and I'm pretty sure the old.

Speaker 4

House was engulfed.

Speaker 3

Everybody was out of house, and we just start cone lines and working on.

Speaker 1

I asked the chief about the level of difficulty involved in having to bring in water.

I was impressed.

Carl shrugged it off like it was no big deal.

Speaker 4

No, it's what we did for years before we had hiders.

Speaker 5

We were one of the first fire companies to do tanker shovels here in this area.

So and then I'd caught on on the rough surrounding community.

So we're all equipped to do the same thing.

Once we passed that last tiger, we go way back to the old fashionedly tanker shovels, and we have additional dry heide.

Speaker 6

In the area teams.

Speaker 1

Jared said that the first trucks arrived on the scene within six minutes of him placing the call.

Since Carl and Tyler were there first, I wanted to know their opinion of the level of engulfment that the house was in when they arrived.

Speaker 4

I'd say it's about seventy five percent involved.

Speaker 2

When week there.

Speaker 1

Seventy five percent involved.

I honestly don't know a lot about fires, but seventy five percent involved seems like a lot to me, and the chief felt the same way.

Speaker 5

This seemed unusual in that amount of time, the short response time that it would be that far long.

Speaker 4

Either it wasn't reported and it's early stages and nobody saw it, or of course I wouldn't have thought it at the time that there could have been an accelerant involved to make it progressive before There's lots of things that goes into the fire.

Speaker 5

Makes thinks it either progressed further or world off.

Speaker 1

It was surprising he brought this up, especially because I didn't mention it.

So I asked him what some natural accelerants would be open doors.

Speaker 4

For basic accident mostly just win you know air.

Speaker 5

Somebody opens the door, could be open doors throughout the doors between room the room, or shut it slans the fire down to let progressing from.

Speaker 4

Room the room.

Speaker 1

Jared did open doors.

So we know for a fact that there were natural accelerants involved.

But what about man made accelerants?

Speaker 4

Yeah, I mean you could use paper.

You don't have to use an accelerant.

Speaker 3

Some stack up a bunch of garbage and closed waste paper?

Speaker 2

Is it like that?

Speaker 5

If you can get that sofa, See that's a good one there too, You can get that sofa, burn.

Speaker 4

Them things go up like an accelerant.

That yellow phone it's.

Speaker 5

In It burns fast and quick and very poisonous.

Speaker 3

So there was when they get hot too, Because I remember that Paull the guns in a safe was going off the whole time, remember, yeah, all the shells and a safe was going off.

Speaker 4

Well, it's hard to tell her what she did.

Speaker 1

In the end, there was nothing left of Jared's childhood home.

Speaker 2

Ruins, absolutely nothing.

There was nothing left of it.

There's nothing saladar from it.

My whole my childhood home that I grew up in.

I bought off my parents was stopping planks, literally gone.

Speaker 1

When Jared first left his house after being unable to put out the fire himself, he did not see Christy or their dog Ada, but in the chaos of the moment, Jared does recall Christy returning.

The next time he saw her, she was being examined by the EMTs.

I asked him if he ever asked the EMTs specifically, are the babies okay?

Or if he remembers hearing anyone talk about the babies with the medical professionals at all?

Speaker 2

Is everything all right?

They were like, Yep, everything looks fine.

I never never crossed my mind to say, hey, she's pregnant.

Did you check on them?

I asked, is everything all right?

Looking back, maybe I should have been a little more detail oriented.

Speaker 1

This is yet another time that Jared is looking back wondering if he should have asked more questions.

But hindsight is twenty twenty.

I'm not blaming him.

None of this is his fault, just noting a recurring theme that maybe he was too trusting.

And while Jared doesn't remember hearing anyone else ask about the babies, we did speak to a neighbor, Darcy, who was present at the scene.

Speaker 2

She's like no.

Speaker 1

Apparently a lot of friends and neighbors gathered while the firefighters tried to put out the fire, and Darcy clearly remembers that after Christy was seen by the EMTs, she was sitting in her grandmother's car when someone mentioned to them that she was pregnant.

They offered to check her again, but Christy refused.

Speaker 7

She wanted to go over there because they wanted to well, they were going to try to do your heart being on the vase.

Speaker 1

Jared sent Christy home with his mom.

He chose to stay until the fire finally went out.

Family and friends stuck around to support.

Speaker 2

No.

I made her go home with my mom.

They went over to the house.

I had somebody sit there with me, and I sat there and watched.

Speaker 1

The burdener I sted away, even though it was ruined.

Jared had a hard time walking away from the smoldering home.

He spent every penny he had fixing it up, his memories passed and future disappearing before his eyes.

Speaker 2

I did.

It was a lot of time, a lot of energy, a lot of thought into it.

I mean that was it looked almost exactly what I wanted to look like I had a few more finishing touches and who four hours, it's gone.

Speaker 1

Admittedly, Jared and I had only spoken one time before we sat down together during that initial phone call right after all this happened, so I'm learning a lot of the details that I didn't know about before.

Jared had been working on the house for almost a year, and he had just put the finishing touches on the house that day, while Christy had her scheduled C section the following day.

How could these two things be a coincidence?

Sure, I guess it's possible, but is it likely?

Speaker 2

This is probably the worst part is me reliving this part.

You can't bring that back.

I can't bring back the scratches I remember putting in the floor because I screwed up where I was hitting with a hammer.

I won't ever be able to remember those things and show my kids that one day it's gone forever.

I've had some nightmares about it, and for probably a week I didn't sleep.

I was afraid that the house is can catch on fire, and I kept reliving that taste and that smell, and I really can't emphasize how terrible it was to keep reliving and smelling that and tasting that, and seeing all my friends and family kind of stand there.

Speaker 1

I've never seen or been near a house fire, so I can only imagine the sensory trauma that comes with it.

Speaker 2

The smell was I'll never forget that either.

It was a almost I don't recall it a sulfur, but it was a pungent almost like you burnt sap.

I guess I'm maybe I'm speaking out of term.

Maybe people don't know what that smells like.

But if you get an evergreen tree, you ever been up in the woods or anything like that, and someone has a campfire, sometimes they'll throw some pine needles on there when that SAP's burning, and it actually burns the sap before and it sticks in your nose.

Speaker 1

It was one of many painful memories that Jared would have to carry, and others were on their way.

Jared and Christy were young newlyweds, pregnant with twins, living in a small town.

When they're home burned to the ground.

It was a life changing tragedy for them and for those closest to them.

But even in this tragedy, there was a silver lining.

The immediate response to their situation is an example of the best parts of this community of small town life.

Within twenty four hours of the fire, GoFundMe accounts are set up by both Darcy and Molly, and the links to those accounts are being shared via social media.

Jared and Christy are also receiving Vemo payments from people who wanted to help, and it wasn't just money.

Within forty eight hours of the fire, six truckloads of donations arrived at the Akron family farm.

There were items for the babies, items for Jared and Christy, even furniture for their future home.

Here's Jared's friends talking about the community response.

Speaker 7

Oh, it was amazing.

Everybody was you know, he got like thousands of dollars via GoFundMe.

Venmo, I mean, people were wanting to help in any way that they could.

They had they had setups for like diaper drops and white drops and clothes and donations and all kinds of stuff.

Yeah, the community really was amazing.

Speaker 1

Really back to them, Molly thought so too.

It was amazing.

Speaker 8

Yeah, like just crazy how many people actually reached out and like not only gave money, but like possessions of theirs.

Honestly, like he'd be lucky to be a part of this community.

Speaker 9

Yeah, it was an outpouring.

I mean it was unbelievable.

The money.

The money, I mean, I don't know an exact number, but I mean, you know, just me and my partner alone gave him ten thousand dollars.

It was It was really neat to see the community come.

Speaker 1

Together for Jared.

He was beside himself with the support.

Speaker 2

There's only one word that describes that, and it's overwhelming love charity.

I never realized how many people in the community New Cared didn't know me or Christy and we're like, hey, we want to help you.

I hope one day that I can have that impact on someone else.

And it's made me kind of open my eyes to caring about what happens to people I don't know.

Someone I went to high school with set up a gofund me.

I didn't even know about it for a couple of days.

Looking there's a bunch of money in there, and I had no idea.

I think there was six grand in there, and then there was some venmos.

I couldn't even keep track of it.

It was astronomical what there was, every bit of forty fifty dollars that were donated, including baby stuck.

It's like you went robbed a target or something of all their baby stuff.

I'm still going through it and trying to give it to people in need.

Speaker 1

And while Jared was overwhelmed by all the donations, both monetary and material, when I asked him if there was a particular donation that humbled him the most, his answer was surprising.

It wasn't the ten thousand dollars that his boss, Henry and his partner gave.

It was people's time.

Speaker 2

Two days after the fire, I had fifteen guys at the house helping me tear it down because I was trying to buy another house, one of the manufactured home It was in stock.

I had to get down to the foundation to measure it, have a guy come out check, and had to make sure that joint was still good in them.

I mean having fifteen guys there all day long, ordered pizza, we worked all night long.

Yeah, because they knew like I didn't have anywhere yet.

I mean, it was supposed to have a kid the next day.

Speaker 1

Christy was due to give birth the very next day to the twins that she was not carrying, and the night before she is supposed to give birth.

Jared and Christie's house burns to the ground.

The day after the fire, Jared took Christi to the hospital to find out if the scheduled sea section would happen or if the plan was going to change due to the fire.

Christy told Jared that her doctor decided to push the date of the delivery by a week.

Speaker 2

December seventh.

I took her to a doctor's appointment, writing a drop her off sit on the side street.

Make the phone calls to the insurance companies.

They were worried about the stress from the fire and the smoke that was in her lungs.

They were worried about putting her under, which I found out after they don't actually get put on her for a sea section.

Maybe that's my fault.

I didn't look at that further in depth.

Speaker 1

The clock was ticking on Christie's lie, but the fire and this follow up appointment with Jared again not allowed in, has bought her another week to figure out exactly what it is she's going to do next.

But for Jared, especially looking back, clouding that week of waiting was Christie's demeanor and actions.

Speaker 2

She was so excited to go through all these clothes that people were giving.

But now that I look back on it, she was throwing out these clothes that were I think it's three to six months.

She was so focused on these clothes and looking at her next things were given her.

I'll look at these shoes or look at this necklace.

I'm like me personally, I'm like, Okay, we need a crib, we need car seats, we need these things.

That's what I'm worried about.

Where she was more mute to the community.

Where I was in front of them, Hey, thank you very much.

She was in the house.

Speaker 1

And then the inevitable happened just a week later, when the news began to spread that Christy was never pregnant, and the community that was so quick to come together to help a young couple in need turned on Jared completely.

Speaker 9

And then all the shit hit the fandom, all the wheels fell off, and everybody wanted their money back, and it turned into a little bit of a shit show.

Speaker 6

I mean, people just drug him through the mud, you know, said nasty things about his character, said he was after money, all these different things, and I just, you know, I was like, you do not know Jared the way that I know Jared, he would not do that.

He had genuinely no clue that these things are going to happen.

Speaker 9

I would say it was fifty to fifty that people treated him like he had just had a fire and bad shit happened to him.

Speaker 4

I mean it was all over social media.

Speaker 6

There were go fund me a setup because like I said, he had twins on the way she was due.

I don't know how close to it.

Speaker 4

But it was very close.

Speaker 6

And you know, all of us knew were sharing the fund me, we were donating, and.

Speaker 5

I felt bad afterwards because he got a lot of meat on.

Speaker 6

The advantage of like a small community when he genuinely had no clue.

Speaker 9

People that really didn't know.

The whole story was there were some assholes that we want our money back.

He tried to rip us off, and you know that kind of crap, and you know Africa, And actually it was a couple of people that I knew.

I called him and I told him what happened, and then they was like, well, we just don't want her.

Speaker 2

Having the money.

Speaker 9

So after they I told him, I said, the guy's house still burnt down.

It wasn't like he was trying to rip anybody off.

I mean his house it burned down.

Speaker 1

Jared has lived in this community for his entire life, and up until now he had a stellar reputation, hard working, trusting kind.

That reputation was flipped upside down through no fault of his own.

Speaker 2

Oh, they were pissed.

I mean it was like the world was in it.

They gave their harder money, these donations.

They went and bought things that they thought we would need.

And when you find out we were taking advantage of, or what was presented from all the rumors that had started it was, hey, they stole money.

Speaker 1

The first rumor was that Jared was involved in the attempted baby napping at the hospital.

To be fair, his photograph was up at all of the local hospitals as a person to be on the lookout for as an infant security risk.

So potentially the BOLO and gossip around the Bolo informed that rumor.

Speaker 2

The first rumor was that I was involved.

I knew all about the fake pregnancy.

I went along with it and it was all over Facebook, and Molly had sent them to me.

So I started looking into like what's reading and I get a call from one of the friends that Molly had set up as Venmo through they were neighbors there, and they're getting emails and requests.

I take on Venmo, Hey, I want my donation back.

So I'm like, seriously, give it back.

I don't want something that they think that I'm involved in.

I don't want this.

If they wanted that, I'm not here to make money.

My house burnt down.

I don't care it right now, I've nothing.

My whole life just turned upside down in the house burnt down.

I'm not with my wife anymore, and I don't have any children.

Speaker 1

Jared was willing to do everything he could do to clear his name and make things right with the people who donated, so at.

Speaker 2

This point I'm furious, But at the same time, I want these people to have their money back, their donations.

I don't want to keep these things.

And it was such a tough thing to take in that the community thought that I was a part of this.

Speaker 1

But all of Jared's efforts to give them money back had to be put on hold when he got a call from the fire marshal.

Speaker 2

Two days later, I get a call from the fire marshal.

He goes, hey, I hate to be the bear and bad news but we've had multiple people call in here and say that we think your wife, Christy set the house on fire.

Lou want to ask you some questions.

Rumors started.

They were like, Okay, maybe he's not involved, maybe she set the house on fire.

Speaker 1

The fire Marshall had questions for Jared.

Heck, we all had questions.

Speaker 8

So, like I've gone back and forth.

My opinion is I think she probably did, but I'm only questioning how she got away with it, because like, you can't just search on the internet how to start an inconclusive fire.

But then, like I kept thinking and like maybe her plan was for both of them to die in the fire, so like the babies would have just died, and then like it just would have been a tragedy.

But at the same time, if I was letting my house on fire, I think I would take something like I don't think I could let it all burn.

Speaker 1

Would you keep forward fires and cowboy moods in your suv?

Speaker 2

I wouldn't neither unless I get to worch my house and didn't want them to burn.

Speaker 7

And I think to start the fire.

Speaker 1

Was like her escape.

Speaker 9

Oh well, she had been suspected in Washington County here of two other fires.

Speaker 10

I think she's saying to the point where like if that happened, if she did light that fire, something clicked and she and she goes, I.

Speaker 4

Gotta wake him up, or otherwise I'm gonna go to jail for a long fun time.

Speaker 7

This is it, We're done.

I'm just gonna end it, right, which is even harder to think about, like if she would have actually went through with that.

Speaker 9

She worked at a local farm and one of the barns burnt down, and the fire investigator they had her as one of the suspects, but they could never prove it.

Speaker 7

I think she was planning on just ending it for the both of them, just.

Speaker 1

Trying to be done with life.

Literally, I don't.

Speaker 8

Want to say crazy, but you have to be pretty mentally unstable for someone to just do that and burn everything that they own and love and possibly die in the process.

Speaker 7

But I think once it got to an escalated point, she was freaked out and fight her flight type thing.

But I do think she started with fire and was trying to end it.

Speaker 1

So many people from the community have their opinions on the fire, it's overwhelmingly one sided.

What about Jarrett, does he think Christy was capable of doing this.

I asked Jared if he thought Christy started the fire, because we don't know, I asked him to present a case for both sides, reasons he thinks she did do it, and reasons he could come up with as to why she did not.

Speaker 2

I guess the first thing that comes to my mind is that she she was due the next day.

Maybe there was some her plan wasn't thought out.

She didn't think it would go this far, and she needed some time to earn an excuse to move the due date so she could have some more time to plan, or something like that.

And a lot of it comes down to that night.

Speaker 8

It was weird.

Speaker 2

She did wake me up off the couch the bedtime routine.

I would usually fall asleep on the couch.

The reason being is she was pregnant.

She had a tough time sleeping.

I'm a heavy sleeper, I snore.

I set my alarm there always set.

Speaker 1

This had been their routine for months, Jared sleeping on the couch and Christy in their bedroom, and I would.

Speaker 2

Get up in the morning and I was before she even woke up, so it was just easier.

I didn't wake her up.

Rolling out of bed, fumbling around in the dark.

But she made it a point to wake me up that night Yry, which she never does, to come into bed.

Now, the couch versus where the fire had started was maybe only six foot apart.

Speaker 1

The night of the fire, she tells him to get off the couch and come to bed.

He obliges her request.

Speaker 2

It was it's like right there.

I mean, it's six feet from that door, whereas when I'm in a bedroom there's a closed door.

I can't hear what's going on.

It was just funky.

Speaker 1

The spare room where the fire originated is only six feet away from the couch on which she's been sleeping, and it's in a living room, an open space in the house.

Their bedroom is in the back.

It's the room that is the furthest distance from the spare room and the couch.

Jared is now in that room with the door shut.

Speaker 2

So maybe she wanted to put me in a bedroom, shut the door and I guess, and get me away from that door so she could do something in there.

Speaker 1

There are three very large coincidences on that evening.

One Jared had just finished the remodel on the house.

Two Christy was due the next day, and she asked him to move to the bedroom, which she never usually does.

But there's one more thing.

And anyone who's ever owned an animal, let alone slept with their animal every night like Jared did with Ada, will understand that this is a pretty noticeable point that even though Jared told Christy grab the dog and go outside when she woke him, Jared doesn't remember ever hearing his dog ate a bark on that evening.

Speaker 2

But then I also don't remember ever hearing the dog bark, which that throws in for a carbball when you're When an animal smells smoke anyhow, they're not gonna stick around.

They're going to bark, make noises, try to get out of the house.

I don't remember ever hearing Ada bark, ever, clawing at the door, jumping on top of me, or anything like that.

Speaker 1

Where was Ada.

I can't imagine a scenario where she would have been in the house and not alerted Jared and Christy to the fire.

Jared said that when Christy woke him up, his room was already filled with a gray, smoky haze.

So would Christy have woken up in the same bed as her husband and realized there was a fire, taken Ada outside and then come back in to wake him up.

Is that scenario likely at all?

And if she did take Ada outside, which accounts for Jared never hearing her bark, when did she take her out?

And why there's another side to this coin because at the end of the day, we just don't know.

I asked Jared if he could come up with reasons why he thinks Christy did not start the fire.

Speaker 2

She lost everything in the house that she had.

There was a complete loss.

Nothing was saved.

Speaker 1

That's a great point and one that Molly mentioned.

But that assumes if Christy started the fire, which I'm not saying she did, that she started the fire in her right mind.

Is that what a rational person in their best mind would think.

Was there anything else?

Speaker 2

The insurance back come out, They checked for accelerants, all this stuff, and nothing was Ever it was closed as an electrical fire, which there was some old wiring in there that was kind of jerry rigged, which very well could have been the cause of it.

And that's what it was determined, was it was an electrical fire that burnt the house.

Speaker 1

Now the fire chief had his own theories.

They are very experience and expertise, Do you believe that the source of the fire is faulty electrical?

Speaker 5

I will say though it was burnt in such a way so far that the investigators really couldn't get in to make a real good determination due to some of the circumstances surrounding that fire that he really.

Speaker 4

Asked to question.

Speaker 1

Jared never knew of his wife's suspected arson activity until he was approached by the fire marshal.

Speaker 2

I don't know if it was the fact that there's been multiple fires she's been involved in before, not involved, but she was around them, that there was a couple of things that were caught on fire and nothing was ever proven.

It really makes you think, like, hey, do I really know who I'm married to.

Speaker 1

Jared's father, David, was convinced that there were no babies by this time.

Speaker 2

I'm convinced there's no babies, but I can't be one hundred percent.

Speaker 1

Sure or anything in that like that.

Speaker 4

But in my mind, I'm like, I don't think.

Speaker 2

There was any of my wife's calls and says her mother and stepdad want to want to talk about it, Well, I had just about enough talk, you know.

By then, I've got a lot of doubts in my mind.

Speaker 4

So they're sitting there.

Finally said that she's done this.

Speaker 1

Before, and I said, what nobody said anything, you know?

Speaker 2

And I'm sure more people knew, but they'd never mentioned anything, never pulled us aside before the wedding, any of that kind of stuff.

Speaker 1

David is upset here reliving the memory, and rightfully so.

But I asked him about what he meant when he said Sheila and her husband told them that Christie's done this before on a different occasion with the previous boyfriend.

Christie told her mom she was pregnant, but for whatever reason, Sheila didn't believe her, and she hired a private investigator to follow Christy to see if she would learn the truth.

The private investigator followed Christy to the hospital and watched Christy as she parked in the hospital parking lot.

Christy called her mother from the parking lot and told her she was in the er having a DNC because she had just miscarried that child.

The private investigator told Sheila that Christy, well technically at the High hospital, never got out of her car.

Here's Sarah, And that was the.

Speaker 7

One other thing why I questioned it too, is because the previous relationship, she said she was pregnant and he either he proposed or said he didn't want to get married until the baby was here, and then she.

Speaker 1

Said she had a messcaret Yet another reason why Sarah was suspicious of Christy and Jared's pregnancy that Christie herself, not Sheila, who Sarah doesn't even know, told her somewhat in passing that she was engaged and pregnant before and they were going to marry, but they didn't because she lost that child.

I don't know the specifics of what made Christy tell Sarah that information.

Chock it up to female bonding.

Oh you're pregnant, I've been pregnant too.

I can only guess that she wasn't trying to plant a seed of suspicion in Sarah, which is what happened.

Nor did she ever anticipate that Sheila would have cause to have the conversation she had with Jared's father.

Jared learned on Saturday afternoon that Christy was never pregnant, and he decides that he has no other option but to keep his knowledge a secret for two reasons.

First, he was very concerned about the money from the donations that they had put in the bank.

It was his intention to get that money out of the bank and return it back to anyone who was upset about their donation once they discovered the truth about Christie's pregnancy.

Second, he wanted out of his marriage to Christy, and he needed to find a lawyer who practiced family law.

This is where Melissa will enter the picture.

But it's the weekend and he can't do either one of those things.

That Saturday night and the following Sunday we're going to be the longest thirty six hours of Jared's entire life.

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I knew I had to make it through the weekend without her finding out that I knew everything that was a lie.

I mean, it was a little tough.

It was almost unsurreal.

I mean the feelings of, hey, I know, I have to be a better actor and liar than she was to make sure I could end up making it to the lawyers and to the bank in time.

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Not only was Jared going to have to keep this light up until Monday, he was going to have to hide some fear because when he was cleaning up the debris from the fire, he noticed that something was missing.

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At this point I'm feeling a little uneasy, and the reason being is I'm still missing a firearms.

I'm thinking back into I open my safe, I count all my firearms, and I realize one's missing.

After the fire, when all the smoldering goes down, I go and count my firearms because I have to call the state police and say, hey, here's serial numbers of the registered guns that I have that are lost.

It was just a blackened mess.

There was no wood, no stalks, nothing like that.

It was gun barrels just melted.

There was one pistol missing.

It has no safety.

It's thirteen shells and if you hold a trigger, it's going off.

So in the back of my mind, I'm thinking, hey, is there possibility that she has it in my life could be in danger?

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Next time on the Unborn, I say, yes.

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I think my account's been jeopardized.

Come up to my office.

We need to go over to the courthouse.

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And I'm going to try to resolve this for him with at least amount of pain possible.

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And then I guess that's where our friendship began.

There are sometimes where I was like, what is happening?

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This bitch is.

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Crazy, because I mean that that gun is still missing.

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That's next time on The Unborn.

The Unborn is a production of iHeart Podcasts, Audio Up and Jess We Pressed Productions.

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Created by trishla Fotch and Frank Rodriguez.

Mal produced by Alvin.

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Cohen and Rachel Foley.

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Executive produced by Jimmy Jellinek, David Dwaits and Jared Gusta.

Edited by Gerard Hower and Preston Dawson.

Sound design and mixing by Jeremiah Zimmerman.

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