shannon who had been angry at ralph for not protecting her mother, read the letter and began to have thoughts that were much more disturbing. i didn t get through more than a page and a half and i threw it, and i said, this is bull (bleep). i said, this is the worst i could barely stomach to finish it. and aaron, shannon s ex-husband, ralph s son? aaron went to a very dark place indeed. oh, you have no idea. you were 11 years old when your mother disappeared. yes. coming up, secrets in the basement. i had been going through some of my dad s stuff in the basement and found a box of stuff that supposedly she had taken with her. when dateline extra continues. e extra continues.
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Boys. two of my girlfriends are like, there s this guy, and you need to meet him, and i think you two are really going to get along. i thought, aw, great. the guy was aaron candelario and before long i was in love. yes. i was very much in love. you know, we had such a connection. no kidding. both jehovah s witnesses, both home schooled by their mothers. or at least aaron was home schooled until his parents marriage broke up. we were so drawn to each other, that two people were so driven, and so optimistic, and just wanted to do big things in life. so after high school, they got engaged, and full of excitement, planned a wedding. then one night shannon s mother, pam, sent the girls off to bible study and told their father, jerry, they needed to talk. she looked up and says, i don t want to be married to you anymore. i don t want to be here. everything was fine, fine,
and suddenly jerry realized how blind he d been. you didn t understand, but then afterwards it all all the pieces fell into place. you were never suspicious? i trusted her. don t we do that? in a relationship? no trust now. shannon and aaron were furious, told the elopers, interlopers more like, stay away from the wedding. but they couldn t pretend it hadn t happened. and when they hit the little bumps most young marriages encounter, it colored everything. did your father and her mother s relationship have anything to do with what happened to you and shannon? you know, we were pretty determined not to let their relationship have an effect, but, you know, it s always something that s in the back of your head. after a year and a half, shannon and aaron divorced. pam
Fine, then we seemed to be getting along. everything was fine. she said, this is it, i m done. what did that feel like? it was a crush. you were crushed. what happened? no one knew. except that now these two had one more thing in common. both products of broken homes. the wedding day approached, just a few days to go, when shannon s mother, pam, and aaron s dad, ralph, invited the bride and groom-to-be for dinner and a talk. ralph was every bit a devout a believer as pam. so some premarital guidance perhaps? oh, no. nothing like that. they told us, we ran off, we eloped and got married. wait, what? your mother and aaron s father? yes. who does that? i don t know. but i can t tell you how much it felt like i got hit by a bus. do you know what that meant? it meant that by the time you got married, you were marrying your stepbrother. right. i didn t say much. i was just like, well, we re leaving.