Abby Ellin
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100 appearances
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1 series
first heard Feb 2025
last heard Feb 2025
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Anytime he talked about adoption, he always would say, you know, I'll do it if that's what you really want to do, but a lot of those kids really have problems. And I thought that was a really callous thing to say. I thought that was awful. Because I knew a lot of kids who were not adopted who had problems.
I was talking about something about getting married and we didn't even have a date. But he started breaking down. He's like, I'm so overwhelmed. We have to push the wedding back.
And I told her about the Bin Laden thing. And she said, something's not right there, Abby. She said, that doesn't make sense. And I got mad at her. I said, why isn't it possible that there are things that you don't know that we don't know, and we don't know the answer yet? And I got so mad at her. I was like, you're so suspicious.
So then I kind of went back and would ask him questions, you know, more targeted. And he would get mad at me.
We're at a restaurant and he raves about the Brussels sprouts, right? These are the best Brussels sprouts ever. Okay, my parents, that's nice. They didn't make it.
And he said, that's, I think, the worst meal I've ever eaten. And I just thought to myself... What? I said, why did you lie? Why did you lie? They didn't care. He said I wanted to make them feel good. It just was too discordant. You can't verify the CIA. You can't verify Navy SEAL. You can't do that. But that was something tangible that I could verify. And I just thought, I can't do this anymore.
I just can't. I can't do this. This is insane. If he can lie about that, he can lie about anything.
It was Christmas, and we were spending it with his brother and sister-in-law in their big house in Georgetown, and his son and daughter were there. And I overheard the son saying, what's that ring on Abby's finger? Is that from you? And I didn't hear the response, but I remember thinking to myself, this kid doesn't know that we're getting married? The son had no idea that he had proposed to me.
The commander told me that when he told his son that he had proposed to me, his son said, well, what took you so long?
You're lying to me and I can't, there's something, I'm done. I'm out of here.
About two weeks later, he came over and he said, listen, the Navy, who was apparently paying for the apartment, needs the apartment. And they're shipping me out somewhere else. I'm leaving Washington. So we have to pack up everything and get out.
And I didn't know what I was going to do because I was going to school. I ended up commuting to Washington from New York City.
I felt maybe I overreacted. You know, every time I would interrogate him, he'd be like, well, that's why you're single. Because you always question and you don't trust and you interrogate. That's why. That's why you've been single all this time. And I thought, well, maybe that's right. You know, maybe that's right.
And the light was on in the apartment. And I called him. I said, are you in the apartment? He said, you know, it was a comedy of errors. I got everything moved and everything was in storage and everything was great. And I was ready to be relocated. And then the Navy said, no, you got to move back into the apartment. You got to stay in Washington. We're keeping you here.
So remember, I'm Nancy Drew. I said, well, I need to pick up my cookbooks that are in the apartment. I left the cookbooks. So she told the cab driver to pull over. She wanted to investigate. I didn't have a key. And I said to the doorman, I'd like to go up to the apartment. And the doorman said, you're not allowed up. I have a note. Abby Ellen is not allowed up. So I called the commander.
I said, what's up with that? Like, why was I, there was specifically a note. And he said, oh, somebody was assaulted in the building, so they're being really careful about who they let in. I said, I don't believe you.
I looked in the house, and the cookbooks were exactly where I had left them.
His baseball glove was exactly where it had been when I left. And there was a sliver of soap in exactly the same place, the same sliver that had been there when I left. And I looked at him and I said, you didn't move. And he said, oh, yes, I did.
And I thought, you're nuts. And that was it. That was it. I didn't really talk to him after that.
And then I got a phone call. It's a 202 area code. The only 202 area code I knew was the commander's. So I thought, okay. I don't know why he's calling. And I picked it up. And it was Special Agent Dan Ryan with NCIS.
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