Andrea Dunlop

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Danica Crawford was a mother of four young children with a troubled history.

Both she and her children's father, Chris Kelly, had struggled with addiction and been in and out of jail.

Danica had a tumultuous but tight-knit relationship with her family of origin.

And at the time she met Jon Stewart, she was living with her father, Larry, in a house adjacent to her mother and a number of other family members.

Her father, Larry, regularly helped out with her kids while she struggled to get clean.

Things eventually fell apart between Danica and Chris after their youngest child, Nolan, was born in July of 2015.

And when Nolan was almost a year old, Danica met Jon Stewart.

This is Danica talking with a detective.

Danica was trying to pull her life together, but addiction is a tough road, and she was definitely still vulnerable.

Even more vulnerable were her four kids, who were all under the age of seven when she met John.

I can't say I understand the choice to bring your kids on a first date, but according to Danica, when she met John, he seemed solid.

John also had a lot to say about his positive influence on Danica's kids.

And just a note here that we've censored the names of the other children in this story to protect their privacy.

Although John may have seemed like a knight in shining armor at first, swooping in to be a stabilizing force in Danica's life and a father figure to her kids, they still didn't really know each other, and their relationship moved at warp speed.

Merging families is complicated under the best of circumstances, and these were definitely not the best of circumstances, as Danica's father, Larry, explained to the police.