Andrea Gunning

To answer that question, Danielle started looking through Chad's basement office.

There, she made a series of shocking discoveries.

First, why he targeted the people he did.

His fake financial business.

She also found out that he was never actually a certified financial advisor or planner.

So what did he do for a living?

From what she gathered in his office, he charmed elderly people into letting him be their financial advisor, where he would skim from their accounts for years.

In fact, after he was arrested, his own parents sued him for stealing over $400,000 while he claimed to serve as their financial advisor.

But not only did he steal from his own parents, he also stole from his grandmother.

He never confessed to this, but it added up for Danielle.

What never made sense, though, was the construction of the dungeon.

I found the plans and bills from it in his office.

Chad had been hiring a contractor to build the dungeon piece by piece over the past two years.

The shocking fact that he'd built a dungeon to hold the kidnapping victims kept the story in the headlines for months.

In a News 8 exclusive tonight, investigative reporter Chris Miner shows us a photo of that actual room where it's believed the couple was held against their will.

Danielle never slept another night in the big house that she and Chad had shared with their kids.

She and her kids moved into her parents' home while she got her bearings.

For the first few months after Chad's arrest, Danielle's dad would accompany her to the old house to continue excavating Chad's office.

The police had already collected the evidence they needed, and she was left to clean up the rest.

She also found lies about herself, stories she'd never heard before.