Andrea Gunning

The day before police raided Danielle's house, a woman had walked into a bank and asked for a cashier's check for $350,000 from her own savings account.

Before the teller cut the check, the woman slipped her a note.

She was being held for ransom.

Her captor was waiting down the block with her husband in the trunk.

If she didn't return to the car with the check, her kidnapper said he would kill her husband.

She needed to walk out of that bank, check in hand.

So they gave it to her and let her go.

And as soon as she walked out of the door, the teller called the police.

That call initiated a statewide search for the kidnapped couple and their captor.

Immediately, it became the top story on the local news.

The morning after the raid, Danielle was still in the dark about what was happening.

She was reeling and desperately trying to get in touch with her husband.

She didn't want to believe the wild theory that Chad could have kidnapped this elderly couple.

That was until she saw his picture on the news.

In that moment, she understood why the police woke her up in the middle of the night.

Over the following days and weeks, Danielle discovered the full extent of her husband's horrifying crimes.

This is what she learned.

He just sat in their kitchen for hours in the middle of the night before he finally entered the bedroom where the elderly couple was sleeping.

After the police showed up at the bank, they called in the FBI, who traced the cashier's check and found the couple's names and address.

When they searched their home, they discovered signs of forced entry, evidence of a deployed taser, and small drops of blood in the bedroom.