Andrea Gunning

It was a quirk that Danielle accepted.

They loved watching movies as a family.

And after the kids went to bed, the couple would watch their favorite TV shows.

Dexter and Breaking Bad.

Every summer, Danielle, Chad, and their six kids would take family road trips.

On these trips, they'd stay in huge rental homes.

Chad always wanted the best of the best for the family.

One summer, about 15 years into their marriage, the family was on one of their regular road trips.

And on this trip, their rental home was in a remote area.

He was just gone.

It was the early 2000s, so she didn't have a smartphone to look at his location.

She started to worry that something terrible happened.

Around 3 a.m., the phone rang.

It was Chad.

He blew it over.

Whenever they got in a disagreement, this is what he'd tell her.

abandoning the family in a rental house in the middle of the night with no good explanation, it just didn't sit right with her.

So Danielle called her mom.

She was like, oh, wow, yeah, that is really weird.

I'm glad you're okay.