Andrea Gunning

Enjoy the episode.

I'm Andrea Gunning, and this is Betrayal, a show about the people we trust the most and the deceptions that change everything.

One night in 2017, Danielle Oliver Chauvet was awoken by the FBI and state police.

They were pointing guns at her, demanding to know where her husband was.

That night, she learned the man she had spent 20 years with was hiding some very big secrets.

This is Danielle's first time telling her story.

She's been reluctant to share what she went through because, as you'll hear in part two, her husband has other victims.

She wants to be respectful of their experience and suffering.

But this episode isn't about her husband's crimes.

It's about the 20-year marriage Danielle built with him, the ways he deceived and violated her, and the shocking betrayal that ended it all.

It's also the story of being totally in the dark about your partner's double life.

Danielle grew up in a happy, tight-knit family in California.

Growing up, Danielle's parents were her role models.

They had a respectful and happy marriage.

It was an environment that nurtured her easygoing and trusting nature.

She was raised with a strong sense of faith.

That's still one of her core values.

Danielle's one of those rare people who loved high school.

She was popular, and she had a longtime high school boyfriend named Billy.

Right before their senior year of high school, Billy proposed to her, and she said yes.