Angelique Robledo
Appearances
Betrayal: Season 4
Betrayal Weekly: EP 22 - Angelique Pt. 2
She is being charged with attempted first-degree murder, which means that it was plotted, it was planned out. So attempted first-degree murder, arson, burglary. She said she's going to go away for a very, very long time. Cassandra had made a full confession. And I started crying and I said, she admitted it? And they said, yeah, she admitted it.
Betrayal: Season 4
Betrayal Weekly: EP 22 - Angelique Pt. 2
And I just remember crying and being so happy. That was the first night that I actually slept.
Betrayal: Season 4
Betrayal Weekly: EP 22 - Angelique Pt. 2
As a mom, you imagine you're going to be this happy family. You're going to teach him how to say mama. You're going to teach them how to walk. You're going to teach him, you know, figure out if his first food is going to be peaches or carrots. All of these things are things that I thought about. I don't remember any of them. It's like it was all stolen from me.
Betrayal: Season 4
Betrayal Weekly: EP 22 - Angelique Pt. 2
I can't, I don't remember that video. I don't remember where that video was taken, what time, and I was standing right there talking in the video.
Betrayal: Season 4
Betrayal Weekly: EP 22 - Angelique Pt. 2
My family, my friends, they distracted me. I can't tell you how because I don't remember, but I know that I survived.
Betrayal: Season 4
Betrayal Weekly: EP 22 - Angelique Pt. 2
I just remember thinking, like, when is this going to happen? Like, what's going to happen? Maybe I should just be thankful that she's in jail, but nobody has communicated anything with me.
Betrayal: Season 4
Betrayal Weekly: EP 22 - Angelique Pt. 2
They tell me, we're going to be completely honest with you. We don't think this should go to trial. And I was completely thrown back. Like, what do you mean this shouldn't go to trial? They said, well, through our investigation and through everything that we've done, the cops did not read her Miranda rights at the time of the confession. And I was like, wait, what?
Betrayal: Season 4
Betrayal Weekly: EP 22 - Angelique Pt. 2
Like, what do you mean that they didn't read her Miranda rights?
Betrayal: Season 4
Betrayal Weekly: EP 22 - Angelique Pt. 2
If we go to trial, her whole confession is thrown out and we can lose this case. Because it's not illegal to carry butcher knives around the city. Technically, it's not against the law. And we cannot pinpoint everything in here without her confession.
Betrayal: Season 4
Betrayal Weekly: EP 22 - Angelique Pt. 2
And I was like, well, what about her fingertips on the candle? And they said, yes, they said, we want to try to do a plea bargain.
Betrayal: Season 4
Betrayal Weekly: EP 22 - Angelique Pt. 2
The picture that they painted for me was that she was there to take my child because she was mentally ill and believed that my baby was her baby, that she was pregnant and this was her child.
Betrayal: Season 4
Betrayal Weekly: EP 22 - Angelique Pt. 2
Do you think she should go to prison or do you think she should go to a mental hospital? And I asked if they can give me some time to think about that.
Betrayal: Season 4
Betrayal Weekly: EP 22 - Angelique Pt. 2
I didn't feel good about this whole thing, but I really trusted, like, they're the professionals. This is their job. Like, who am I to tell them what's right and what's wrong?
Betrayal: Season 4
Betrayal Weekly: EP 22 - Angelique Pt. 2
I wrote this long letter to her. I said, I don't want to live my life hating you. I don't want to have hate in my heart. I don't think I can live my life that way. And so I'm going to tell you that I forgive you because you're mentally ill. I ended it that way, just for my conscience, for me. The judge told her, Cassandra, is there anything that you would like to say to this woman? She stood up.
Betrayal: Season 4
Betrayal Weekly: EP 22 - Angelique Pt. 2
and sat back down. No remorse. That felt like a slap in the face. That felt like, I wanna take back everything that I said to you. That was the last interaction I had with her.
Betrayal: Season 4
Betrayal Weekly: EP 22 - Angelique Pt. 2
read this. There's some stuff in here that I don't think you know. It's actually diabolical.
Betrayal: Season 4
Betrayal Weekly: EP 22 - Angelique Pt. 2
Everybody was outside my door. I had every single news station. I had people calling me. I had Anderson Cooper calling me. I don't even know how they got my number.
Betrayal: Season 4
Betrayal Weekly: EP 22 - Angelique Pt. 2
If I could take back some of the shows that I did, like doing the Dr. Phil show, I would have not done that. Absolutely, he used me for my trauma to get views.
Betrayal: Season 4
Betrayal Weekly: EP 22 - Angelique Pt. 2
Have you ever read the police report? And I was like, no. At the end of our interview, he took the police report and he gave it to me. And he said, there's some stuff in here that I don't think you know. You should read this.
Betrayal: Season 4
Betrayal Weekly: EP 22 - Angelique Pt. 2
So you want to know what I did? I shredded it. I shredded it all. I shredded everything. That is what trauma does.
Betrayal: Season 4
Betrayal Weekly: EP 22 - Angelique Pt. 2
And that intrigued me to open everything back up because I felt like I was in a better state of mind. I was older. I feel like I'm ready to start digging. So I went deep. I went deep down this rabbit hole. I went to the police station. I pulled all the police reports. I pulled the tapes. I pulled anything that they would give me.
Betrayal: Season 4
Betrayal Weekly: EP 22 - Angelique Pt. 2
And I sat in my car for hours listening to these CDs, listening to me talk, listening to everything. It took like four to five hours.
Betrayal: Season 4
Betrayal Weekly: EP 22 - Angelique Pt. 2
The fire was never meant to happen. It was an accident.
Betrayal: Season 4
Betrayal Weekly: EP 22 - Angelique Pt. 2
She said that she felt a moment of weakness when she was going to stab me. When she had me bent over, she had her hand on my shoulder. She had the knife physically to my back and she was ready to push the knife inside of me. But then Cassandra got cold feet. When she started counting, she started to feel guilt. And she says, I started to second guess it, if I could actually do it.
Betrayal: Season 4
Betrayal Weekly: EP 22 - Angelique Pt. 2
She said the fire was supposed to be a distraction, and she was hoping that I would be overcome with smoke and I would pass out. Then she'd be able to perform the C-section with me being passed out on the ground.
Betrayal: Season 4
Betrayal Weekly: EP 22 - Angelique Pt. 2
It's almost unbelievable, though, that an 18-year-old can come up with this.
Betrayal: Season 4
Betrayal Weekly: EP 22 - Angelique Pt. 2
At the very end, before they cut the tape, she talks about how she was a part of a gang.
Betrayal: Season 4
Betrayal Weekly: EP 22 - Angelique Pt. 2
She was his, like his possession, basically. And she had to do what he told her to do. And it was all his plan. And she was just doing what he asked.
Betrayal: Season 4
Betrayal Weekly: EP 22 - Angelique Pt. 2
She says he has done this before, that they sold babies in Mexico and that they were going to get a certain cut. She talked about how much they would get for the baby and that they were going to stay and live in Mexico.
Betrayal: Season 4
Betrayal Weekly: EP 22 - Angelique Pt. 2
Not once did I ever hear her say that she wanted the baby for herself.
Betrayal: Season 4
Betrayal Weekly: EP 22 - Angelique Pt. 2
I even have it circled where it says they read her rights and then it goes on to her telling her confession.
Betrayal: Season 4
Betrayal Weekly: EP 22 - Angelique Pt. 2
I think that we were used as a plea bargain to help catch bigger fish. I don't think anybody will ever be able to confirm that for me. But if she had more information to help them catch bigger people, they don't have to necessarily tell me all the information on what they're working on.
Betrayal: Season 4
Betrayal Weekly: EP 22 - Angelique Pt. 2
No, we haven't talked in years, and we're not together. So this guy, Edwin, who she told all of this was her husband, was not actually her husband.
Betrayal: Season 4
Betrayal Weekly: EP 22 - Angelique Pt. 2
I think about it a lot. I contemplate all the time if... I want to know the truth and I always go back and forth with yes, no, yes, no. The thing is, it's not going to do anything except for maybe piss me off. So I just stopped looking for answers.
Betrayal: Season 4
Betrayal Weekly: EP 22 - Angelique Pt. 2
I found out way too late. We're talking about nine years now. I can't go back and bring them all this. I just thought every person there was doing their job for me. I thought this was a big case. I thought this was abnormal. I've never heard of fetal abduction. Like, I just figured that everyone was in my best interest.
Betrayal: Season 4
Betrayal Weekly: EP 22 - Angelique Pt. 2
I take the diaper bag and I keep explaining to them, she said she had this present for me. Like, the explanation is in this bag. And as I'm doing that, I put the bag on the counter, I reach my hand in the bag, and I feel these two metal objects And when I lift them and pull them out, they're two large butcher knives. And I drop them on the counter, and I just start screaming.
Betrayal: Season 4
Betrayal Weekly: EP 22 - Angelique Pt. 2
She sold my first few years between me and my son, and I'm never going to get those back. There's no money in the world that could pay for that. She stole that away from me.
Betrayal: Season 4
Betrayal Weekly: EP 22 - Angelique Pt. 2
There were moments in my life where I remember being like, I'm healed. I feel so much better. I'm going to be just fine. And then like five weeks would go by and I would be like, I'm so triggered right now. And it's just been a cycle. It's been a vicious cycle. And that's what healing is. It's been almost 14 years since my trauma happened.
Betrayal: Season 4
Betrayal Weekly: EP 22 - Angelique Pt. 2
And I feel like I just had an epiphany just a couple weeks ago.
Betrayal: Season 4
Betrayal Weekly: EP 22 - Angelique Pt. 2
I realized it's just a house. That's all it is. It's just a house that something bad happened to me in. But I'm here. I'm alive. I'm okay. And I have my son. You can't push or rush healing.
Betrayal: Season 4
Betrayal Weekly: EP 22 - Angelique Pt. 2
If you were to ask me where my safe place is, it's with him. I'm scared of everything. It can be as simple as I don't want to get into a lake because I'm scared I'm going to drown. I'm scared of life because something traumatic happened to me when I had no idea that it could happen.
Betrayal: Season 4
Betrayal Weekly: EP 22 - Angelique Pt. 2
So because of that my husband has been there to push me into different directions that I don't think I could have done without him.
Betrayal: Season 4
Betrayal Weekly: EP 22 - Angelique Pt. 2
And come 2020, we decided, why not? So we actually got engaged in 2020 and we got married. She and Josh had two more children together. We live a happy life all together. We're a very big sport family. We do football, softball, soccer, ride quads, go hiking, go to the lake. The son she nearly lost is now 13.
Betrayal: Season 4
Betrayal Weekly: EP 22 - Angelique Pt. 2
When I look at my son, I just think about how lucky we are and how blessed we are because not everybody gets this happy ending. I always tell him, you were absolutely meant to be here. I don't know what life has to offer you, but I just know you were meant for greatness.
Betrayal: Season 4
Betrayal Weekly: EP 22 - Angelique Pt. 2
When I was 17 years old, I didn't know that this was even a crime that could happen. I didn't know that because it was never talked about.
Betrayal: Season 4
Betrayal Weekly: EP 22 - Angelique Pt. 2
My motivation is not just to get my story out so that other mothers can understand that this is something that happens. I feel like it's an opportunity for me to be a voice for not myself and my son, but also for the mothers that are not here that didn't get to survive this crime.
Betrayal: Season 4
Betrayal Weekly: EP 22 - Angelique Pt. 2
Carrying a baby who wasn't mine and allowing that baby to leave my body and go to somebody else was a huge step for me and absolutely healed me in ways that I didn't know that I needed to be healed in.
Betrayal: Season 4
Betrayal Weekly: EP 22 - Angelique Pt. 2
I think about how that one second that it took For me to turn around is literally what saved my life. I would not be here if I did not listen to that gut feeling. It's okay to be naive. It's natural. It's who we are. We're only human. Just listen to yourself. Trust yourself a little bit more. Sit there and start to learn what that intuition feeling is and listen to it.
Betrayal: Season 4
Betrayal Weekly: EP 22 - Angelique Pt. 2
And they come and pull out more. They found, like, scissors, disinfectant, alcohol.
Betrayal: Season 4
Betrayal Weekly: EP 22 - Angelique Pt. 2
Everything that she gave me was one of everything to take my son, to make sure my son had a newborn diaper, to make sure my son had a baby onesie, a receiving blanket to wrap him in, a blanket so he didn't get cold, a carrier to carry my baby out with. She had one of everything to take my child and to leave that house.
Betrayal: Season 4
Betrayal Weekly: EP 22 - Angelique Pt. 2
I just remember sitting on the couch, staring at a wall, and I just kept repeating the same thing over and over and over again. It was like a trance. I told you she was going to kill me. I told you she was going to kill me. I told you she was going to kill me. My mom said that I sat there for hours.
Betrayal: Season 4
Betrayal Weekly: EP 22 - Angelique Pt. 2
They had blocked both of my streets off so that nobody can get in, nobody can get out.
Betrayal: Season 4
Betrayal Weekly: EP 22 - Angelique Pt. 2
When the detective comes in, me and her very much know each other because of my past. I've been arrested by her at least once. It's a small town, so she knew me by name. Hi, Angelique, you know. She was surprised by how the cops spoke to her. They were laughing. They were joking. Oh, are you sure this didn't happen? And she says, you guys are smoking marijuana in your room.
Betrayal: Season 4
Betrayal Weekly: EP 22 - Angelique Pt. 2
You know, it's no shocker because Angelique has done things in the past, but it wasn't a joking situation.
Betrayal: Season 4
Betrayal Weekly: EP 22 - Angelique Pt. 2
They had me write it down. And then that was it for the night. They just did their investigation and they left. So the next morning comes. I call them and they don't have any news. They know that she left the hospital and she's not there anymore. They know that for sure. And I'm like, OK, well, what are you guys going to do? Well, we're trying to find her.
Betrayal: Season 4
Betrayal Weekly: EP 22 - Angelique Pt. 2
This lady literally came to my house with butcher knives and tried to kill me. But the cops weren't necessarily convinced. Well, we can't prove that. We can't say that that's what happened. We don't know if that's what happened.
Betrayal: Season 4
Betrayal Weekly: EP 22 - Angelique Pt. 2
I think when people think of survivors and they think of people that are victims, they think that we go into this weird moment of poor me or like I'm scared. It's not like that. It's quite the opposite. We go into this moment that we need to figure out what happened. I was ready to investigate. I was very much, I watched way too much SVU. I know what to do. That's how I felt.
Betrayal: Season 4
Betrayal Weekly: EP 22 - Angelique Pt. 2
She got to work online. So I started Googling my little heart out and found things about her. I found this news article on her and I found out that they stated that she was a danger to herself and society. So that was like a little clue. And then she found a surprising connection. Her cousin is somebody that I knew from middle school and I called the cousin. Cassandra's cousin had a lot to say.
Betrayal: Season 4
Betrayal Weekly: EP 22 - Angelique Pt. 2
found out from the cousin. She said, my cousin's crazy. My cousin is very dangerous. That's when everything started to click.
Betrayal: Season 4
Betrayal Weekly: EP 22 - Angelique Pt. 2
She actually saw the test that she took at the hospital and they were able to confirm that she was not pregnant.
Betrayal: Season 4
Betrayal Weekly: EP 22 - Angelique Pt. 2
I gave it to the cops and they were like, oh, how did you find this? And I'm like, are you serious right now? It felt like they were not taking my case seriously and it was extremely frustrating.
Betrayal: Season 4
Betrayal Weekly: EP 22 - Angelique Pt. 2
Because her story was that we were in the room, we were smoking marijuana, we ashed out my pipe and it set my closet on fire.
Betrayal: Season 4
Betrayal Weekly: EP 22 - Angelique Pt. 2
My goal was to get her to admit that she was in the room alone before the fire started. So I had to call her and ask her, how are you doing? How did everything go at the hospital? I had to pretend like I had no idea what was happening because she didn't know what was happening. She has no idea that I found the butcher knives. So she admits it. Yes. Yeah, I remember when I was in the room.
Betrayal: Season 4
Betrayal Weekly: EP 22 - Angelique Pt. 2
Yeah, you were in there by yourself. Yeah, I was there by myself. And that was the goal to get her to say all of those words. Then, Cassandra started to catch on. I could tell that she wasn't alone. There was somebody in that house with her because we all heard a man say, hang up the phone and then click.
Betrayal: Season 4
Betrayal Weekly: EP 22 - Angelique Pt. 2
They have police outside my room. They have me down as Jane Doe. You have to have a code to get inside my room. She spent four days in labor. I probably should have had a C-section, but I think they were trying to be mindful of the whole situation that I had just gone through.
Betrayal: Season 4
Betrayal Weekly: EP 22 - Angelique Pt. 2
As much as I wanted my son to be born, I felt like the only safe place was inside of me. But at the same time, I was feeling like, okay, well, inside of me isn't safe because someone just tried to kill me. So I was going through all of these emotions.
Betrayal: Season 4
Betrayal Weekly: EP 22 - Angelique Pt. 2
Finally, my water broke, and it was just an intense birth. His heart rate had dropped at some point. It was honestly, it was scary.
Betrayal: Season 4
Betrayal Weekly: EP 22 - Angelique Pt. 2
I went through such a traumatic event that seeing him alive was just a blessing. I could not imagine him being with anybody else.
Betrayal: Season 4
Betrayal Weekly: EP 22 - Angelique Pt. 2
And finally, once everything is okay, I still can't sleep because, A, I'm freaking out on nurses, making them show me their badges. Two, I think I'm destined to die, and I just want to spend whatever moments I can with my son. And that's all I remember actually being in the hospital, is I was worried about someone coming to steal him or me dying.
Betrayal: Season 4
Betrayal Weekly: EP 22 - Angelique Pt. 2
Coming home is such a blur. I didn't go back in my room. I refused to go in my room. So I slept on the couch.
Betrayal: Season 4
Betrayal Weekly: EP 22 - Angelique Pt. 2
I just wasn't myself. There was nothing that was right or okay about me.
Betrayal: Season 4
Betrayal Weekly: EP 22 - Angelique Pt. 2
I pushed everybody away. Josh would say something and I would be like, I'm fine. But really, I'm dying inside.
Betrayal: Season 4
Betrayal Weekly: EP 22 - Angelique Pt. 2
I felt like I was completely in the dark when it came to my investigation. Anytime I would try to talk to somebody, nobody could give me answers. And it was just super discouraging because I had gotten out of the hospital and I expected to feel safe, and I didn't feel safe. I expected for her to be caught. She wasn't caught.
Betrayal: Season 4
Betrayal Weekly: EP 22 - Angelique Pt. 2
I just never left my house. I stayed inside of my house and never left. One night, about a month after her son was born... I fell asleep one night, and I remember my mom coming into the room. It had to have been, like, midnight. And she woken me up, and she said, here. And she, like, hands me the phone. And I'm like, who is it? It was the lead detective on her case. And she was like, we got her.
Betrayal: Season 4
Betrayal Weekly: EP 21 - Angelique Pt. 1
And I was like, yeah, yeah, like that sounds awesome. Like I need a new friend. I need somebody that is going to be able to relate to what I am going through right now. So she made plans to get lunch with her. It was like an instant click. So if you're a girl, you know exactly what I mean. You either click with a girl or you don't. And I had felt this like whole connection with her.
Betrayal: Season 4
Betrayal Weekly: EP 21 - Angelique Pt. 1
Right away, they just got each other. She was very smiley and just seemed so down to earth. I would say something like, oh my gosh, this happened. And she'd be like, I know what you're talking about. And I was like, oh my gosh, you understand me.
Betrayal: Season 4
Betrayal Weekly: EP 21 - Angelique Pt. 1
We were excited and we absolutely like, oh, you should get this. Oh, you should get that. I already have this. It was actually like a really cool moment to have with a friend because I didn't have a friend that was going to go do that with me.
Betrayal: Season 4
Betrayal Weekly: EP 21 - Angelique Pt. 1
We stayed in contact through Facebook and text message constantly. The same exact things that we always talked about. You know, how are you feeling? What are you craving? What's been going on?
Betrayal: Season 4
Betrayal Weekly: EP 21 - Angelique Pt. 1
She always would be like, oh, my husband's calling me. She was constantly on the phone.
Betrayal: Season 4
Betrayal Weekly: EP 21 - Angelique Pt. 1
We were all kind of thrown off at the fact that she was like 17, 18 years old and she had a husband. His name was Edwin.
Betrayal: Season 4
Betrayal Weekly: EP 21 - Angelique Pt. 1
So that was something that like we all did go, huh?
Betrayal: Season 4
Betrayal Weekly: EP 21 - Angelique Pt. 1
We had it at my parents' house, and it was really, really big. I remember feeling extremely overwhelmed with the amount of gifts that I got. It was insane. I had gotten every single thing that I wanted from my registry, plus four. I just remember that whole day feeling so blessed.
Betrayal: Season 4
Betrayal Weekly: EP 21 - Angelique Pt. 1
She was just like, hey, like, how are you doing? I'm so sorry that I missed your baby shower. And I was like, hey, no, don't worry. I know what it's like to be pregnant. Like, don't worry or feel bad at all. And she was like, I still have gifts for you and I really, really want to come over and just see you and hang out.
Betrayal: Season 4
Betrayal Weekly: EP 21 - Angelique Pt. 1
My little brother answered the door and she had walked in and she was very bubbly, very enthusiastic, you know, very kind. And she had this really big bag with her. It was like a diaper bag.
Betrayal: Season 4
Betrayal Weekly: EP 21 - Angelique Pt. 1
We just spent our whole day just hanging out, talking, you know, sat on my couch watching TV. At that time, it was 16 and Pregnant and Teen Mom, like MTV. Those are like all the things that we used to watch. And so me and her spent a lot of time doing that. Angelique's mom fixed them lunch. You know, we're eating and I started to notice she was mimicking things that I would say.
Betrayal: Season 4
Betrayal Weekly: EP 21 - Angelique Pt. 1
For an example, my mom would be like, oh, well, Angelique ran away when she was this age and she jumped a wall. But all of a sudden, she had the exact same story. And then I was like, oh, you know, that could happen. But then more stories would happen and she would just be like, oh, that happened to me too, almost exactly the same. And I don't know, for some reason, I was getting bothered by it.
Betrayal: Season 4
Betrayal Weekly: EP 21 - Angelique Pt. 1
And I don't know why. It's really not that big of a deal. I pulled my mom aside and I asked her like, hey, do you think Cassandra's weird? And she was like, what do you mean? I was like, I don't know. Just I keep getting this weird feeling about her. Like I have this weird feeling. And my mom was like, no, like I don't feel that way.
Betrayal: Season 4
Betrayal Weekly: EP 21 - Angelique Pt. 1
She's like, I can tell you that it does seem like she needs a lot of attention. And it seems like she wants like your approval to be your friend. cut her some slack, you know, as a mom would tell a teenager, like you're kind of being judgmental.
Betrayal: Season 4
Betrayal Weekly: EP 21 - Angelique Pt. 1
Once she realized my mom understood Spanish, she kind of changed her demeanor and she started taking her calls in private. I was just like, okay, these are just things that are kind of just going on. They have explanations. As the afternoon went on, Angelique got tired. It was exhausting hosting. So I started like yawning and kind of just being like a little like, oh, I'm so tired.
Betrayal: Season 4
Betrayal Weekly: EP 21 - Angelique Pt. 1
She had told me that she didn't have her keys to her house and she had to wait for her sister to get back home. And so at that point, I was like, okay, Angelique, suck it up. Like she's stuck here for a little bit and that's okay. You're just going to have to stop and suck it up, like hang out and just continue the rest of your day with her.
Betrayal: Season 4
Betrayal Weekly: EP 21 - Angelique Pt. 1
And Cassandra was very adamant, like, no, I don't feel good. Is it okay if we stay here? So they stayed back. One time mom had left, my brothers had left, and it was just us. It was just starting to get darker outside. And it was like a light switched. It was like... Cassandra started being different.
Betrayal: Season 4
Betrayal Weekly: EP 21 - Angelique Pt. 1
And she was like, oh, I have your gifts. And at this point, I'm like, oh, yeah, that's why you came over. You came over because you wanted to bring me baby shower gifts. And that just completely slipped my mind.
Betrayal: Season 4
Betrayal Weekly: EP 21 - Angelique Pt. 1
She wanted to give me these gifts in a very unique way. She took a chair from my kitchen and she put it in the middle of my kitchen and told me to sit in it and turn around and close my eyes. I thought that was so odd, but I did it. She's like, I'm going to come up behind you. I'm going to drop the presents in your lap.
Betrayal: Season 4
Betrayal Weekly: EP 21 - Angelique Pt. 1
The first present was a receiving blanket. The second present was a onesie, little booties, a bib, a bigger blanket, some random newborn diapers.
Betrayal: Season 4
Betrayal Weekly: EP 21 - Angelique Pt. 1
They had this smell. It smelled like a man had rubbed cologne all over it or he just rubbed himself on it or something. It just smelled like a man. But I am not a rude person. My mother did not teach me to be a rude person. And I will be thankful for whatever I get, whether I like it or whether I don't. So I nodded and I said, thank you so much.
Betrayal: Season 4
Betrayal Weekly: EP 21 - Angelique Pt. 1
My instincts were telling me something that I didn't know how to explain or what it even was. But there was gifts in my lap.
Betrayal: Season 4
Betrayal Weekly: EP 21 - Angelique Pt. 1
I felt, like, really awkward about it. Like, I know this gift was expensive. And I remember sitting there telling her, like, I don't think I can accept this. Like, you've already given me so much.
Betrayal: Season 4
Betrayal Weekly: EP 21 - Angelique Pt. 1
She had felt some type of special bond between us. She was like, I just feel like you're a true friend and I just feel like I want to thank you for accepting me and I know I can be overbearing sometimes. And it was like reassurance that I wanted because of all the feelings I was having and that conversation with my mom. So it made me feel like, oh, she really is somebody that just wants a friend.
Betrayal: Season 4
Betrayal Weekly: EP 21 - Angelique Pt. 1
So I accepted the gift and she was like, oh my gosh, I forgot. I have one last present for you. And I was like, well, what is it? She was like, well, I have to show you in the dark. Like this has to be done in the dark. Can we go to your room? And I was like, yeah, sure.
Betrayal: Season 4
Betrayal Weekly: EP 21 - Angelique Pt. 1
I grabbed my phone and I put my mom's phone number in my phone and I put the phone to my chest and I keep my finger on the call button. And I can't stop these thoughts. I don't know how else to explain it. It was just like somebody was whispering in my ear, telling me something bad was about to happen.
Betrayal: Season 4
Betrayal Weekly: EP 21 - Angelique Pt. 1
At this point, the sun has fully set because it's pitch dark in my room. I couldn't see too well, but I could see her shadow. Like, I could see her. And I started to get really scared. All of a sudden, it was like these weird thoughts started coming into my head, and they were very, like, vivid thoughts. It was just like somebody was whispering in my ear, telling me I was about to be murdered.
Betrayal: Season 4
Betrayal Weekly: EP 21 - Angelique Pt. 1
That, like, something bad was about to happen to me, that I was going to be stabbed. So I grabbed my phone and I put my mom's phone number in my phone and I put the phone to my chest and I keep my finger on the call button and I can't stop these thoughts.
Betrayal: Season 4
Betrayal Weekly: EP 21 - Angelique Pt. 1
So as I'm battling with myself, all she's doing is digging through this bag to give me the gift. Then at that moment, I said something. I said, Cassandra, what's taking so long? And she was like, I found it. I found it. Okay. And she got up on my bed, got behind me on my bed, which made me extremely nervous. And she said, okay, are you ready? And I was like, yeah, show me. She was like, okay.
Betrayal: Season 4
Betrayal Weekly: EP 21 - Angelique Pt. 1
And I'm like, well, what are you doing? She's like, I'm just going to put the light over your head and then you'll be able to see it's going to shine on your closet. Like I had a big closet door and I was like, okay, okay. And I'm sitting right there and she puts her hand on my shoulder. She leans me forward. two. And right when she says three, something inside of my head said, stand up.
Betrayal: Season 4
Betrayal Weekly: EP 21 - Angelique Pt. 1
So I jumped up as fast as I could and I ran and turned the light on. But when she flipped the light switch, whatever she had in her hand, she was putting back into the bag. And she's just like staring at me and I'm like, what is going on? And exactly when I say that, her phone rings and she answers it And it's Edwin. And she takes the bag and she leaves the room.
Betrayal: Season 4
Betrayal Weekly: EP 21 - Angelique Pt. 1
And she just starts speaking to this person in Spanish. She starts yelling at this person. Angelique's heart was pounding. I kept on wanting to make it make sense because none of it made any sense.
Betrayal: Season 4
Betrayal Weekly: EP 21 - Angelique Pt. 1
When Cassandra came back into her room... I was like, well, is everything okay? Yeah. And she was like, yeah, it was Edwin. He wants to take me out to dinner, but, like, I have nothing to wear. And I was like, well, just go look at my closet. Like, go see if there's something in there that fits you.
Betrayal: Season 4
Betrayal Weekly: EP 21 - Angelique Pt. 1
In my head, I'm thinking, something's happening inside of my room right now, and I don't know what's going on. Then Cassandra came out wearing one of Angelique's dresses. And I'm like, oh, that's cute. And I get up and I start to walk closer to the room and I start to smell this like weird smell. And I'm like, what's that smell? And she's like, what are you talking about?
Betrayal: Season 4
Betrayal Weekly: EP 21 - Angelique Pt. 1
Everybody was outside my door. I had every single news station. I had people calling me. I had Anderson Cooper calling me. I don't even know how they got my number.
Betrayal: Season 4
Betrayal Weekly: EP 21 - Angelique Pt. 1
And I was like, it almost smells like something's burning. And she was like, oh, I don't know what you're talking about. And she's like looking at herself in the mirror, just like. And I'm just like, no, I can absolutely smell like something is burning.
Betrayal: Season 4
Betrayal Weekly: EP 21 - Angelique Pt. 1
The last place I look is my closet. When I open my closet, everything is in flames. All my clothes that are in my closet, it's all on fire. And I went into a straight panic mode. I grabbed my phone and I didn't call 911. I called the last person that called me, which happened to be one of my best friends. So I'm screaming, there's a fire in my house.
Betrayal: Season 4
Betrayal Weekly: EP 21 - Angelique Pt. 1
And I'm running to the kitchen. I'm grabbing pots and pans. I threw one at Cassandra and I'm telling her, fill these up and let's put this fire out.
Betrayal: Season 4
Betrayal Weekly: EP 21 - Angelique Pt. 1
I was just coughing so much to the point like where I was on my knees and I had finally gotten the strength to like get up and I grabbed her by her collar and I dragged her out of the house with me and I opened my garage door. And when I opened it, like smoke was rolling out of my house. We had finally made it outside and we were just both like on the ground coughing so much.
Betrayal: Season 4
Betrayal Weekly: EP 21 - Angelique Pt. 1
He lived not even a minute away from me. So him and his mom got in the car, they drove over, and they were the first people that were on the scene.
Betrayal: Season 4
Betrayal Weekly: EP 21 - Angelique Pt. 1
I was so scared. Cassandra was also having contractions.
Betrayal: Season 4
Betrayal Weekly: EP 21 - Angelique Pt. 1
So me and her are both sitting in different chairs in different areas of my garage. I started feeling worse. My contractions were getting so bad.
Betrayal: Season 4
Betrayal Weekly: EP 21 - Angelique Pt. 1
And this is like when the cops start to show up. Everyone's kind of rolling up to my house at this point, and there's just smoke everywhere.
Betrayal: Season 4
Betrayal Weekly: EP 21 - Angelique Pt. 1
They came home to everybody outside of our house. So they were in shock also. And I think my dad was inside like with the firefighters trying to figure out what happened. My mom was more emotional support. When they give me my IV, like everything's fine, oxygen, I start feeling so much better.
Betrayal: Season 4
Betrayal Weekly: EP 21 - Angelique Pt. 1
Everything inside my closet was gone. Every single piece of clothing that I had, my mother's wedding dress that I had hoped to wear on my wedding day one day was destroyed.
Betrayal: Season 4
Betrayal Weekly: EP 21 - Angelique Pt. 1
And I'm like, OK, if I tell you what I think happened, please, like, just listen. Just listen to me. Don't think I'm lying.
Betrayal: Season 4
Betrayal Weekly: EP 21 - Angelique Pt. 1
I said, I guarantee you, if you find that candle, you'll find her fingerprints on it, which they should not be on it because I'm the only person that touched it.
Betrayal: Season 4
Betrayal Weekly: EP 21 - Angelique Pt. 1
I'm like, Mom, it felt like I was going to die. It felt like somebody was going to stab me. It felt like I had something to my back.
Betrayal: Season 4
Betrayal Weekly: EP 21 - Angelique Pt. 1
They start grabbing the diaper bag and I say, hold on, hold on. And I'm like, excuse me, please wait. I said, can I please see that? And I'm doing this in front of everybody, in front of the cops. I take the diaper bag and I keep explaining to them. She said she had this present for me. Like the explanation is in this bag. And as I'm doing that, I put the bag on the counter.
Betrayal: Season 4
Betrayal Weekly: EP 21 - Angelique Pt. 1
I reach my hand in the bag, and I feel these two metal objects. And when I lift them and pull them out, they're two large butcher knives. I drop them on the counter, and I just start screaming. On the next episode of Betrayal... There's some stuff in here that I don't think you know. He has done this before. They sold babies in Mexico.
Betrayal: Season 4
Betrayal Weekly: EP 21 - Angelique Pt. 1
My motivation is not just to get my story out. It's also to be a voice for the mothers that are not here that didn't get to survive this crime.
Betrayal: Season 4
Betrayal Weekly: EP 21 - Angelique Pt. 1
And so when we have get-togethers, it's not just a get-together. It was always a party. There was always like a pinata. Our cousins, our aunts, our uncles, the whole shebang would come together.
Betrayal: Season 4
Betrayal Weekly: EP 21 - Angelique Pt. 1
Even growing up when we lived in a mobile home, she didn't care. Like, come to our house, you know, come hang out with us. She would be an amazing host. I just remember her always constantly baking cookies, putting them out on the table, and, you know, always having, like, lemonade, always having things.
Betrayal: Season 4
Betrayal Weekly: EP 21 - Angelique Pt. 1
I feel like I'm the oddball out in my family. I do feel like I'm the one that worries more about people and what they think and also what they think of me.
Betrayal: Season 4
Betrayal Weekly: EP 21 - Angelique Pt. 1
We went from living in a mobile home park to what seemed like to me like a mansion because, you know, back then the prices were a lot different. We moved from California to Arizona and had a five bedroom home with a pool. And it was just amazing. It was like a new start and a new beginning.
Betrayal: Season 4
Betrayal Weekly: EP 21 - Angelique Pt. 1
I definitely got stared at. I definitely got judged. My first week of school, I ended up eating lunch in the bathroom all by myself for like a whole week. because people did not like me.
Betrayal: Season 4
Betrayal Weekly: EP 21 - Angelique Pt. 1
So I, at that point, had changed from the sweet girl who never got into fights, who never even had an F ever, to this hardcore, you know, I won't say bad person, but when I look back at my childhood, I really do think of like, wow, I did change into this person that I could not even recognize anymore.
Betrayal: Season 4
Betrayal Weekly: EP 21 - Angelique Pt. 1
I did start using marijuana and drinking with my friends. And then I was going through a really, really hard time during my 11th grade year. Something just within my family. And it changed everything about me and made me feel numb.
Betrayal: Season 4
Betrayal Weekly: EP 21 - Angelique Pt. 1
So I was going through some stuff at home, but also dealing with being a high schooler and trying to be cool.
Betrayal: Season 4
Betrayal Weekly: EP 21 - Angelique Pt. 1
I woke up to a text message at like 6 a.m. that said, rager party. My parents aren't home. Bring your bathing suits. Let's go swimming and let's have a party. We are very what I would call a redneck city. We were drinking.
Betrayal: Season 4
Betrayal Weekly: EP 21 - Angelique Pt. 1
And that's all it took for me. she was in a bad place and living a life of extremes. I was just a young 17-year-old girl who didn't really understand the consequences of using hard drugs that way. Nobody wants to go down this path.
Betrayal: Season 4
Betrayal Weekly: EP 21 - Angelique Pt. 1
And that night... One thing led to another, and all of a sudden I wake up in the morning, and I'm like, oh, okay, so this happened.
Betrayal: Season 4
Betrayal Weekly: EP 21 - Angelique Pt. 1
I got sneakier. I started finding people that were like within work doing it. I started getting people to do it with me so that they would get it. Like when you're in that drug world, you'll figure it out.
Betrayal: Season 4
Betrayal Weekly: EP 21 - Angelique Pt. 1
Well, I guess I wasn't the only person that thought I was pregnant. Because when I got home, there was a pregnancy test sitting on my bed from my mother. She had been tracking my period. She said, you have not had a period this month. Take this test.
Betrayal: Season 4
Betrayal Weekly: EP 21 - Angelique Pt. 1
I remember very clearly at that very moment, I locked myself in the bathroom. I brought my pipe in there. I brought my bag, my stuff, and I had smoked and smoked and smoked. I was in shock and I thought maybe this would numb my pain.
Betrayal: Season 4
Betrayal Weekly: EP 21 - Angelique Pt. 1
I came out and I threw the pregnancy test at my mom and I said, I'm pregnant. And she was livid. She was so mad at me and disappointed. She was crying and I was just sitting there. I just turned off all my emotions and I just looked at her like, what? I'm trying to pretend like it wasn't a big deal. but inside I was actually really like freaking out.
Betrayal: Season 4
Betrayal Weekly: EP 21 - Angelique Pt. 1
He was one of my best friends. He was somebody that I would talk to all the time. And the first thing that he did was he found my stash and he flushed everything down the toilet.
Betrayal: Season 4
Betrayal Weekly: EP 21 - Angelique Pt. 1
I sat at the toilet staring at it with a wrench trying to figure out how I could remove the toilet to get my stash so that I could smoke again. That's what my main priority was, was to sit there and figure that out.
Betrayal: Season 4
Betrayal Weekly: EP 21 - Angelique Pt. 1
It was the moment that I sat on the ground staring at that toilet with a wrench that really made me stomach how far gone this drug had made me. I had felt pathetic. Like, I have no idea what I'm doing with this wrench. What am I going to do? Take this toilet apart and put my hand down and try to find a bag that might be soaked? Like, is that how much I love this?
Betrayal: Season 4
Betrayal Weekly: EP 21 - Angelique Pt. 1
Is that how much I want to do this? I spend my whole paycheck on it. How am I supposed to do anything in life?
Betrayal: Season 4
Betrayal Weekly: EP 21 - Angelique Pt. 1
It was my turning point. And if you're an addict, you understand exactly what that means.
Betrayal: Season 4
Betrayal Weekly: EP 21 - Angelique Pt. 1
And I came down the street in a hoodie with glasses. It's hot in Arizona. I pulled my hoodie down, took off my glasses and stared at him and said, do you see me? And he said, yeah, you look really messed up. And I said, exactly. If I don't have this baby, this is gonna be my life.
Betrayal: Season 4
Betrayal Weekly: EP 21 - Angelique Pt. 1
I don't know if I have it in me to stop doing this because I like it too much, but this baby can change everything in my life. This baby can help me.
Betrayal: Season 4
Betrayal Weekly: EP 21 - Angelique Pt. 1
I didn't want somebody to be with me because I was having their baby. I wanted somebody to be with me because they loved me, not because they felt obligated.
Betrayal: Season 4
Betrayal Weekly: EP 21 - Angelique Pt. 1
When I saw the screen, I had immediately fell in love with Josh. this tiny little bulb inside of me. And honestly, that was like reassurance for me and more motivation to stay away from the people that were doing drugs or to stay clean.
Betrayal: Season 4
Betrayal Weekly: EP 21 - Angelique Pt. 1
I officially believe that being pregnant is what saved my life.
Betrayal: Season 4
Betrayal Weekly: EP 21 - Angelique Pt. 1
Trying to work, trying to stay sober, trying to do all these different things just was extremely complicated. So I had decided just to stop and I stopped going to school at that moment. I ended up actually getting my GED.
Betrayal: Season 4
Betrayal Weekly: EP 21 - Angelique Pt. 1
I had lost a lot of friends like deep down. really, really close friends. Everybody else was still in high school. Everybody else was still partying. Everybody else was still doing these things that I couldn't do.
Betrayal: Season 4
Betrayal Weekly: EP 21 - Angelique Pt. 1
You think about high school, and you think senior year is going to be the year. It's going to be the year that I graduate. All these different things that we think, senior prank, just prom, everything. I was watching all of my friends go through that and I wasn't.
Betrayal: Season 4
Betrayal Weekly: EP 21 - Angelique Pt. 1
And I felt so isolated and lonely because nobody understood why I had heartburn. Nobody understood why I couldn't walk two miles without catching my breath. Nobody could understand, you know, me complaining about how big my belly was. Like they didn't understand any of that because none of them were going through what I was going through.
Betrayal: Season 4
Betrayal Weekly: EP 21 - Angelique Pt. 1
He was working like 90-hour weeks. Like, it was insane. It was literally from morning to night. I never saw him. But he would come to my house with no sleep just to give me a kiss or just to give me a hug.
Betrayal: Season 4
Betrayal Weekly: EP 21 - Angelique Pt. 1
I had a friend. Her name was Hannah. And Hannah called me and was like, I met this girl. Her name is Cassandra. She is pregnant just like you are. She's our age. It's crazy. Her birthday is in October just like yours. I feel like you guys would have a lot in common. Plus, she's new to town, so she doesn't have too many friends.
Betrayal: Season 4
Betrayal Weekly: EP 21 - Angelique Pt. 1
You know what it's like to be pregnant and kind of feel like that isolation. I kind of just painted this whole picture of like a perfect friend.