Deborah Roberts

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Hi there, everybody. Welcome to 2020 The After Show. I'm Debra Roberts, and today we've got a special series to explore, 2020's limited series Bad Romance. It recently returned for its second season Tuesday nights on ABC through May 13th.

Hi there, everybody. Welcome to 2020 The After Show. I'm Debra Roberts, and today we've got a special series to explore, 2020's limited series Bad Romance. It recently returned for its second season Tuesday nights on ABC through May 13th.

Now, as you can probably guess from the title, these are stories of people who have lost their lives at the hands of those who they thought would love them forever. We're going to look at the consequences of obsession, manipulation and take a look at the dark side of love. And joining me to discuss this combustible mix of love and true crime is

Now, as you can probably guess from the title, these are stories of people who have lost their lives at the hands of those who they thought would love them forever. We're going to look at the consequences of obsession, manipulation and take a look at the dark side of love. And joining me to discuss this combustible mix of love and true crime is

is abc news contributor and my friend ryan smith hi ryan deborah it's so good to talk to you good to talk to you i had to resist the urge to say and joining me as somebody who can talk about obsessive you know whatever in life because that's not quite the case but you are of course obsessed with 2020 and a lot of these stories you and i have worked on a lot of them together it's great to see you and i'm glad we can talk about this

is abc news contributor and my friend ryan smith hi ryan deborah it's so good to talk to you good to talk to you i had to resist the urge to say and joining me as somebody who can talk about obsessive you know whatever in life because that's not quite the case but you are of course obsessed with 2020 and a lot of these stories you and i have worked on a lot of them together it's great to see you and i'm glad we can talk about this

Yeah, me too. Well, you know, at the heart of these stories, and we see a lot of overlap in these stories, so clearly we had enough, sadly, I guess you could say, to put them all together and sort of look at them through a bigger lens in this series called Bad Romance. And one of the things to me that is so compelling is

Yeah, me too. Well, you know, at the heart of these stories, and we see a lot of overlap in these stories, so clearly we had enough, sadly, I guess you could say, to put them all together and sort of look at them through a bigger lens in this series called Bad Romance. And one of the things to me that is so compelling is

in these love relationships is that you know at the root of it as we said there's often obsession things that have gone wrong and people who just either snap or just do the unthinkable why do you think people are so fascinated by these stories it's because of love and i know that sounds trite for some people but love is just this basic human emotion that we all want to feel

in these love relationships is that you know at the root of it as we said there's often obsession things that have gone wrong and people who just either snap or just do the unthinkable why do you think people are so fascinated by these stories it's because of love and i know that sounds trite for some people but love is just this basic human emotion that we all want to feel

Yeah, I agree with you. And you and I can peel back and look at some of the ones that we've covered. But as you're talking about this, I'm thinking about a story that I covered in Minnesota where someone actually betrayed his wife. And this guy had never been in trouble, in fact, was quite religious. And they're supposed to be going to church that morning when she's killed.

Yeah, I agree with you. And you and I can peel back and look at some of the ones that we've covered. But as you're talking about this, I'm thinking about a story that I covered in Minnesota where someone actually betrayed his wife. And this guy had never been in trouble, in fact, was quite religious. And they're supposed to be going to church that morning when she's killed.

What do you make of the motives? Because oftentimes these are folks who are trying to either cover their tracks or sometimes they're involved in duplicitous relationships. Talk to me a little bit about the motives.

What do you make of the motives? Because oftentimes these are folks who are trying to either cover their tracks or sometimes they're involved in duplicitous relationships. Talk to me a little bit about the motives.

And they feel boxed in. Yeah, they feel boxed in. You make a great point. That's exactly right. That's what gets me. And you raise an interesting point when you talk about these double lives. I mean, those are the things of TV dramas, right?

And they feel boxed in. Yeah, they feel boxed in. You make a great point. That's exactly right. That's what gets me. And you raise an interesting point when you talk about these double lives. I mean, those are the things of TV dramas, right?

One of the ones that, of course, I remember so well is we call it Love You to Death, is this case of Molly Watson, who was found murdered on a dark country road. She was getting ready to get married. Her new marriage license was in her car. Her boyfriend of seven years, so she'd been seeing somebody for seven years, and she's got her new license there in the back of the car.

One of the ones that, of course, I remember so well is we call it Love You to Death, is this case of Molly Watson, who was found murdered on a dark country road. She was getting ready to get married. Her new marriage license was in her car. Her boyfriend of seven years, so she'd been seeing somebody for seven years, and she's got her new license there in the back of the car.

And when police find her, they feel like they're going to go and drop this horrible news on this fiancé who's going to be just devastated. And they shockingly discovered his wife, his wife at home, that he's got a double life. I was the correspondent on this story, and I still think about it to this day for a lot of reasons. But let's listen to a clip.