Deborah Roberts

of dollars.

And the worst part, he brought his wife into it.

How did you learn about this particular story?

kicked in and she listened and she started to poke and when she did it started to unravel and that was what made me really interested in in telling Libby's story she sort of revealed to you she knew little about the finances at home and her husband was able to sort of get away with this scheme for a while looking back did she begin to then sort of remember red flags that she had noticed early on

Yeah, as far as she was concerned, it was working.

He was handling the finances, the taxes and things like that, the checking account and all of that.

She had spinal issues, surgery when her daughter was young, and that prevented her from working.

And she sort of settled into this routine of him sort of, you know, handling everything.

So that kind of set her up that once she had this life going and she felt like it was going well, she kind of didn't really have a lot of support in a way, right?

Yeah.

Well, there's a major turn in this story, and it's when Libby goes to the FBI with a letter that Ted had written to her explaining everything, actually begging her to take him back once their marriage had kind of ruptured over this.

And the FBI tells her that if you want to say that she committed a crime, which she didn't, it was only just entrusting her husband.

That couldn't have been easy for her to hear.

What was she like trying to process that?

because it kind of takes that shame away.

And I do think that there is, I think, a tendency of people to judge, especially when they're sitting back and they're looking in, how could you not have seen this?

And when people are in these relationships, as you say, and they've kind of had a life that has seemed to work for them,

you can sort of understand how they might be blindsided.

And in her case, she truly was.

You tell us about how he had essentially run their finances into the ground.