Em Gessen

About a year after they met, Alan approached Priscilla's father to ask for her hand in marriage.

They went through a modernized version of the lobola, the custom where the prospective groom pays a price for his bride, and now they were considered married in Zimbabwe.

As Priscilla got to know Alan better, she sometimes wondered about things.

I do know.

Alan did have an internship at a law firm at the World Trade Center.

But that was the summer before 9-11.

Although, as I told Priscilla, the story Alan told her was familiar.

So that's another red flag.

And then there were many more.

Both Priscilla and Alan accused each other of bad behaviors.

It's a pretty typical complement of transgressions.

Whether either of them was right, or whoever was right first, it's clear that things got bad fast.

Obviously here, in this interview.

This is Priscilla's side.

But much of what she told me, she has also laid out in legal records, there are a lot, in both U.S.

and Zimbabwean courts, and in testimony related to her custody cases, and eventually, her testimony in Allen's murder-for-hire trial.

In the first year of their marriage, their son was born, whom again I'm calling O, or when needed, I'll beep his name in the tape.

Soon after O was born, Priscilla and Allen broke up, the first time.

Then they got back together.

Then they broke up.