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He had asked if I heard what happened.

He sounded upset.

He was crying.

At the time, Sarah says, she believed in her pastor.

Joanna had died by suicide.

Sarah says she and Lewis became friends, then began dating about a year after Joanna's death.

At first, it was somewhat exciting, thinking that I'm seeing a side of this person that no one else is seeing.

Eventually, Sarah says, another side of Mark Lewis began to emerge.

A lot of extreme manipulation, a lot of gaslighting, and...

a lot of verbal abuse, some physical, a push or a shove, and it was just more and more.

And then, she says, she discovered that Mark Lewis had been sending inappropriate text messages to an underage girl.

And he said, I'm not ready for it to be over.

I would just keep telling him, you know, this is, it's over.

We're done.

Mark grabbed her, she says, and tightly wrapped his arms around her.

It was meant to be threatening.

He squeezed me tight and told me, you've created a monster.

Sarah and her two young children were living with her parents in Vacaville as the pastor's threats, she says, became more frequent and frightening.

The first time my car was vandalized, it was actually parked here.

He had either himself or had somebody smash my windshield in on my car.