Susan Spencer (48 Hours correspondent)
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Depressed and dispirited, Shirley gave up custody of teenagers Steve and Scott and of six-year-old Mindy.
He told them that I was the one that wanted to leave, that I didn't love them,
It wasn't long, Mindy says, before life with the father she adored became a living hell.
And when she rejected him, she says... He just started to hate me almost, I felt like.
Her father began abusing her emotionally.
Mindy became a teenager and wanted her freedom.
That's when, she says, Andy Bereni became impossibly controlling.
I got a job at McDonald's, and he kept a log of the odometer.
He knew exactly how many miles it was to and from my job.