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Betrayal

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  • Summary

  • Ashley Lytton was a typical mom and wife in suburban Utah with three children until she discovered her husband’s horrifying secret. It was a shocking crime that would alter Ashley’s life and jeopardize the safety of her children. This season of Betrayal will focus on one mother’s fight to find justice for her daughter and protection from a predator too close to home. Once we hear her story, we learn the same crime is happening every day in households all over the country. It’s a betrayal of our families, communities and everything we value in society. Season Two lays the issue bare through the family’s story and takes an honest look at a huge problem most people don’t want to even want to acknowledge.

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  • S1: Introducing - Betrayal
    Mar 22 2022

    This is a story of a real-life fairytale gone horribly wrong. It’s a cautionary tale about a marriage so filled with betrayal and deceit, that many people are still recovering from its path of destruction. This is the story of Jenifer Faison. After 20 years apart, Jenifer reconnected with her college sweetheart, Spencer Herron. He was a two-time Teacher of the Year and Jen was convinced she married the perfect husband. On June 1, 2018, that all changed. Jenifer came home to find Spencer holding a search warrant. He had sexually assaulted one of his students. In the days that followed Spencer’s arrest, Jenifer uncovered a dark, secret life her husband had been living during their entire marriage. His actions shook a community, devastated his wife, and sent Spencer Herron to prison. Climbing out of the devastation would be a journey Jen could have never imagined.

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    3 mins
  • S1: E1 - The Perfect Husband
    Apr 28 2022

    Jenifer Faison, a successful reality television producer, waited for love and was thrilled when she reconnected with her college sweetheart 20 years later. They were older but the spark reignited and after a whirlwind courtship Jen and Spencer married and enjoyed a wonderful relationship. Everyone thought Spencer, a two-time “Teacher of the Year” award winner, was the perfect doting, attentive husband. But on June 1, 2018, when Jen arrived home, her husband holding a search warrant. The police soon arrived and took her husband out in handcuffs. It was the last time she has seen him.

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    31 mins
  • S1: E2 - The Aftermath
    Apr 28 2022

    Through his social media and texts, Jenifer learns devastating details about her husband’s double life. The arrest was the tip of the iceberg. She was living with and loving a man with addictions, fantasies, and predilections he kept hidden the entire time they were together. She discovers more about Spencer’s crimes and how he justifies his behavior. Eventually Jenifer turns the devastation inward wondering if it’s her shortcomings that caused this. Family and friends rally around her. She realizes to heal and move on she will have to learn everything she can about the man she married.  

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    28 mins

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Shocking - A Must Listen

loved it! Very moving. My emotions were all over the place.

Jennifer showed amazing strength & forgiveness.

Huge hug to the teenage survivor. Her courage brought this awful abuser to justice and saved Jennifer and so many others more pain.

My heart hurt listening to this, but it also beat with happiness hearing the love and forgiveness Jennifer was able to show. Even to people, she considered friends who betrayed her she still found it in her to hear their story and not lash out in anger.

A must listen.

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Good story but. .

The only victims in this story are the teenager & the wife. The rest of the women knew what they were doing. They weren't victims, they were willing participants.
There are also a lot of ads. More ads than in other podcasts I've listened to.
This story could've been told in half the time.

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great story but the ads are excruciating 50% ads.

why soooooo many ads!?.it's honestly way too much...the podcast is 50% ads...comecon!!!! I need this story but not the ads...tone it down please ty....

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The real betrayal is the premise.

I have never hated a podcast more. The log-line of this podcast reads: ‘The ex-wife of convicted sex felon Spencer Herron investigates the real story of her seemingly perfect husband and grapples with years of astonishing infidelities’, which sounds super sensational and really leans towards understanding the healing process. I can only think that the premise of this podcast came about after a night of wine and commiseration with friends, that ended with,”OMG you should totally do a podcast!” I was promised a journey of discovery and what I got was a desperate declaration to the world, ‘LOOK, I WASN’T THE ONLY ONE HE BETRAYED AND TRICKED, as if the sheer quantity of other women he tricked helps lessen the blow he made to her life. It felt like she used the other betrayed women to reaffirm her thoughts, her intelligence, and her worth. She used these other women’s self assessment after everything had transpired almost like a family uses a surrogate for a child..all of her emotions were placed inside them right down to her using her absolution for their actions (by proclaiming them victims, please exclude the underage student from this assessment because she truly was a victim) to enable them to recast themselves as victims, to further her desperation of not being the ONLY one.
While it was compelling to hear the other sides of the women the questions asked felt self serving which granted I know is weird thing to say..but her questions did not lend to introspection, but rather displaying his exploits to world. It just doesn’t come across that Jennifer worked on her healing in a meaningful way. Trash thing to say…I know but on a journey like this you have to learn how to trust again, how not to let the past dictate the future, and allow yourself truly live. This could’ve been more..this could’ve helped heal others, but it falls so short… Jennifer, I wish you the best.

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Almost impossible to listen to

about every 3 or 4 minutes they abetting the same story they're telling. when they're not doing that they're playing clips from the woodside before it. to the point where is ridiculous. this sort could have been told well with plenty of detail in 15 minutes. Horrible podcast.

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Too many commercials, too little detail

After 3 episodes, they have still failed to present anything to engage either my interest or emotions. The show seems to be little more than a carrier for the commercials (maybe 25% of the total time is commercial, maybe more.) It's quite boring.

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