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i-i just--i'm in shock as to what happened here. thanks, guys. amber, thank you. (shrieks) yay! (chuckles) (shrieks) what did you see in her? (kevin) lori, she dresses dogs. you know what? you are judging her way too harshly. well, that's why i kept quiet. i didn't want to be a hater. what--what's this hater stuff? the dog has a bow tie on. you know what? it's ridiculous. now i'm gonna prove you wrong. you know me. that was a lot of hard work. and that was really intense. (high-pitched voice) you did it! (exhales deeply)
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. >> announcer: tonight on 20/20, two different stories of the ultimate betrayal. one using the pulpit, the other using a bottle of pills. first, the cocktail waitress and the doctor's son, and the baby they hadn't planned on having. >> what were your feelings at that moment? >> oh, boy. >> good and bad? >> i was never going to do anything to harm the child. >> announcer: but he was. wait until you find out what. >> i can't believe he betrayed me. >> announcer: bitter pill. plus, what happened when a married woman fell in love with her pastor, her husband ended up murdered. >> my husband's laying on my floor. >> announcer: tonight a checklist for the almost perfect
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crime, look for the life insurance, check. >> it wasn't even 24 hours after he was killed. >> she wanted to look good for the funeral. >> announcer: air tight alibi down to the exact minute? check but who pulled the trigger? >> really, who does this? this is soap opera stuff. >> announcer: tonight, on betrayal. here now, david muir and elizabeth vargas. >> good evening. most people go to church for forgiveness, what the new hope church members got was truly unforgivable, a betrayal in their midst, with nearly all ten commandments broken. >> including thou shall not kill. what would catch the killer was a love letter left in a trash can torn to pieces but not nearly enough. tonight right here you'll see for yourself those interrogation tapes, that helped break this
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case. here is jim avila. >> reporter: independence, missouri, stick a pin in the middle of an american map. and this is what you get. bible country. home of harry truman, where a love of god, country and guns meet. and on this day, independence is saying good-bye to a man who personified all that middle america is about. family man and former marine. 42-year-old randy stone, pillar of the community and now murder victim. >> he was a fun loving person, he was one of these people that no matter what he was doing he, he was making the best of it, and it was constant jokes and, randy was just a fun, infectious person to be around. >> reporter: hundreds turn up for the funeral listening to randy's pastor, best friend and spiritual advisor david love who gives a stirring, heart-felt eulogy. >> we sit here today and we weep not just because of the separation of our loved one but
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because of the questions that death brings. questions like why, "why him?" "why now?" >> delivered a powerful eulogy. it was a very warm and comforting thought that he was in heaven that he was in glory. >> without answers, death seems so cold. >> reporter: but mourners weren't the only ones in attendance. detectives were there too, recording in the church that day. because they believed the killer might be attending the funeral. it was, after all, only days earlier that randy's wife, teresa, stumbled upon a horrific scene. a murder mystery. it was the middle of the day. she stopped by the insurance company she ran with her husband. as she pulled up, she noticed things just did not look right. the shades were drawn during business hours, and the doors locked. >> she came into the office and then found him laying in her office, on the floor, kind of
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behind her desk, and he was laying on his side, and, was bleeding. >> she stepped over the body, and placed the phone headset on, and then proceeded to call her parents. and told them that randy had been shot, and they said, then call 911. >> 911, do you need police, fire or medical? >> yes, i do please. >> okay, take a breath. where are you at? >> i -- i just walked into my office and my, my husband's lying on my floor in my office. >> okay now, what's wrong with your husband? >> he's, he's been, i don't know. there's blood everywhere. it's coming out of his ear. >> the police got to the scene, she ran out the door, collapsed in the yard. >> reporter: theresa not only had she lost her husband of 19 years, the father of her two children, but the man she had known since childhood says randy's mom, clara. so how did he meet teresa? >> we's on the same block, they kind of grew up on the same block, so he'd known her for years. >> reporter: at 18 randy enlisted in the marine corps and
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lost touch. but when he returned to independence, their relationship reignited. he gets out of the marines, it becomes more serious. >> yeah. one day he come in and said, we're getting married, they had a nice wedding out at new hope >> reporter: just like that -- soon they had a son and a few years later a daughter. a picture perfect family, in a picture perfect american town. you know, he's a, you know, former marine, tough guy, but his devotion to his wife was -- was really something to behold. he wrote poetry to her. and his marriage was -- was -- was the center of his life -- was the center of his life. >> reporter: and the glue that kept them together -- their church. new hope baptist where they were married and had their children baptized. >> drove church buses, advised them on financial matters, taught sunday school classes. teresa was -- helping in the kitchen to singing in the choir, she was always there. >> randy was, was there every sunday, wednesday night, and if there was an activity, he was there. >> he really fed on the spiritual nourishment that that church offered.
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>> reporter: with family, faith and a tight knit circle of friends it seemed randy and teresa were leading a righteous, pure, even devout life. >> he told me he would love her until the day he died, and believe me, he did. >> reporter: but, now the 42-year-old insurance salesman, with no known enemies lay dead in a pool of blood. a single bullet wound to the head. police began to comb the crime scene. and more than $150 dollars still sat on the desk. his wallet never moved from his pocket. so what did this tell you about whether or not this could be a, a burglary gone bad or, robbery or, or just this random stranger? >> this looked exactly what it turned out to be, like an execution. somebody that he knew and trusted, and shot him at the point his back was turned. >> reporter: the murder took only one shot. investigators find the single .40 caliber bullet casing on the floor and another intriguing piece of evidence that would
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turn the case within the first hour in a nearby wastebasket. >> one of our people went through a, a trash, a trash canister next to teresa stone's office desk, and there was a, a one-page letter that had been torn up in multiple pieces. what it amounted to is some type of a, like a happy birthday or a love letter. >> reporter: happy birthday love. i am not in control of things yet, but when we are fully together your birthday will always be exciting. >> anyone's attempt to shred it was pretty pathetic. it was ripped into nine squares, and placed in the trash can, um, on the day that randy happens to be murdered, in the same room. >> reporter: i adore you i am blessed by you i need you. for savvy veteran police detective keith rosewaren, this wasn't adding up. how did you -- did you determine at the scene that this was not randy's love letter to his wife? >> there were some handwriting samples on randy's desk. the handwriting and penmanship really didn't look the same. >> reporter: suddenly, a love
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note gives police their first clue in the mystery of "who done it?" the first possible reason into why this god fearing, beloved pillar of the community would be struck down. the church closed ranks around teresa consoling and comforting, even her husband's eulogist, pastor david love, rushed to her side. >> david called and told me. and he said, "are you sitting down? randy's been shot and killed." i drove straight to the office. and then i was fighting the police, i wanted to go in and see my baby and they wouldn't let me. >> reporter: police take theresa down to headquarters for questioning -- but even before she gets there, her behavior begins to raise eyebrows. >> they put teresa in the patrol car, and they drive her off, and almost instantly, she tells them, she's all out of tears, and she doesn't know if they're going to think that's strange, but she's all cried out. and just -- instantly, is, has
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recovered. >> reporter: when we come back, the interrogation tapes. how does teresa stone go from a grieving widow to a prime suspect? >> something doesn't add up. >> reporter: the game of cat and mouse begins. >> i've told you everything! >> reporter: stay with us >> plus, a pregnant woman in love with a doctor in training and in love with the baby he doesn't want. the devious trick he plays on her, that they don't teach at med school. d, when the sun goes down, the foodies come out. they cross oceans, leave behind their countries, and their comfort zones. nothing stops them in their pursuit of culinary perfection. except... i'm sorry. no american express. [ male announcer ] luckily, mastercard is accepted at twice as many places around the world, so no matter where you go, you can have a night out that's...
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20/20's betrayal continues. once again jim avila. >> reporter: even in the perfect crime, it's the details that can often foil the plot. like the single shell left
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behind in randy stone's insurance office. or a torn up love note in the trash, just a few feet from his body. details police are anxious to hear from the woman who discovered randy's body and seemed to recover from the grief of losing her husband of 19 years in about 19 minutes. raise the shade on the interrogation room and listen to teresa stone. >> i saw blood coming out of his ear. and his eye was really -- and i noticed he wasn't breathing. reporter: listen as teresa offers up random suspects. >> her first statement to the police was, that she had seen kind of a, a dirty looking black guy, walking around the back of their building, and he probably killed him. >> i think he had a moustache he was pretty tall. >> reporter: or perhaps it was that client. the one who had made a pass at her one day.
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>> he's a kansas city cop. >> nice. okay. >> as for her own whereabouts on the day of the murder, well, teresa had a well-documented, perfectly recalled account, uh, alibi for her day starting with a doctor's appointment. >> i was supposed to be there at 1:45 to fill out paperwork and my appointment was actually at 2. but the bank was kind of slow so i didn't get there to ten till. i left there about 2:15, so i went shopping at dress barn. i left dress barn around 2:41. >> wait a minute. 2:41? you sure it wasn't quarter to 3? or maybe 2:30? >> 2:41. >> nope. 2:41. >> no one who wasn't preparing for that, would be able to recite their whereabouts down to the minute, uh, the way teresa stone did. >> reporter: okay, her alibi may be air tight, but what about those other details. remember, the love note? well apparently teresa doesn't.
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>> okay. >> reporter: listen as police blind side her with that love note. >> in the trashcan there was a letter that said happy birthday and all that and it was this big. it was all tore up. >> she seemed a little taken aback by the question, a little surprised. and she seemed to collect her thoughts. >> reporter: so your detectives do what, at that point? >> the detectives leave the room. and they say, "we're going to go get the note, we'll bring it back to you, maybe that will refresh your memory." >> hold on just a second we'll be right back >> okay. >> reporter: but once the detectives were gone and they were out of the room, she, she kind of sat there and she looked at the floor. and then she whispered under her breath -- >> i forgot about that. >> reporter: did you catch that? listen again -- >> i forgot about that. >> reporter: she also forgot police were recording her with a hidden camera, when police re-enter the room, teresa tries desperately to recover. >> yeah, now i remember and i have had it for a very long time because i kinda had a secret
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admirer. it was left on my car door. >> who is your secret admirer? >> i don't know who he is. >> reporter: and you were-bs detector goes off? >> yeah, that's, that's not right. this is not right. >> reporter: and this doesn't smell right either -- only a day after her husband's murder, and before he's even buried -- teresa meets with randy's close friend and insurance agent, robert davis, to, you guessed it, grill him about how many zeroes might be on the life insurance check. >> she seemed distraught. and, and then, it, it was like a switch flipped. and, and she asked if we could go downstairs to their home office, and laid out on the desk were all of these life insurance policies that randy had taken out over the years. so, there wasn't even a death certificate yet, right? >> no. that's correct. >> and she was wondering when she was gonna get a check? >> right. right. >> reporter: how did that strike
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you? >> it struck me as, as odd, given the fact that, it wasn't even 24 hours after randy had been killed. >> reporter: okay, now this might seem like piling on, but you won't believe what else this grieving widow made time to do just after the murder. >> she's at the tanning salon, making sure that -- >> reporter: wait, she's, she goes to get a tan. >> she went to the tanning salon, and in addition to maintaining her tan, she talks to the owner about what she could do to have randy's tanning credits transferred to her account. >> reporter: cold. >> oh. uh, that fact really just stuck with me. >> reporter: she wanted to look good for the funeral. >> maintain her glow. >> reporter: and it's not just us. others notice teresa's strange way of mourning her husband's sudden, violent death. she shares the news with an out of town pastor who says she goes from murder to matter-of-fact in seconds.
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and, during the conversation, she, um, after we talked about that just for a few moments, she switched, and begun to ask about my wife and my daughter. >> reporter: unnerved, he calls pastor love to tell him what happened. >> during the conversation, he began to tell me what he had done, during the course of the day, his wife had called him, and told him to go to the hospital and visit a member. and he'd stopped -- he even told me that he stopped to buy a fish sandwich somewhere, and it occurred to me that you're giving me an alibi. >> reporter: two air tight alibis, one from teresa, and the other from randy's closest friend, pastor love. but what would a pastor have to hide? could his very name be a clue? when we come back, the worst kept secret at the new hope baptist church. >> what happened to the baby? >> i miscarried. >> reporter: stay with us.
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>> reporter: a small church in the heart of the bible belt. its pastor, a suave, smooth talking reverend david love, best friend of the now murdered insurance salesman randy stone. police are curious why both love and stone's widow teresa seemed to go out of their way to
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establish an alibi -- >> so i left dress barn around 2:41. >> reporter: police are starting to suspect that pastor love may have been living up to that suggestive name. there are rumors of an affair between the pastor and teresa. and they're making the case that the affair was the motive for murder. >> we have a page and a half of things that's not jiving. this was a planned killing. >> no. >> it was a planned premeditated killing and more than one person was involved. >> i have told you everything that happened on that day. >> well i'm telling you that they have -- >> i have receipts to show you. my daughter was with me. i already know what you're going to say, but i have to hear it from you. >> yes, we had sex and you know that.
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>> i know that and you know what? i am not going to judge you for that. >> initially she denied ever having been unfaithful to her husband, then she admitted to sexual affairs. then to a ten-year long affair, where they're having sex daily, with the pastor of her church. >> reporter: but their clandestine affair becomes harder to hide, when teresa ends up pregnant. and the big problem with that? she's married to a man who had a vasectomy! >> randy had had a vasectomy, previously, so, came as a real shock. >> reporter: were you suspicious? randy and, and teresa just presented that it's only, maybe 99.9% effective, and that was the one little sliver of a chance that, that they had, and it happened, so it, it was what god wanted. >> reporter: divine intervention? not even this man of faith was fully buying that. randy matches "mother theresa's" betrayal with one of his own. he secretly takes her off his life insurance policy and makes
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his children sole beneficiaries -- to the tune of $600,000. >> she was not the beneficiary, and so i had to call her and inform her of that as well. >> reporter: what was the conversation like? >> total shock, that he could've changed that without her knowing that that was the case. >> reporter: randy's suspicions were spot on. that baby was the love child of his good friend and spiritual counselor, pastor love. >> was there ever a time that you became pregnant with david's child? >> yeah. >> that was a long time ago, wasn't it? >> yeah, it was about six years ago, actually. >> what happened to the baby? >> i miscarried. >> okay. >> reporter: turns out, someone else was suspicious of theresa and her pastor -- the pastor's wife kim, who tells police her husband was spending a little too much time puttering around the garage.
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>> he went to the garage to get his shoes because he said his feet were cold and i said that -- "what are you doing out here?" and he said, "i am putting my shoes on." and i said, "you are hiding something from me." >> reporter: kim love, doing a little bit of her own investigating, also discovers a hidden cell phone in the garage. >> i knew it was from teresa because i saw the texts from her. >> reporter: but was the affair alone enough to turn pastor love into a killer? police soon learn that there was also a rift between david love and randy stone over church finances. >> about two weeks before the murder, randy stone announced to pastor love that he was leaving the church. >> money was disappearing, and randy didn't think that was right. >> randy stone was a threat to david love for two reasons. he was about ready to -- you know, take -- take away teresa and randy stone also knew enough that could've crashed davis love's career.
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>> reporter: so police had a motive. all they needed now was the evidence. police start to turn the screws on teresa. sometimes the smallest of details becomes the biggest of bombshells -- and detective rosewarren zeroes in on small discrepancy in teresa's story. remember, after finding the body, she told her parents that randy had been shot, but she omitted that little nugget when she called 911. >> who told you that he'd been shot? >> how did you know that he'd been shot? and why didn't you tell us? you're not being truthful with me, teresa. >> i, i didn't know. >> you're not being truthful. >> i didn't. he sent me a text and told me. >> who did? say it. >> brother love. >> reporter: there it is. teresa finally gives him up.
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her cohort, her lover, the man who pulled the trigger. brother love. >> i think she just said, "you know what, i'm done. i'm done, i'm not going to continue to protect him, i'm going to throw him under the bus, and i'm going to save myself." >> reporter: but teresa is going to betray her beau again! only minutes later, teresa, still playing the role of a grief-stricken widow, tries to get brother love to confess to murder on a taped phone call. >> pastor, this is theresa. >> hi. >> we need to talk, okay? >> now? >> yes, now. i want to know why. >> theresa, what? >> you know what. i need to know why. i need to know why you killed my husband. i need to know. >> reporter: but alas, there would be no come-to-jesus moment from pastor david love.
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he doesn't take the bait. so police decide to bring him in for in person questioning hoping they can break him in the interrogation room. >> i definitely need some kind of representation because i am a preacher. i don't know the law. >> reporter: but while pastor love wasn't talking, teresa was spilling it all. >> did he say how it happened? >> he said he walked into the office and he aimed and didn't even look. >> so he said he pulled the trigger? >> that is what he told me. >> reporter: eight months after the murder of randy stone, police finally take pastor david love into custody. a shocked community comes to grips with a sacred trust broken. >> david love betrayed his church. he betrayed his faith. he betrayed everything he felt dear, to pursue this woman.
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>> reporter: in november 2011, pastor love takes plea deal of second degree murder. he's serving life in prison and can eligible for parole in 2036. teresa, indicted for conspiracy to commit murder, took a plea deal to have charges reduced and as part of that deal had to acknowledge her role in the crime. >> she admitted that she gave david the alarm code to her house and the combination to randy's gun safe so that he would be able to go into her home when nobody was there and get one of the guns. >> reporter: teresa was sentenced to 8 years in prison. >> in, in my mind i feel like she is every bit as guilty as, as the pastor, the only difference is he pulled the trigger and she didn't. >> reporter: and as for david love -- the pastor who eulogized the man he murdered?
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>> david broke all the ten commandments, every one of them. he obviously lied. he committed murder, he committed adultery, he committed, you know, false witness. i mean, you go on and on, david committed, david broke all ten commandments. and so that is the ultimate act of betrayal. >> have you ever been betrayed by someone you trusted tell us on twitter use the #abc 2020, elizabeth and i will be right back. >> next, a prominent doctor's son, a pregnant girl, who worked in a bikini bar. >> how can you not be excited? this is your child as well. >> a literal prescription for disaster. when betrayal continues. everyone has their own way of doing things. at university of phoenix we know learning is no different.
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differently. now, the controversial case making headlines and could set a precedent in court. what sinister trickled he play on her, to make everything go away, including her unborn baby? >> reporter: she thought she'd met the one. >> i prayed to god and then he walked in. >> reporter: to hear her tell it, they had a connection that would change the person she was and wanted to be. >> i had given up a lot of hope, but he was there. he picked me right off the floor. >> reporter: 27-year-old remee jo lee had been a student at the university of southern florida until bad luck and a few poor choices took over. she straddled both sides of the tracks. a student by day, a sizzling dancer by night. then, john andrew welden, a handsome student studying medicine, the son of a rich doctor, literally walked into her life. >> we met at the class act, which is a gentleman's club where i was working. it's a bikini bar. >> reporter: so your uniform was to wear basically a bikini and serve drinks? >> and chat with the men.
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>> reporter: it sounds like the old sort of japanese custom of geisha clubs. >> i guess a redneck geisha. >> reporter: right, a redneck geisha? remee's from lutz, florida, a quiet town on the outskirts of tampa. it served as the inviting, pastel suburban neighborhood in the romantic fantasy film "edward scissorhands." and up until a few months ago that was lutz's claim to fame, but then came another romantic fantasy that even hollywood couldn't have imagined. remee says the two had an instant connection. >> we hit it off. it was great. he was finishing up his last year at usf medical school. i was very impressed with, you know, his perseverance and his drive. >> reporter: so impressed that she began thinking about upping her game. it was time to hang up the bikini. >> well i feel as if he caught me literally with my pants down. this was somewhere i never imagined i would be.
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i wanted to be someone who he could have been proud to be with. >> reporter: her time working for tips at class act had come to an end. >> well, i quit that job after a week. and then i got my wonderful job at chipotle about a month later. my job with pants, as i like to call it. >> reporter: "your job with pants." >> a job with pants. >> reporter: so out of the most unlikely of places, that dimly lit bikini bar, a relationship seemed to blossom. remee says she was spending more and more time with 28-year-old andrew, the man she nicknamed "muffin." so how serious a relationship did you consider this to be? >> it was just this emotional connection. >> reporter: did you understand this to be exclusive? >> during parts of it, yes. >> reporter: and during other parts? no. remee acknowledges that andrew had an on again, off again relationship with another girl. >> he went through a long-term relationship with a young woman named tara, and he said that that relationship had ended. >> reporter: did he say, "i love you?" >> he did. >> reporter: did he ever say, "i want to marry you?" >> no, but we did talk scenarios that would be in the future.
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>> reporter: andrew may not have been ready to take her to the altar, but it didn't take long before he was taking her to bed. surprisingly, there were never any discussions about birth control. >> reporter: did you have any understanding with each other around birth control? >> we never used any. he never even used condoms with me. i went through my grade sex ed class. i was well aware of what could happen. >> reporter: if that sounds a little reckless, listen to what happens one early morning this past january. after a night of drinking, andrew and remee get into a car, and sure enough they're pulled over on suspicion of d.u.i. >> do you love me? >> of course. >> are you going to stand by me? >> yeah. >> reporter: remee was the one behind the wheel. and though she wouldn't be charged, you can hear the desperation and disappointment in her voice as she tells the
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officer her worst fear. her behavior may have cost her the man she loves. >> that's the love of my life. that is the inspiration. i let him down now. i'll never marry him now. >> reporter: maybe not, but apparently the sparks of intimacy were still there. within days, she would become pregnant with andrew's baby. i took a test and it came up positive. i took two more and they both popped up positive. and oh boy. >> reporter: oh boy good or oh boy bad? >> well, it's going to be an adjustment for everybody involved. >> reporter: quite a surprise for andrew, who was still inching toward a degree in biomedical sciences and religion. people who would like to see the worst in people will say, "she's desperate. she feels this prize out of her reach now, slipping away, and she does something to get him back.
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>> this was never a plot. this was never a plan. this was never a scheme. it wasn't the right time now. but whenever i found out about it, everything changed. everything changed. >> reporter: remee, ecstatic, had already picked out a name. so tell me about the name memphis. how did you come up with that? >> well, memphis was his favorite place and we always spoke about it. i wanted to name him after his father and his mother. so memphis remington. >> reporter: but she still had to break the news to andrew. >> and i was trying to get in contact with him. and he wouldn't pick up the phone, he wouldn't respond. and i had to text it, and i texted him a photo of the of the pregnancy test. >> reporter: what was his response when you texted him that message? >> he was not pleased. >> reporter: what did he say? >> "what are you gonna do?" and i told him, you know, "keep the baby." >> reporter: the string of text messages that followed shocked and saddened her.
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begging her to abort the baby, but remee had made up her mind. >> no. no. i was never gonna do anything to harm that child. >> reporter: then, curiously, andrew suddenly becomes the doting dad to be. he brings remee, now nearly seven weeks pregnant, for a prenatal exam at the office of the most respected reproductive doctor in town, stephen welden, his father. >> i didn't have medical insurance at the time. and i thought that a loving grandfather would perform the best services for me. >> reporter: did you see the heartbeat? >> they simulated it. it was so exciting. there is nothing like seeing your own child grow inside of you. >> reporter: and how did andrew seem during the visit? >> he was very upset. he looked like he was about to cry, and it deeply hurt me because, you know, how can you not be excited? this is your child as well. >> reporter: the very next day, her prenatal test results came in. but surprisingly they weren't coming from the doctor himself they were coming from andrew, the doctor's son.
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he said i had a mild infection and that i just needed to clear it up, that it would not hurt the baby. >> reporter: so he said he was gonna bring you a prescription for what? >> for amoxicillin. >> reporter: so when he brought you the prescription did everything look normal about the bottle and the pills inside? >> as far as i knew. he brought that, and he brought other prenatals. >> reporter: prenatal vitamins? >> yes. >> reporter: maybe andrew really was coming around to the idea of being a father? and i thought, when memphis comes along, he'll be holding him and showing him off and a proud dad. >> reporter: at work she could barely contain her excitement and showed off the sonogram of baby memphis taken by andrew's father. >> i was so excited. and all my co-workers were so excited for me. they knew how much this meant to me. a few hours later everything would change. >> reporter: while on her way to work, she took one of the pills andrew had given her. her shift was 4:00 to 11:00 p.m., but she wouldn't be able to make it past 7:00. stay with us.
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20/20 continues with betrayal. once again, elizabeth vargas. >> reporter: remee jo lee's life-long goal was to be a mom. >> i wanted this baby more than anything. not because it was andrew's but it was my baby as well. it was part of me. >> reporter: she was seven weeks pregnant, bearing the child of the man of her dreams. >> i was fine. and then i ate that pill and everything wasn't fine anymore. >> reporter: describe what you were feeling. >> i went from being pregnant and sick with, you know, morning sickness, to a horrible pain, like someone had shoved a bayonet into my stomach. >> reporter: what did you think was happening? >> i just thought i had eaten something bad. >> reporter: and then when did you know that this was something worse? >> the next day, when i was -- when i see all this blood. >> reporter: what did you do then? >> i had to go to the hospital.
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i had to save my life. and i was hoping for anything that there was some chance that memphis would be okay. >> reporter: what did the doctor say to you? >> the pregnancy is over! the chaplain came in and gave a final prayer. >> reporter: andrew had told her the pill he gave her was amoxicillin, but remee quickly learned it was something else. and you knew it was the pill. something -- did you look at them? did you pull them back out and -- >> like then i noticed they were scratched off and like -- it -- this is when the nightmares begin. i thought, "oh it's just one." i can't even imagine how someone could do that. >> i was hoping that this was
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-- no way he was involved. >> reporter: and when did you finally realize that, in fact, he was? >> he told me. >> reporter: what did he say? >> he told me what the medication was, and it was cytotec. >> reporter: cytotec, the drug andrew had admitted to giving remee, is ordinarily prescribed to prevent stomach ulcers, but it's also known to cause miscarriages. and the deadly warnings are clearly stated on its packaging. warnings andrew hid from remee. >> he apologized and said he was the most horrible person, and i don't even know how to explain how hurtful that is to hear that from his voice, the horror story of what he had done to me and our baby. >> reporter: andrew didn't only betray remee. he betrayed his own family. after his father performed that prenatal exam on remee, andrew would steal a page from his prescription pad. remee's attorney, gil sanchez. >> then he walks in with his forged prescription, hands it over to the individual in the pharmacy. >> reporter: so he forged a
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prescription, scratched off the markings of the cytotec pills to make them look generic, delivered these pills to remee and instructed her to take one. >> he did all of those things. the baby's future grandfather said he was left completely blind-sided and devastated. speaking out for the first time about andrew's crime, he and his wife lenora told us, this was not the andrew they knew. >> it's tragic, and it's totally out of character for what kind of person he is. >> reporter: describe him, for people who haven't met andrew, what kind of young man is he? >> throughout his life, he has been singularly the most kind, thoughtful, compassionate of all my children. >> so loving, caring about other people, and i think that's why he wanted to go into medicine, it's just devastating now. >> reporter: the welden's say they were surprised by something else.
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they'd met remee only once, and thought andrew was destined to marry someone else. he had dated a young woman, tara for a long time -- >> yes. he was planning to marry her, eventually. >> reporter: did he have hopes and dreams of having a family of his own, of getting married one day? >> yes. >> reporter: do you think he'll get that chance again? >> we hope. >> reporter: that chance may take years. their son, a once promising medical student was charged with murder, but under a deal, plead guilty to tampering with a consumer product and mail fraud, charges that will likely land him in prison for nearly 15 years. while andrew awaits sentencing, he's confined to a very strict house arrest. >> this is more than just a routine house arrest. they had to put bars up on the windows. we have two armed guards present, 24 hours a day.
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>> reporter: in support of their son, the welden's have burned through their life savings. a half a million dollars is a lot of money. >> it's a 401. >> it's all of it. >> but, you know, he's worth every bit of it. >> you know, you're talking about the length of the sentence. >> right. >> i'm 66-years-old. 15 years, i may not be here. >> reporter: andrew's attorney, todd foster. >> it was a stupid, tragic, unbelievably regrettable decision on his part. he's admitted what he did, and he's going to be punished. >> reporter: but remee's lawyer says the punishment doesn't fit the crime. andrew welden could have faced life under the unborn victims of violence act, but that's a law not in place in florida. and remee wants to change that. >> i will not back down. i am here for myself and for all of the other victims, to spread awareness and help prevent this from happening to other women. >> reporter: remee says that it's the support of her family
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that has helped her through this. >> all we want to say -- we love you, remee, very very much, and we are still 100% behind you in all of this. we're there for you. >> i just wish we had the baby here too, to have fun with her in a wonderful, loving family. >> reporter: and as remee thinks about andrew, she's still hurt by the man she loved. >> it's amazing how this turned so terrible, and it didn't have to be. i am just a girl from lutz that fell in love with the wrong man. tonight that wrong man andrew welden still
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