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You're listening to an Ono Media Podcast. Hi everyone and welcome to the into the Dark podcast. I'm your host, Peyton Moreland. I'm so glad you are here listening. If you're watching on YouTube, please subscribe to the channel and leave a comment on this video. Just engage with the episode. Please, please, please. And if you are listening on podcast and can leave a review, that would be amazing. Either way, I love you. Just a quick announcement before I get into my 10 seconds. Some of you noticed that this show's Instagram handle was changed to like Peyton Moreland show or something. I don't really know. It's still the into the Dark Instagram dedicated to the show. You may or may not know that my husband runs basically the entire back end of the podcast and he met with some marketing team and, I don't know, some strategy. I honestly don't know. But don't worry, it is still the into the Dark Instagram. The handle is just changed, but the name of the page is still into the Dark. And if you search into the Dark, it will still come up. Okay, that being said, let's get into today's 10 seconds. Well, I hate to tell you this, but I did actually hurt my back. I really did. You guys. I don't know. Something pinched in my lower back. I can barely stand up straight. Garrett's been having me do exercises. But it's just unfortunate, honestly. It's unfortunate because I feel like I've been trying to be more active and I've, you know, been going to the chiropractor which maybe did it. I don't know. Honestly, I don't know, but I'm just doing my exercises. I'm still trying to be as active as possible while also not overdoing it. But yeah, that's kind of been a bug, not gonna lie. Other than that, I did get my Halloween decor up before that happened and I just feel like the Halloween decor should stay year round. I don't know why it only has to be October for me to have skulls in my house. I already have like ghosts up for permanent decoration. I have witch pictures that are up for permanent decoration. I'm like, why do I ever have to take this stuff down? Honestly, I tend to go for less. Happy Halloween. I have no orange. I have no happy things. I only have like dark spooky. I have a potion cabinet. I have a lot of candles, a lot of candles, candlesticks all around the house, a lot of skulls, a lot of black. So honestly, that's the vibe. This year I did a really large, like, I guess tree branch, but it's the size of like my front door and it has, it's just spooky looking. Think like Snow white haunted forest and we glued a bunch of like black crows to the tree branch and it kind of like hangs over the door. It looks so spooky. And then I also did a wreath on my front door. Like a Halloween wreath. But instead of it being like Happy Halloween and ribbon, whatever, I just did a dead plant. A dead wreath, basically. It's like yellow and rotting. It's so freaking cute. I only did like green and white pumpkins coming up, but mixed in with like skeletons and lanterns and stuff. But yeah, that's kind of the gist of what I did. I'll probably post a video of it over on my personal Instagram because I always am really proud. This is the, like one holiday I always go so out for. Oh, also a little hack. If you also decorate spooky and like dark and mystery. If you have pieces of furniture that you're not changing out or whatever, but don't really go with the vibe. I just put my. Not my fitted sheet, but my like flat sheet that comes with all of my sheet sets. I just grab a bunch of the flat sheets and then just drape them over. Like in old houses, like old abandoned mansions when like people would go in and there's like just white sheets draped over everything. I do that on a lot of the furniture that I'm like, this just doesn't fit the vibe. But I have nothing else to do with it. I do it over like picture frames, things like that and it kind of just adds to the spookiness while also keeping your house intact because we can't change everything out. But yeah, that's kind of a little hack. I do on Halloween. I think it's super fun. Do as many candles as possible. Never do the big lights. I get like little colored lights so like little red spotlights around as well. Honestly, it's just fun. It's my favorite thing. Like I said, I probably will be posting a reel on my personal Instagram once I'm done with everything, so you can check it out there. But yeah, I think that's my 10 seconds for this week. The Halloween decorating kind of took everything. Oh, I got a new tattoo. Guess I should have decided that one. It's a little skeleton torso that's giving itself a hug. I've always wanted to do like the self love tattoo of like the woman or the female body hugging itself because I, I don't know, I really like relate to that kind of, you know, you only have, you make sure you're prioritizing, you make sure you fall in love with you first type thing. But obviously like I love skeletons and so yeah, I just did like a little skeleton torso that's hugging itself and it's so cute and I love it so much. Okay, let's get into today's episode Trigger warning. This episode includes discussions of suicide, so please listen with care. I want you to think about the last time you went onto social media. You were probably scrolling through your feed looking at posts from your friends, family members, casual acquaintances, and they probably all looked pretty happy, as though they were living exciting lives, having a really good time. Tick tock. Instagram and Twitter are full of smiling faces, people celebrating birthdays, going on vacation, getting married, having kids. And when you're looking at these images every day, it is natural to feel a bit self conscious, to have a little bit of fomo. Like your life can't possibly be as full and as rich as everyone else's. But social media isn't reality. Of course. We all have things that we keep private and plenty of people have secrets. And in 2018, that was especially true of Mark and Jennair Jaredo. Mark and Janaire had been married to each other since 1994. So it had been 24 years by 2018. And on the surface, they seem like the picture perfect couple. Now before their marriage back then, they had actually been high school sweethearts. Back in 1986, Mark and Janer were both teenagers and and he met her while she was working at Taco Bell. Now, during their brief first interaction, she made a big impression on him. And afterward, Mark couldn't stop thinking about Janaer. Except they didn't officially start dating until four years later in 1990, after high school. So almost high school sweethearts. Now, they hadn't been in touch during that four year break, but through a complete coincidence or maybe fate, they actually bumped into each other on the street one day and Janaer told Mark, no, I'm not working at Taco Bell anymore. She had a new job at a shopping mall and Mark didn't want to let his chance at love get away again. So after that, he kept finding excuses to drop by the store where she worked. And they just started to see each other regularly, talk and joke around. And before long, it was clear that there was a mutual attraction between them and they began dating. And it was clear to Mark that Janaer was very bold and outgoing. She was one of those people who did what she wanted and she didn't care what anyone else thought. Mark, on the other hand, was more timid and shy. He didn't like to push boundaries or do things that might upset other people. But when he was with Janaer, she helped coax him out of his shell and encouraged him to try new things. This was actually one of the things that marked Mark liked the most about Genaer. She added a dash of excitement to his life. So finally, they get married. They landed high profile jobs in the marketing industry and they seemed to have everything figured out from the outside looking in. Their marriage was like a fairy tale come to life. They regularly posted on social media and all of their pictures showed them smiling and happy. Now, they didn't have kids, but they did have several golden retrievers that were beautiful and healthy. And their posts showed them dining out and hiking on these gorgeous trails with incredible views. It seemed like Mark and Jennair had everything you would want out of a romantic marriage. Except, of course, nobody knew what Mark and Janer were really like behind closed doors. And the truth was, they fought all of the time. Their marriage was actually very unhappy. The two of them argued about everything, even little issues that shouldn't have mattered. And these little issues always escalated into massive shouting matches. Now, part of the problem was that Mark and Jenner could both be very stubborn. Neither of them wanted to compromise or feel like they were losing an argument. So once the two started bickering, neither was willing to give in. And before you know it, they would be yelling horrible things at each other, crying, making each other miserable. And one of the biggest issues in their marriage was money. Mark and Janer never saw eye to eye about how much they should be spending money versus how much to save or invest. And things got even worse in the year 2008. Now, at the time, the economy was weak, they were both worried about losing their jobs, and their stress was at an all time high. Things were actually bad enough that Mark and Janer decided they just needed a fresh start. Like if they bought a new house in a new town, they made new friends, they got new jobs, they basically changed everything about their lives. They could start over and learn to be happy again and put this rocky past behind them. So they actually packed their bags and moved to South Carolina. And then they started over from scratch. And honestly, for a while, it worked. Mark and Janaer felt like newlyweds again. They got along, they weren't fighting as much. They actually lived a short drive away from the shore and a mountainous area with lots of trails. So during this time in their lives, Mark and Janer got very into hiking and swimming and spending quality time together outside. But the good times wouldn't last forever. Before you knew it, Mark and Janae were back to having regular fights again. It didn't help that sometime around the year 2017, Janaer actually lost her job. She was applying and interviewing for new positions, but months went by without an offer. It made her feel insecure, and when she was really down, she lashed out on Mark. So Mark decided to try the same thing that had worked so well the last time their marriage was on the rocks. He suggested they should move to a new town, restart their lives again and see if it helped. So Mark actually begins spending a lot of time online looking for job postings in other cities. And he saw one position that was really interesting to him. It was actually at the University of Delaware. Mark thought he had the qualifications for it, and Delaware seemed like a nice place to live. Maybe, just maybe, he and Jennair could be happy there. Well, Mark didn't want to just submit a resume and wait to hear back. Instead, he actually did a bunch of research until he found the name of the manager who would be interviewing and hiring for the job. It was a woman named Meredith Chapman. 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I'm Mayra Amit, founder of Mochi Health. To find your mochi moment, visit joinmochi.com Mark is a Mochi member, compensated for his story. So once he's done all this sleuthing and finds Meredith the manager, Mark emails her directly explaining that he's looking for a new job and he thought this one would be a good fit. And he also personally sent her his resume and a list of his qualifications. Now, Meredith actually writes back right away and she said she was impressed with his background and his eagerness and she wanted to meet in person for an interview. Now I have to say, even though Mark had emailed Meredith first, he was actually a little skeptical at this point. When he looked Meredith up online, he saw that she was a high ranking executive, but also she was only 32 years old, meaning she was 15 years younger than he was, but would be his boss. Now, according to her social media posts, Meredith had accomplished a lot in her short career. She was a bit of a superstar. But Mark knew the same thing that I mentioned at the start of this episode. Social media isn't always accurate. People can lie or exaggerate or leave out key details, make their life look better than it is. Mark just wasn't convinced that someone that young and that inexperienced could have the brilliant career that Meredith seemingly had. Except when he went to his interview, Meredith blew all of his concerns out of the water. It was obvious that she was incredibly competent, smart, strategic, personable, and basically everything you would want in a boss. In fact, when Mark left the interview, he realized that he liked Meredith on a lot after that interview, and not just in a professional way. He was definitely attracted to her. And it's safe to say that it's not great to have a crush on your potential boss who is 15 years younger than you, especially not when you and your wife are already having marital issues. But the truth of the matter was that Mark needed a job. So when Meredith reached back out with an offer, he actually accepted it, even though he was going into this knowing that his feelings were not appropriate. And it gets worse, because Mark needed to move to Delaware before he could begin working. But in the meanwhile, he needed Genaer to stay behind in South Carolina. She needed to pack up their house and get it ready to sell. So for 45 days total, a month and a half, Mark lived alone in Delaware. He went to work every day, and each day he spent time with Meredith. And each night he came home to an empty house. It was almost like he was single again, which meant he was willing to flirt with Meredith and act friendlier than he usually would. Now, for her part, Meredith was also married. She had been with her husband for nine years, and to all appearances, her relationship was strong and stable. But she flirted back with Mark, and it was clear that she liked him too. So one night only, about two weeks after Mark had started his new job, Meredith invited him to grab drinks after work. He agreed. And this wasn't a happy hour with other co workers. It was just the two of them. And while they were at the bar, they opened up to one another. Meredith explained that appearances, her social media, was deceiving, at least as far as her marriage was concerned. On the surface, she and her husband seemed happy, but the truth was that her relationship was falling apart. She and her husband were still technically together, but she had felt emotionally Distant from him for years. At least this is what she's telling Mark. And Mark admitted that he was unhappy with Janae too. But he insisted he had no intention of ever cheating on his wife. He and Meredith couldn't deny that they were attracted to one another. However, he states pretty clearly he had no intention of acting on that attraction. In fact, not long after this conversation, Mark actually begins job searching again. He knew that it would be hard to resist temptation if he was seeing Meredith every single day at work. So even though he had barely even started his new job, he was looking for new positions in Delaware, jobs that could let him leave this complicated situation. And he actually got invited to an interview in Denver. So Mark flew all of the way out, met his potential new boss, and answered all of their questions. Here's the thing. Even though he was on the opposite side of the country trying to do the right thing, Mark couldn't stop thinking about Meredith. I mean, it was so bad he was considering leaving his job. He realized that if he took this new position and said goodbye to her forever and it was going to be hard and break his heart and he couldn't do it. Mark didn't want to be a liar or a cheater, but he also didn't want to ignore his feelings any longer. So before he could fly home, he called Meredith, his boss in Delaware, to say that he wanted to be with her. And that was the start of their affair. They went on dates, they texted constantly, they were sexually intimate, and by late the fall of 2017, they had even said I love you to one another. Keep in mind, they had only known each other for about four weeks at this point. This affair was definitely moving fast. And Janaire still wasn't even around. She was in South Carolina taking care of their house, packing up, getting it on the market and trying to sell it. And by the time she finally does move to Delaware that December, she moves in and immediately can tell something is off. It was clear that Mark wasn't as emotionally present as he had been in the past. Something had definitely changed while he lived and worked in Delaware alone. Janer also noticed that he did seem to be spending a lot of time with his boss, Meredith. He was always talking about her. He seemed to really like her. So finally, Janer asked Mark point blank if he was cheating on her and if the other woman was Meredith. But Mark denies it all. He lies. He insists that Janer was being paranoid, that she was imagining things, that there was definitely nothing going on, there was no affair. And Meredith, his boss, wasn't a threat. Except before long, the situation was impossible to deny. Especially because Mark and Meredith realized that they wanted to be together for real. They wanted to leave their spouses for each other. No more sneaking around, no more hiding things. So Meredith decides to come clean to her husband and begins the process of filing for divorce. Luckily, Meredith's husband took the news about as well as he could. I'm sure her husband wasn't happy to learn that she had cheated, but they managed to actually stay friends and part on good terms. The problem came when Mark told Genaer that he had been having an affair and he also said on top of that, I want to leave you and be with Meredith permanently. Needless to say, Janer does not take this well. She was so stunned that she didn't even say anything at first. After all, she'd been lied to and deceived and now was being left. She'd moved to a brand new city and state to be with Mark. Basically, it felt like she had given up everything to make their marriage work for this fresh start. And now Mark was casting her aside for a prettier, younger, more exciting woman. And to make matters worse, it had now been about a year since Genaer had lost her job and she still hadn't found a new one. Frankly, she had been so busy trying to sell the house and move, she had barely had a chance to send out resumes and get out there to do interviews. So on top of her feelings of betrayal, she was terrified that she'd end up broke and alone after this divorce. The stress was so bad that Janar began posting about her struggles online. At this point, she didn't care about presenting a picture perfect version of her life anymore. She went on the Nextdoor app to ask for recommendations for marriage counselors and divorce lawyers. Now, in these posts, Janaire was very honest about her current situation. She wrote to people online publicly about how Mark had cheated on her, that she was feeling depressed. It was clear that she needed a lot of help and even if her marriage couldn't be saved, Janair could use a friend. But she didn't know anyone in Delaware very well, so she felt really alone. But then Sometime in early 2018, Geniere approached Mark and said that she'd found a way to somehow accept their situation. She understood that he was leaving her for Meredith and she couldn't stop him. But she wanted a few things from him before they finalized the divorce. Janer didn't want her last memories of her marriage to be about lies, deception, and heartache. She wanted to go out to a few more nice dinners with Mark, spend quality time with him, enjoy a couple of hikes. The sorts of things they usually did. That way, they could end their marriage on a high note. Which was a strange request, for sure, but Mark agreed to it. He knew he was in the wrong. And in his mind, if this was what Janae needed and if it would help her move on, he would do it. Now, for the next few weeks, Mark and Janaer did all of the things that she'd requested. It was almost like they were kind of dating again. They went on nature hikes, they had fancy dinners, they spent a lot of time together, one on one. And then once they had checked everything off Janaer's list, Mark moved out. In his mind, he did what he was supposed to and he was done. He come clean. He. He had spent all of that time with Jenner, and now it was time to start the next phase of his life. But I'm sorry to say that he and Jenner were not able to happily part ways like he'd hoped. Because on the evening of April 23, 2018, at 7:05pm, Mark called 911. He gave an address explaining that he was at someone's house, but it wasn't his, and that there were two dead people inside of this home. So when police arrived, they found Mark out front and he was covered in blood. He screamed to responders that his wife was dead. So a few detectives go inside and they found two women lying on the floor. Both of them had already passed away due to gunshot wounds. So right away, the officers identified one of the victims as Meredith, because this was Meredith's house. She had died in her own house. And the other woman on the floor was Janair. So, to summarize, Mark's wife and his affair partner had both been shot to death in his affair partner's home. Mark was at the scene of the crime, still alive and. And covered in blood, and he was the one who had called the cops. So naturally, the police immediately suspect him as the killer. As soon as some paramedics confirmed that he wasn't hurt, the police officers put Mark in the back of a squad car and then drove him down to the station for an immediate interrogation. Well, as soon as Mark realizes what's going on and that he's not just a suspect, but the main suspect, he took the news very poorly. He becomes angry with detectives. Mark acted offended at the idea that the police would ever believe he was capable of these murders. According to him, he was innocent. He said he would never hurt Genara or Meredith. Instead, Mark believed, told the police that the killer was his wife, that she must have shot Meredith and then herself, and he had just happened to find their bodies after this murder. Suicide. Now, you might be thinking, okay, this is just a theory. Mark may have been blaming the victim for a murder he committed, but then he presented some evidence that made Genar look like a potential suspect. See, for months, Jenner had been dealing with feelings of paranoia. They had begun right around the time that she had moved to Delaware. And, I mean, in fairness, she had a good reason to feel suspicious and question her reality. Mark was having an affair and lying to her about it? She asked. And he lied. So it sounds like Janaire didn't trust him or her reality. She didn't believe Mark when he said nothing was going on. So around this time, Janaire began doing investigating of her own. According to people in her life, she took things to an extreme. She bought countless GPS trackers, stuck them on both Mark and Meredith's cars. That way she could always know where they were and if they were together. She even sewed one of those trackers into Mark's jacket. And each night when he got home from work, she had to cut the tracker out of his clothes, download the data in order to see where Mark had been that day, and then get out the needle and thread and. And sew it back into the jacket for the next day. This is happening every single night. And somehow, Jennair also got into Mark's office and planted an audio recording device there. It captured everything that anyone said when they were near his desk. And it let Janer eavesdrop on all of his work conversations, including the ones with Meredith. Plus, Janer repeatedly hacked Mark's phone so she could read his conversations. Now, Mark's phone was set so it would only unlock for his fingerprint, but Janer would wait until he had fallen asleep and then press his hand against his phone in order to access it. Now, you might be thinking, this is all crazy. And I will say it does seem a bit unstable. But when someone is questioning not just their reality, but their sense of self based on someone else's behavior and lies, it can get someone to this point.