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Jared Akron
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Tricia Lafach
Clock's ticking.
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Jared Akron
You think you can stop him?
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Tricia Lafach
I know I can.
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Jared Akron
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Tricia Lafach
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Jared Akron
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Tricia Lafach
The night of December 10, 2020, and Jared Akron has just been told by his wife Christy that their two twins, Hannah and Lyle, have died. The two begin their 45 minute drive home. Here's Jared again.
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Jared Akron
She's still sobbing, hysterical and saying she wanted to kill herself. I had to put on the child's safety lock because she was trying to throw herself out the door onto the highway. To be perfectly honest, I wasn't really thinking about her at all. I mean, I didn't want her jumping out of my car, but all I really cared about were those kids. What happened to them. I needed to hear it. Yes. I didn't want to think it anymore. I needed confirmation that, hey, the kids are gone. They died of heart and lung problems. And at this point I'm like, okay. It probably took a half hour ride home for her to actually tell me how they passed and things like that. And after she said that, I distinctly remember saying, okay. And that was the last thing I said to rest of the radhol. We Sat in silence, her sobbing. I was more angry and I guess asking, why did this happen?
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Tricia Lafach
As Jared pulled the pieces together, some things made sense.
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Jared Akron
I think I was more angry at her for no, there was no update of, like, where was the downturn?
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Tricia Lafach
But other things still don't.
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Jared Akron
They just don't kill over. I'm sorry. There's a gradual. Hey. That something happened. Fluid's still building up in their lungs. And if you're telling me they died from fluid in their lungs, why did they take the tubes out of them? I don't think I wanted to face the reality that I was a dad in the morning and now I'm not. Now I know in a couple days I have to bury my kids. That was what. I couldn't get that through my mind. It just. That kind of broke how I was feeling.
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Tricia Lafach
And that was only the beginning. I'm Tricia lafache. I'm a writer, director, actor, and federal criminal defense attorney. I'm going to tell you a story that's all too real, about love, lies, and the lengths people will go to for attention. It's a story that will leave you questioning everything you thought you knew about truth, about reality, and about what happens when the two collide in the most unimaginable way. From Audio up and Jesui Press Productions, this is the unborn. What happened that day in the hospital? How did Jared and Christy's twins die? Let's replay the delivery. What we know for certain is that Jared dropped Christy off at the hospital somewhere between 2am and 2:10am he received his first text from her at 2:17am.
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Jared Akron
She texts me, hey, I'm getting into my gown, that they're gonna do an ultrasound to make sure everything's okay. But they put the monitor, heart monitor, ultrasound on. They couldn't find a heartbeat. Okay? So she said, hey, I'm going into an emergency C section. I will send you pictures and stuff when I'm done.
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Tricia Lafach
The next text that immediately follows is a picture of one baby, an infant baby boy, hooked up to tubes. Jared texts what happened? But Christy doesn't answer him in words. Rather sends a photo of two babies still hooked up to tubes and in separate beds, along with the caption she wanted him to post.
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Jared Akron
She told me, hey, put them online.
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Tricia Lafach
He doesn't post that picture. They speak about it on the phone.
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Jared Akron
I told her, I don't feel comfortable with the whole world looking at our babies hooked up to a bunch of tubes. It doesn't seem right, frankly. I thought it a little bit Weird that here she is getting an emergency C section, but she's worried about Facebook posts and what her babies look like on the Internet.
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Tricia Lafach
Christy sends a third picture. Two babies, no tubes. Now, the little girl is wearing a pink bow, and the little boy is wearing a blue skull cap. They're side by side in the same bassinet. And in that bassinet is the placard Jared made to display their names and the date of their births. That's the picture Jared posts. After what felt like the longest pregnancy in all the land and the biggest marathon of our lives, we are so unbelievably excited and proud to finally introduce our beautiful, healthy twins, Hannah and Lyle. Lyle, born at 3:56am 5 pounds, 2 ounces, 19 1/2 inches. Hannah, born at 408am 5 pounds, 14.
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Jared Akron
Ounces, 20 1/4 inches.
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Tricia Lafach
Sometime between 7:30, when Jared makes the Facebook post, and 9:48am Jared texts Christy, what room number are you in?
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Jared Akron
I tried to send her flyers. They're like, yeah, we don't have a patient named Christy. I'm like, what do you mean? Here's her room number. I had a room number. They're like, we don't have a patient named that. I'm like, okay. Then I call her. I'm like, hey, just so you know, I tried to send you some flyers. She goes, what do you mean you tried to call? Because I was like, what's your room number? So your grandma wants to send you flyers. She goes, don't. No. No one's sending me flowers. It was like a fit about sending flowers.
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Tricia Lafach
Now Jared is completely confused. He had a room number. Why didn't the flowers get through? Why is the hospital telling him that they don't have his wife listed as a patient? And why is she angry about her husband and her grandmother wanting to send her flowers? At 9:48am Christy texts again. Call me when you wake up from your snooze. I love you. Did you make it out and know where you're headed? What else from Target so I can place an order? They have a Bissell sweeper like we had for 80.
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Jared Akron
Do you want that?
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Tricia Lafach
She then sends Jared a copy of what she ordered at Target. Towels, bath towels, a shower curtain, a shower rod. To which Jerry responds, looks good, babe.
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Jared Akron
What I didn't realize at the time was that there was nothing at all for newborn babies. It was just, like, stuff she wanted for the kitchen and the bathroom and a new sweeper. You know, it's like she won the prices, right? Or Something. I mean, it wasn't a big order or nothing, but in hindsight, wouldn't you want a few things for your newborn baby? But who knows? None of it made no sense.
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Tricia Lafach
Christy texts Jared that she spoke to her grandmother and that her phone, and I quote, has not stopped ringing with people calling all day. The next message from Christy to Jared is December 10th at 2:39pm I think it's crappy that when I was Talking to you 30 minutes ago, he lost me and never called back. I'm having a super hard time and he just don't even care. The next text is at 6:47pm that's four hours later. And this is where it gets real. This is after Christy has called Jared and told him to come pick her up immediately. Christy first texted Jared at 2:17am and it is now 6:47pm which means Christy has been in the hospital for 16 and a half hours. Are you on your way?
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Jared Akron
What's going on?
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Tricia Lafach
I will tell you when you get here.
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Jared Akron
I can't drive this far without knowing.
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Tricia Lafach
Who is Karen Ewing. I need you to come get me, please.
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Jared Akron
I'm coming, but you need to call me. Chris, please call me.
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Tricia Lafach
I'm checking out. This is serious and we will talk in person.
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Jared Akron
Where do I go? Emergency.
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Tricia Lafach
No, hospital side text when you are 10 minutes out.
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Jared Akron
Will I be coming in?
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Tricia Lafach
No, I'll be coming out with people pulling the roundabout.
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Jared Akron
Okay, I will. Are you okay? Yes. Are the kids?
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Tricia Lafach
No. We will talk when you get here.
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Jared Akron
My mind was reeling at that point. I didn't know what to think, so I did as I was told. I hopped in my car and went and got her. Drove back 45 minutes to the hospital not knowing what the hell was going on or what I was getting myself into. But, boy, was it gonna be a problem when I got there. You can guarantee that. I would honestly just say it was a roller coaster up and down and then a crash and burn at the end.
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Tricia Lafach
Christy moved away from Avella in her teens and she returned years later. Jared recounts how they reconnected.
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Jared Akron
So we. We met at the fair there and I actually ended up sliding in her DMs on Facebook. I won't lie about it.
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Tricia Lafach
What'd you say?
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Jared Akron
What did I say it was? Hey, your post have been cracking me up lately. I think I even got an LOL back. Okay. But I think that was about it. Then probably a day later, she said, why don't you add me on? Why don't you text me and give me her number and that's where that started.
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Tricia Lafach
This is Jared and Molly talking about the first night the two actually hung.
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Jared Akron
Out after we had reconnected at the fair. Then it was Molly's birthday at the same time as we have our little get together after our.
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Tricia Lafach
Who's Molly?
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Jared Akron
Molly is actually my girl best friend. She was her 21st birthday, so it was a good time. It was my birthday and we were.
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Tricia Lafach
At the bar and I'm sorry, my chickens are here. We were at the bar for my.
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Jared Akron
Birthday and he had recently just broke up with his ex girlfriend. And I was like, bring this girl to the bar.
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Tricia Lafach
It'll be fun.
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Jared Akron
Like, just bring her. So she converts.
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Tricia Lafach
She came. I don't, I wouldn't say I remember meeting her for the first time.
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Jared Akron
I was a little bit intoxicated. Molly ends up taking my phone and texts my now wife, hey, come down here. We're having a good time. Yeah, they were on the phone or they were texting and I had told.
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Tricia Lafach
Her him to call her. And then I took the phone and went outside and was like, hey, you should come down.
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Jared Akron
We're all just having a good time.
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Tricia Lafach
And she agreed to it because she.
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Jared Akron
Was at the fair, which is only 10 minutes away. So she ends up actually showing up, which I didn't think anything of it. I'm like, okay. And then we kind of hit it off from there and we ended up going on a few dates and kind of one thing led to another.
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Tricia Lafach
Jared and Christy have a very fast romance. She's immediately hanging out with his family and friends and really becoming close to his siblings, who were just teenagers at the time. But then two things happened. On March 13, 2020, the coronavirus hit the United States. We all remember where we were. I was in Atlanta on the set of the medical drama the Resident. In the morning, everyone was elbow bumping each other and making light of the confusing situation. By the end of the day, the entire show was shut for the season for Jared and Christy. After less than three months of dating, they found out they were pregnant in early April, 2020, a mere two weeks after the stay at home orders were issued.
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Jared Akron
We actually had a little get together. Had some my parents over and uncle and stuff. Like we all live within five minutes of each other, so it's not like they're coming from all over the place. We get together pretty often. I think it was because I finished redoing the hardwood floors, finished putting them in, and we get together and do these kind of things, say, hey, we finished a project. Because most they'll come over and help me do them. So my mom and my wife were in the back room there. Christy was drinking. She started throwing up. And close to the end of it.
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Tricia Lafach
That'S Jenny, Christy's former best friend and, at the time, her closest confidante. She recounts that evening.
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Jared Akron
Me and Jared's mom were sitting there saying, oh, what's going on? Maybe you should go to the hospital. And then Christie comes out, and Jared's mom says, maybe you're pregnant. And I was making the joke, and I said, yeah, with twins. I'm out entertaining everyone else. We're listening to it on the radio out in the garage. And she comes out and says, hey, maybe we should go to the hospital. I'm having some headaches. And my mom walks in after, and she goes, that's how I found out I was pregnant. I was having headaches and I was sore. I didn't think nothing. I'm like, that's. There's no way.
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Tricia Lafach
Still, Jared left the gathering with Christy and headed towards the hospital.
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Jared Akron
I have to drop her off the emergency room because of COVID It was pandemic. Even if you were negative on your test, there was no visitors because this was when it first hit. It was a big fiasco up there. So I'm sitting there, I'm like, okay, maybe they're just giving her fluid. Maybe she's dehydrated. We had been to the hospital before this for this, these headaches.
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Tricia Lafach
Now this will end up being a recurring theme. Because of COVID Jared is completely isolated from any firsthand information about what is going on in Christy's pregnancy. This show is sponsored by BetterHelp. And I want to help you by reminding you to take a second to say thank you to someone in your life that you're grateful for. Could be your partner, your parent, your pet, or even your therapist. And also to thank yourself, which is a hard thing to do and easy to forget, for doing the things that you want to do and the things you don't want to do, which may include going to therapy. I recently restarted therapy, so I'm going to give myself a big thank you for that. One of the most rewarding parts of therapy is talking to someone who's completely objective, whose feelings you don't have to manage, who you don't have to worry about, what they'll think of you. If you're interested in starting or restarting therapy, I would encourage you to check out BetterHelp. It's all online, so you don't even have to leave Your house. All you have to do is fill out a questionnaire to get matched up with a licensed therapist. And you can switch therapists at any time at no additional charge. Let the gratitude flow with BetterHelp. Visit betterhelp.com unborn today to get 10% off your first month. That's BetterHelp. H E L p.com/unborn. It's just one more thing you can thank yourself for.
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Jared Akron
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Tricia Lafach
For context, at the time, Christy was using an IUD and they used additional contraceptive protection.
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Jared Akron
I'm like, what are we gonna do? And she's I'll never see you again. I'll never talk to you again. Goodbye. I'm like, wait a minute here.
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Tricia Lafach
Up until now, Jared had not seen this side of Christy that exhibited severe mood swings. And he chalked it up to stress as well as his initial not so great reaction to her announcement.
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Jared Akron
Go pick her up. I go, what are you doing? She goes, well, I'm gonna start looking for new apartments to get away from you. I'm like, okay, we're gonna be like this. I wake up the next morning, it's like nothing happened. It's okay, let's get together and go tell everyone. I'm like, what? I just. I can't. I can't get that across my head. As how you go from one extreme to don't ever talk to me again to we gotta go tell everyone. And of course, gotta put it on Facebook. And that stuff's just terrible. It's just a. Everything she wants to do is on Facebook.
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Tricia Lafach
Jared Was, by his own admission, freaking out. But his parents, on the other hand, they were very supportive, and their support helped him in deciding his next step.
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Jared Akron
My wife and I got married because she got pregnant. So it wasn't. You don't want it to happen that way, but that's what happens. You deal with it. That's all. I was happy for him. My wife was ecstatic. It was probably only three months, so it was unexpected, to say the least. And I don't know. It was a. Oh, man, what do I do? Do I do the right thing and propose to her? And I was okay with it.
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Tricia Lafach
Just my background.
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Jared Akron
I got pregnant when I was young. I look at it differently. I think it's a blessing.
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Tricia Lafach
So Jared decided he was going to propose.
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Jared Akron
Hopefully, she says yes.
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Tricia Lafach
Jared decided to do the right thing based upon his upbringing and his moral compass. There was no other decision to be made. After all, he was in love, and he always felt he was destined to be a father. And he had his parents supported. Now he just had to get a little help from his friends to make the proposal go off without a hitch.
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Jared Akron
My cousin is a photographer. I'm like, hey, I know I told you I'd detail your car, because I detail cars on the side, too. So I tell my cousin, hey, bring your car over. If my wife says anything, tell her, hey, you brought your car over to detail, and then go hide. The hardest part was getting her dressed up. Oh, man, how am I gonna pull this one? I actually call my buddy whose wife was pregnant.
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Tricia Lafach
Jared is referring to Sarah, who is already carrying suspicions about Kristi's pregnancy. She decides to help Jared out.
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Jared Akron
I'm like, hey, can you call Kristi and tell her, hey, let's go to this movie? So I had to bring other people in because if I say it, she knows I'm not going to movies.
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Tricia Lafach
So Sarah is trying to get Kristi dressed up while Jared's cousin is hiding so he can take a picture of Kristi, hopefully saying yes. But that's not all, cousin.
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Jared Akron
I'm like, hey, get your camera ready and all this stuff. I'm gonna go get the cow and my dog.
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Tricia Lafach
Jared's dog is Ada, named after Ada Shelby from the Netflix show Peaky Blinders.
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Jared Akron
I get Ada in this cow out. I can't even remember what the cow's name is now. Just a little calf. It was a bottle baby, actually. It was Eve. She was born on Christmas Eve. Get the cow out. Nests. And she walks out of the house, and she's, like, laughing at me. What are you doing? But I'm like, hey, will you marry me?
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Tricia Lafach
Christy said yes. And in typical fashion, Jared's cousin's photo of Jared, Christy, their dog Ada and his cow Eve, along with an announcement of their engagement, is immediately posted on Facebook.
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Jared Akron
I don't even think I got to tell my mom and dad if she said yes before it was on Facebook.
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Tricia Lafach
Christy's pregnancy immediately went on Facebook. Now her engagement to Jared. And just like the pregnancy, Christy's Internet circle knows the good news even before Jared has a chance to tell the closest to him. And even though the constant posting got on his nerves, he was in love, about to get married and have a family.
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Jared Akron
It was at my parents farm.
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Tricia Lafach
Out of the 800 residents that live in Jared and Christy's hometown, 280 attended the celebration.
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Jared Akron
It was pretty big. It was beautiful. It was a dream.
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Tricia Lafach
That's Jenny again.
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Jared Akron
It was a dream wedding. It was everything anyone could have asked for. I know Jared's mom and family and friends worked so hard.
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Tricia Lafach
Jared was also very proud of their wedding, albeit for different reasons.
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Jared Akron
We actually ran out of beer twice. We had to send people to the beer store. It was a good wedding, Everyone had a good time, and no one left trash everywhere. That was a nice park.
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Tricia Lafach
Jared was particularly impressed with how their guests conducted themselves on the property.
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Jared Akron
Only picked up one beer can out of the field. And with all that, I'm like, wow, that's some pretty, pretty good guess there.
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Tricia Lafach
When Jared and Christy met, he had just spent every single dollar he had to purchase his childhood home. It had fallen in a disrepair, so he was slowly doing a total remodel with his own two hands.
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Jared Akron
It was the best time of my life. I got to buy my childhood home.
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Tricia Lafach
And when Christy moved in, it was a construction zone. He wasn't expecting to be a husband or a father. But now, with Christy almost four months pregnant, Jared begins the mad dash to complete the remodel before his kids are born. None of the bedrooms were done. They were sleeping together in his bed in the kitchen while he finished rebuilding the foundation.
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Jared Akron
I was a young graduate, full of debt. Just bought a house, no care in the world. I had a job, I had a good job. It was. Made all my payments and had money left over. My best friends were all around.
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Tricia Lafach
Luckily, Jared was a young man who could handle a lot because a lot more was coming.
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Jared Akron
The doctor calls her. I'm sitting there, Mrs. It's late at night. I don't know why they called. It was probably 7:30. I had just come inside because shower sat down, was eating. And I remember I was eating pierogi casserole. I didn't even hear the doctor. She goes, thank you very much. She goes, I'm having, we're having twins. I spit my mashed potatoes all over my brand new carpet. Here comes the dog. 100 mile an hour. I'm like, well, just add it to the list. But I was excited too, because at that time, I didn't know what it felt like.
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Tricia Lafach
Jared was open, trusting, loving, reliable, possibly to a fault. Twins on the way, a house nearly finished for his coming family. Sadly, it was a family that was never meant to be. Jared's drive home from the hospital is even worse than his terrifying drive there.
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Jared Akron
She basically told me, hey, still suicidal, I don't want to live. I feel like I failed as a mother. There's a million things running through my mind. How do I talk about all this? I had a couple different thoughts of how I could keep her safe.
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Tricia Lafach
He's not ready to call his parents and tell them they're not grandparents. So he cycles the options over and over in his head, trying to figure out how to handle his extremely emotional wife, who he also loves dearly all on his own.
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Jared Akron
At this point in the ride, I'm like kind of in protective mode because do I really need to lose three people in my life in this six hour period? So I'm starting to go through it.
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Tricia Lafach
And that's when Jared made a decision.
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Jared Akron
What I ended up deciding was to not leave her alone and not leave her with a vehicle. I'll just have someone there, grandma her, not on my family, because I don't know what she was going to do. So I would either have her grandmother, her cousin, her best friend.
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Tricia Lafach
The next morning, Jared finally decides to call his dad.
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Jared Akron
I said, hey, can you come with me? I'm still a disaster. I'm crying, sobbing, can't talk. I'm like, hey, can you come to this house? He goes, yeah, what's wrong? I'm like, can you just see if mom can come too? And at that point, he'd known something's wrong. So actually my mom showed up first. She knew what Christy had told me was the heart and lung problems, and my mom just lost it. I've never seen my mom show any type of emotion like that. I mean, it was like, now I have to worry about my mom. Oh, I was devastated. I. I just couldn't, I couldn't understand.
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Tricia Lafach
I couldn't wrap my head around it. Even though Jared was still rightfully extremely distraught the arrival of his family members forced him to stay strong.
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Jared Akron
At this point, I'm trying to be the rock standing still and have all these people lean on me where all I want to do is crumble down. So then my dad shows up and he already knew. My mind immediately goes to questions about different things that kind of didn't make sense to me. But you don't say them out loud because if you're wrong and say something like that, then you're really a jerk. She sent pictures of the babies, and those are healthy babies. Then we don't hear anything for a whole day. And the next warning.
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Tricia Lafach
Much like Sarah, Jared's father, David, was now very suspicious of what was going on. And just like Sarah, he didn't say anything.
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Jared Akron
That's when we were told. And, you know, it just. You don't say anything. But it didn't add up because at that moment, you're still thinking that something bad happened. But there was no. There was no reason why what happened. You know, after a couple hours of just standing around and, you know, trying to console everybody, then only when one of the bodies back to Barry is when things started getting kind of weird, we couldn't get them back. She's saying that she didn't want them.
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Tricia Lafach
And another bizarre turn in Chrissy's behavior. She didn't want the remains of her children, but she didn't have the final word on the matter. The Akron family torn apart by the news. But even in the haze of grief, Jared's mom, Kathy, told him what needed to be done next. She told him he needed to call the hospital to make arrangements for two things. First, she wanted to be given access to the children. She wanted to hold them in her arms and say goodbye. And secondly, she wanted Jared and Christie to begin the process of having the children buried.
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Jared Akron
At that point, she was all for, hey, you need to get those kids back. I'm like, you're right. We do need to give them a burial. So she. I call the hospital and they put me into the morgue. I'm like, hey, I need to. To talk to the Mort. And they're like, yeah, let me take your name and number and we'll call you back because they don't want you leaving a voicemail or that's what they told me. So I leave a voicemail. A couple hours goes by, I'm like, I didn't get anything back. I'm going to call him again.
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Tricia Lafach
Prior to this moment, Christy was unaware that Jared had been trying to get in contact with the hospital. He wasn't trying to hide it. She was inside with her friends and family and he was outside making the calls with his mom and dad. And when she finds out he's trying to reach the hospital, she goes ballistic.
- [29:54]
Jared Akron
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Tricia Lafach
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Jared Akron
Why don't you just say you look.
- [30:38]
Tricia Lafach
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- [30:58]
Jared Akron
This time, Christie catches me calling. And at this point, she gets up off the couch, basically runs across the yard in this. 150 yards from the house.
- [31:10]
Tricia Lafach
Christie tells Jared that he cannot retrieve their children because she signed her rights away to them. She also never put Jared's name on the birth certificate. So even if he gets through to the hospital, they won't speak to him because legally he's not their father. The only explanation she will provide as to why she signed the rights away is because once they were pronounced dead, she never wanted to see them again. But why didn't she put Jared's name on the birth certificate? Jared was her husband and their father. And again, the only reason he was not there by her side when she gave birth was because he was effectively locked out and completely isolated due to her testing positive for Covid.
- [31:52]
Jared Akron
She goes, I signed it away. They're gone. You don't have any right to them. I'm like, that's fucking bullshit. Those kids are half mine. You don't have the fucking right to say. You don't have a say in that.
- [32:05]
Tricia Lafach
None of this made sense to Jared or to his parents. And it's a pivotal moment in our story because it drastically altered Jared's willingness to play nice with her.
- [32:17]
Jared Akron
That was my breaking Point of. You know what I mean? And I like to think I'm a calm person most of the time. This just. It put me over the edge. She said she had a C section. She should be cut. She should still be in the hospital. Like, things like that are starting to bother me. Like I'm looking up C section. People don't just stand up, check themselves out of the hospital after a C section.
- [32:37]
Tricia Lafach
Yeah, they also don't go running out of the house screaming that they signed their rights away to two dead babies after the fight on the lawn. Believing her point was made, Christy went back into the house. But Jared and his family were far from finished with the matter. They needed closure. Jared did not accept that he could not see and hold his children, that he could not bury them. If that's how Kristi felt, fine. But he had no intention of going along with her wishes. And I don't blame him. As hard as it was to see her so distraught, they were his babies, too. And his desire to see them and to give them a proper burial mattered. Even if it didn't matter to Christy.
- [33:20]
Jared Akron
My mom, she just wanted to hold them. And I agree. Give me my time. I don't care if you're there. Don't come. I will bury them where I wanted. You don't have to be a part of it.
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Tricia Lafach
It had come to a breaking point, and Jared needed time to think.
- [33:35]
Jared Akron
I got in the car and left after that. Okay, I left her there. I just drove. I drove for probably six hours. I had to stop and get fuel. That's how long I drove.
- [33:45]
Tricia Lafach
The whole time Jared is driving, he's sporadically pulling over and calling the hospital.
- [33:50]
Jared Akron
Thank you for calling UPMC. McGee Women's Hospital.
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Tricia Lafach
Each time, he's getting transferred to the morgue.
- [33:56]
Jared Akron
Hospital operator, this is Wanda. Could I connect to the morgue, please?
- [34:01]
Tricia Lafach
Sure.
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Jared Akron
One moment.
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Tricia Lafach
When he would get in touch with the morgue, they'd say they'd get back to him. They didn't.
- [34:08]
Jared Akron
You have reached McGee Women's Hospital autopsy Pathology. Our normal working hours.
- [34:13]
Tricia Lafach
After his dead end with the morgue, Jared began calling hospital administration. A painful cycle of being placed on hold, transferred again, hung up on calling back, only to leave voicemail after voicemail.
- [34:25]
Jared Akron
Tell my mom and dad I text him, hey, here's what I'm doing. I don't know where I'm going. I'm not gonna do anything stupid, nothing like that. Just give me some time.
- [34:32]
Tricia Lafach
And still, after hours and hours of calling, no answer.
- [34:37]
Jared Akron
I drove for hours. Ended up showing back up at my parents. I'm sitting there talking to my dad, and he goes, something's not adding up here. I said, yeah. And he put this together, all kinds of things. He goes, it's not adding up. And he brings it back to the animals. If you get an animal to eat and poop, you're pretty good most of the time. Nothing's wrong. And if you don't have any breathing problems throughout the day, they don't just up and die.
- [35:10]
Tricia Lafach
But as much as Jared was beginning to suspect something was up, nothing could prepare him for what happened next. As he continues to speak with his father, trying to make sense of it all, he gets a call from an unknown number. And Jared picked up.
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Jared Akron
But I get a call from this number. She goes, hi, I'm. I'm the aoc. I'm like, I don't. What does that mean? She goes, oh, I'm the head of the hospital. She goes, I can tell you certain things, but because of hipaa, I can't tell you everything. I go, look, I'm just trying to find out how I can get my kids.
- [35:46]
Tricia Lafach
Jared keeps insisting to the hospital administrator that regardless of hipaa, he has the rights to his children's remains.
- [35:54]
Jared Akron
She says, you're right. As a father, you do have 50% rights to your children. But there's no easy way to tell you this. There were no twins born yesterday, and there were no twins that died yesterday.
- [36:08]
Tricia Lafach
So your wife was never pregnant?
- [36:10]
Jared Akron
No.
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Tricia Lafach
Next time on the Unborn.
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Jared Akron
Pseudocycis is where someone believes they're pregnant and in fact, they have physiologic changes that would accompany the normal signs of pregnancy. They can get abdominal bloating. They can have fatigue. They can have nipple discharge. They have the sense that there are fetal movements. To the casual observer, they appear pregnant. They have a distended abdomen, like they're carrying a baby. They truly believe that they're pregnant, and it can actually be very difficult for them, even when they're confronted with the medical evidence that shows that they're actually not pregnant.
- [37:09]
Tricia Lafach
The Unborn is a production of iHeart podcasts, audio up and Jesuit Press Productions. Created by Tricia Lafach and Frank Rodriguez Mal produced by Alvin Cohen and Rachel Foley. Executive produced by Jimmy Jelinek, David Thwaites and Jared Gustav. Edited by Gerard Bauer and Preston Dawson. Sound design and mixing by Jeremiah Zimmerman. This podcast is supported by BetterHelp, offering licensed therapists you can connect with via video phone or chat. Here's BetterHelp, head of clinical operations, Hes Yu Jo discussing who can benefit from therapy.
- [37:56]
Jared Akron
I think a lot of people think that you're supposed to be going to.
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Tricia Lafach
Therapy once you're like having panic attacks every day.
- [38:02]
Jared Akron
But before you get to that point, I think once you start even noticing.
- [38:06]
Tricia Lafach
That you feel a little bit off.
- [38:08]
Jared Akron
And you can't maintain this harmony that.
- [38:10]
Tricia Lafach
You once had in relationships, that could.
- [38:12]
Jared Akron
Be a sign that maybe you want.
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Tricia Lafach
To go talk to somebody.
- [38:15]
Jared Akron
There's always a benefit in talking to someone because we can all benefit from.
- [38:20]
Tricia Lafach
Improved insight about ourselves and who we are and how we behave with other people. So if you're human, that's like a.
- [38:27]
Jared Akron
Good indicator that you could benefit from talking to somebody.
- [38:30]
Tricia Lafach
Find out if therapy is right for you. Visit betterhelp.com today. That's betterhelp.com we know you're uncertain about psychics.
- [38:40]
Jared Akron
Is this fortuneteller you found on the forum legit? Your one true love is me.
- [38:49]
Tricia Lafach
That's why California psychics reject 98% of the psychics who apply to work with us.
- [38:54]
Jared Akron
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- [39:23]
Tricia Lafach
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- [39:26]
Jared Akron
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