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Shawn was getting violent. >> he broke into her apartment one night, came in through the bathroom window, threw her head up against the tile floor. >> reporter: brooke's family didn't know about any of this. the relationship, the alleged violence. it wasn't until after her death that her family finally learned brooke's secret. did that give you chills when you found that manila envelope? >> yeah, it was horrible. >> it was britney who discovered it as she went about the grim task of cleaning out brooke's apartment. >> we were getting things in order to pack away and send. and so i went in her ...

You'll be killed. >> as the day grew closer and then came and went, i realized that, yeah, it's possible that that was a fear tactic, but more importantly, i just could not continue to let myself live in that dark place in my mind. i had to become stronger. >> amanda and nigel, in separate rooms, each with a window had discovered if they stood in just the right spots, they could hear each other. they began to talk about getting out. >> nigel had done some investigating in the bathroom and discovered we might have a chance to escape out that bathroom window, which at first seemed like an imposs...

>> that window, it was sealed. there had been bricks cemented across the front of it. but as nigel discovered, the mortar that held the bricks in place was crumbling of the and we had a pair of nail clippers that our captors had given us. >> you used that? >> yeah. to carve away at that mortar until enough bricks disintegrated and mortar crumbled. >> they hid their work by stacking the bricks up again. they were that much closer to freedom. until one day the hole was big enough. they'd heard the daily calls to prayer, so they knew a mosque was nearby. their plan was to jump down and head there...

Next to my head and was very disturbed. >> reporter: and another time, she said, when she looked out her bathroom window. >> i see mark on a hillside behind my house. he is looking through the scope pointing the rifle at me. >> reporter: and once, said linda, long after she left him, after mark agreed to plead guilty to the stalking charge, she visited their abandoned paradise kiket island to retrieve some personal things. she found in the cubbyhole in the master bedroom a wedding candle she's thrown away during the divorce. >> i found the wedding candles in there with a .22 bullet casing and ...

Shawn was -- getting violent. >> he broke into her apartment one night, came in through the bathroom window, threw her head up against the tile floor. >> reporter: brooke's family didn't know about any of this. the relationship, the alleged violence. it wasn't until after her death that her family finally learned brooke's secret. >> did that just give you chills when you found that -- >> yeah, it was -- >> manila envelope? >> it was horrible. >> reporter: it was brittany who discovered it, as she went about the grim task of cleaning out brooke's apartment. >> and we were kinda getting stuff in...