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Like? >> very mixed emotions. a little empty, knowing that they're not onboard with this. >> reporter: but that's all on that one side. on the other side, there's this rush of happiness and good feelings, right? >> yes. >> reporter: so debra's daughters, protective as usual, had no idea that their mother was a newlywed. the therapist debra had seen recommended she keep her relationship separate from her family. but, of course, christmas was coming, and there were very important family traditions. like the one where terra would have her own special time with the nieces and nephews of her extend...

You'll leave the city a little poorer and if you want to bet your heart in las vegas you could put that on the line too if you're in a betting mood and deborah was. >> i felt very adored and very loved and i thought he's the love of my life. i'm ready. >> they had been dating two months when she went to vegas on business in december of 2014. john went along and. >> we went to a courthouse and just got married before a judge. >> just like that? >> just like that. >> married. nobody but them. and their secret, they decided said deborah, they wouldn't tell anyone. >> i knew my family would be not...

Deborah didn't know it, but the detective had discovered something in the trunk of john's car. >> we found a backpack with numerous other knives inside. we found zip ties. we found duct tape. we found his passport. >> it took some organization. it took thinking. he's planned this out. this was a revenge killing. >> orange county senior deputy district attorney matt murphy believed the evidence spoke for itself. >> there's an image of this young woman in the hospital with her dog sitting on her bed. talk about a picture saying a thousand words. it screams out that this is app innocent woman who...

>> especially my family. >> now she reconciled with her daughters and read everything they had uncovered about john mer meehan's past. >> i assume by this time you didn't feel in love with him anymore. >> no. >> what did you feel? >> confusion. i thought how could this map fake it to this degree? did he love me or was this all a game? i realized i with was his newest victim. >> in april 2016, 16 months after marrying john meehan she fled from the home they shared in vegas and back in orange county. she filed for anullment and soon discovered that john could turn on a dime. he started by trying...

Walking dead. zombies. she had a feeling that evil was lurking in the life of john and so did her sister. they knew he was hiding something and they were determined to find out what it was. >> they hired a private investigator to look into his past. deborah, meanwhile, was in love. the newlyweds settled into a simple life on newport's balboa island. deborah convinced she had found the perfect man even when sometimes things didn't quite make sense. like the time she pick under the mail and saw a strange return address on a letter to her husband. >> you opened a letter to him. >> yes, i did. i...