A Woman Met Her Husband in a Bible Group. Six Kids Later, She Found Out He Was Keeping a Couple Captive in a Basement

When Donielle Showvay first met Chad Schipper at a bible study meeting at her sister Randin’s college, she never could have predicted how their lives would end up.

Showvay looks back at the start of their relationship in episode 3 of the eight-part docuseries Betrayal: Secrets & Lies titled “The Bible Study Kidnapper,” which premiered April 12 on ABC. She remembers with a laugh that on their first date, the two watched movies — including So I Married An Axe Murderer — with her sister and the boy her sister was interested in at the time.

“He had a reputation of being very smart, very kind,” Barbie Dangond, a college friend of Showvay and Schipper, recalls in the episode.

Showvay and Schipper went on to tie the knot and settle into a life that Showvay remembers thinking was “too good to be true.” Not long after, Schipper came to his wife with a jarring confession: He’d had a sexual “encounter in a public bathroom with a man.”