Ep 379 Sleeping with the Enemy: Profiling the Husband Who Drugged and Raped with Zoe Watts, Part 1

Zoe Watts was shocked to discover the man she had been married to for 22-year was drugging and raping her. 

Laura interviews Zoe and asks her to take us back to the beginning of their relationship- when she was just 17 and he was 28. He was charismatic, well-liked and seemingly the perfect partner. But as Laura asks more questions, she reveals a deeply disturbing, diabolical and dangerous man who knew what he was doing. This did not come out of the blue. 

In this episode, Laura and Zoe unravel: 

Grooming, love bombing and gaslighting 

 Strangulation and suffocation 

Drug-facilitated rape 

Stalking and coercive control 

DARVO  

Red flags disguised as romance 

The “mask of sanity” and impression management 

Those who backed up the abuse 

Content Warning: This episode contains discussion of domestic abuse, coercive control, stalking, suffocation, sexual violence and drug-facilitated rape.