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Speaker 1: I'm Andrea Gunning, host of the podcast Betrayal. Joel Kern

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Speaker 1: was a respected lieutenant at the Colorado Springs Police Department,

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Speaker 1: but Joel used his badge to fool everyone, most of

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Speaker 1: all his wife Caroline.

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Speaker 2: He texted back, No, everything's not okay. I've ruined our lives.

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Speaker 2: You're going to want to divorce me.

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Speaker 1: April eleventh, twenty twenty two, the day everything changed.

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Speaker 2: I called him and I remember just tears streaming down

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Speaker 2: my face, and I said, what did you do?

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Speaker 3: What did you do?

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Speaker 1: Caroline's husband was living another life behind the scenes.

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Speaker 2: Did part of.

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Speaker 1: You know deep down that this was wrong? Yes, he

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Speaker 1: betrayed his oath to his family and to his community.

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Speaker 3: She said, you left bruses, pulled their hair, that type

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Speaker 3: of thing. No, that man who is on that tape

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Speaker 3: is not the man I knew.

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Speaker 1: How far would Joel go to cover up what he'd done.

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Speaker 4: You're unable to keep track of all your lies, and

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Speaker 4: quite frankly, I question how many other women are out

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Speaker 4: there that may bring forward allegations in the future.

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Speaker 1: This season of Betrayal investigates one officer's decades of deception,

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Speaker 1: on and off the clock, lies that left those closest

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Speaker 1: to him, questioning everything they thought they knew. Listen to

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