Speaker 1: I'm Andrea Gunning, host of the podcast Betrayal. Joel Kern
Speaker 1: was a respected lieutenant at the Colorado Springs Police Department,
Speaker 1: but Joel used his badge to fool everyone, most of
Speaker 1: all his wife Caroline.
Speaker 2: He texted back, No, everything's not okay. I've ruined our lives.
Speaker 2: You're going to want to divorce me.
Speaker 1: April eleventh, twenty twenty two, the day everything changed.
Speaker 2: I called him and I remember just tears streaming down
Speaker 2: my face, and I said, what did you do?
Speaker 3: What did you do?
Speaker 1: Caroline's husband was living another life behind the scenes.
Speaker 4: Did part of you know deep down that this was wrong?
Speaker 5: Yes, he betrayed his oath to his family and to
Speaker 5: his community.
Speaker 3: She said, you left bruses, pulled their hair, that type
Speaker 3: of thing. No, that man who is on that tape
Speaker 3: is not the man I knew.
Speaker 1: How far would Joel go to cover up what he'd done.
Speaker 4: You're unable to keep track of all your lies, and
Speaker 4: quite frankly, I question how many other women are out
Speaker 4: there that may bring forward allegations in the future.
Speaker 1: This season of Betrayal investigates one officer's decades of deception,
Speaker 1: on and off the clock, lies that left those closest
Speaker 1: to him, questioning everything they thought they knew. Listen to
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