On the mornings when Joylynn Martinez couldn't remember the night before, she always told herself that she must have had too much to drink. She never suspected that her own husband, Robert Howard Bruce, was responsible or that he was just getting started.

Michele Ward was always glad that her husband, Richard Daniel Starrett, didn't mind her frequent trips to visit her parents. She never guessed that he sent her away because his sick perversion was getting harder and harder to hide.