What didn't Angelina Fernandes know about her mom's relationship with Andrew Wagner? | Forensic Files

[Music] foreign [Music] just remember feeling the joy when she would tuck me in at night and give me
the nighttime kiss [Music] I feel like I've done a pretty good job with raising her who are these two
people the lady is my mom and the man is Andrew Wagner my mom met him when I was six years old
it's been said that you would call him your stepdad is that true yes she wanted to have like that
picture-perfect an All-American dream family with a nice house and kids [Music] [Music]
I've never in my life seen bruises like that ever and I don't I don't even want to think of what she went through to get
those bruises [Music] you seem happy in that picture what went wrong Savannah jealousy
[Music] they're pretty vicious yeah you admit that right I do [Music] like like that would he bump her
when it headbutt would literally make contact no but it would go right up in her face yeah and yeah and she called
that a headbutt right yeah and did that bother her [Music] both men knew that you were engaged to the other man yes
[Music] but can you still remember yeah it's like pictures [Music] so I was sleeping and I heard the
door slam shut and it woke me up and then I just heard my mom from outside help me someone help me
and then I just hear my mom screaming and crying when you looked from that balcony down and
could see your mother and Andy there's blood everywhere and then I saw them giving CPR on him
I just remember my mom she spotted me upstairs and she pointed at me and she was like someone get her someone get my
daughter Angelina is my everything I really can't imagine anything without her foreign

Angelina Fernandes was hoping her mother Stephanie had found the man to spend the rest of her life with when she met Andrew "Andy" Wagner. But her mom's relationship to the man she once called her "stepdad" was more volatile than she knew.

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Brief Summary

A mother and daughter recount their traumatic experiences with domestic violence and its impact on their family.

Key points

A Picture-Perfect Family. The desire for an ideal family dynamic is explored.
A Disturbing Discovery. A shocking moment unfolds as a daughter witnesses a traumatic scene.

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Episode quotes

I've never in my life seen bruises like that ever.

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