Introducing: Betrayal Season 6

Threatening messages. A shocking confession. And the year of chaos in between. The new season of Betrayal premieres on September 24. If you would like to share your story, you can reach out to the Betrayal Team by emailing them at [email protected] mailto:[email protected] and follow us on Instagram at @betrayalpod https://www.instagram.com/betrayalpod/ and @glasspodcasts https://www.instagram.com/glasspodcasts/. To access our newsletter and additional content and to connect with the Betrayal community, join our Substack at betrayal.substack.com. https://betrayal.substack.com/welcome You can listen to new episodes of Betrayal completely ad-free and 1 week early with an iHeart True Crime+ subscription, available exclusively on Apple Podcasts. See omnystudio.com/listener https://omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Speaker names marked ? are inferred from speaking time and the show’s known hosts — they are not voice-verified.

• 0:02Speaker 00

  There is no easy way to articulate what it feels like to realize that someone you once trusted, someone who sat in your home, who shared meals with you, was secretly behind the very horror you were trying to escape.

• 0:16Andrea Gunning?

  I'm Andrea Gunning. On this season of Betrayal, we meet Carl Bryan. Carl thought he was living a normal, drama-free life, until the messages started.

• 0:28Speaker 02

  You broke me. You do not deserve happiness. You will have hell to pay.

• 0:34Speaker 00

  Cyber stalking, emotional abuse, swatting, extortion, impersonation.

• 0:41Andrea Gunning?

  This was a shocking case of harassment, revealed in an even more shocking, secret confession tape.

• 0:47Speaker 03

  This is very calculated, very sick. When I have jealousy, I'm kind of sociopathic about it. If it was legal to paralyze him from the waist down, I would do it.

• 1:00Andrea Gunning?

  Someone was after Carl.

• 1:02Speaker 04

  You have someone who had intimate knowledge of someone's life and used it against them.

• 1:09Andrea Gunning?

  For nine months, someone infiltrated every aspect of Carl's life, threatening to ruin him.

• 1:18Speaker 02

  Do you ever worry about your reputation?

• 1:20Speaker 00

  It was extortion, threatening the release of private photos.

• 1:24Andrea Gunning?

  And then the text threats escalated.

• 1:27Speaker 02

  Someone's not gonna make it out of this alive. Yes, department!

• 1:32Speaker 00

  It's playing out in real life, and not just on the phone.

• 1:36Speaker 05

  He said someone there had a knife.

• 1:39Andrea Gunning?

  Carl's stalker suggested he was willing to take it all farther.

• 1:43Speaker 05

  He was asking me, like, if I wanted you to tell somebody, how much would you charge?

• 1:48Andrea Gunning?

  Every piece of evidence pointed to one man.

• 1:51Speaker 02

  I thought I was losing my fucking mind. What if I did do it and I just don't remember?

• 1:55Andrea Gunning?

  But every piece of evidence was a lie.

• 1:58Speaker 04

  I have never seen anything like this before.

• 2:01Speaker 06

  The obsession became insane.

• 2:04Andrea Gunning?

  The question everyone was asking...

• 2:06Speaker 06

  Why would anybody do that?

• 2:08Speaker 00

  He wanted me to crawl to him. I am scared out of my mind.

• 2:14Speaker 04

  He was not going to stop unless we stopped him.

• 2:20Andrea Gunning?

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• 3:05Andrea Gunning?

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• 3:28Speaker 06

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• 3:58Speaker 02

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• 4:01Speaker 06

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• 4:44Speaker 06

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• 5:03Speaker 02

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• 5:10Speaker 07

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• 5:28Andrea Gunning?

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