Episode 10, Season 1 - Mark and Jennair Gerardot

Mark and Jennair Gerardot were a happily married couple, content with their careers, golden retrievers and each other.

But then, Mark gets a new career opportunity in another state . . . an opportunity that would ultimately lead to an extramarital affair.

And what Jennair did after she learned the truth would shatter their lives forever.

Listen to the episode HERE.

Photo caption (L-R) Jennair Cox and Mark Gerardot first met as teens in 1986 and when their paths crossed again in 1990, they fell in love and later married (credit: ABC News); Wedding announcement for the new Mr. and Mrs. Gerardot from October 1993 (credit: Find a Grave); Mark and Jennair were happy to be a twosome along with their Golden retrievers; however, there was a discontent brewing due to Jennair's jealousy and possessiveness (credit: Find a Grave); Meredith Chapman was a dynamic and accomplished young woman when she and Mark began working together in 2017 and it didn't take long for sparks to fly between the two (credit: ABC News); Meredith was a popular adjunct professor at the University of Delaware, teaching courses in communications and marketing (credit: Delaware Online); Meredith while campaigning for Delaware state senate in 2016 (credit: Newark Post); After falling in love with Meredith, Mark told his wife he wanted a divorce. Her response was to stalk the other woman (credit: Find a Grave); Jennair broke into Meredith's house on Philadelphia's Main Line and shot her before turning the gun on herself (credit: Philadelphia Inquirer); Mark wrote a book about his marriage to Jennair and Meredith's murder, "Irreparable" (credit: Amazon)

Sources:

20/20 – Man involved in 2018 love triangle murder-suicide case says 'I wish I could take it back,' Correspondent Amy Robach, September 4, 2019

Irreparable by Mark Gerardot (Green Heart (April 24, 2020) 

PEOPLE Magazine – Man Whose Wife Murdered Mistress Before Suicide Says She Would Have Killed Him If He Walked in First, by Jeff Truesdell, October 18, 2019 

Delaware Online – Police: Lover's wife lay in wait to kill ex-UD official Meredith Chapman, by Scott Goss, Adam Duvernay, Brittany Horn, and Esteban Parra,  April 24, 2018

Delaware Online – Meredith Chapman remembered as 'vibrant,' 'promising' by Scott Goss, Adam Duvernay, Brittany Horn, and Esteban Parra, April 24, 2018

Philadelphia Inquirer – Before Radnor murder-suicide, Jennair Gerardot begged for marriage help on neighborhood app, by David Gambacorta and Erin McCarthy, April 25, 2018

UDaily – In Memoriam: Meredith Sullivan (Chapman), UDaily Staff, May 03, 2018

Delaware’s News Now -- Police ID murderer who donned disguise, broke into home to lay trap for Meredith Chapman, April 24, 2018

Newark Post -- Sokola fends off Chapman to retain state senate seat, by Sarah Gibson, Nov. 9, 2016

Oxygen.com – 'I Still Love Her,' Man Admits After Wife Kills Herself And His Lover In Act Of Revenge, September 5, 2019

Mark Gerardot Website

Extras:

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