Deceit V. Deceit: True Story of Intimate Betrayal Every Word Wiretapped Only Time In History

DECEIT v. DECEIT: True Story of Intimate Betrayal—Every Word Wiretapped. Only Time in History
By Vernon Baumrind.

Now being cast in a film for tv streaming services, appearing nationwide in major news outlets and featured on ABC's 20/20 in 1985, this is an extraordinary true story of one man's battle to counter the most trying and calamitous storm of his life, a raging battle that challenged and impacted every faculty and fiber of his being - his wife's intimate betrayal with her gynecologist; a sex addicted, manipulative predator with whom she became infatuated. She was brazen and resolute in her behavior; incorrigible. His young children were at risk. He was the better parent and he was desperate to protect the children. In those days, fathers didn't get custody of children.

Recognizing his new reality, he made a critical choice: he kept silent, he maintained his composure. He couldn't reveal what he knew, lest he give himself away. He didn't explode. He didn't confront. He knew what mattered most - his children – and they were at stake. He kept his emotions under control and his most basic natural impulses in check, while gathering evidence and devising a plan of action - all paramount to the battle for custody that lay ahead. A monumental effort was required; almost impossible to attain. It was late 1978. There were no smartphones, no digital trails. He wiretapped his home landline. Verbatim conversations contained salacious and scandalous details, and worse - a conspiracy to remove him from his home and to separate him from his children, who he loved more than anything in this world. What followed was something out of a legal thriller; every incident, every detail, every word true. The case became a legal precedent of suits and countersuits, a federal indictment for wiretapping, and a sensational courtroom drama that reached the U.S. Supreme Court.

After all that took place, this father kept everything quiet for 45 years to protect the children from publicity. With the passage of time, reflection, and a more profound understanding of all that took place and was at stake, the story is revealed now in detail for the first time in this book. Nothing like this has ever been told before, because nothing like this has ever happened before; nor can it ever happen again.