15. Ashley Wadsworth: When Love Turned into a Trap

About this episode

This episode explores Ashley Wadsworth's harrowing experience of moving to England for love, only to find herself in a controlling and isolating relationship.

Ashley Wadsworth meets Jack Sepple online and relocates from Vernon, British Columbia to Chelmsford, England to be with him—only for the relationship to shift from romance to control and isolation. This episode reconstructs the warning signs and the final escalation when the person she trusted most became the threat.

People in this episode

Host: Frank Battiston

Guest: Ashley Wadsworth

Topics covered

• online relationships
• control
• isolation
• warning signs
• true crime

Keywords

• Ashley Wadsworth
• Jack Sepple
• online dating
• relationship abuse
• true crime

Mentioned in this episode

Places: Vernon, British Columbia, Chelmsford, England

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