They each remember sensing a red flag. Wes and Allison had recently moved to New York with their respective college sweethearts — he with his girlfriend of 16 months from Texas, she with her on-again, off-again boyfriend of four years from Alabama. They all wanted to make it in the theater world and begin their adult lives in earnest. The partners soon met working at a diner where actors wait tables and perform for patrons. Although the new colleagues assured Wes and Allison that they were merely forming a friendship, it still caused them to worry — and, it soon turned out, with reason. On Christmas Day, Wes opened up the laptop he shared with his girlfriend to see a romantic Facebook message that wasn’t from him. The next day, Allison went to switch off her boyfriend’s phone alarm and fou

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