It’s officially spooky season, and we are kicking things off with a story that has just about everything: a whirlwind romance, a handsome doctor, a picture-perfect family, funeral homes, stolen body parts and a whole lot of things happening to dead people that absolutely should not have been happening.

When Barbra Reifel met Michael Mastromarino at a Manhattan tanning salon, the connection was instant. Within two years, they were married, raising two little boys and living what looked like a fairy-tale life.

But behind the successful doctor, beautiful home and seemingly perfect marriage was a secret life Barbra could never have imagined.

Grab your favorite drink, and hold on for one wicked story! 

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