Her marriage, torn apart by murder, a woman must make a choice between defending her husband and sympathizing with the families he's hurt.

SYNOPSIS:

Frayed is a story based on true events about thirty year old newlywed, Marie Kessler. Marie and Jason Kessler, married six months, are living the dream. New home, good jobs, close friends and family around. Everything in life is working out perfectly the way Marie had hoped, until Jason did not come home one night. Marie forces Jason to explain to her why and what happened, in painful detail, she hears about his affair with a prostitute. Jason, still keeps some secrets as long as he can, but when the police come and arrest Jason for murder, all truth comes out. Marie learns from police that Jason is being charged with the murder of a prostitute and suspected in two other murders. Marie, already trying to hold it together from the idea her husband was with a prostitute is now plunged into world she never could imagine. She learns the details of the murders, when they happened, one around the same time they were planning their wedding, and the thing that made the biggest impact on Marie, who the victims were. Marie learns the victim, names, ages, she researches who they were. An ex-college student and a drug addicted single mom are a just a couple of them. She even takes notice that all the victims resembled her some ways. Marie starts to think about how close was she to being a victim? How could she not know? But the one thing that eats at her, the victims were people, not just her husbands victims. They had families who now know who killed their daughters mothers, sister. Marie wants to connect with their families. Maybe to apologize, maybe to learn more about why Jason did these things or maybe just to make the victim "real". Marie walks down both sides of the fork in the road for a moment. Visiting Jason and trying to support him but also starting her journey of connecting with the families of Jason's victims. She tracks down the families, builds a lot of courage to reach out to them and is greeted by all kinds of responses from, welcoming and warm to her life being threatened. But Marie doesn't quit and she does find that connection to the victims and their families and realizes what her husband actually did and who he did these horrible things to. Marie visits Jason one last time, before telling him she will not support him anymore, she tells him what she has been doing, who she has met and who his victims really were. She tries to learn why he did what he did, but as most people who commit crimes like this are, narcissistic Jason tries to play the victim himself. Marie leaves him and makes a statement when she sits with the mother of one of the victims in court. After, telling her story to a reporter, Marie is approached by a young woman who let's her know, there were other women who came close to being a victim of Jason. Like these women, Marie's life was ripped and torn but she held it together and came out of it, only a little Frayed.