“By August of 2024, that’s when things noticeably started to go awry. My fiancé (now husband) visited me right before Orientation Week began and attended a wedding for a couple G.O.D. members with me as a plus one. He states to this day that he can’t explain the weird, spiritual feeling he got when locking eyes with Mr. Garner. Gregg never came over to introduce himself, but my husband says he would look over and catch Garner staring multiple times.

I’d also always felt like there was weird tension with my husband not being from the community. I was even told multiple times by multiple students that I should focus on dating someone who went through ‘the same Biblical education as me,’ and they expressed multiple times that they didn’t trust or like my boyfriend (now husband).”