Teen sweethearts Richard and Karen Sharpe get married three months after graduating from Shelton High School in Connecticut, and shortly after, their daughter Shannon is born.

Richard imprisons Karen in their home for 48 hours straight and abuses her, according to an affidavit she filed during divorce proceedings. "He accompanied me to the hospital and while I was being treated, he whispered in my ear, 'I want you to die,'" she claimed in court documents filed in their divorce proceeding.

According to Karen, Richard gets drunk one New Year's Eve and beats her while they are driving home. "We stopped at a hotel, but we were denied occupancy because I was covered in blood...as a result of this incident, I suffered from a broken nose, a concussion, two black eyes and a split lip," she said.

According to an affidavit from Shannon Sharpe, she becomes a victim of her father's physical abuse at the age of 10. "He grabbed my neck and continually slammed my head against the wooden bed frame until I could no longer breathe. My next memory is my head hitting the stairs as he dragged me down the flight of stairs screaming and battering me," she wrote.

The family moves to Boston, where Richard finishes his studies at Harvard Medical School.

Richard comes home and finds his wife with another man. The next morning, he stabs her in the forehead with a fork. After Karen reports the incident to police, Richard is institutionalized and diagnosed with "major depression, with features of anxiety and schizoid or other personality disorder."

Richard's abusive behavior becomes more bizarre, according to his wife. "My husband and I went out to dinner with my family and he drank to excess. When we arrived home with my family, my husband became belligerent, began parading around the house naked, and punched my brother, Jamie," she claimed.

Richard founds a company called ClickMed that he will later turn into LaseHair, the hair removal concern that makes him millions.

Karen coordinates a high school reunion for the couple's classmates. Richard becomes drunk and throws a cocktail at the disk jockey.

Karen Sharpe leaves her husband, fearing for her safety. She takes the couple's two small children, 7-year-old Michael and 5-year-old Alexandra, with her. Shortly thereafter, she obtains a restraining order against Richard.

Richard shoots Karen in the foyer of her Wenham home.

At an unknown time, Sharpe starts hatching a plan to escape from jail, according to a fellow inmate he attempted to bribe and enlist. Needing help on the outside, the doctor allegedly asked the career criminal to contact associates "that would kill police if necessary."