Around one year on from the aforementioned fight in November 2021, Heather summoned the courage to leave, though she soon realized it was virtually impossible to escape his wroth.

The mom explained: “He had tracking apps on my phone, he could track my car via the GPS. I had no money, I had no one to call … I was in a helpless state. He started to call me and say, ‘I want you to come home.’ I told him no.”

According to PEOPLE, Heather spent the night of November 24, 2022 in a public parking lot. The next day her husband drove to meet her and try to convince her to come home.

“He was apologizing, and saying how sorry he was and he didn’t know what was wrong with him — but at the same time, he was threatening me, saying he would tell the police I tried to kill him and I’d lose access to the kids,” she said.

“I went home, and he said I’m really glad we’re back here, and we’re going to make things right.”

Yet when they got home, he gave her an odd request: to lie on the floor.

“My back was turned and he told me, ‘Lay on the floor.’ I didn’t ask anything, I didn’t try to resist,” Heather said. “At that point, when he told me to do something, I did it just to get it over with.”

She went on: “So I did what he said. When I looked up, I saw that he had blue gloves on and a white container. I tried to sit up, he pushed me back down. And he started pouring something in my right eye.