Roberta Altieri wrote in her petition for divorce that the two married on May 13, 1998, in Conway, South Carolina, and were separated. She asked a judge to dissolve her marriage on abandonment grounds. An Oklahoma County judge agreed on May 10, 2004.

"He did a lot of birthday parties, telegrams, stuff like that," said Mode, who has been estranged from her daughter for years and is not even sure what last name she goes by now. "He was such a good looking hunk of man. For his profession, you know, he had the muscles."