Joseph Ferlazzo had abruptly returned from their planned Vermont camping trip to commemorate their first wedding anniversary.
The 41-year-old informed his in-laws that he had gotten into a dispute with his wife, Emily Schwarz Ferlazzo, 22, and that she had returned home to New Hampshire.
Emily’s mother and stepfather didn’t believe it.
“When he handed me her license, that was very strange,” her mother, Adrienne Bass, told Fox News Digital.
“I understood his shivering and shaking as the result of being chilly while riding his Harley from Vermont to New Hampshire. It was a three-hour drive in mid-October. But now that I think about it, I believe he was definitely anxious about lying in front of us. He left with a threatening and cold demeanor. ‘Don’t question him,’ I got the impression.
The case is being investigated on Investigation Discovery’s (ID) real crime series “Fatal Destination,” which is executive produced and narrated by Jessica Biel. It features stories about “idyllic getaways unraveling into haunting mysteries.” It includes interviews with friends, relatives, locals, and law enforcement officers, among others.
In the episode entitled “Where’s Emily?” Bass stated, “We were all afraid of him,” alluding to Ferlazzo. She told Fox News Digital that the family believed Ferlazzo was abusing his wife behind closed doors.
“Emily would come to us asking for help, and then she’d go back to him, and it would backfire and cause more problems,” Bass recalled. “… The weekend before they departed, I had sensations and senses that something was amiss with him. I didn’t like their relationship or how it was developing. As a mother, I feared for my daughter’s safety.”
“The weekend before they went away, we were sitting at a restaurant having lunch with them to celebrate their anniversary,” Bass told me.
“I couldn’t define his actions or mannerisms, but I froze. I had a strong, overpowering feeling that my life was in danger from him. I tried to think out how to tell her about it before they departed. But I couldn’t figure out how to tell my daughter, who is devoted to her husband, that he is hazardous.
“I wasn’t correct that it was my life that was in danger – it was my daughter’s,” Bass told the media. “But I could sense a strong danger from him.”
Ferlazzo, a tattoo artist, and Emily, a nurse, married during the pandemic. Bass admitted she was perplexed when the couple responded, “I do.”
“We were surprised by their marriage because they appeared to be going back and forth…” “She had difficulty talking to him about when they were going to marry,” Bass explained.
“And then on New Year’s Eve, they had a physical altercation,” Bass told me. “She came out to me for help. He would accuse her of infidelity, and she would be frustrated and perplexed about how to make him believe her.”
The family said that after the couple married, they discovered bruising and “physical injuries” on Emily’s body. According to the episode, Emily attributed her injuries to “rough sex.”
