Imagine marrying a man you thought was perfect, raising four kids together and later discovering he killed his previous wife and another person. It's a dark chapter of a Louisville woman's story who is breaking her silence for the first time more than two decades after the crime was committed.

Rebecca Simic and her children will share their story on ABC's 20/20 special on Friday, April 16 at 9 p.m. Simic sat down with her brother Steve and talked to WHAS11's Senait Gebregiorgis about how she has turned her pain into purpose.

"I'm still embarrassed and I'm 48-years-old and I still don't like to talk about it," Simic said.

She was 23-years-old when she first met Mark Winger in Springfield, Illinois while looking for a nanny job.

In 1995 police concluded that Bailey's mother Donnah, Winger's wife, was killed by a driver who took her home from the airport. Winger told police he acted in self-defense when he killed the driver in their home.

Simic became Bailey's nanny and later married Winger.

She and Winger had three more children together. About four years after Donnah's murder, investigators reopened the case. Winger was named a suspect.

In 2001 Winger was sentenced to life in prison for the murders of his previous wife Donnah and the driver who brought her home from the airport.

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