Celebrity. And a foreign affair. Were with president obama on his final overseas tour. What do you think of our president elect donald trump . No comment. As he tries to calm nervous europeans filled with trump trepidation. But first here tonight the nightline five. . One day a rider made decision. The decision to ride on. He decided to switch his motorcycle insurance to geico. Theres no shame in saving money. Ride on, ride proud. Geico motorcycle. Great rates for great rides. Number one is coming up in good evening. And were going to start here tonight with a mystery that got solved only to lead to another deeper mystery. Why would a seemingly happy husband and father disappear, vanish . Wait until you see what his family learns when they finally find him. Heres abcs nick reporter bliss in the american heartland. What did you love about him . He was a lot of fun to be with. Reporter then february 10, 1993, richard vanished. Never came home from his insurance job. Called, said he was sick, going to the hospital. Linda calls the hospital. Not a trace. Her husband had disappeared. Didnt even take his passport. He didnt pack any clothes. It was cold. It was in february. He did not take a coat. Reporter linda called the cops and mom. She said ricks gone. I said gone . Where did he go . Reporter boy, if she only knew. Son matthew was 9 at the time, baby brother doug was 6. One day your dad was there, the next day gone. Reporter gone. Initially you think this wont last too lo reporter eventually that hope disappeared, too. How do you walk away from your own children . How do you turn your back . Reporter authorities eventually found his car abandoned at indianapolis airport. A clue . Nope. A dead end. There was no Richard Hoagland that took any flights out of indianapolis that day. Or after that. Reporter that summer both boys received a birthday card maybe some time soon we will get to see each other. I bet i wont even know you it has been so long. Mind your mother. Bye. Those words, the last they ever heard from dad. Now, in the eyes of the law, linda wasnt so much a victim, maybe a suspect. They were thinking that you may have been either in cahoots with him. Exactly. Reporter or you bumped him off . Exactly. And they and over and over. Reporter they lost the house, the cars, the fancy vacations. He devastated us. He left us with nothing. Absolutely nothing. I was broken. Reporter lindas mom swung into action. Shes our daughter. And im a parent. Silence. Ten years pass, Richard Hoagland was officially declared dead. Linda moved on. She remarried. Its like wounds, they heal slowly over time. Reporter then just this past summer she got a call from detective tony cardillo, pacifico county sheriffs department, florida. He asked me if i knew who Richard Hoagland was. And i said, yes, my exhusband. Reporter she was actually driving at the time. He said we have him in custody. Were you at all glad to hear he was still alive . I dont remember that feeling. Reporter Richard Hoagland back from the dead. This goes down as one of those cases when you start hearing it, people are going to think this is a made for tv movie. Maybe it will be one day. Reporter where had he been the past 23 years . Living on a tropical beach . Cartel . No, Richard Hoagland was pretending to be a dead fisherman, Terry Symanski killed in a freak boating accident in 1991. It was like catch me if you can, not quite as glamorous. Reporter everyone tried to wrap their heads around how someone can disappear, live a life for 23 years and get away with it. Heres how. Hoagland fled to florida and just happened to rent a room from the recently deceased Terry Symanskis father. Found the death certificate. He sto certificate, he applies for a birth certificate. He submits this birth certificate to get a drives license. Once he has that drivers license, he starts establishing his name is Terry Symanski. Reporter its that easy . This was some time ago. Reporter it is not that easy anymore . I hope not. Reporter bought this house, married a nice lady named mary, even had a child. I wonder how he explained to symanski clan didnt come for thanksgiving. She said there was always questions but hed always come up with a reason or an explanation. Reporter just enjoying the quiet life in sleepy, sultry zephyr hills, florida. Warmer than an indiana winter. Maybe that was a factor. You deal with Identity Theft all the time. But nothing with this longevity. Owns multiple homes, multiple mortgages, cars, he got married, had a child, has a pilots license, owns we talked to some of the tenants there. They said he was a good landlord. Nice guy. Nobody had anything unusual to say about him. Reporter nice guy. Who would have thought . I would have never guessed it was him. Reporter and could have gotten away with it had the real Terry Symanskis nephew not been doing a little online genealogy research. He discovered that poor old uncle terry died in 1991 detective cardillo came knocking. He provided his florida drivers license. Terry symanski, correct date of birth. I asked him again. He said his name was Terry Symanski. I showed him the death certificate that i brought with me. He eventually told me that his real name is Richard Hoagland. Reporter his unsuspecting new wife and son were home at the time. Blindsided. Obviously, 20 years of marriage was shattered. Reporter mt to you be in the middle of it . Of course. The son came down. He was shocked. Its still his father. You know, its his blood. But that symanski name is not his. The emotions that they were feeling between, you know, anger and sadness and the wonder of why. Reporter Richard Hoaglands wife and child going by the name of a dead fisherman they never knew. Sharing a home with a man pretending to be someone he was up with the wrong people, carried away and over his head in something. I mean, i wonder if thats because thats a better thing for you to believe than he actually just left you all . No. Yeah. There were rumors that maybe he had stolen a Million Dollar ds and thats why he left. He was telling me family issues with his wife and children. Like a puzzle right now thats missing pieces. The state versus Richard Hoagland. Reporter Richard Hoagland is now in jail refusing to talk to us awaiting trial on charges including identity fraud. So hes in a bad place . Yes. Y cant stand to be confined in any one place and now he cant go anywhere. Just kind of tickles me a little bit. I have this ring. This is my dads ring. Thats it. I do wear it for the most part every day, but i think i wear it next, her owners got her as a piglet thinking shed grow into the size of a dog. They were very, very wrong. How esther the wonder pig grew into a great big social media star. Wahhhh. Right. In. Your. Stomach watch this . Yikes, that ice cream was messing with you, wasnt it . 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Do not take breo more than prescribed. See your doctor if your asthma does not improve or gets worse. Ask your doctor if 24hour breo 12 months free at mybreo. Com. becky ive seen such a change in einstein since he started the new beneful recipe. The number one ingredient in it is beef. einstein the beef is fantastic becky he has enough energy to believe that he can jump high enough to catch a bird. vo try new beneful originals with beef. What do you do when you adopt an adorable little piglet as a family pet and that piglet grows into a 650pound behemoth . This is not a hypothetical. For one couple the answer was celebrity. With the latest in our series social stars here is my nightline coanchor, juju chang. She was the bundle of joy they always hoped for. She was a piglet, very little when we first got her. A tiny adorable teacup pig they named esther. She grew up and settled into our family quickly. Reporter but little esther continued to grow and grow grow. Until derek and steve realized, esther was no mini pig. Esther is a big, fat pig. Shes our 650pound mini pig. We got her a few years ago. Four years ago expecting to get a mini pig. We were told she would be 70 pounds when full sized. We ended up getting completely and fullsized commercial pig. We didnt know what to do. Shes getting bigger and bigger, getting rid of her wasnt an option for us. Unable to pot ways, she became a beloved house pet. Shes 650 pounds of pure piggy love. And now esthers also a full blown social media celebrity with 270,000 followers on instagram and 800 hss this likes on facebook. Hen we first we hadnt shown people a lot about esther. Over the course of the first two months, it was 80 days from the day we started the page until we hit 100,000 followers. Reporter her popularity grew like her waistline, which her dad styled in a muumuu or a tutu with the caption, i tried ballet once, it wasnt really my thing. Or could we have cookies for dinner . I wish we had Home Delivery service at my house. Their home turned Animal Sanctuary in the suburbs outside toronto. Just this past weekend we had 120 visitors here. This is esthers house. Shes just playing with her treat ball right now. You got any cupcakes behind that camera . Reporter but esther is smarter than your average bear or pig. She opens the freezer. Thats from her using her snout to get in there. Reporter works the front door. And eats whatever her dads are eating. You wont let me eat this all by myself, will you . Shes hilarious. Eats off a fork. Reporter steve and derek do acknowledge that keeping a 650pound pig in your house can cause problems. She loves to root in her blankets. Its one of a pigs Natural Instincts to do is to root up their beds and make them fluffy. Probably every two months. But the lack of sleep hasnt slowed them down. They now have over 250 animals living with them including chickens, rams, roosters, bun es and pigs. Come on in. Reporter 11 more esthersized pig es. You guys love watermelon. Reporter who unlike esther, live in the barn. There we go. Reporter all those hungry oinkers means lots and lots of food. All of kibble that we have manufactured for them. We ate 3,000 worth of pig food last year and thats four tons. Reporter which, of course, isnt cheap, fortunately esthers fame helps covers the bill. She has an online store that brings in cash, and they put out a book. But still those witty, clever posts. One of the ones that i stopped and literally laughed out loud who followed its dream. In fact, its her fans who helped when she grew too large for the home. Supporters raised them 440,000 to build their own farm for esther. A thousand comments come through. Go for it, go for it. Go for it. So we start this indegogo campaign. Reporter she knews a thing her agency reps hundreds of insta pets. Why are we obsessed with animals on social media. People have a physical reaction to cute. It ellicits these warm Fuzzy Feelings in us. Reporter but not cute like puppy and kitten cute, were talking about exotic cute. Yes, you have to think of it. Then you have the anomaly is esther the wonder pig or the hedgehogs that we have. Reporter her dads dont have any hedgehogs yet, but esther has already had quite an impact. Its her ability to make you think about things entirely differently. People will write us and say, ill never eat pork again, but they also write us now and say, ive had a really hard time smiling. Esther, youre the first thing thats made me smile in weeks. Reporter just a pig promoting a happy positive life one oink at a time. For now im juju chang, ontario, on what was supposed to be a final triumphant visit to europe. Instead it seems all anybody wants to talk about is donald trump. Abc news nightline brought simulation initiated. . Take on any galaxy with a car that could stop for you. Simulation complete. The new nissan rogue. Rogue one a star wars story. And finally tonight were on the road with barack obama who is trying to reassure nervous europeans about his successor. My nightline coanchor is traveling with the president. This was to have been his victory lap, a final jaunt across europe. Instead to many president tour. Americas reassurer in chief to the world. I think the president elect is going to see fairly quickly that the demands and responsibilities of a u. S. President are not ones that you can treat casually. The president and his staunchest european ally, german chancellor Angela Merkel fielding as many questions about the future leader not i world, donald j. Trump. I am encouraged by the president elects insistence that nato is a commitment that does not change. There seems to be great affection for president obama here in berlin. The gentleman president as one german put it. As for the man who he be our 45th president , not so much. What do you think of our president elect donald trump . No comment. Hes a little crazy. It will be exciting. Exciting. Hes a businessman. The president s first stop will be here in athens, greece, the birthplace of democracy. A private tour of the acropolis. The tourist in chief equally popular here. Much of greece and parts of europe share the same sense of economic despair as a large number of americans who voted for trump. Unemployment here 24 . Our cabbie told us today he works 14 to 17 hours daily, seven days a week just to make its difficult. Then theres the crushing toll of a refugee crisis. Waves pouring into europe from the war ravaged middle east. Theres more than a few greeks sympathetic to trumps call for stronger borders in the u. S. So it is with that backdrop abroad and tensions back home that president obama passes through europe a final time as leader of the free world. Remember his first trip to germany as candidate obama . 200ses this germans enraptored by his every word. But eight years later the audacity of hope gives way to the uncertainty of now. Yet optimism is still a valued currency, home and abroad. Lets hope the best. For nightline im byron pi pitts. As always were online 24 7 . Coming to you from hollywood, its comics unleashed. With your host, byron allen. Tonight, byron welcomes jeff altman. And ken levy. Street cred as a backup dancer for billy joel, byron allen. . Yeah. . Yeah. Yes. Thank you
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