around. it looked as if beau had gone to the store, not moved out. i went back and told my friends, i can t believe that house. it is really weird. towels on the back of the chair. some shoes by the door. his cane is next to the front door. there s dirty dish said in the sink. it just gave me a really weird vibe. beau would just walk away. two americans missing. rumors began to swirl. could their disappearances be linked? the more you think about something like that, you know, it didn t add up. did it eat at you? yes, i kept thinking about it. because it wasn t right that cher would leave. i knew this girl would not leave town without saying good-bye and without a party. and beau could leave, but the two of them going together and sending their belongings after the fact just didn t sound right. and then christian heard something that made the floor drop from under her, beau had
she always had a smile for everybody. eventually, cher moved to florida where her sister judy says she became a savvy businesswoman, running her own neon sign company. she would always make sure she had that income. she made sure she was setting herself up for what exactly what she wanted to do was retire and travel around the world. cher did travel but mostly in the u.s. then a friend invited her to visit exotic boca del toro. good morning. and cher jumped at the chance. we decided to live there for seven days and hit us that hard. the people here were phenomenal. children love panama and kids. keith is a carpenter. he built their dream home, a collection of shiny building on top of their lush green island. cher planted a tropical garden and adopted lots of animals including a pet monkey and a beautiful brown doberman pincher named jack.
she had an opportunity, she d she d go. you know. so, maybe but she just got on a boat with some new friend that you didn t know about and she d be back in a week. right, yeah. it wouldn t have surprised me that, oh mary, i went sailing and then my phone fell off the deck when i dropped my purse. that would be cher for three to four days. reporter: the messages were reassuring, but not for long. a few days passed, and cher didn t return. then another text message this one from cher to keith. she just said i met somebody else who s better than you, yeah. she said she had met someone else? yes. and she was running away with that person? yeah. reporter: a mystery man? keith wanted to get to the bottom of it. i called her best friend, and said did cher meet somebody? does she have a man that i don t know about? is there something going on? she said she s never mentioned any guy to me ever. she s waiting for you. there s no man in her life. she didn
the change was he killed people to get the documentation in order to take over the property. and not only did he steal the property, he would steal everything in the house. cars, boats, right down to the toothbrush and their underwear and their dogs. he took over their entire lives. yeah, right down to the change in their pocket. reporter: four years after fleeing from the states, wild bill was finally in police custody, charged with heinous crimes the murders of bo icelar and cher hughes. there are dozens, if not a hundred people in this town, in bocas, that all knew cher, that all knew bo, and they re all thinking, wow, man, this guy fooled us all. he fooled everybody. reporter: he got away with murder. he got away with it for awhile. yeah. reporter: little did everyone know that wild bill had actually gotten away with a lot more. after authorities nabbed wild bill in costa rica, what else would they discover when he was brought back to panama.
more people who d died at the hands of wild bill. this time, it was a father, mother and their teenaged son the brown family. they were the original owners of bill s property, cher s neighbors. after the bodies were discovered wild bill was seen as a monster in panama, a serial killer who kept his victim s personal things right in his own house. we wanted to speak with bill so we reached out to his attorneys we did get a return call. it was his lawyer with wild bill calling from his jail cell in panama. he d already confessed to the murders but he said he wanted to explain himself. i m not denying criminal activity. i m only saying that what s been portrayed in the media as this crazy serial killer thing is completely untrue. i m telling you that i am not a serial killer. i have never taken pleasure in harming another human being. the things i have done has