i could see a guy across the lake and then you can see the buzz of flash. the mystery shooter missed, said dennis, but that wasn t the end of it. later he said, it happened again. right outside his very own garage. they were standing right back almost were you were, for those two bullets there. who were these people? i don t know. but these are these are the two bullet holes there. there s one here. dennis documented everything. said he told the fbi repeatedly, but nothing happened. years passed. the bourdeau case faded away. far away in the philippines. until, well over a decade later, dennis got that called from reporter larry oldman about the murder of larry risken. that was the first you heard she even had another husband. yeah. did he tell you how he died? he told me just how he got
shot in the head, too. just like your brother? yeah. yeah. did you immediately think, oh, boy, she s done it again? yeah. i did. maybe now, hoped dennis, all the renewed interest in sonia might finally reignite the investigation into his brother s case. i thought, sonia was going to be hung from the highest tree and serve a lifetime behind bars. understandable, if naive. coming up had she been arrested, larry risken would be alive today. you looked at the report. oh yes, very sensibly. what other secrets might sonia be hiding? when dateline continues. with progressive. you saved money and you get round-the-clock protection. so don t worry. it s all under control. [ screaming continues ] that s cool. we ll finish up here.
family. your big brother? yeah. [laughs] yeah. i looked up to him a lot. we were kind of each other s protectors. duke joined the marines during the now, that was stationed in the philippines. where he met a pretty young filipina named sonia, who sang in a nightclub near the base. and she was worth writing home about. dennis kept the letters. and it wasn t long before he got a call from duke. he said that he gotten married. holy cow. he fell in love at first sight or something? i think he must have. it was almost a big secret. a few months later, duke brought his secret right back home to iowa to meet the family. but the bourdeau and sonia never clicked. maybe that s why after duke s time in the marines and it, the
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anyway. didn t wash, said ex philippine investigator bong oteza. i think that there is some magic happened. magic? you can easily pay people around just too the silent. pay to make it go away? yes. according to bong who s worked in law enforcement over three decades, that magic is not so uncommon. 1000 dollar payoff and proof, it all goes away. so that wouldn t surprise you at all? oh, no. that s expected. back in iowa, dennis was convinced dukes execution was ordered and financed by sonia. and that she paid off whoever she needed to. sonia has so much power. everybody was afraid of her. almost like a little godfather or something. yeah, if she said something, people moved. sonia move fast, too.