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He went under, and when he came up, he said he no longer saw his wife. He was just hysterical. They were never able to find her. It was a heartwrenching story. So why then were so many people so suspicious . No one knows exactly what happened on that boat. An accident . A disappearance . You thought, what . She faked her death . Or maybe a murder . Theres no way. Absolutely no way. I felt like the police were just trying to frame an innocent man. Now, she would be the one to unravel it all. I th...

Julia roberts in pretty woman. Hed been through so much. A mysterious accident at sea. He went under, and when he came up, he said he no longer saw his wife. He was just hysterical. They were never able to find her. It was a heartwrenching story. So why then were so many people so suspicious . No one knows exactly what happened on that boat. An accident . A disappearance . You thought, what . She faked her death . Or maybe a murder . Theres no way. Absolutely no way. I felt like the police were ...

They were never able to find her. It was a heartwrenching story. So why then were so many people so suspicious . No one knows exactly what happened on that boat. An accident . A disappearance. You thought what, she faked her death . Maybe murder. Theres no way. Absolutely no way. I felt like the police were just trying to frame an innocent man. Now she would be the one to unravel it all. I thought i could do this. In a dangerous under cover operation. My heartbeat was going so fast. He said you ...

Officials confirming a third officers death following a shoot out in eastern kentucky. jacob -- succumb to his injuries on friday. police were executing a search warrant on thursday, when a suspect opened fire, striking him and the other officers. that suspect is in police custody. dozens are feared dead after a ship broke apart during typhoon -- it shows a clue member of being pulled from the vessel, just moments before it sank in south hong kong china. at least three people were rescued there....

So hard she didnt feel a thing." and im just like, "what do you mean you hit her so hard? " and he goes, "i hit her over the head with the weight." >> she said he told her there was blood everywhere. then, tina says eric bechler told her how he got rid of his wife. >> he did some knot that he knows, and he-- he did her wrists and her ankles together so she was completely bent in half. he said he took the two trash bags that he had and put her body in it, and then he said he put the weights and t...

Find her. >> maybe alive. >> uh-huh. i did because she was a fabulous swimmer. >> glenda went to the bechler house to see eric. >> how did he look? >> hysterical, a little bit. you know, hed been crying and, you know, his face is red and, you know, all of those things. he looked upset, as you should be, one would expect. >> the best. the best person. >> this video from local news shows a devastated eric. it was now day two of the search for pegye. still nothing. the next day, the coast guard int...

I could just see that pegye wasnt standing there on the wheel. and the boat kept going farther and farther away. and i couldnt see any other boat. i was screaming and looking around. it was my fault. if only i could see her right now. >> and so pegye bechler was simply gone. maybe even within sight of the same beach that had spawned her marriage. eric seemed devastated fearing his wife and business partner was dead, but erics mother, linda, saw things quite differently. >> i was sure that they w...

At el torito. erics own words. the jury heard all of them. >> nobody knows anything but you! >> barnett offered his own explanation. >> i argued that the reason he said it is to shut her up, to calm her down. in any event, the defense said -- eric never said on tape that he hit pegye. the only person who heard him say that was tina. a drug user. a woman with a fraud conviction on her record. >> without that statement, they have a lot of circumstantial evidence and a lot of what ifs, but they don...

Crime scene did find blood, just one drop, under one of the cushions. but not enough to determine whether it was human blood. it could have come from a fish. not enough evidence to arrest eric for murder or even prove that a murder occurred. pegyes close friend glenda didnt believe eric was a killer. >> theres no way that eric would have done that. you know, i mean theres just absolutely no way. it was unfathomable to me. >> tina new felt the same way. >> i felt like the police were just trying ...

Accidentally -- >> thats -- >> -- and her body still hasnt been found? >> thats right. >> prosecutor debbie lloyd argued pegyes death was erics doing. >> he basically had 3.5 million reasons to kill her. and thats about what he stood to gain if he had gotten away with it. >> and, said the prosecutor, the circumstantial evidence was compelling. eric had a weight tree back at home that appeared to be incomplete. investigators believed eric used the missing weights to kill pegye and then sink her b...