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Right. that wasnt good. that hindered the investigation. >> reporter: the boat, said detective murphy, was pretty clean. 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. theres just absolutely no wa...

Detectives knew they would need more than her word against erics. so they asked tina -- >> would i be willing to wear a wire. i said yes. thats the only way youre going to get him. >> reporter: why would you turn in a guy who had basically taken you from a terrible life and given you a great life? >> because i couldnt live with myself. no way. >> reporter: police planted microphones in her car, in her purse and on her body. and tina arranged a meeting. she told eric that after the domestic viole...

We went out that night, actually. he asked me out that night. i moved in the next day. really fast. >> reporter: you dont wait, do you? >> no. not then. >> reporter: eric lived in a giant house and drove a porsche, and he was a gentleman in her life after a long string of men who were not gentle. >> i had never been spoiled like that. i remember thinking i was like julia roberts in "pretty woman." >> reporter: tina was moved by erics story. >> he said to me that his wife died in a tragic boat ac...

Of 2000, eric bechler went on trial. the star witness, tina, a witness was, to be fair, compromised, not just by her waffling by erics guilt and her own checkered past but the one detail and story tina says eric told her something the defense attorney says is critical. >> youd expect, if pegyes head was caved in by 35 pound dumb bells, thered be blood. >> quite a lot of it. >> everywhere. and there wasnt. >> on the stand, tina tried to defend herself. >> im a horrible witness when it comes to lo...

Welcome back. im tamron hall. tin na was granted a new lease on life when she met eric bechler. so when he opened the door to telling her the truth about his wifes disappearance, she had a decision to make. walk through that door and the good life she had come to know could be gone forever. heres josh mankiewicz again with "troubled waters." >> reporter: tina new thought she had found happiness with eric bechler until he changed his story about what happened the day his wife disappeared in the o...

Im tamron hall. with the new live-in girlfriend, eric bechler seemed to be recovering quickly from losing his wife, pegye. and that didnt sit well with quite a few people. certainly not with the police, or pegyes family. but erics best friend, what exactly did he know, and how far would he go to give proof? here again is josh mankiewicz with "troubled waters." >> to detective sean murphy, it sounded more than suspicious. eric bechler taking up with a gorgeous redhead just three months after his ...

Terrible accident. >> i was there. i know what happened. and its so hard for me to understand, you know, that there could be any other -- people could think anything else. >> you never said, hey, look, man, i dont know what the [ bleep ] you guys are talking about, but im innocent. youve never said anything about anything. >> i have so. do i have to say it every week? >> kobi tried again. >> i protected you. i basically made you look like a saint in the interview i had with the detectives. >> a ...

Ecstasy. >> we get home, we walk inside the house and were just both laying on the bed staring at the ceiling together. as we were talking, it came to me, and i said to him, oh, my god, you hit her over the head. he said, how did you know that? >> the fact is, she hadnt known. call it intuition, or the effect of the drug, or a random guess. but it was an opening, and tina barreled through. >> i said, you need to tell me the truth. hes calm my talking to me and he said, im going to tell you the t...

Occasions that hes sick and tired of his wife. and he would tell me that he just couldnt take it anymore. he was tired of it. >> seven months before pegye vanished, kobi said he and eric had a conversation that kobi describes as haunting him ever since. >> eric asked me about what he thought -- what i thought of the idea of him killing his wife. and i -- i was in shock. i didnt know what to say. he told me that he was thinking of taking her out to the ocean and dumping her in a barrel. >> he sai...

>> i just thought he was really handsome. >> there was some serious chemistry from the beginning. >> yes. he asked me out that night. i moved in the next day. really fast. >> you dont wait, do you. >> no. not then. >> eric lived in a giant house and drove a porsche. and he was a gentleman in her life after a long string of men who were not gentle. >> i had never been spoiled like that. i remember thinking i was like julia roberts in "pretty woman." >> tina was moved by erics story. >> he said to...