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Behind her and he goes i hit her so hard she didnt feel a thing. im like what do you mean, you hit her so hard. he said i hit her over the head with a weight. >> reporter: she said he told her there was blood everywhere. then tina says eric bechler told her how he got rid of his wife. >> he just did her wrists and ankles together so she was completely bent in half. he said he took two trash bags he had, put her body in it and then he put the weights and tied it down to the rope and threw her in....

Like he literally lost the color in his face and he said to me how did you get that? i said i dont know. >> reporter: his reaction troubled her. she hit play and it just got worse. the news report did not match the story eric had told her about pegyes disappearance. >> he told me there was three to four foot waves, it was really choppy out there. >> reporter: on the report the day pegye went missing, there were only two foot waves and the weather was described as ideal. >> he lied. he lied all t...

>> we had a couple bags. we wanted to see if we could see catalina. it was so hazy. i told pegye it was too hazy. >> reporter: eric told the coast guard he tried to body board on the way out and said there was a pretty good swell in the ocean. >> was it as high as the side of the boat? >> big enough to notice. >> reporter: eric said they stopped out here on the water to enjoy some margueritas pegye had made and later in the day they decided to try the body board again, this time on their way bac...

Anyones word for anything. we look into it. thats what we did. >> reporter: they met with the improbably named kobe laker. erics best friend. and kobe backed up eric. >> they had a terrific marriage and there was no problems whatsoever. >> reporter: but if the marriage seemed solid, there were questions about pegye. at least according to linda bechler, erics mother. linda says pegye told her something in confidence just before she disappeared. >> she stopped me on the stairway as i was leaving a...

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She had almost everything she wanted. >> she did wanna find a guy. >> and the clock was tickina little bit. >> it was. >> and then one day on the beach, you found somebody for her. >> we did. so one afternoon on -- on a weekend, pegye called me and said, "what are you doin? " and i said, "well, im gonna go down and watch dave play some volleyball on the beach." >> dave was glendas husband. >> i asked pegye if she wanted d to come down with me and she said absolutely. she immediately spotted eric...

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1997, when the unimaginable happened. >> male, kind of distraught, k said that his wife fell overboard. >> it was a boating accident, said eric, and the coast dart agreed. something to see all too often. but soon, secrets emerged that would make some people wonder what really happened to pegye bechler? >> where was pegye? and what had gone wrong on that boat? coming up, there would be a sea of questions to come. >> you thought, what, pegye faked her death? >> when "dateline" continues. severe ec...

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