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eyes. >> the river that runs through all of this is with money. >> very much so. >> now its time to find out the truth. >> i just kind of froze and i said, is that what i think it is? she looked at me and said. you know you cant ever leave now. right? ♪ ♪ ♪ >> hello and welcome to dateline! colorado rancher jake loved tending the land, riding his harley, and hanging out with a type group of guys. then suddenly he stopped answering calls and texts. his friends feared the worst. bu...

or done there was fire in their eyes. >> the river that lands through all of this is with money. >> very much so. >> now its time to find out the truth. >> i just kind of froze and i said, is that what i think it is? she looked at me and said. you know you cant ever leave now. right? ♪ ♪ ♪ >> hello and welcome to dateline! colorado ran shirt jake loved tending the land, riding his harley, and hanging out with a type group of guys. then suddenly he stopped answering calls and text...

Happened to him. This need to be reported to the police. Unusual for him not to tell one of us that he was going to be gone. When was the last gotime you heard from him . Way back in may. Yeah. His dad stated he had been gone in the past to take off. It was always pretty tense at the ranch. Im not supposed to know but i do know. If the wrong thing was said or done, there was fire in her eyes. The river that runs through all of this was green with money. Very much so. Now was the time y. To find ...

>> that same day, saturday, october 23rd, beth stopped by the nantucket police department to ask about filing a restraining order. for her to get to the point of stopping at the police department, that probably tells you all you need to know about what was going on inside of her. >> yeah, yeah, i would think so. i think she had very well-founded fears especially after the incident in new york where he held her captive. >> beth did not file the paperwork. she spent that night and the next at her ...

>> she had fear that something would happen to her. >> it did. >> my sister, shes not answering her phone. >> how did love go so wrong? in a surprising twist, it would take not one, but two trials to discover the truth. >> all of a sudden he wasnt convicted of murdering my sister anymore. >> hello and welcome to "dateline." beth lochtefeld was a salvy entrepreneur who built her own business. tom cut his teeth in the financial world. their connection was instant. but when their summer love cooled...

She was going to get her stuff and get out. at the last minute he hopped in the cab with her and they ended up back at his apartment. >> at some point that night, beth called her brother. in retrospect he says, she sounded terrified. >> her words were very measured. she was talking very slowly and enunciating very clearly. unlike her. she kept saying im here with tom in the city and were trying to work things out. and i didnt even think to ask her are you okay? or cough twice if youre in trouble...

Hair sort of combed back and a double breasted blue blazer on. very pompous. he seemed fake to me. >> that night over dinner, beths brother kept asking tom toolan what he did for a living. >> and he couldnt really tell me to my satisfaction what he did. >> what was he saying? >> oh, im an investor. what do you invest in? he couldnt really give me an answer. >> beths brother said toolan was drinking during dinner but not to excess. afterwards toolan and beth headed back to his apartment and on th...

And she said, really? i said, yeah. she said, ill be right over. >> bernadette had only known beth for a few months. not long, but long enough. >> she told me shed been successful in every part of her life except for love. >> so when bernadettes old friend tom tulin came to her nantucket home, she introduced him to beth. >> it was a connection. it was electric the minute she walked in. it was like, whoa. >> beth had finally met mr. right. but people arent always what they seem to be, or pretend ...

>> the trip ended badly. >> they were in a taxi and he had a temper tantrum and i guess she said let us off here. whatever she said. he turned and yelled at her and she said it was a little bit scary. >> and he was drinking. >> she said he had eight beers by the time they got to the airport and got on the plane. >> bernadette said on the way home tom asked beth what her friends thought of him. he said something chilling during the exchange that followed. something that troubled her so much she t...