lawyer caroline six months after they d met. and used his cover as a salesman to swing car lot deals for her. robert assured caroline if she bought a sporty vw for her sister and one for herself too, he d get her a good price for her old mercedes. caroline handed over about $40,000. because the couple were now making plans to get married she didn t think to ask about the mercedes. so it came as something of a shock when she asked her fiance about it weeks later. he says, well, it s sold. didn t i tell you? bear in mind this is somebody i see every day. i said, no, you didn t tell me. where s the money? how much did you get for it and where is the money? oh, 16 grand and the money is in my account. in your account? what s it doing in your account? it should be in my account. robert told caroline his secret agent bank would allow him to give her just $8,000 and he d return the rest another time. but after that little eye opener caroline decided to try to find out more about the myste
husband, said in response to will you marry me? yes. but there was another unexpected twist in store for kim adams. robert told kim he d been offered an important and lucrative position in the global spy game. he talked about a job at a lighthouse, which was some sort of communication station really. in a remote part of scotland there was a lighthouse. and robert told kim that s where they would be, gathering intelligence together. monitoring russian submarines as they skulked by. they d send their dispatches to spymasters in london. so you were going to be mr. and mrs. james bond living in a lighthouse someplace. we were going to be living in a lighthouse. kim s parents had divorced and now both were remarried. she called her dad in sioux city, iowa, to tell him about her serious live-in boyfriend. i told everybody my daughter was marrying james bond. kim was shaken but not stirred by the prospect of keeping vigil in a desolate
but as suave as he was, kim says there was still something nagging about robert, something secretive, like his cell phones. he had four or five of them though she often found it hard to reach him. frustrating. and the funny business about cameras. he didn t like having his picture taken. jobs? this new man in her life changed them as often as the fast cars he drove. top of the line bmws and audis with duran duran thumping through the speakers. kim began probing robert s quirks. when did he start confiding in you, kim, that he wasn t just a used car salesman, but that he was a secret agent? he started telling me in little bits and pieces about undercover investigative police work for the government. james bond-type stuff? some of it was terrorism. some of it was crime rings. it s not like he sat me down and said, oh, by the way, i m a spy.
back and from every corner of that parking ramp cars and agents pulled up. once all the screeching tires stopped, the agent who was in charge of the investigation said, robert hendy freegard, yod robert freeguard, you are under arrest. kim doesn t know what s going on. she burst into tears. i was crying hysterically. i kept repeating, i don t understand. i don t understand what s going on here. upon. at that time i m thinking what have i done? is she crying because we saved her? is she crying because this whole thing isn t really what it seems and i just destroyed this relationship? will she ever speak to me? i didn t know. i didn t know. at a nearby london police station british police and the fbi spelled out the whole extraordinary story of robert s crimes to a dazed kim. based on your investigation, how many people? how many years? how much money? eight victims, ten years, between $1 million and $2
million. money was the gain game? money was the game and power was the game. freeguard was in custody, facing charges that if convicted, could send him to prison for life. it was kim s turn to fill in critical details of her four-month abduction, information that would be used to prosecute freeguard. it was a harrowing story about the spy that not only conned her, but threatened to kill her, too. he told me that i would be tortured and that when dawn came that i would be begging to be killed. coming up, how many women had this con man duped? some of them still believe they were in love with him. unraveling the mystery, robert free guard on trial. [ female announcer ] who d have thought that the person you d grow up to be how creative or confident or kind was shaped before you lost your first tooth? the first five years are forever.