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Police thought he wept south. but maybe they were looking in the wrong direction. wherever he was, blending into the crowd had never been his strong suit. coming up, a mysterious stranger surfaces hundreds of miles away. >> he was quite the character. he was very sure of himself. to the point of a little bit smug. the more he would talk about the loss of his wife and his boat, the more intrigued i game. >> could he hold the key to the case? >> did you ever help steven with his finances after h...

>> even the idea that there had been any sort of relationship between morrow and steven williams father is nonsense, right? bogus. couldnt have possibly been. >> couldnt have possibly been and wasnt corroborated by any evidence whatsoever. >> now he was ready for the new trial. he showed the jury, check by check, how harvey drained stevens accounts, all 1.7 million, in just 3 years to dress up a boat that was never going to sail anywhere. >> the boat wasnt properly outfitted for a trip around th...

Evidence in this regard was the fact that despite having a history of calling mr. williams on the telephone over the years that they knew each other, he never called his phone one time after the day the victim went missing. >> but that didnt mean harvey killed steven, the defense said. steven b. was so depressed about losing his career and his father, about getting older, that he killed himself. and the medical examiner testified it was possible steven could have shot himself. >> what was your o...

Debbie, invited us down to the pier where she took harveys fake engagement ring and the other costume jewelry hed given her and -- >> i threw them into the water as a tribute to steven. >> and his friends? >> steven was part of my family. hes part of the family you get to pick. i can open a great bottle of wine and sit there and think about steven. the pain fades. the memories are sustained. and thats the part that, you know, that ill just keep with me forever. >> the only way that i can kind of...

Lifelong friends, he vanished. >> i was worried sick. and we were all kind of having the same angst that -- that he had just dropped off the radar completely. >> reporter: his friends called each other, compared notes. no one had seen steven for weeks. >> so i called harvey. and i said, hey, harvey. were all really concerned about steven. have you seen him? and he goes, oh, well, hes over in hawaii. he went to hawaii. >> reporter: now, that was strange. because harvey told another friend steven ...

Of his head. >> that bullet meant only one thing. steven b. williams was murdered. who would want him dead? detectives have a saying. follow the money. coming up -- >> he was bad with money. he was paperwork averse. he would just forget to file his taxes for a few years. he was trying to manage the estate. get things organized. for steven, it was an almost impossible battle. >> when who killed the radio star continues. es its geicos all-time greatest hits back on tv for a limited time. and if ...

They married at the dawn of the new millennium, right here on the front porch of their new texas home. all that adventure to look forward to. and now harvey had invited steven to go along as chef on their beloved yacht. steven moved aboard, lived with them on the boat. but before they set sail, there was some work to do. he had bought this kind of basically old rusty tub, right? >> yeah, yeah, yeah. >> reporter: greg labano helped harvey fix up the old tub. greg fashioned all the stainless steel...

Bring herself to believe harvey could kill. >> i never once thought it would, it would be harvey that would have hurt steven. >> reporter: and in fact, there was nothing definitive tying harvey to stevens murder. no sign of any violent struggle, not a drop of stevens blood anywhere on the ship. if only the detectives could talk to harvey. it turned out they had just missed him. an employee at the yacht club told investigators harvey was standing nearby in plain sight, observing as the cops scour...

Kind of sealed this whole case together. >> reporter: but though the gps evidence told detectives where harveys boat was the day steven was killed, how could they be sure harvey and steven were together on the boat at precisely that time? >> electronic data is fascinating nowadays. >> oh. >> very fascinating. our cell phones, we can follow that signature. we were lucky again. >> reporter: lucky this time because of blackjack. blackjack cell tower, catalina island, where both harvey and stevens c...

This is steven and april. >> when steven soden ran away from a new jersey orphanage and left his little sister behind, she thought he would come back for her. >> steven tells his sister april, im going to get out of here, go find us home and then youll come with me and ill take care of you. >> but steven never came. months later her older half brother ron did. ron had been serving in vietnam when steven went missing and his disappearance tortured him for years. >> we always thought, i always tho...