money which very soon slid into bankruptcy. guys, dale. as did one of the microsoft guys, dale. according to court papers, he had a personal fortune of $4.5 million when he met steve heitman in 1998. by 2000, dale claimed debts of $9.5 million. the seattle media picked up the story, and soon steve heitman's name and face were everywhere. and that's when people realized just as they had in san diego that the man named mike wasn't really mike, that here, the man named steve wasn't steve at all. it's the kind of headline you see every holiday weekend. this particular senseless tragedy took the life of evelyn heitman's oldest son. >> he step backwards, fell over the edge of the rock and went down into the river about 40 feet below.