and, suddenly, he's peppering her with information about paul. >> i'm freaking out. >> reporter: noel was being told, paul was an imposter. >> i have this police detective telling me that this guy i just spent three days with is >> the cop revealed to noel that paul was in the middle of a fraud investigation. >> i called back the police department back to make sure. to make sure it was really the detective. i'm questioning everything. >> the detective then told noel a maryland woman and her friends had invested $60,000 with a man called paul krueger. after this paul person disappeared, the woman filed a complaint. and the information filtered down to police in saderton, p.a. while noel had been getting to know kreuger in person as an easy-going companion, and nicole in florida was regarding him as a friend and collaborator, this pennsylvania detective had been