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What she needed to do and todd came into the picture. i think having that pilot probably maybe is what caused her to marry todd. reporter: patterns. that time, too, todd was ready to commit. right away. how long did they date before they got married? i wouldn t say it was a very long time at all. they got married within weeks of dating. she appeared to be happy, so i didn t question that. she had married her pilot. and so i thought, you know, her fairytale was coming true. reporter: the airforce sent todd to japan soon after the wedding. it was an exhilarating time for cathy, getting married, heading off to live in an exotic place. cathy was excited to move to japan. and she was going to be an english teacher. reporter: and later, after todd left the airforce cathy s friends remember how she was there for him as he tried to figure out what to do next. she was very nurturing in the fact that she was supporting him in whatever different career he was going to choose. repo ....
Number two, that rachel s death was not murder. and that was that his client had a psychotic breakdown when rachel attacked him. his ability to understand what he was doing was diminished. why should the jury believe that? well, as you ll remember, rachel herself described todd as unstable at times. and now the defense presented evidence of what they said was his history of psychotic episodes. the first one happened in asia, something like 20 years earlier when todd was married to cathy and was flying with the fighting samurai squadron. he was caught shoplifting from a base px. he claimed amnesia. so the air force sent him off for psychiatric tests. but then it got even more bizarre, and cathy called her friend tanya. she telephoned me saying, i m in hawaii. todd had a mental breakdown, and so he s in a psychiatric facility. she had said to me that he ....
reporter: but todd had always had a knack for making money and he figured it out, got into the booming wi-fi business. and pretty soon cathy and todd moved into a big lakeside house in georgia with a boat, fancy cars, and of course an airplane. cathy, always so nurturing, told her friends she was ready to take the next step. i remember cathy calling me and telling me that they were living in georgia and that she was excited about it, and that she wanted to have children. so i was excited for her, because i can see her with little kids. reporter: but nine years into what looked like a happy marriage children had yet to arrive. and now we know, because of what was in that blue box they never would. time to find out what happened. who knew the discovery in that box would bring investigators all the way across the county to the blue ridge mountains of north georgia, to a campsite, high on a hill. here was a lonely place. ....
Todd got close to $1.2 million. and the case was closed. but for the heartbreak, it was julie-lynn who told tanya what happened. and she said, tanya, cathy s dead. she s not alive anymore. she died. i remember falling to the ground and i said, what do you mean she s dead? reporter: cathy s friend julie-lynn felt not just for herself but for todd, too. and i wanted to console him and just let him know that we were there for him, supporting him, anything we could do for him. and he never returned any of my calls. reporter: tanya tanya tried to call him, too. for a different reason. it just didn t add up. my phone call was strictly to figure out and to pick his brain and ask questions. reporter: because, by then, tanya was a cop herself, who knew a little something about suspicious behavior. did i think he was going to answer that phone? no, and let me tell you, i tried that phone number numerous ....
Times. and after about a month of calling it repeatedly, the phone number was disconnected. reporter: she didn t get anywhere. no. but sometimes, maybe, with a little help from curious prosecutor, you get a do-over. so, as the years went by, you thought about it? oh, yes, sir. it bothered you? yes. reporter: so, that must have made that call that you got from california all the more remarkable. when when i realized what they were asking me about, yes, sir. i thought, oh, my goodness, what in the world is going on with this case? coming up so many questions of the long ago case. starting with, why was cathy even camping? camping? cathy was not a camper. the more we read, the more we realized, this was not an accident. he was kind of play-sobbing, i would say. it was some horrible acting ....