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Murder, did you? >> absolutely not. >> in fact, while you were in jail, you decided you were gonna take certain steps to try to frustrate the prosecution of the armed kidnapping case. isn't that true? >> yes, sir. i was desperate to do anything that i possibly could to avoid going to prison. >> like having a discussion with one jail inmate who offered to kill denise and get others to lie in his kidnapping case. >> he did offer to make denise go away. and make other witnesses in the case go away. and i said, "don't ever speak to me of that again. " >> so, you were drawing the line at having wit...

>> you got him to say yes to both of those things. >> i have probably in 20 years never had a witness come right out and say boldly and emphatically that they are a liar. >> in his final remarks to the jury, attorney ethan way argued, if you exclude brian's lying testimony, you are left with nothing forensically, evidentially, tying denise to the murder. >> this case is only about brian winchester. it is only about him killing mike williams. it is only about him doing the most heinous thing that can be done. >> in his closing remarks, prosecutor fuchs pointed to denise. >> that one person sat ...

That had never been found. >> fish and wildlife officers were confounded. eventually the case of the missing boater was handed off to local sheriff's detectives to investigate. >> i remember telling some of the guys, investigators we might wanna look into this a little deeper,'cause something don't add up. >> one year after mike goes missing, his wife denise visits the lake for a final goodbye. coming up -- >> she had a flower with her and she had written mike a note. >> and there is growing suspicion this wasn't an accident. >> no, uh-uh. something is wrong here. >> when "dateline" continues....

With the pigtails, out there with her signs and the billboards -- >> everybody -- >> -- and the letters to the editor, and you became famous. >> everybody called me crazy. >> but not everybody. police began to take cheryl seriously after years of her struggling to draw attention to mike's case. >> miss cheryl is a straight-shooter and she tells it like it is. >> will mickler is an agent with the fdle, the florida department of law enforcement. a top cops agency with statewide jurisdiction. four years after mike went missing, they agreed to take the case. >> if it wasn't for miss cheryl, this c...

Summary of her notes. >> she was a good source of information and she was a real bulldog on this. >> like this item cheryl noted. remember those insurance policies mike bought? they were worth $1. 75 million dollars. and it was brian who actually sold mike a large part of them. and those waders that surfaced after mike went missing were used by denise's lawyer as evidence to declare mike dead in just seven months, so she could collect her money. >> that's better than icing on the cake if you're -- if one of your goals is to get the woman. you also get the money. >> that was all that i really n...