MSNBC Dateline December 19, 2021 09:03:00
Do you realize this now looking back? >> oh, i was fully aware at the time. >> reporter: it was a light moment and just what bill needed. only eight months earlier, he'd become a widower. >> my wife, krista, she fell in the middle of the night. they say she hit her head and she drowned in the pool. i pulled her out of the pool easter sunday morning in 2000. i pretty much fell apart. and there i was a single dad, trying to raise them and, you know, keep the family going. >> he loved my mom. he loved her to the moon and back, and then he lost her. he was just lonely and you could see it in him. ...