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Her door is open, her light is on, her bed's undone, everything was horrible, and i felt it. >> the mystery was about to deepen. >> nobody had heard from her? >> nobody. >> just ahead on "dateline extra."
Extra. with a new live-in girlfriend, eric bechler seemed to be recovering quickly from losing his wife pegye and that didn't sit well with quite a few people. certainly not the police or pegye's family. but eric's best friend, what exactly did he know and how far would he go to get proof? >> reporter: to detective sean murphy it sounded more than suspicious. eric bechler taking up with a gorgeous redhead just three months after his wife was lost at sea. but murphy didn't have much more than a gnawing in his gut until his phone rang. >> we got a call from kobe's lawyer, said he wanted to arran...
Of what happened when pegye fell off the boat. >> he thinks she hit a wake and fell off. he said, and i didn't get to her. i said you didn't get to her or you didn't want to get to her? and he said -- at first he said he told me that he didn't get to her. then later he changed it and said i could have helped her but i didn't. >> reporter: now, that's completely different from what he told police. >> right. >> reporter: chilling as that sounded, tina feared it still wasn't the whole story. she was determined to get the rest. but like a career in show biz, you have to be careful what you wish fo...
About to see this case in a whole new light. >> i put the videotape in and said oh, my gosh, what is this? when "dateline extra" continues. when my doctor told me i have age-related macular degeneration, amd, he told me to look at this grid every day. and we came up with a plan
Against potts. >> this was a case with no eyewitnesss, no confession, no video of the crime, no physical evidence linking potts to the crime and a cause of death that was based on primarily exclusion. we don't try many cases like that. >> and not many cases with a defendant quite like reginald potts. >> coming up, an accused killer's defense. >> i'm not a monster. >> he's smarter than the average criminal. but not as smart as he thinks he is. >> and after eight years, a verdict. >> what really tormented me all these years is that there's a possibility that justice won't be done. >> when "datel...