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>> chris was a great, great con man. >> former los angeles police officer jerry winkle is a county commissioner up in idaho now. but once upon a time, he was chris hall's friend. that is, before a night of poker and booze when he said hall made a disturbing revelation that he'd shot himself in the leg when he was a cop in order to get medical retirement benefits. >> chris had been drinking beer and he came right out and told me that he had shot himself. >> but there was more. d.a. investigator tom dove had discovered a secret, not in chris's past, but in christy's. >> there had been infidelity...

>> anthony: when did you come to thailand first? >> andy: i believe it was 1987. and i came as a backpacker. it was all about, you know, smoking dope on the beach, eating mushrooms, chasing girls, and drinking beer. i had a three-month ticket and i ended up staying away for four years. here we go. >> anthony: oh man. so what was the dish? there's a dish in every traveler's life where they just said, "okay, you know, my previous life is not gonna be enough for me anymore, you know?" >> andy: it was a particular mushroom. they make soup out of it. it was unlike anything i'd ever had in my life. ...

Booze when he said paul made a disturbing revelation, that he had shot himself in the leg in order to get retirement benefits. >> chris had been drinking beer. he came out and told me that he had shot himself. >> but there was more. d.a. investigator tom dove discovered a secret. not in chris's past but in cristi's. >> there had been infidelity in the past. >> the affair was relatively brief, years earlier. but she had been in phone contact with the man just days before she died. had chris found out? impossible to know. but when investigator dove talked to cristi's co-workers at the clinic whe...

It was a deadlock. the judge declared a mistrial. chris hall walked out of court with his family, free but not quite in the clear. and nothing at all like a victory for the hall daughters. what was it like to get that hung jury? what did you think then? >> this was tragic. >> that was devastating to us. >> you expected a not guilty verdict? >> oh, yeah. not a doubt. >> deputy d.a. burke strunsky was devastated too and determined to retry the case. but first he sent his investigator on a mission to explore the life and marriage of chris hall. and what do you know? in idaho where hall had been a...

♪ ♪ it's inevitable, of course, that next door to golden eye there would be a james bond beach. >> all of the bond movies were conceptualized and written here. ♪ ♪ >> when blackwell heard i wanted to visit the local fishermen, he hooked me up with his good friend carl to accompany me. i'm here to hit dr. hose, a local rum bar where one can indulge in a typical hard working fisherman's breakfast, rum. so we're drinking rum here, drinking beer or rum and beer? >> no, it's hard core. >> you're recommending some beer and rum together. >> no, steel bottom now. steel bottom now, right. onl...