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Eric's doing. >> he basically had 3.5 million reasons to kill her. and that's about what he stood to gain if he had gotten away with it. >> reporter: and, said the prosecutor, the circumstantial evidence was compelling. eric had a weight tree back at home that appeared to be incomplete. investigators believed eric used the missing weights to kill pegye and then sink her body. and what about the blood? a luminol test conducted on the boat indicated there might have been a lot of blood in the boat, but that it was cleaned up, matching tina's testimony about blood everywhere. and of course, there...

It's said there's nothing more beautiful than the way the ocean refuses to stop kissing the shoreline. this was supposed to be something like that. a romantic outing, an anniversary and birthday gift eric bechler planned for his wife pegye, but it turned into something else. and now pegye was gone. >> and the wife apparently fell of the boat. >> reporter: the coast guard immediately launched a search. but by nightfall no sign of peyge, alive or otherwise. and so eric called pegye's mom, june. >> he says, "we can't find pegye." and i said, "what do you mean you can't find her? where is she? wha...

>> reporter: then, she says eric bechler told her a new version of what happened when pegye fell off the boat. >> he thinks she -- he hit a wake and she fell off. and he said, "and i didn't get to her." and 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 -- i could've helped her but i didn't." >> 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...

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A witness who was, to be fair, compromised. not just by her waffling about eric's guilt and her own checkered past, but also by one detail in the story tina says eric told her, something defense attorney john barnett says is critical. >> you'd expect if pegye's head was caved in by 35 pound dumbbells, there'd be blood. >> quite a lot of it. >> everywhere. and -- and there wasn't. >> reporter: on the stand, tina tried to defend herself. >> i'm a horrible witness when it comes to looking at me on paper. >> did you think anybody would believe you? >> no. you know, i knew that i told exactly what ...