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>> there was a lot of animosity towards me. i understood why. >> all they saw was this hot young woman who had been brought in to replace their missing daughter. >> right. exactly three months to the day. i can't even imagine what they were thinking. >> pegye's family wasn't alone. detective sean murphy had also noticed the new woman in eric bechler's life. >> she was just a hot number as they say. and she was cohabitating with him right after this horrible boating accident with his wife. >> so murphy arranged to bump into tina. >> i said, hey, if you have any information about this boating ac...

>> police planted microphones in her car, in her purse, and on her body. and tina arranged a meeting. she told eric that after the domestic violence call, sheriff's homicide detectives came in to ask questions about eric. this dinner date, tina told eric, was to get their story straight in case the cops questioned her again. tina wired up, picked up eric from his home and drove to a restaurant called el torido. >> i was worried i wouldn't get him to confess again. >> i have two stories in my head. i don't want to screw up at all. >> there's no story to tell. you weren't there. it was an accide...

The tv show "baywatch nights." but that turned out to be the peak of her career. soon tina found herself slipping into the darker side of showbiz. she started doing drugs, and lost custody of her two young children because of it. and fell for a succession of guys who did not treat her kindly. >> i had an ex-boyfriend put a gun to my head, play russian roulette between me and him. i was held over the balcony by my neck. >> tina who was broke and near rock bottom was desperate. >> i got down on my knees, literally begging, and i said, i'll do whatever you want, lord, just help me. i can't do thi...

Talking. >> that's right. >> and that's what happened two weeks after eric's apparent confession. a neighbor called 911 after hearing yelling coming from tina's apartment. when police arrived, eric was gone but tina was angry and she still had the business card detective murphy had given her almost two years earlier. >> i grab my partner. we went out there in the middle of the night and we met up with tina. >> she told detective murphy and his partner gary jones what eric had said, a big break, yes, but not nearly enough for an arrest. remember, tina was pretty far from an ideal witness. detec...

Eric bechler told her how he got rid of his wife. >> he did her wrists and her ankles together so she was completely bent in half. took the two trash bags he had. put her body in it and put the weights and tied it down to the rope and threw her in. >> two years after pegye vanished a stunning confession. >> then grow to sleep next to a man that you believe was a killer? >> no, actually then we have sex. and i felt like i had to do it because i think that made him feel like i was going to be quiet and that he was, i don't know, sealing the deal with me or something. >> but the deal was not seal...