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>> i absolutely thought they'd find her. >> maybe alive? >> mm-hmm. i did. because she's a fabulous swimmer. >> glenda went to the bechler house to see eric. how did he look? >> hysterical. a little bit. he had been crying. his face is red. and, you know, all of those things. he looked upset. as he should be. one would expect. >> she's the best person. >> this video from local news shows a devastated eric. it was now day two of the search for pegye. still nothing. the next day the coast guard interviewed eric. eric bechler could barely speak. >> what did you take with you on the boat? >> we ha...

>> you never said, hey, look, man, i don't know what the [ bleep ] you guys are talking about, but i'm innocent. you've never said anything about anything. >> i have so. do i have to say it every week? >> kobi tried again. >> i protected you. i basically made you look like a saint in the interview i had with the detectives. >> i am. >> a dead-end. but detectives were now convinced that eric killed his wife. even though it didn't lead to anything, that conversation with kobi, that got you from suspicion to knowing. >> it moved it all the way over. we knew we had a homicide. >> but knowing it an...

>> then the recorded conversation. eric's own words. >> nobody knows anything but you. >> barnett offered his own explanation. >> i argued the reason he said it was to shut her up, to calm her down. >> in any event, eric never said on tape that he hit beg peggy. the only person that heard that was tina, a drug user. >> they have a lot of circumstantial evidence. nothing makes it a homicide. >> the defense offered another theory about peggy. >> she was under a great deal of pressure and could be distracted and, in combination with alcohol, which she rarely drank, but did on that day, could cont...

All of a sudden as we were talking it came to me. oh my god, you hit her over the head. he goes, how did you know that? the fact is she hadn't known. call it intuition or the effects of the drug or a random guess. but it was an opening and tina barrelled through. >> i said, you need to tell me the truth. he's calmly talking to me and he says i'm going to tell you the truth. we had this huge party. so everybody could see how happy we were together. >> all their friends were there, witnesses to the happy marriage. then a couple of days later, she says, eric told her he took pegye out to sea on t...

>> yes. we went out that night actually. he asked me out that night. i moved in the next day. really fast. >> you don't wait, do you. >> no. not then. >> eric lived in a giant house and drove a porsche. and he was a gentleman in her life after a long string of men who were not gentle. >> i had never been spoiled like that. i remember thinking i was like julia roberts in "pretty woman." >> tina was moved by eric's story. >> he said to me that his wife died in a tragic boat accident, and that they were never able to find her. >> she couldn't help noticing how great he was with his kids. >> he wo...