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Now he had a different story. eric's told me on several occasions that he's sick and tired of his wife. and he'd tell me that he just couldn't take it anymore, he was tired of it. josh mankiewicz (voiceover): about seven months before pegye vanished, kobi says he and eric had a conversation that kobi describes as haunting him ever since. eric asked me about what i thought of the idea of him killing his wife. and i, um-- i was shocked. i didn't know what to say. he told me, subsequently, that he was thinking of taking her out to the ocean and dumping her in a barrel. he said that when he saw th...

Josh mankiewicz (voiceover): and so pegye bechler was simply gone, maybe even within sight of the same beach that had spawned her marriage. eric seemed devastated, fearing his wife and business partner was dead. but eric's mother, linda, saw things quite differently. i was sure that they would find her, that it would all turn out well. josh mankiewicz (voiceover): not just because pegye was a strong swimmer, everyone knew that. linda knew more, a secret about her daughter-in-law. and you thought what? pegye faked her death? or disappeared deliberately? uh-huh. josh mankiewicz (voiceover): comi...

He basically had 3 and 1/2 million reasons to kill her, and that's about what he stood to gain if he had gotten away with it. josh mankiewicz (voiceover): 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, ...

You told me? and he just got really quiet. josh mankiewicz (voiceover): then, she says, eric bechler told her a new version of what happened when pegye fell off the boat. he thinks she 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 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. now that's completely different from what he told police. right. josh mankiewicz (voiceover): chilling as that sounded, tina feared it still w...

They continued to see each other, sleep together, and party together. about two weeks after eric changed his story, he and tina went to a club and took the drug ecstasy. we get home. we walk inside the house. and we're just both laying on the bed staring straight up at the ceiling together. all of a sudden as we were talking it just came to me and i said to him, i said, oh my god, you hit her over the head. and he goes, how did you know that? josh mankiewicz (voiceover): 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 t...