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Of 2000, eric bechler went on trial. the star witness, tina, a witness was, to be fair, compromised, not just by her waffling by eric's guilt and her own checkered past but the one detail and story tina says eric told her something the defense attorney says is critical. >> you'd expect, if pegye's head was caved in by 35 pound dumb bells, there'd be blood. >> quite a lot of it. >> everywhere. and there wasn't. >> on the stand, tina tried to defend herself. >> i'm a horrible witness when it comes to looking at me on paper? do you think anybody would believe you? >> no. i knew that i told exactl...

Adds he should be. one would expect. >> this video from local news shows a devastated eric. >> it was now day two of the search for peggy, and still nothing. the next day the coast guard interviewed eric. eric beckler could barely speak. >> where did you take her? >> we a couple of bags -- wanted to see if we could see catalina, but it was so hazy. i told peggy it was too hazy. >> eric told the coast guard he tried to body board on the way out and said there was a pretty good swim in the ocean.

Notices of peggy in every room of the house. she could not imagine that a man who had killed his wife would want to see her face everywhere. >> eric was really the answer to all your problems for a while, wasn't he? >> yeah, he was. >> so you weren't too anxious to question him? >> no. i believed him. >> and after about six months -- >> says will you marry me? >> yes. zploob and you say? >> yes. >> you don't say no a lot. >> i mean, he treated me so good. >> they had been a couple for two years. still not married but living together off and on. one night teen yafs showing aircraft some of her ...

By adults and it's for keeps. prosecutors believed eric bechler was trying to be successful at both. detectives had put him in jail. but then two weeks after eric's arrest came this head line in the local paper. witness in murder case doubts suspect's guilt. tina, who had worn a wire and helped police nail eric now said maybe he didn't kill her. >> i knew the kids had lost their mom and now going to probably lose their dad for a very long time. so i felt guilty. >> guilty that she had helped jail man she once thought she'd marry. >> he called me from the jail and told me he had tried to hang h...

He lied to us. he said, it was because he was panicked and afraid, and he didn't know what to do. >> detectives convinced kobe do wear a wire and to meet eric at a restaurant in orange county. eric had no idea that police were listening in. even so, he stouk stuck to his story that figury's death of a tash terrible accident. zblie was ther zbl >> i was there. i know what happened. >> i made you look like a saint in the interview i had with the detectives. >> a dead end, but detective were now convinced that eric killed his wife. >> that conversation with kobe, that got you from