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For next year? >> reporter: eric's not in trouble. he has autism and by law. he must leave school when he turns 21 in a few months. but his dad, richard sadowsky, says eric's not done learning and he and mary are in a panic about what eric will do next. >> to abruptly end his time here is not a good idea for him. >> reporter: eric has been a student at the rebecca school for the past five years. it's a private school dedicated to providing specialized support like speech and occupational therapy to children with developmental disabilities. >> it's a place where he's understood and he's cared a...

>> we were excited about in a morbid kind of way, because we knew it was going to go sideways. >> because when relationships go sideways, sometimes people start talking? >> that's right. >> reporter: and that's what happened two weeks after eric's apparent confession. a neighbor called 9-1-1 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 grabbed my partner. and we went out there in the middle of the night. and we met up with tina. >> rep...

Myself, has nothing to do with what he did. >> reporter: after seven days, the verdict. guilty of first degree murder. >> you're thrilled that the man who did it is behind bars, but nobody wins in this situation, nobody. the children now have no mother and no father. so there is no winner. >> reporter: but the jury did not believe eric killed pegye for the money. he was found not guilty of murder for financial gain. at his sentencing, eric bechler addressed the judge, once again denying he killed pegye. >> the accident was a horrible tragedy that has befallen both of our families. as much as t...

>> eric's told me on several occasions that he was sick and tired of his wife. he would tell me that he just couldn't take it anymore. he was tired of it. >> reporter: 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 he thought -- what i thought of the idea of him killing his wife. and i was pretty shocked and 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 into a barrel. >> he said that when he saw that there was a...

Difference? >> doesn't matter what i did before or after i met him whachlt i did to myself has nothing to do with what he did. >> after seven days, guilty. >> you are thrilled the man who did it is behind bars, but nobody wins in this situation, nobody. the children now have no mother or father. >> the jury did not believe eric killed peggy for the money. he was found not guilty for murder of financial gain and the sentencing, eric addressed the judge, once again, denying he killed peggy. >> the accident was a horrible tragedy that has befallen both of our families. as much as they are hurting...