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I didn't know how he planned to get tim up there. >> a few months later, as jeff paridon and gene maxwell from compressed air technologies were beginning to ask questions of embezzlement of the business, she says gaede called wicks to finalize the phony music gig, telling him to come to north dakota so they could drive to canada together. during wicks' first day at their house, fruge said he painted their staircase, plays with her son joshua, and seemed excited about the upcoming job. it was during the evening of his second day that everything changed. >> about 8:00 or 9:00 i gave joshy a bath...

He took all his clothes off, and you could just hear bang, bang, bang. seemed like it was never going to stop. >> so as fruge and her son sat in the front of the truck, she turned up the radio, loud. what's going through your mind at this point? >> such a feeling of fear and panic that i've never felt before in my life. >> just a couple days after the murder, she says they rented a truck and drove endlessly through wisconsin and michigan until gaede suddenly stopped here and asked her to help him dump the body just over the guardrail. she says gaede was on his own when he got rid of the head a...

>> we just bought like $200 worth of groceries. all of a sudden i see a squad car. i said, dennis, i think we're going down. >> she was right. police throughout the midwest had been on the lookout for a very large balding man driving a camper and using tim wicks' credit cards. a warrant was out for gaede's arrest at this time for embezzlement. police also wanted to question him on the disappearance of timothy wicks. >> the phone rings. police on the phone. what do they tell you? >> he let me know that we got dennis, we've got diane and we've got joshua, her son. they got them in custody and no...

24-hour phone service and cashed out a cd and had it deposited into a savings account. >> a total of $17,000 was taken, and gaede was long gone. but police say gaede kept and he, fruge, and her son drove from state to state, campground to campground. by staying at campgrounds one night each, they were able to stay one step ahead of the law for four more weeks. >> finally one day i broke down and cried and i said i can't live in this camper any longer. i can't take this. this isn't fair to my 3-year-old. he should be outside playing. no, he doesn't deserve this. i said, i'm going crazy. i said ...

The person you're dealing with? >> cold. sick. and trying to keep the fact that the victim might be identified. >> investigators moved in on the house, but gaede was gone. police took these photos inside. they also tracked the real timothy wicks' credit card use and also discovered the credit card was used here to rent a truck. >> u-haul was ultimately returned with over 1,700 miles having been put on it. >> you do the math, between north dakota and the upper peninsula of michigan, where the body was found, and how does that equation work out? >> it's pretty consistent with that trip. >> and t...