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Gaede. >> it was peaceful. it was kind of the country living that i always dreamed of. >> you had the farmhouse. he got a job? >> i was just enjoying it because i was being susie homemaker. coming up -- that vision of domestic bliss on front street was about to morph into a bizarre cross-country run for their lives. >> finally one day i broke down and cried and said i can't live in this camper any longer. i can't take this.

Efforts in the u-haul and the kitchen left the police struggling to find concrete, physical evidence of the murder. >> when you're dealing with that many states, that many miles, that many witnesses to talk to, it take is along time. >> figuring out who actually did it became more complicated because fruge agreed to take the fall. >> dennis talked me into writing a letter saying that i killed timothy wicks in self-defense, because he tried to rape me. >> did you sign the letter? >> yes. >> is that true? >> no. >> fruge later said she agreed to that plan out of love for gaede and never had anyt...

A prisoner escape years earlier and skipping town before sentencing. >> he had, like, all of these excuses how all of these other people set him up. he would just tell me he wasn't guilty and he said there's no way a jury's going to find me guilty. >> and did you believe him? >> yes. >> why? >> because this the man i thought i was going to spend the rest of my life with and i trusted him. >> how convincing a guy is dennis gaede? >> i would say he could talk the paint off that wall, that's how good he is. >> but gaede couldn't convince the jury. he was convicted. but incredibly, even though he ...

>> a big guy? >> yes, yes. i was just amazed at the size of him. but then after i met him and i started talking to him, he was like so funny. i mean he just -- he could make anybody laugh. you know, he seemed to just see the jolly, jolly, friendly guy. >> a few months later he proposed. >> it wasn't like one of those "go down on one knee" proposal-type things. it was kind of a casual talk, you know, why don't we get married. and my daughter said, well, mom, i'll put it to you this way this is the first man that you ever dated that i liked. my son was head over heels, he was calling him daddy d...

Very, very sick to my stomach. i -- i just -- i thought, what am i supposed to do? now tim was supposedly my husband, bought this house, but yet there's a dead tim wicks on my kitchen floor. how am i supposed to explain this to the police? i was just in shock, i think. >> what do you do now? >> well, dennis really started getting crazy, like just with his pacing and stuff. and i said, don't freak out on me now, there's a dead man on my kitchen floor, you know? so then he went out and he got the paint tarps, told me to help him lift him on to the tarp and drag him down the stairs. i helped him ...