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>> very lucky. very lucky. compared to the victim's teeth. >> it was a match. that's timothy wicks' head, and dna testing between the head and torso matched him. >> but you're still not sure exactly what happened? >> no. >> why not? >> here we have a nice guy, and he was a victim at the hands of a very bad person. >> with the positive i.d. of timothy wicks, detective schoonover made an urgent call to break the news to fargo detective tammy lynx who was about to execute a search warrant at gaede's house. in the embezzlement case. >> this goes from a white collar crime to cold-blooded murder. >>...

Came forward to give heyitness happened on december 28, 2001. >> did you ask him why he did it? >> because we were going to lose everything, he was afraid they were going to track him. >> she also told police dennis gaede shot timothy wicks in the head suffocated him, and dismembers him in the back of a u-haul while she and her young son sat in the front seat. together, they dumped the body off the side of the road near the border of michigan and wisconsin. >> so you dumped it out by yourself? >> no. no. it was heavy. i just helped him lift the box and push him, that's it. i went and jumped ba...

Convicting gaede wouldn't be easy since fruge told me she committed the murder. with fruge changing her story, her involvement and helping gaede dispose of wicks' body, and a lack of physical evidence proving gaede murdered wicks the defense's strategy was straightforward. they would argue the prosecution had no solid evidence and that fruge could not be trusted. the trial lasted five days, and it took just four hours for the jury to reach its verdict. >> dennis james gaede, guilty. >> they found dennis gaede guilty of intentionally killing timothy wicks and the judge sentenced him to life, wi...

Painted the same picture, he's a con man. >> he's very confident, very well-spoken. >> gina barton is a reporter for "the milwaukee journal sentinel" who's written a book about dennis gaede and tim wicks called "fatal identity." she says gaede's career started in 1987 as a young man when he owned a towing business in milwaukee and bought stolen truck parts. gaede agreed to plead guilty to lesser charges and become a police informant. >> he hung out in biker bars. he knew a lot of criminal elements. and eventually he took that talent and worked for a while in undercover drug investigation. >> d...

Photographs proof of address that would convince a jury gaede was responsible for the murder. he planned to prove gaede new timothy wicks and lived in cass county, north dakota at the time and had stolen his identity which dennis gaede says wicks gave to him so he could start a new life. >> are you telling me that timothy wicks gave you his i.d. to disappear, is that what you're tell me? >> is that what you're telling me. >> i didn't steel that i didn't. >> timothy gave it to you? >> yes. >> fruge's testimony was key. because authorities were able to confirm what she said happened during that ...