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>> reporter: they are also trying to stop the violence of a full-scale drug war from spilling north. >> are there parts of this border that you would be basically lawless or run by the cartels? >> absolutely. >> reporter: smack in the middle of this 21st century version of the wild west, two young americans, david hartley and tiffany young, just teenagers when they fell in love. >> we started dating in '98. the summer of '98, and dated for quite a while before we got engaged in 2001 and married in 2002. >> what took so long? >> we were 18. >> reporter: they wound up here, in the mexican border...

Videos made sense. drug smugglers hurling their stolen vehicles back into the rio grande were doing it for one reason. to protect their dope at all costs. >> oh, we had a splash down. a splashdown. en route. >> they don't mind losing the truck into the river. at the end of the day if they can recover 2,000 pounds of march narcotics, they're going to protect that inventory. >> it's going under. just about on the -- >> reporter: inside mexico, the

>> reporter: the sheriff believes tiffany's story and witnesses confirm it. you don't believe the hartleys were involved in drugs? >> no. >> you don't believe there is an insurance scam going on? >> where's the body? >> reporter: you don't believe tiffany hartley herself may have executed her husband. >> i don't think so. >> reporter: and now even more evidence tiffany hartley is telling the truth. a surveillance photo taken that very afternoon, one hour after the attack. >> if you notice there on the front of the boat, you see bundles of marijuana there. >> reporter: it shows a small boat and...

>> reporter: the sheriff believes tiffany's story and his sources and witnesses confirm it. you don't believe the hartleys were involved in drugs? >> no. >> you don't believe there is an insurance scam going on? >> where's the body? >> reporter: you don't believe tiffany hartley herself may have executed her husband. >> i don't think so. >> reporter: and now even more evidence tiffany hartley is telling the truth. a surveillance photo taken that very afternoon, one hour after the attack. >> if you notice there on the front of the boat, you see bundles of marijuana there. >> reporter: it shows ...

Us promise not to raise our camera, not to raise any suspicion and told us there's no doubt how jet skiers would look following this same path, like drug smugglers. >> only people with jet skis are involved with dope. >> right. >> reporter: clearly nervous, colette barely slowed down as we approach the church tiffany and david hartley visited on september 30th. he turned the boat and gave us 30 seconds to take the pictures at the exact spot tiffany hartley said they had stopped. >> this is the last place they came to at the old guerrero church. they took pictures on the front step, according t...