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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 -- i was in shock. i didn't know what to say. he told me that he was thinking of taking her out to the ocean and dumping her in a barrel. >> he said that when he saw there was a boating accident, and eric's wife was missing, he knew right then and there, he saw it on tv, he knew that he had killed his wife. and he lied to us, he said, because he panicked and he was afraid and he didn't know what to do. >> detectives convinced kobi to wear a wire, and to meet...

Re-interviewing eric and asking him about his relationship with pegye. >> he said his marriage was good. there was no problems with it. >> you didn't take his word for it? >> no. in our game we don't take anybody's word for it. we look into it. and that's what we did. >> they met with the improbably named kobi laker, eric's best friend, and kobi backed upper eric. >> they had a terrific marriage, there was no problems whatsoever. >> but if the marriage seemed solid, there were questions about pegye. at least according to linda bechler, eric's mother. linda said pegye told her something in conf...

>> you never said, hey, look, man, i don't know what the [ bleep ] you guys are talking about, but i'm innocent. you've never said anything about anything. >> i have so. do i have to say it every week? >> kobi tried again. >> i protected you. i basically made you look like a saint in the interview i had with the detectives. >> i am. >> a dead-end. but detectives were now convinced that eric killed his wife. even though it didn't lead to anything, that conversation with kobi, that got you from suspicion to knowing. >> it moved it all the way over. we knew we had a homicide. >> but knowing it an...

Would he go to get proof. here again is josh mankiewicz with "troubled waters." >> to detective sean murphy, it sounded more than suspicious. eric bechler taking up with a gorgeous redhead just three months after his wife was lost at sea. but murphy didn't have much more than a gnawing in his gut until his phone rang. >> we got a call from kobi's lawyer, said he wanted to arrange an interview again with kobi. >> kobi laker, eric's best friend and volleyball buddy. he told sheriff's detectives the bechler marriage was great. now he had a different story. >> eric's told me on several occasions t...