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and fans, as steven b. >> all hit 96 kpke, variety morning with the bird in the b. >> a deejay with a distinctive voice and personality that made him famous as part of steven b. and the hawk. >> he was at his professional zenith in denver. >> doug johnson and steven were friends for more than 30 years. >> they were the guys that pie neerd two mf man morning radio. they were funny. great writers. great exceed yans. >> he's lovable. everybody loves stephen bay. >> young sylvia nolan had a big crash on steven p when they both worked in the hawaii radio station back in the early days. though she worked up her nerve. >> i went in and asked stephen b if the he'd be my date to the beach boys concert and turned me down, i was just like devastated, you know? and so, i was sitting in my little sales cubicle and --
and i said, "well, you know, for him investing your $2 million." i said, "you have something documented, right? " and he goes, "no." and i said, "you gave some man you just met a couple years ago $2 million and you got nothing in writing? " >> she told the detectives, of course. and they took a good look at harvey's boat and soon learned something that probably should have been obvious all along. that fancy, dolled-up tub, with its pricey power winches, its expensive electronics, its polished teak, washer-dryer, fireplace, was paid for, practically every dollar, by the unwitting steven b. that answer turned up in meticulous detail in harvey's own ship's ledger. >> he put, according to his own ledgers, $1.7 million into that yacht. so almost the whole amount he took from steven went right back into that yacht. >> no wonder, said steven's friend sylvia, no wonder, the last time they went out to lunch she had to pick up the check. >> he was so embarrassed. and i said, "how could this be? " i mean, "you're a multi-millionaire and you don't have any money." and he said, "well, harvey's got it all tied up in these offshore accounts." >> the detectives discovered harvey morrow had put steven's
killed steven, the defense said. steven b. was so depressed about losing his career and his father, about getting older, that he killed himself. and the medical examiner testified it was possible steven could have shot himself. >> what was your opinion of the idea that he might have committed suicide? >> i think it was incredulous. i don't think he would have done it. >> still, it was another explanation and the jury would have to consider it. so now the courtroom waited and whispered. would harvey take the stand? >> i told the investigators that i thought he was going to testify. and they didn't think so. they thought i was crazy. >> what made you think he would? >> well, he's a con man and he likes to talk. and con men think they can talk themselves out of any situation. >> he was right. sure enough, harvey was confident, self-assured. had answers for almost everything. he didn't steal steven's money, he said. >> he came up with a story that no one had heard before his testimony. >> which was that steven actually owed him his entire inheritance to pay back a whole different loan. this second loan was verbal, said harvey, done on a handshake. undocumented, naturally. >> but mr.
existence. no evidence he'd ever set foot on that yacht. they did find some high-tech navigational equipment, which they hoped would tell them where the boat had been, but when the expert analyzed it -- >> he said it was never connected. it was never turned on. >> there was a manual for a handheld garmin gps. but only the manual. >> we went and we searched and we searched and we searched. and we just didn't find the gps. >> nor did they find harvey morrow. he seemed to have disappeared. and that's when they started digging into harvey's background. just who was he anyway? >> some said he was as wealthy as $12 million or more. >> though when detectives talked to the neighbors here at the yacht club, at least one of them wasn't quite so sure that harvey was for real. >> she says, "me and my husband, we have money, we live on our yacht. i knew when i saw harvey that he was full of it because no one dresses like gilligan and
on a boat and sail around the world. so i just kind of think of him out there, you know? he's out there somewhere. >> out there like the happy-go-lucky free spirit on the radio. >> that's a good one. >> the man they called steven b. >> have a good weekend. bye! >> that's all for now. i'm craig melvin. thank you for watching. no man teen or, or nobody and heard from. her she's really missing. >> kelsey was out to scarab halloween fun. >> -- i put a lip stick on, she looked beautiful in her costume. >> next morning, she was gone. >> i read a couple of facebook messages, have you seen chelsea? >> the vehicle you put aaron was gone? >> we have a majority of people in the sky, sudden
exactly what happened on that fancy boat, the last moments of steven b.'s life? doug remembered steven was angry over harvey's handling of his money. >> he had said that he was going to have a come to jesus with harvey. he was going to confront harvey about the money. >> did steven confront harvey over his lost fortune? is that what led to this? >> we believe that they were both on deck and he walked up behind him and just walked up, put with the gun in the back of the head and pulled the trigger. which can explain the lack of blood evidence. he just pushed him right over. or he fell over. >> it took five years and over 30,000 pages of evidence to build the case against harvey morrow. most of it hinged on a financial motive. all of it circumstantial. the detectives felt confident about the case they had so carefully assembled, while harvey all the while maintained
another explanation and the jury would have to consider it. so now the courtroom waited and whispered. would harvey take the stand? >> i told the investigators that i thought he was going to testify. and they didn't think so. they thought i was crazy. >> what made you think he would? >> well, he's a con man and he likes to talk. and con men think they can talk themselves out of any situation. >> reporter: he was right. sure enough, harvey was confident, self-assured. had answers for almost everything. he didn't steal steven's money, he said. >> he came up with a story that no one had heard before his testimony. >> reporter: which was that steven actually owed him his entire inheritance to pay back a whole different loan. naturally. >> but mr. morrow thought he could sell it. with a straight face. >> reporter: would jurors believe him?
explained how that evidence put steven and harvey together on the far side of catalina island. after which, steven vanished and harvey told conflicting stories about where he supposedly went. >> i think the most damning evidence in this regard was the fact that despite having a history of calling mr. williams on the telephone over the years that they knew each other, he never called his phone one time after the day the victim went missing. >> reporter: but that didn't mean harvey killed steven, the defense said. steven b. was so depressed about losing his career and his father, about getting older, that he killed himself. and the medical examiner testified it was possible steven could have shot himself. >> what was your opinion of the idea that he might have committed suicide? >> i think it was incredulous. i don't think he would have done it. >> reporter: still, it was
kind of sealed this whole case together. >> reporter: but though the gps evidence told detectives where harvey's boat was the day steven was killed, how could they be sure harvey and steven were together on the boat at precisely that time? >> electronic data is fascinating nowadays. very fascinating. our cell phones, we can also follow that signature. we were lucky again. >> reporter: lucky this time because of blackjack. blackjack cell tower, catalina island, where both harvey and steven's cell phones pinged together just where the gps said they would be. after which steven's cell phone went to straight to voicemail and harvey sailed right back to his dock the next morning. where he was late for a pre-arranged fishing trip with his friends. >> they basically said he looked disheveled. he looked as if he had been up all night. he was not himself. >> reporter: one question left. exactly what happened on that fancy boat, the last moments of steven b.'s life? doug remembered steven was angry over harvey's handling of his money. >> he had said that he was going to have a come to jesus with harvey. he was going to confront harvey
picked it up and it was ken clark, detective clark calling to tell me that they had arrested harvey. it was a real great sense of relief. it was almost indescribable. >> reporter: which is perhaps where the movie version of this story would end. but real life is not quite like that. for all the suspicion of steven's friends, the murder case against harvey morrow was rather weak. no evidence sufficient to prove that harvey shot steven then dumped his body in the ocean. >> we were looking for steven's dna on the boat. knowing that his death was caused by a gunshot wound it was pretty obvious that there should be something that said this is where it was. >> reporter: but there wasn't. no blood, no gun, no significant fingerprints. what they needed, couldn't find, was something that put the two men together on the far side of catalina island where that current would have caught the body, carried it round to the