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>> it turns out the man impersonating timothy wick was someone police knew very well. his real name was dennis gaede. >> so the big question is, where is timothy wicks and what happened to him? >> we don't know where to go. so we figure what we need to do is we got to find dennis. >> at this point, dennis gaede, posing as tim wicks, was scheduled to be questioned by fargo detective tammy lynx about allegations of stealing from his employers. >> well, he doesn't show up for the interview. we're really shocked by that. >> back in wisconsin detective schoonover wasn't shocked because, in a short ...

On the run with her new husband, dennis gaede. she arranged to leave her teenage daughter with her ex-husband, the daughter's biological father, and take 3-year-old joshua, who had a different dad, with her to fargo. >> she is not supposed to leave the state with her little boy without working things out with joshua's father ahead of time, but for a while there, she was bringing him back for his visitation from north dakota, without anybody knowing they were in north dakota. >> but dennis gaede went to even greater lengths to cover his tracks. using his old m.o., gaede took the information he'...

I couldn't figure out what -- what was happening because, you know, i was just coming out of a sleep, and didn't hear anything. he was like, come downstairs. and we went downstairs, and tim's lying on the kitchen floor. there was no signs of blood or anything. i said, what did you do? party him out? i thought he passed out. he was, like, snoring. and he said, "no, i shot him." >> "i shot him"? >> "i shot him." i said, what do you mean, you shot him? he's snoring. he's like, i shot him. and then dennis put a bag over his head until he stopped breathing. >> she said it was a plastic garbage bag,...

To let her know what he was going do with the apartment, and he left a phone number with her saying if you need me for some reason, here's a phone number. >> though the cell phone number was eventually traced to fargo, north dakota, it did not lead to tim wicks. but when schoonover called the fargo police department he got a lucky break. tim wicks was a name they already knew, same birthday, same social security number, except in fargo, north dakota, timothy wicks was not known for his drumming. >> i told detective schoonover that mr. wicks was a suspect in an embezzlement case i was currently...

I don't know. when you're in a situation like that, you just -- you don't think clearly. >> right after tim wicks was killed, when your husband goes to get the backhoe to bury the body, you could have grabbed your son and left then. why not? >> where was i going to go? >> back to milwaukee, back to your mom. >> i think i was just in a state of shock then. i just closed up. i totally clammed up. >> though dennis gaede went to prison for embezzlement and diane fruge spent six months in jail for violating her child custody order, it took almost five years for anyone to be charged with timothy wic...