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A petty check account. with some investigating by gene and myself, we found that they were not sent to that company. they were, indeed, deposited to an account belonging to tim wicks. >> what are you thinking of tim wicks now? >> i'm thinking he took us for a ride. >> not only that it turns out wicks had begin himself health insurance and a christmas bonus he was not entitled to. that was when the bosses decided to fight back with a camera. >> i said, by the way, we're doing an employee bulletin board i'd like to take your picture. and without waiting for a response from him, i pulled a boy la...

>> he's to show up at 1:00. >> correct. >> what happens at 1:00? >> nothing. he didn't show up. coming up -- the fargo businessman who hired tim wicks to be his accountant offers a tantalizing clue. >> i took him out one night to a club where they had a jam night going on and tim got up and played. he could keep a beat, i guess. [ male announcer ] meet lafayette. we asked him to be part of an experiment to prove that febreze air effects can eliminate tough cooking odors. [ moderator ] take a deep breath and then tell me what you smell. wow. it takes you kinda to like an island. like a paradi...

>> what was the first sign that something was off? >> like a $20 petty cash check, where did it go? where are the receipts? just -- just some real minor things. >> how did he react? >> yeah, not a problem. no problem at all. >> a week later he didn't have all of the answers, so he was given a little more time until just after the christmas holidays 2001. but once christmas was over and it was time to come back to work, tim wicks was a no-show. >> i thought something might have happened. i was concerned for him. >> so he asked the sheriff's department to check on wicks in gardner, north dakota....

To be tim wicks is really dennis gaede. a search of wicks' apartment turns up a tax return that is signed at the bottom by the preparer, dennis gaede. >> my gut is telling me that tim is dead, but we can't prove it, we don't have a body, we don't know. >> then the police tell it, wrapped out the details of a grisly discovery on the side of the road. on the upper michigan side, the detective had a feeling. gene maxwell and jeff paridon, who knew dennis gaede as tim wicks, mentioned that he said his family had a cabin up there. >> and the generalities of the body description met the very general...

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...