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Coast of panama and weight off the beaten path. it's the kind of place where things move more slowly. and life is supposed to be easy. >> cher first visited the islands with her boyfriend, keith werle,. with cher it was love at first sight. what's more, it was affordable. for the same money cher had been saving up to save around the world, she bought her little piece of paradise. a rental property, a small house, and that tiny rhode island. >> we saw that lump in the water inside, that's it. that will be our spot for the rest of our lives. >> cher and keith met seven years before that when the...

A teenager. >> she walked in a room and just beat. everybody knew she was. there she was always happy. she always had a smile for everybody. >> eventually cher move to st. petersburg, florida, where her sister judy says she became a savvy businesswoman. running her own neon sign company. >> she always make sure she had that income. she made sure she was setting herself up for exactly what she wanted to do, retire and travel around the world. >> they cher traveled but mostly in the u.s.. then a friend invited her to visit exotic bocas del toro. and cher jumped at the chance. >> took a seven day...

He was brought back to panama? >> coming up -- there is a guard in this jail that gives me a cell phone and gives me threats on my life. >> a jail cell interview with wild bill. >> i'm not a bad guy, i'm getting what i deserve. >> when dateline continues. >>g what i deserve >> when dateline continues >> ♪ it's a new dawn, it's a new day... ♪ no matter how you got copd it's time to make a stand. ♪ ...and i'm feelin' good ♪ start a new day with trelegy. no once-daily copd medicine has the power to treat copd in as many ways as trelegy. with three medicines in one inhaler, trelegy helps p...

Own private island. >> even when she was young, she wanted to travel. she wanted to see the world. >> had cher hughes the dream and she made it come true in the most unlikely place. a tiny, far away island of bocas del toro, panama. >> she would just take a picture of the sunset and send it to me. she said, it's like living in a postcard. >> life was beautiful and simple. an escape from the pressures of modern living. who could have known that evil could find a place in paradise, to. that beneath all that beauty was a dark secret. >> it still seems very on real. i don't want to believe it. >> ...

>> it would take seven long years for the wheels of justice to turn in panama. during that time, whole births wife divorced him while they both sat in separate panamanian jails. but cher's family finally got the news they had waited for. in august 2017, william dathan holbert, the man the people knew of bocas del toro new as "wild bill" cortez, we found guilty of the robbery and homicide of five people, according to a tweet from the panama ministry of justice. he was sentenced to 47 years in prison. and a woman once known as jane cortez, she was sentenced to 26 years for her role in the crimes...