but michelle wouldn't give up. on more than one occasion, michelle flew to europe in hopes of tracking down and confronting her husband. michelle weinberger: just me and a pair of handcuffs. i brought handcuffs because i figured that if he saw me, he might be freaked out. and i just wanted an explanation. narrator: she even came close one, arriving at a paris hotel just a day after weinberger had checked out. but back home, she still faced a growing pile of unpaid bills. mark had never allowed her to see the bills before or even have her own checking account. it's almost laughable in a way, when i get faxes from banks saying i owe $3.5 million, because i don't even have a concept in my head of what $3 million is. narrator: eventually, michelle learned that mark weinberger left her $6 million in debt. we first met michelle in february 2005, five months after her husband had vanished.