>> that moment of clarity, it turns out, was short lived. all that summer while jim huden set up housekeeping with peggy and her two daughters out in las vegas, jean said her husband kept her dangling that he and peggy thomas were over and he'd soon be home, he told her. and for jean, that was a reason to believe. >> ihought there was some hope. i didn't want to let go. >> and for a brief moment september 2003 jean looked as if her perseverance would pay off. jim invited her out to las vegas for her 40th birthday. for several days he wined and dined her, but her dreams of a happy ending she says, vanished when her husband turned to her in bed one night and told her he intended to make his darkest dreams come true. there was a man who needed to die.