do you realize this now looking back? >> oh, i was fully aware at the time. >> reporter: it was a light moment and just what bill needed. only eight months earlier, he'd become a widower. >> my wife, krista, she fell in the middle of the night. they say she hit her head and she drowned in the pool. i pulled her out of the pool easter sunday morning in 2000. i pretty much fell apart. and there i was a single dad, trying to raise them and, you know, keep the family going. >> he loved my mom. he loved her to the moon and back, and then he lost her. he was just lonely and you could see it in him. and my brothers were definitely egging him on to get out and meet somebody. >> reporter: and in diane, bill met somebody special. >> diane comes into the picture and he has this beautiful woman and now she's taking care of him. he was in love with her. he needed that. he needed her. >> she was actually what i consider my dream girl. blonde hair, blue eyes, and just a beautiful person inside and out. >> what did she like to do?