they found each other o their own tropical island. we saw love and the waters. and that s it. that will be our spot for th rest of our life she said it s like living i a postcard a picture perfect life. until she disappeared. imagine you were callin leaving messages calling, texting, and w started wondering. why would she just leave? i called her best friend an said, does she have a man that i don t know about is something going on where would she go? she wasn t selling that place. she loved it and why did someone new now on her slice of paradise this guy fooled us all. he fooled everybody. he got away with murder he got away with murder hello and welcome to dateline. it was a tropical hideaway where a group of adventurous aware american thought they ha found paradise good times, sunshine, a relaxe lifestyle, a place where peopl didn t ask a lot of question about their neighbors unti some of those neighbors starte to disappear here is kate snow w
wild bill cortez in four months time he had snapped up the homes of tw people who had mysteriousl vanished cher hughes was one of them. now she was telling anyone who would listen that th disappearances and propert transfers were no coincidence. i thought that bill had don something to these people. i was telling people in bocas, the suspicions were all saying the same thing and bill is still livin nearby bill is still near, yeah. and he told people he was goin to shut me up. he told people that he told three people that he moved out of the house an into a hotel with security keith wasn t the only one that was nervous i became convinced that thi guy cortez had killed thes people in order to steal their property that s when i said, i m goin to the authorities he urged keith to do th same you need to come to panam
of bocas del toro, panama, a crisis was brewing cher hughes had been missing for two months now her family and friends wondered if her disappearanc had anything to do with anothe american who had left th island a rubber abruptly, fo months before cher a man named bo icelar. bo was quiet. introvert. he was really great guy. kept bo a low profile since moving to bocas from sante fe, new mexico, in 2004. the former antique dealer wa so quiet that no one reall notice when he took off. a lot of people said hey, get on a boat and go t argentina for six weeks. and though ever tell anybody they re leaving. it s pretty easy to be not missed for a while it made even more sense whe they found out that bo had sol his home too wild bill another american in their grou famous for throwing lively parties many of the expats attended
manhattan. mr. trump denies any wrongdoin in the hush money probe, the actual charges are not publi yet. now, back to dateline. welcome back to dateline . i m andrea canning cher hughes and bo icelar, two americans who were living th good life in panama, each seem to have mysteriously vanished. but a check of their passports confirmed that neither had lef the country. their disappearances seeme oddly similar. it turned out there wa something else they shared raising even more concern. here s kate snow with stealin paradise . two americans had vanishe from tropical tropical bocas del toro, and now after months of searching, their friends an family were convinced that their disappearances wer linked and that something terrible ha happened to both of them they both disappeared and neither of them contacte anybody.
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