law enforcement finally caught up with them in nicaragua. reese is also being held now as an accomplice to murder. armed with a warrant, police searched hacienda cortez. five bodies turned up. cher hughes, beau isler, the entire brown family in back of the house holbert allegedly bought from the browns. do you sense any remorse? no, i don t think so. i think he s he seems to be very calm. reporter: panamanian police chief gustavo perez interviewed wild bill in jail. how did he kill all these people? he used a .30 caliber. he was saying very proudly that he shot them in the back of the neck. all the victims. reporter: for now, the island cher hughes loved so much is empty. will you go back out to the island? absolutely. absolutely.
supremacist from north carolina. he was wanted in the u.s. for various crimes including alleged real estate schemes. they arrived in bocas in 2007 and quickly became a presence. he was known for his guns, his parties, and his trademarked symbol, the skull and crossbones. then, americans began to disappear. first there was michael brown, his wife, and teenaged son. cortez moved into their house. in 2009, beau isler, former gallery owner from new mexico, seemed to split town all of a sudden, leaving his property behind. wild bill said he bought it. that struck me as very odd. it was the talk of the town. i said, god, if i would have known he was giving the house away we would have bought it. reporter: things started heating up in march when yet another person went missing. this time it was cheryl hughes. five missing people with one common denominator. bill cortez. this man was my neighbor. he was at my house for dinner. his wife, they came over, they were my neighbors for two and