as police continued searching bill s property, they discovered another mound of disturbed dirt another shallow grave. and there, buried beneath more rubble, the body of bo icelar the other missing american. when they found the bodies, that s when they realized that it s not just people with suspicions and making accusations. it s all it s really happening. reporter: keith watched as authorities raided bill s home. he says they found evidence of the ghastly crimes bo s id, cher s passport, her purse, and her cell phone, from which she d allegedly sent those text messages, saying she d simply gone for a sail. and there was more nazi memorabilia, strange satanic signs, jewelry that may have belonged to the victims. and the most gruesome discovery about a dozen gold teeth. he lived with these things. he lived with the corpses and people s personal effects around him. reporter: the ex-pats in bocas were in turmoil. two of their friends were dead their bodies found in t
something had happened to her. friends in bocas wracked their brains for answers, and they started thinking about another american from their group who d also left abruptly. had anyone heard from him? what if cher wasn t the only person missing what if there were two? i just woke up one morning. just like one of those weird things. and i just knew. coming up, another american who apparently just walked away leaving his home and a lot of questions behind. just gave me a really weird vibe. too many people in pain settle for
he had told me he had thought that was part of his his pay, his package. and i said, no, dathan, it s not part of your package. reporter: and that was just the beginning. dathan left the job and his wife. he ran off with laura michele reese, who d later be known as jane cortez in bocas. in 2005, police say dathan started in on his real estate scams. he sold a home that wasn t his for $200,000. police charged him with obtaining property under false pretenses. by the time the owner realized what had happened, dathan was on the run. that landed him on the television program america s most wanted. cops in north carolina say reporter: somewhere along the line, police say dathan sold a stolen car in montana, and when cops pulled him over for speeding in wyoming, he took off, leading them on a high speed chase before escaping. it seems it was only after he moved to panama that dathan s scams took a sinister turn. the change was he killed people to get the documentation
in order to take over the property. reporter: and not only was he stealing their property, he would steal everything in the house cars, boats, right down to the toothbrush and the underwear and their dogs. he took on their entire lives? yeah, right down to the change in their pocket. reporter: four years after fleeing from the states, wild bill was finally in police custody, charged with heinous crimes the murders of bo icelar and cher hughes. there are dozens, if not a hundred people in this town, in bocas, that all knew cher, that all knew bo, and they re all thinking, wow, man, this guy fooled us all. he fooled everybody. reporter: he got away with murder. he got away with it for awhile. yeah. reporter: little did everyone know that wild bill had actually gotten away with a lot more. coming up i never painted myself as a good guy. i m getting what i deserve.
i imagine you were calling? calling. leaving messages? texting, facebooking. and then i started reading her facebook. and it s, like, cher, where are you? people who were in panama, in bocas, haven t seen you around town, where you at, gimme a call. and we started wondering. reporter: when cher s husband keith realized she d left town, he was surprised. but he thought he might know why. cher had been talking about spending time in panama city. a place where she could blend into the scenery more easily, and wrap her head around their breakup. she told me she wanted to have an apartment in panama city and just spend some time in the city and get out of bocas. cause it was such a small community and she was getting a little tired of it? yeah, you just keep bumping into the same people, having to tell the same story. and she was just ready for a little break of bocas. it s not unusual for people to come and go around here. after all, the easy-going