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
too. that beneath all that beauty was a dark secret. it still seems very on real i don t want to believe it this is a really, really ba guy. just send chills down m spine. but before the nightmare, came the dream bocas del toro is the kind o place where people come to escape a group of islands off the coast of panama and weight off the beaten path. it s the kind of place where things move more slowly. and life is supposed to be easy cher first visited th islands with her boyfriend keith werle, with cher it was love at first sight. what s more, it was affordable for the same money cher ha been saving up to save aroun the world, she bought he little piece of paradise a rental property, a small house, and that tiny rhode island we saw that lump in the water inside, that s it.
i said i would like to see tha receipt. well i signed a confidentiality statement. i said oh, i ll take a look at that where did he tell you she got? you know, i heard she got a apartment in panama city i said, so where is her stuf and everything he goes, oh yeah she got there and had me send her some jewelry and money air cargo. so i like to see the receipt o that he says, this girl is not goin to have you looking through he drawers finding her. julie and another curious thing was happening over a bill s place no one could figure out wh cher s devoted dog jack, kep swimming two bills house ove and over again they kept putting them back at your old home and he would swi right back stay right there. but for bill, it wa business as usual. even through one of his famous parties at cher s place with all her things still there it all seemed a little odd to her friend, sean trainer, who sought by that night it was it very well attended why didn t people go? i guess everybod
murdered the people that h confessed to murdering money money yeah, he said money, wanted to have their things. but even the most hardene cops were shocked to hear what else bill had done bill drew a map of his home, with xs marking where th bodies were buried there were more than two xs , however, there were five not just bo and cher but three more people who died at th hands of wild bill this time was a father, mother and their teenage son. the brown family they were the original owner of bills property. cher s neighbors after the bodies were discovered, wild bill was seen as a monster in panama a serial killer who kept his victims personal things in his own house. we wanted to speak with bill holbert, so we reached out t his attorney we did get a return call, it was the lawyer, with wild bill on the phone, callin from his jail cell in panama he had already confessed but
the checkpoint and said halt o die, and he stopped and pu himself up end of the line that was the first time h was in handcuffs that was also the first tim anyone heard while bill s real name the man formerly known as bill cortez, was william datha holbert, actually a 30 year ol who had been on the run from american authorities since 2006 as the island absorb the new of the killer among them, wild bill, it was discovered, had a long and eateries past, that stretched miles from the beaches of bocas del toro al the way to north carolina. that s where he grew up, going by his middle name, dayton he played high school football married his high schoo sweetheart, and worked out o the landscaper his old boss at a gym, liked dave and, but until he had a affair with his employees. he embezzled money from th gyms accounts. he told me he thought tha it was part of his pay package and i said no, it wasn t par of your pay package. and that was just the beginnin william dathan holbert left