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kind of sealed this whole case together. reporter: but though the gps evidence told detectives where harvey s boat was the day steven was killed, how could they be sure harvey and steven were together on the boat at precisely that time? electronic data is fascinating nowadays. very fascinating. our cell phones, we can also follow that signature. we were lucky again. reporter: lucky this time because of blackjack. blackjack cell tower, catalina island, where both harvey and steven s cell phones pinged together just where the gps said they would be. after which steven s cell phone went to straight to voicemail and harvey sailed right back to his dock the next morning. where he was late for a pre-arranged fishing trip with his friends. they basically said he looked disheveled. he looked as if he had been up all night. he was not himself. reporter: one question left. exactly what happened on that fancy boat, the last moments of steven b. s life? doug remembered steven was angry o
picked it up and it was ken clark, detective clark calling to tell me that they had arrested harvey. it was a real great sense of relief. it was almost indescribable. reporter: which is perhaps where the movie version of this story would end. but real life is not quite like that. for all the suspicion of steven s friends, the murder case against harvey morrow was rather weak. no evidence sufficient to prove that harvey shot steven then dumped his body in the ocean. we were looking for steven s dna on the boat. knowing that his death was caused by a gunshot wound it was pretty obvious that there should be something that said this is where it was. reporter: but there wasn t. no blood, no gun, no significant fingerprints. what they needed, couldn t find, was something that put the two men together on the far side of catalina island where that current would have caught the body, carried it round to the
wouldn t go into mexico at gunpoint. i mean, it was completely out of character for him. reporter: then harvey s friend greg, the stainless steel guy, said he noticed something strange about steven s usually cluttered cabin. it was completely sterile. just nothing in it, not one loose object. reporter: it was as if steven had never set foot in here. and then those boaters made their shocking discovery. steven face down in the ocean, a bullet in his head. what was it like to get that news? oh it was awful. i felt like i was in some made for tv movie. it s like, this can t be happening. none of us could believe it was happening. reporter: detectives ken clark and robert martindale wanted to have a look at harvey morrow s boat, steven s last known residence, and they wanted to talk to harvey. they got a search warrant. brought a whole team to the harbor. seized the yacht. when you first walked in, was it clean, absolutely clean. clean enough for you, and these are my wor
and i said, how could this be? i mean, you re a multi-millionaire and you don t have any money. and he said, well, harvey s got it all tied up in these offshore accounts. reporter: the detectives discovered harvey morrow had put steven s inheritance money into an off-shore bank account in the british virgin islands, just as he said he would, but then he secretly brought it back to the u.s. in small increments and used the money to refurbish the boat. harvey just sucked up all that money? all of it. reporter: steven, by his own admission a lousy money manager, trusting, vulnerable after the death of his father, was, said detectives, the perfect mark. steven was no match for this man at all. reporter: nor, apparently, was his wife, debbie. i was really very much in love with harvey. reporter: but as she now began to discover the man she loved had lied. a house in vail, colorado, which he told her he owned outright, actually belonged to someone else. the money she se