reporter: cindi listened to her story about duplicitous derek. he was still using the name rich taylor and posing as a navy vet. he d been dressing up in, you know, the military uniform. he told me he was still in the reserves with the united states navy and worked for the department of defense. reporter: dorie van horn, an hr manager at a telecommunications company had only dated richie for about six weeks. the tall man in uniform had quickly captured her heart. their first date, though, started out rocky. he took her to a texas rangers game. he went up to the will call and he said, you know, i m captain rich taylor, and he said, colonel somebody i don t remember the name, left tickets for us here. reporter: but there were no tickets. he started getting angry and he pulled out his ncis badge and said, look, this is who i am. come on we need these tickets. i mean it was a good five to ten minutes at least. and finally, they came up with some tickets.
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reporter: during the game, dorie says richie s phone buzzed an urgent call from the pentagon. he told her they were asking for his expertise on north korea. the north korean crisis started right around that time. there was a senate hearing committee that he was gonna have to go down and present his opinion. reporter: are you thinking, wow, this guy s really high level? yes. i was impressed. reporter: later on, she saw his uniforms, those medals, all kinds of military awards. reporter: did he ever wear his military uniform around you? he did put on his dress blues when he was having several meetings out at the dfw airport and i also had seen him in a flight jumpsuit that pilots wear. he had the helmet, you know, with the microphone on it. reporter: dorie offered to drop him off at the airport for his top secret missions because his porsche had been in an accident, at least that s what he said.
the military, he wasn t a pilot, he wasn t a special agent with ncis. reporter: and yet, the agents had security video of derek walking around in an airport posing as a fighter pilot. and one of the things he did was he would tell one victim that he was deploying for the weekend and she would drop him off at dfw on a friday night at one terminal. and then he would walk to a different terminal and have another victim pick him up. and he would tell her he just got back. reporter: so they put the question to him. do you wear uniforms of military personnel? no, i don t. never? i have in the past. but, i mean, i yeah, i mean, like by in the past, last week or no, not last week, not last month, not last year. reporter: except they had a photo that said otherwise. dorie snapped it days earlier, when derek wasn t looking. in full naval uniform on his