hard-working husband and father like mike williams. popular mind, the gators got him, huh? yes. your heart is kind of and your stomach is kinda gripped by that. just the sheer awfulness of it. but there was a big problem with the gator theory. with such unusually cold temperatures, fish and wildlife officers like alton ranew knew the alligators weren t stirring much. his metabolism is down so low he don t wanna eat. they re like a bear. they go into hibernation. then on the tenth day of searching, officer ranew found a hunter s hat floating on the water. brian, the best friend, thought it looked familiar. he comes up out here to the tent and shows us a photograph with mike with that hat on. surely that hat was as good as evidence that mike had had an accident and drowned in lake seminole. mike s co-workers liz boyette and christie garrett felt hope slip away. when did you both realize that this was it? i think we all knew that something had happened.
more than gators. mike was the only hunter that has gone overboard in that lake that had never been found. something don t add up. people were saying, well, i bet he ran off. there have just been so many wild stories. two lovers share a secret. he had this desire to have her. there was an affair happening for years. they can choose each other. you re waiting for that crack. he was going to kill you to make you go away. obviously she knew what she had to know. or choose the truth. finally we re gonna find out what really happened. maybe justice will be served. hello and welcome to dateline. mike williams doted on his wife denise and their baby girl. the perfect husband. he had a successful career, cooked and cleaned, and friends joked they would like to have a mike williams of their own. suddenly mike disappeared. was it a tragic accident? one of the people who knew him best
already starting over at lake seminole. so we called a friend of ours and we went together. mike s co-worker, christie garrett. mike is very skilled. i mean, he is a very skilled hunter, and we thought maybe he s had an accident. as a cold front moved in, a formal search began on the 30,000-acre lake. one member of the search party arrived early and stayed late. it was mike s best friend going back to school days, brian winchester. he and his dad using a spotlight, made the first big discovery. brian winchester had found the boat. mike wasn t in it. his decoys were all in the boat, which of course led everybody to think obviously he d never got started hunting that morning. what picture came together for you at that point? well, i think i was like everybody else. worried that he might have fallen out. it s clay. mike s boss, clay ketcham. brian stood with me and any time they would come up with a potential hit, brian said, i
harry s bar. favorite of ernst hemingway, writer, drinker and duck hunter. the house martini is named after him. that s good. stanley. nice to see you. nice to see you too. great to see you. thank you for coming here. glad you are in venice. do you want water, martini? maybe water and martine i ana coffee as well. andre is a venetian historian with a passion for duck and hunting. it was a great tradition of the doge, the ruling authority here in venice, to donate five ducks to every member of the main legislative body in venice. okay. but there were about 1,000 of them. so it meant 5,000 ducks. 5,000 ducks? 5,000 ducks before christmas. so imagine the rush. they had special state-run boats that would go out in the lagoon