the island for two decades. it doesn t happen here, it can t happen here. that was the way it was, kind of, until then. reporter: her name was elizabeth lochtefeld but everyone called her beth and she was an unlikely victim. she was 44 years old, a successful business woman from new york, who sold her company for a tidy profit and moved to this nantucket cottage just months before. she had this incredible gift of making people comfortable. reporter: beth s brother, tom lochtefeld. she d be chatting up the clerk when we went out to a store and i was like, come on, let s go, what do you doing? reporter: smart, vibrant, adventurous, that was all that and more. but what tom remembers most was her way with people. reporter: sounds like you re way with your sister
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that same day, saturday, october 23rd, beth stopped by the nantucket police department to ask about filing a restraining order. for her to get to the point of stopping at the police department, that probably tells you all you need to know about what was going on inside of her. yeah, yeah, i would think so. i think she had very well-founded fears especially after the incident in new york where he held her captive. beth did not file the paperwork. she spent that night and the next at her brother peter s home. she was frightened enough not to go home. i would have to say she had fear that something would happen to her. on monday, october 25th, beth returned to her cottage in the morning, collected tom toolan s clothes, parcelled them up and mailed them back to him. she returned to the cottage and chatted with her land lady, barbara. it was just after 10:30. she came in the yard. we were talking in the driveway.
again convicted to life. his sister kathy read a statement in court. ee should doesn t bring her back, but it is a measure of justice. for tom lochtefeld it was satisfying. the first conviction was the one that mattered. on that day we all took a walk to beth s gravesite after the conviction. and i just remember feeling that it was a beautiful june day, and it felt like, wow, this is finally i m finally not upset to be here any more. and it was, it was good again. for those who were close to beth lochtefeld, there is a real sense of closure this time. the trial behind him, beth s father, the artist john lochtefeld, finished the book he and beth had worked on together. it was published after she died. he illustrated her words and dedicated the book to beth and her dreams.