happened, an epilogue, if you like. eric called up matt murphy from jail and said he was finally ready to tell the truth. of course, he told us, too. the first thing i wanted to do was clear up with matt that i didn t do the crime. but i also wanted to share some other information with him that i hadn t shared with anybody in 17 years. eric had a new story. if nanette wanted bill mclaughlin dead, then bill mclaughlin was as good as dead, whether it was to get me to do it, pay someone else to do it. reporter: eric s story now? that nanette asked him to kill bill mclaughlin abdomen he refused but put her in touch with someone who could do it and they used the beretta, which, said eric, wasn t his after all. he had given it to nanette as a gift, he said. and she supplied it to the hit man. so what did matt murphy think of eric s new story? it doesn t make any sense. here s the problem with eric naposki. the first story was, i had nothing to do with it. then we arrest him and he
relatively jeb bush. it is not that way in the newsroom that i work in. not in every newsroom. i think reporters are reporting what they know. when you have people, there are a lot of people across the country who are not reading papers and we have to hold consumers and voters responsible. more people know about the beef between nicki minaj and cardi b. than our president. we need more time. tiffany cross. jennifer rubin and we have two erics today. thank you very much for joining us. and you look amazingly comfortable. when your v-neck looks more like a u-neck. that s when you know, it s half-washed. try downy fabric conditioner. unlike detergent alone, downy helps prevent stretching
best friend and volleyball buddy. he told sheriff s detectives that the bechler marriage was great. now he had a different story. eric s told me on several occasions that he s sick and tired of his wife. he would tell me that he just couldn t take it anymore. he was tired of it. reporter: about seven months before pegye vanished, kobe says he and eric had a conversation that kobe describes as haunting him ever since. eric asked me about what he thought what i thought of the idea of him killing his wife.
know, what i did with myself has nothing to do with what he did. after seven day, the verdict, guilty of first-degree murder. you re thrilled that the man who did it is behind bars, but nobody wins in this situation, nobody. the children now have no mother and no father. so this there is no winner. the jury did not believe eric killed pegye for the money. he was found not guilty of murder for financial gain. at his sending eric faced the judge again and denied once again killing pegye. the accident was a horrible tragedy for both of our families as much as the marshals are hurting, my family is also hurting because i did not commit this crime. the judge sentenced him to life without the possibility of parole. eric s mother, linda, thinks the verdict was wrong. is it possible you don t know your son as well as you think you do? oh, baloney. i know that kid like the back of my hand. i can understand a mother not wanting to believe her son committed a crime. listen, if
detective murphy had given her almost two years earlier. i grabbed my partner, we went out there in the middle of the night and we met up with tina. reporter: she told detective murphy and his partner, gary jones, what eric had said. a big break, yes, but not nearly enough for an arrest. remember, tina was pretty far from an ideal witness. detectives knew they would need more than her word against eric s. so they asked tina would i be willing to wear a wire. i said yes. that s the only way you re going to get him. reporter: why would you turn in a guy who had basically taken you from a terrible life and given you a great life? because i couldn t live with myself. no way. reporter: police planted microphones in her car, in her purse and on her body. and tina arranged a meeting. she told eric that after the domestic violence call, sheriff s homicide detectives came in to ask questions about eric.