people believe that, in facteri was even though we point this out all the time, sean, even though they had the laptop. fore a year and spent so much time pre bonking this idea becausepo they knew at some point this was going to break, this story was going to getof e story they knew it was going to happen. so they re pre bunking that with the these big tech companies and they re primed and ready to censo r. they still ask the question and the fbi knew the answer, t they sai the kned no commen. and then the integrity side had a twitter at the time you lla, rath confirmed in the missouri case with the attorney general. now,torney geral senator eric s, that, in fact, the that big, big tech was warned repeatedly that the missive informationormi campaign may be about joe or hunter biden. is that correct, sir? ony unter biweekly meetings, thd ,be ready for a hack and dumpdu operation. it ll happen in october. it ll likelymp opetion tha hunter biden.ey know? how did they know these are wh
he was found not guilty of murder for financial gain. at his sentencing, eric bechler addressed the judge, once again denying he killed pegye. the accident was a horrible tragedy that has befallen both of our families. as much as the marshalls 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 know him? oh, bologna. i know that kid like the back of my hand. look, i can understand a mother not wanting to believe her son committed a crime. listen, if my kid was a druggie, doper, ne er-do-well, thief, rapist murderer? well, yeah, but he isn t. he isn t. pegye bechler s body has never been found. you wanna know what happened. but you still don t wanna hear
a big break, yes. but not nearly enough for an arrest. remember, tina was pretty far from an ideal witness. detectives knew they d need more than her word against eric s. so they asked tina. will you be willing to wear a wire? and i said, yes, that s the only way you re going to get him. 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. i mean, no way. 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. this dinner date - tina told eric - was to get their stories straight in case the cops questioned her again. tina - wired up - picked up eric from his home and drove to a restaurant called el torito.
we got a call from kobi s lawyer said he wanted to arrange an interview again with kobi. kobi laker, eric s best friend and volleyball buddy, he d told sheriff s detectives the bechler marriage was great. now he had a different story. eric s told me on several occasions that he was sick and tired of his wife. he would tell me that he just couldn t take it anymore. he was tired of it. about seven months before pegye vanished, kobi says he and eric had a conversation that kobi describes as haunting him ever since. eric asked me about what he thought what i thought of the idea of him killing his wife. and i was pretty shocked and i didn t know what to say. he told me subsequently that he was thinking of taking her out to the ocean and dumping her into a barrel.
that young men liked to brag about to one another. call it the good life, the lush life, the fast lane. it s a world without too many rules, one in which you get close in a hurry to a lot of people you don t know too well. and it was perfect for eric. living just outside the nation s capital, eric somuah was not only living the american dream. he was selling it, too. the son of immigrants from ghana, eric was a top salesman, delivering luxury cars and the fantasies that come with them at this jaguar dealership in bethesda, maryland. he was focused and motivated to be the best. and he turned out to be our number one salesperson. josh mankiewicz: this was the guy who could sell ice in alaska. - right. - oh yeah. right. i tell him that, eric, you could sell anything. josh mankiewicz: eric s older sisters, suzy and cynthia,