is. and then the landlord called gene again, another tip. this one bad. ethan and heather weren t paying rent. he says, i m going to evict these people. so after he said that this is not good news. i said, hold on. if these people are evicted, we don t know where they re going. if the a-team didn t think of something and fast, heather and ethan might slip out of their sight and charleston for good. coming up, an enticing offer from the a-team. 10,000 reasons to start talking. 10s, 20s, 50s. everybody sees that and their eyes just jump. when strangers on a train continues. rangers on a train continues.
heather kamp was working. she s working at the sunoco gas station. i bought in, bought a pepsi, paid for it and walked out and a police officer in uniform pulled up and was peeping around the corner of the building. i said, that s her inside. reporter: ethan and heather were charged with forgery and obstruction of justice. would a murder charge follow shortly? we get a call of course, we do have friends still at the police department. we get a call, hey, the police are searching wadmalaw island for kate s body. reporter: wadmalaw island, wild, beautiful, isolated and 20 miles from kate s home. i so got in my car and i drove out to wadmalaw island. reporter: and there were the police, a serious search going on. so i sat there in the shade and watched them all afternoon. didn t attempt to interfere. reporter: just watched the police to see what they re
playback button on the voicemail just to hear her voice. dad, mom, if you re there, pick up the phone. if you re there, pick up the phone. call me back later, bye. i would look at photographs of her or play those voicemail messages. just keeping her voice current in my mind. reporter: meanwhile, andy savage s a-team of ex-detectives were making progress and when they flashed that fat bag of cash around the neighborhood, they got a rise out of ethan and heather. a furious ethan called andy. there are investigators out here accusing me of being involved in this, kate was my best friend in life. as he s on the phone, kim calls. she starts out in this rage, what are you doing out here, accusing me of this, we had nothing to do with that. reporter: fascinating
invented as a con artist. that s what i do. that s who i am. that s the way i learned how to survive. reporter: remember in court the prosecutor called heather the master mind who conned kate, lied to manipulate ethan, lied about murder. you were the decisionmaker. you were the person who caused kate s death. i don t take it as that. reporter: stole from her, yes. but kill kate, no. heather kamp will not cop to that. instead, this was the story the drifter had for us. it was all ethan right from the start. my husband wanted to rip her off because she had money. reporter: but wait, why would ethan want any harm to come from his good friend kate? reporter: the trouble was that ethan never considered her a friend. reporter: not a friend of hers at all? no. reporter: not like a sister? no. he was baby sitting her and she became a problem for him. reporter: became a real problem, says heather, when kate
palmetto, a train that rides down the eastern seaboard, eight hours from washington to charleston, fine setting to meet a stranger. sat in the same street, laughed, were joking the whole way, started talking. reporter: heather kamp, fleshly supplied with jewelry and cash from her last mark, just by chance found herself sitting with a young woman wearing jewelry and perhaps with access to such cash as heather had never seen before. what did you see in her? why did you like her? she was funny, very funny. reporter: now, sitting here in jail, heather claims she came to see kate not as her next victim but as a friend. when in charleston, she professed her love for kate s body ethan mack and eventually married him, that love was true too, so she says now. when she told them both all of those well practiced lies about being a doctor, about her husband and child being killed in an accident, et cetera, et cetera, those stories, she said, were just part schtick she