law enforcement finally caught up with them in nicaragua. reese is also being held now as an accomplice to murder. armed with a warrant, police searched hacienda cortez. five bodies turned up. cher hughes, beau isler, the entire brown family in back of the house holbert allegedly bought from the browns. do you sense any remorse? no, i don t think so. i think he s he seems to be very calm. reporter: panamanian police chief gustavo perez interviewed wild bill in jail. how did he kill all these people? he used a .30 caliber. he was saying very proudly that he shot them in the back of the neck. all the victims. reporter: for now, the island cher hughes loved so much is empty. will you go back out to the island? absolutely. absolutely.
he said that, someone please help me, i have been stabbed. and my aunt just said, pull over. reporter: the victim, anthony leno, is in critical condition, his attacker on the loose. police have released surveillance footage of the suspect s suv. a green chevy blazer caught on tape near the scene of one attack. it s the best lead in a case that so far has stumped authorities and terrorized entire communities. i m scared for my kids. i m ready to move. i m not going to lie, i m ready to go. reporter: diana alvear, abc news, chicago. federal investigators in alaska return to the scene of that fatal plane crash today. that did not catch fire after plowing into a mountainside on monday, killing former senator ted stevens and four others. the four survivors, including former nasa chief sean o keefe and his son, have not been interviewed about the incident. o keefe s family says their loved ones should make a full recovery. also from alaska, the last members of a tourist group who
half years. wild bill and his wife. reporter: cher hughes and her husband keith worley lived together on their piece of paradise. keith and cher s marriage eventually went south and they separated. even afterwards they remained in regular contact, texting several times a day until late march. the last three or four texts i got were just a little strange. they weren t quite what cher would say. she indicated in the text that she had met someone and she was leaving. reporter: keith says he now knows those messages that didn t sound like cher, weren t. it was wild bill, he says, impersonating cher. keith, sandy and others tried to alert local authorities. police finally mounted an investigation into wild bill after an ex-pat blogger broke and pursued the story. and cher s concerned relatives, including keith, flew to the mainland to meet with police. by then, wild bill and jane really william holbert and laura michelle reese were missing themselves. they had fled.