Rest of our lives. A perfect life until she disappeared. Imagine you were calling, leaving messages. Calling, texting, and we started wondering. Why would she just leave . I called her Best Friend and said does she have a man . Where would she go . Why did someone she know own her slice of paradise . He got away with murder . He got away with murder. Hello and Hello And Welcome to dateline. It was a tropical hideaway where a group of adventurous americans thought they found paradise. Good times, sunshine, and a relaxed lifestyle. A place where people didnt ask a lot of questions about their neighbors. Until some of those neighbors started to disappear. Here is Kate Snow with Stealing Paradise. Its a dream that seems so out of reach. Quit the rat race, move to an exotic lapped, and buy your very own private island. Even when she was young, she wanted to travel. She wanted to see the world. She made it come true in the most unlikely place. The tiny faraway islands of panama. She would ju
and he stopped. he gave himself up. reporter: the end of the line. that was the first time he had ever had handcuffs on in his life. reporter: it was also the first time anyone on the island heard wild bill s real name my name is william dathan holbert. reporter: fun loving bocas del toro bartender wild bill cortez was in fact, william dathan holbert a 30-year-old who d been on the run from american authorities since 2006. as the islanders absorbed the headlines of a killer among them, they discovered that wild bill had a long and notorious past that stretched nearly 2,000 miles. from the white sand beaches of bocas del toro all the way to the blue ridge mountains of north carolina. that s where he grew up, going by his middle name dathan. he played high school football. married his sweetheart, had three kids, and worked as a landscaper. his old boss at a gym, kevin hoover, liked dathan until dathan had an affair with one of his employees and hoover
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line. that was the first time he had ever had handcuffs on in his life. reporter: it was also the first time anyone on the island heard wild bill s real name my name is william dathan holbert. reporter: fun loving bocas del toro bartender wild bill cortez was in fact, william dathan holbert a 30-year-old who d been on the run from american authorities since 2006. as the islanders absorbed the headlines of a killer among them, they discovered that wild bill had a long and notorious past that stretched nearly 2,000 miles. from the white sand beaches of bocas del toro all the way to the blue ridge mountains of north carolina. that s where he grew up, going by his middle name dathan. he played high school football. married his sweetheart, had three kids, and worked as a landscaper. his old boss at a gym, kevin hoover, liked dathan until dathan had an affair with one of his employees and hoover says, embezzled $25,000 from the gym s accounts.
they got the drop on him with machine guns and basically said, halt or die. and he stopped. he gave himself up. reporter: the end of the line. that was the first time he had ever had handcuffs on in his life. reporter: it was also the first time anyone on the island heard wild bill s real name my name is william dathan holbert. reporter: fun-loving bocas del toro bartender wild bill cortez was in fact, william dathan holbert, a 30-year-old who d been on the run from american authorities since 2006. as the islanders absorbed the headlines of a killer among them, they discovered that wild bill had a long and notorious past that stretched nearly 2,000 miles, from the white sand beaches of bocas del toro all the way to the blue ridge mountains of north carolina. that s where he grew up, going by his middle name, dathan. he played high school football. married his sweetheart, had three kids, and worked as a landscaper. his old boss at a gym, kevin