reporter: who was that man she married and believed she loved? i don t think harvey even liked me. love is not only blind, it s deaf and dumb. . reporter: but devastating as those lies were, debbie couldn t bring herself to believe harvey could kill. i never once thought it would be harvey that hurt steven. reporter: there was nothing definitive tieing harvey to steven s murder, no sign of any violence, if only the detectives could talk to harvey. it turned out they d just missed him. an employee of the yacht club told investigators harvey was standing nearby in plain sight observing as the cops scoured his boat. by the time they heard that, harvey was long gone. from friends and knowing his past there was some speculation that he would go south, and he had some dealings in belize before, and we believed that s
gunshot wound it was pretty obvious that there should be something that said this is where it was. reporter: but there wasn t, no blood, no gun, no significant fingerprints. what they needed couldn t find, was something that put the two men together on the far side of catalina island where that current would have caught the body, carried it around to the spot where boaters saw it floating face down in the water. they hunted everywhere for harvey s gps but they never found it. months went by of harvey sitting in jail, no luck for the investigation now. and then a phone call. it was the commondant of harvey s yacht club. he said i found a hand-held gps in the library of her club. someone in the club had found the gps wrapped in a napkin and hidden in the back of a club library cabinet. and he says that cabinet is
hoped would tell them where the boat had been, but when the expert analyzed it. he said it was never connected, never turned on. reporter: there was a manual for a hand-held garmin gps, but only the manual. we went and we searched and we searched and we searched, and we just didn t find the gps. reporter: nor did they find harvey morrow. he seemed to have disappeared, and that s when they started digging into harvey s background. just who was he anyway? some said he was as wealthy as $12 million or more. reporter: though when detectives talked to the neighbors here at the yacht club, at least one of them wasn t quite so sure harvey was for real. she says me and my husband, we have money. we live on our yacht, i knew when i saw harvey that he was full of it because no one dresses like gilligan and the skipper when they re living on a yacht, yet harvey always showed up these are her words, he showed up in costume. reporter: and harvey s employment history? turns out it
reporter: and recently steven had found a sounding board of his own. a new friend named harvey morrow. oh he s just a quiet easy-going guy. he came up to him and said, oh my gosh, i m such a huge fan of steven b. and the hawk. steven thought that was awesome. reporter: steven soon became fast friends with harvey and his wife, debbie. what d you think of steven? he was so funny. reporter: ah yes, the boat. harvey had it docked at the l.a. yacht club. a 69-foot beauty called the iolair mara. harvey and debbie had big plans for that boat. they d talked about it ever since their first date. he says, what do you want to do when you retire? and i said, i want to sail all over the world. reporter: it was her dream of a lifetime and now debbie actually found the man who shared it. they married at the dawn of the new millennium, right here on the front porch of their new texas home. all that adventure to look forward to. and now harvey had invited