he said they stopped to enjoy manager litas peggy had made and then peggy was driving. eric was being ouldpulled on th board. all of a sudden it was just i gave up. peggy would be right there. i couldn t see her. i didn t see anyone stand tlg he it wheat. the boat went farther and farther away. i couldn t see any other boats. and so peggy beckler was simply gone. maybe even within sight of the same beach that had spawned her marriage. eric seemed devastated fearing
beckler, linda s mother. she said she told her something if dfs. she stopped me on the stairway as he was leaving and said i have to talk to you. she said i m afraid i m going to jail. according to court documents, the couple sold their physical therapy businesses to another company. they stayed on as employees. then just four months before peggy vanished the becklers were fired amid allegations this he had overbilled medicare for more than $ 1 million when linda heard peggy had vanished. i started thinking about how disturbed she was about going to jail. and she wondered if peggy had somehow stabled her own disappearance. peggy s friend glenda said no way. was peggy beckler capable of committing white collar crime? medicare overbill? in my opinion no.
before or after i met him, you know, what i did with myself has nothing to do with what he did. after seven days, the verdict. guilty of first-degree murder. you re thrilled that the man who did it is behind bars, but nobody wins in this situation, nobody. the children now have no mother and no father. the jury did not believe eric killed pegye for the money. he was found not guilty of murder for financial gain. at his sentencing, he addressed the judge, again, denying he killed her. the accident was a horrible tragedy for both of our families as much as the marshals 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 do? oh, baloney.
i know that kid like the back of my hand. i can understand a mother not wanting to believe her son committed a crime. listen, if my kid was a druggie, doper, nair too well, thief, rapist murderer. well, yeah. but he isn t. he isn t. pegye bechler s body has never been found. you want to know what happened but you still don t want to hear murder. but at least now you know. that s pretty hard to take. and even with all this information, we don t have a body. you all right? yeah. you discover you re stronger than you thought you were? oh, yeah. pegye s mother and sister ended up raising her kids. one more person who was stronger than she thought, tina. you re living a different life these days? completely different. she gave up drugs, married a nice guy and now she s a
says peggy was going places from the very day she was born. she was never still. she danced. sang. played sports. and, it seemed, nothing could hold her back. she had scoliosis as a kid. young peggy had to wear a brace around the clock. it s a terrible burden for a young kid like that to bear. mm-hmm. but it also kind of ended up motivating her, didn t it? it really did. peggy s doctor talked with her about a career in physical therapy. she volunteered, and loved it. she made up her mind right then that she wanted to be a physical therapist and she wanted to move to california and be a beautiful blonde. so she did. a farmer s daughter, with big dreams. so peggy left the small town of dexter for sunny california and settled in new port beach. that s where she met glenda who was also from new mexico and she immediately hit it off. peggy was probably one of the