she loved it. mary wanted answers. she picked you up the phone and called wild bill. and he told me, yeah, i got a great deal on cher s property. i bought everything at 50 cents on the dollar. i said i d like to see that receipt. well, i signed a confidentiality statement. i said well i ll take a look at that. where did he tell you she had gone? he said i heard she got an apartment in panama city. i said so where is her stuff and everything? he goes, oh, yeah, she got there and had me send her some jewelry and money air cargo. i said i d like to see the receipt on that. this girl is not going to have you looking through her drawers and her jewelry. and another curious thing was happening over at bill s place. no one could figure out why cher s devoted dog jack kept leaping off cher s island and swimming to bill s house over and over again. they kept going back to your old home and swim over. he would swim right back and
execute a search warrant on his house, find the ak-47, get him in custody. reporter: get him on possession of firearms? find the gun, lock him down. reporter: and then, figure out what role, if any, he might have had in the disappearance of two people. police drew up the warrant. on a steamy day in july, authorities descended on wild bill s home. bill and jane were nowhere to be found. police began the search. so police are looking around. they re here. they have a search warrant on this property looking for a gun. yeah. they re executing a search warrant for an ak-47. and when they got here, they encountered cher s dog. jack, the doberman who adored cher, was already at bill s place. no one knew exactly how he got there, but the dog was anxious, pacing nervously. jackie was really animated and agitated, and just kept circling and running up into the jungle. and the dog would come down and like bark at the people that were doing the search, and run
wanted people to see him, he was really trying to show off. national director of police, gustavo perez interrogated wild bill and says he talked openly about the killings. bill admitted to shooting bo isler on his boat, for cher, it started with a friendly dinner at bill s place, afterwards, bill took her outside to see some animals behind his house, and when she turned to look at them, he shot her. did bill tell you why he murdered the people that he murdered? money. he said money? he said i wanted to have good things. but even the most hardened cops were shocked to hear what else bill had done. wild bill drew a map of his home, with x s marks where the bodies were buried. only there were more than two xs on bill s map. there were five. five victims. not just bo and cher, but three
some digging. he pulled documents from the public registry and found out that wild bill had actually bought more than just beau s home. bill cortez had taken over beau icelar s company. and the company owned the property. so shortly after bo goes missing, bill cortez and his wife are now the president and secretary of this company. they own it. bill was in a hurry to get beau s house remodelled and flipped to a new owner. he even placed an ad in the local paper trying to sell it. in fact, wild bill seemed to be on a real estate buying and selling spree. he got his first property in 2007 from a family living on an estate close to cher s island, the browns, a father, mother, and teenage son. now he acquired bo s house as well, but it was bill s next purchase that grabbed everyone s attention. bill showed up and said, yep, i bought everything. everything?
stay right there. but for bill, it was business as usual. he even threw one of his famous parties at cher s place with all her things still there. it all seemed a little odd to her friend shawn trainer who stopped by that night. it wasn t very well attended. why didn t people go? i just think that everybody had the same thing. it was kind of like really weird it was at cher s house. and he was doing it. bill even made a toast at the party to friendship. and bill gave a speech? yeah. this really was something about having good friends. just like a heres to good friends? yeah, just like that. wild bill was about an hour s boat ride from the main island. a big guy with a big personality. he was known for throwing parties at his place. and even in a place that is full of colorful characters, wild bill stood out. he was always the loudest voice in the room. he would text everybody and say, you know, your lord commands you to come to my party.