think she was alive anymore? i kept thinking that she was, but how could she, you know, that length of time. reporter: unless, of course, what appeared to be an accident was not. the coast guard conducted a re-enactment at sea to try to understand how pegye could have fallen off the boat and they couldn t do it. they said it doesn t appear to be feasible to them given the sea conditions. reporter: that s when the coast guard called the orange county sheriff s office. detective sean murphy was put on the case. they weren t able to duplicate even close to what was alleged by eric bechler that his wife was tossed off by a rogue wave. reporter: if pegye s disappearance was no accident, murphy s job was find out what did happen. detectives started by re-interviewing eric and asking him about his relationship with pegye. he said his marriage was good, there was no problems with
but how could she, you know, that length of time. reporter: unless, of course, what appeared to be an accident was not. the coast guard conducted a re-enactment at sea to try to understand how pegye could have fallen off the boat and they couldn t do it. they said it doesn t appear to be feasible to them given the sea conditions. reporter: that s when the coast guard called the orange county sheriff s office. detective sean murphy was put on the case. they weren t able to duplicate even close to what was alleged by eric bechler that his wife was tossed off by a rogue wave. reporter: if pegye s disappearance was no accident, murphy s job was find out what did happen. detectives started by re-interviewing eric and asking him about his relationship with pegye. he said his marriage was good, there was no problems with it. reporter: you didn t take his word for it? no. in our game we don t take anyone s word for anything. we look into it.
at this point you didn t think she was alive anymore? i kept thinking that she was, but how could she, you know, that length of time. reporter: unless, of course, what appeared to be an accident was not. the coast guard conducted a re-enactment at sea to try to understand how pegye could have fallen off the boat and they couldn t do it. they said it doesn t appear to be feasible to them given the sea conditions. reporter: that s when the coast guard called the orange county sheriff s office. detective sean murphy was put on the case. they weren t able to duplicate even close to what was alleged by eric bechler that his wife was tossed off by a rogue wave. reporter: if pegye s disappearance was no accident, murphy s job was find out what did happen. detectives started by re-interviewing eric and asking him about his relationship with pegye. he said his marriage was good, there was no problems with it.
i kept thinking that she was, but how could she, you know, that length of time. reporter: unless, of course, what appeared to be an accident was not. the coast guard conducted a re-enactment at sea to try to understand how pegye could have fallen off the boat and they couldn t do it. they said it doesn t appear to be feasible to them given the sea conditions. reporter: that s when the coast guard called the orange county sheriff s office. detective sean murphy was put on the case. they weren t able to duplicate even close to what was alleged by eric bechler that his wife was tossed off by a rogue wave. reporter: if pegye s disappearance was no accident, murphy s job was find out what did happen. detectives started by re-interviewing eric and asking him about his relationship with pegye. he said his marriage was good, there was no problems with it. reporter: you didn t take his word for it? no. in our game we don t take