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myself going over there. yeah, he committed a lot of fraud. he did this to me, did that. lock him up. i don t think that would have gone over too well. reporter: and then, to make matters worse, the trail went cold. dennis standefer slipped away. but back in los angeles, diver kirk shaffer, who worked with standefer, remembered a box the treasure hunter left behind months before. shaffer dug it out of storage. and what he found inside would set karl ryll on a very different path. in the box, shaffer says, were who appeared to be an underaged filipina girl. photos suggesting a romantic relationship. the girl, she had no mother and father. she was being raised by her grandparents. and somehow they got connected. i think through correspondence. and they met. reporter: in 1999, during a school break, karl headed back to the philippines alone. his mission, find the girl from
hunting it is ready for the taking. i said, do you have any documentation you can show me. i wanted to see how far he would g he looks at me, he said, it is all up here. i said, well, it will stay there, that is as far as we will go with it. i knew he was there, and hopefully, wasn t going to get out. after spending two years in a jakarta jail, he was send to the philippines to stand trial. he said he is a legitimate treasure hunter. he never phoneied up. he said carl and his friends tried to kill him. paid off police to get to his platinum bars, which dennis
running out of money and time, high school teacher karl ryll headed to jakarta, indonesia, tracking down one, last lead on treasure hunter and alleged con man dennis standefer. unlike the philippines, few people here spoke english. and in the summer of 1999, indonesia was in the midst of rebellion. americans were outsiders, often unwelcome in a nation battling internal strife. it was not a safe place for americans. it was very dangerous. so, i was a little apprehensive going in. i wasn t sure what to do. reporter: armed only with a letter from filipino prosecutors, karl went to the jakarta office of interpol, the international police agency. they heard my story.
amounts of money, just for the fun of it. but they insist standefer kept them on the hook. kirk shaffer says dennis knew just how. it is alluring to think that you can go and you can find some treasure. and people do do it on a rare occasion. reporter: they want to believe. they want to believe, exactly. reporter: karl tracked down more investors and spread the word about what he says standefer did. he was determined to shut dennis down. so, you wanted to make sure everybody knew he was a crook. yes. i wanted to cut off his money supply. and it is like, okay. then what is he going to do? reporter: in the meantime, you went back to teaching and getting your life in order. yes, i went back to teaching. reporter: he quietly went back to his quiet pasadena life. and that would have been the end of the story of dennis standefer and karl ryll. the teacher was through with the treasure hunter and never thought he would see or hear from him again.