ever since adam accepted that apple from eve. the man who called himself mark stern was about to fall in love. [music playing] for more than two years, mark weinberger walked the streets of europe safe in the anonymity of crowds. according to vanity fair writer, buzz bissinger, weinberger simply cut away people from his past to anyone who knew his real name with the cool detachment of a surgeon. buzz: i think part of it was, i m rejecting everything that i ve known in the past. maybe you don t like your wife, or maybe you do. he leaves in september of 2004 never, ever contacts her again. he s got a brother, neil, who he s very close to never, ever contacts him again. so that s what we re dealing with. rob stafford: it must have been exhilarating at first using fake names and covering your tracks like a character in some spy novel, but in all pulp fiction stories,
nick, what have we learned specifically about these officers? reporter: good morning. according to local newspaper here, town talk that 32-year-old derrick stafford was indicted on two counts of aggravated rap. he has been be a police officer the last two years and in one of those cases the alleged rape case happened when he was a police officer. one dating back to september of 2004 and another in 2011. a year after the indictments came down the case was dismissed without prejudice meaning the charges could come back. the other officer is involved in several civil lawsuits and tied to excessive force. cnn has looked into this and neither one of them, from what we know, has ever been convicted of a crime. we have attempted to reach out to local official here and not gotten back to us and family members for those two officers charged in this death of the of-year-old have not gotten back
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