mark figured, the way to be the apple of my parents eye is to do well in school. he went to the university of pennsylvania, then went to ucla medical school where he thrived. he could have established his ear nose and throat medical practice anywhere, but in 1996 he chose merrillville, indiana. it was close enough to chicago that he could live there and have chauffeurs drive him to his office every day. but most important, he could count on the air pollution in northwest indiana to provide a steady stream of patients with sinus problems. in northwest indiana where you re breathing in the pollution, you ve got high pollen and extreme changes in temperature, it s not unusual to see a high degree of patients who suffer from sinus problems. suzette dennington, weinberger s top medical assistant worked closely with him day in and day out. he was an excellent physician. what do you think motivated him? his desire to be the best at
gotten through doing a stint in neuroscience at the university of chicago. we were just making jokes about the medical milieu. he was very funny. so you hit it off right off the bat? we went out to dinner. it was thursday. i spent all weekend with him and by monday i was enamored and smitten. within months michelle had moved out of her parents home and into mark s townhouse in chicago. the whirlwind was on, athens, miami, caribbean sunsets and french champagne. michelle, you look beautiful. for a southwest chicago girl whose father was a pipe fitter, this was head-turning stuff. just want to say this is the best vacation ever. i love you, baby. her new love was a philosophy quoting poetry writing renaissance man. he professed his love in a poem. he just swept me off my feet. you had an unbelievable life.
next, there was a lavish blessing ceremony in a 12th century villa on italy s coast. mark flew in a dozen gifts from the states. then mark topped it all off by renting chicago s field museum and inviting 110 guests for another formal reception there. those were the memories that kept running through michelle s mind as she and her mother waited for mark to return. but when the sun set that night and mark had not returned, as the captain had promised, michelle knew something was horribly wrong. but what? there were no reports of an accident involving mark, no signs of foul play, no ransom notes. only questions. was there a note of any kind? nothing. no message, nothing. i went through the boat like a crazy person just tearing everything up looking for something. and the only two things i found was 1,000 euros and my passport in a drawer. after 24 hours of watching a
and what did he say? he said, you never want to trust me about surprises. you really need to trust me. this is going to be huge. if michelle knew anything about her husband, it was that he was a born romantic who went all out for special occasions. it had only been five years since fate had brought mark weinberger into her life. changing it in ways unimaginable at the time. it all began with a ladies night out at a chicago bar. i saw him at a bar. he was out with his friend who had recently gotten divorced. and we just started talking and we hit it off. i thought he was really intriguing. she was michelle kramer back then, a 25-year-old college student from a blue collar family still living with her folks. mark weinberger, 11 years older, was already a very successful ear nose and throat doctor. we were bonding about medicine because i had just
gloves, and i got sick of getting my hands wet with my expensive 100 euro high-tech gore-tex gloves. in this clip, mark and monica have found an unoccupied shelter on the mountain. it s not as posh as that chicago townhouse he once owned, but after months of living alone in a tent, this shelter seems to suit him. if i owned this place, i would live here. i would live here. why not? for sure. these were the happy times, the moments when past burdens seemed to melt away like spring snow. but monica says there were also days when her lover seemed to be cracking under the weight of something unseen. and yet undeniable. november 2009, he was a little depressed because was cold and at the time he was alone. and so was difficult, really difficult. one day he began to cry.