they found each other o their own tropical island. we saw love and the waters. and that s it. that will be our spot for th rest of our life she said it s like living i a postcard a picture perfect life. until she disappeared. imagine you were callin leaving messages calling, texting, and w started wondering. why would she just leave? i called her best friend an said, does she have a man that i don t know about is something going on where would she go? she wasn t selling that place. she loved it and why did someone new now on her slice of paradise this guy fooled us all. he fooled everybody. he got away with murder he got away with murder hello and welcome to dateline. it was a tropical hideaway where a group of adventurous aware american thought they ha found paradise good times, sunshine, a relaxe lifestyle, a place where peopl didn t ask a lot of question about their neighbors unti some of those neighbors starte to disappear here is kate snow w
wild bill cortez in four months time he had snapped up the homes of tw people who had mysteriousl vanished cher hughes was one of them. now she was telling anyone who would listen that th disappearances and propert transfers were no coincidence. i thought that bill had don something to these people. i was telling people in bocas, the suspicions were all saying the same thing and bill is still livin nearby bill is still near, yeah. and he told people he was goin to shut me up. he told people that he told three people that he moved out of the house an into a hotel with security keith wasn t the only one that was nervous i became convinced that thi guy cortez had killed thes people in order to steal their property that s when i said, i m goin to the authorities he urged keith to do th same you need to come to panam
city, get to the prosecutor an turn up the heat keith went to panama city and laid up the case to th panamanian fbi kudos to the panama police, they stepped it up but for all the suspicion there was no hard evidence of crime. that s when don winner got a idea he heard a lot of stories abou wild bill and his ak-47, how he would fire it off sometimes to impress his friends but in panama, it s illegal fo a civilian to own that type of women, so a suggestion was mad to police. get him in custody, find th ak-47. find the gun. find the gun, lock him down and find out what role, i any, he may have had in th disappearances police drew up the warrant on steamy day in july and descended on the home of wild bill , police began the search police are looking around they have a search warrant