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it is just ready for the taking. and i said, well, what do you? documentation you can show me, maybe we can work something out because i wanted to see how far he would go with this. he looks at me very serious and points, it s all up here. and i said, okay, dennis, it is probably going to stay there because that s as far as we re going to go with this. harold karaka walked out. i didn t feel better when i left. but at least i knew that he was there and hopefully he wasn t going to get out. after spending nearly two years in a jakarta jail, standefer was extradited to the philippines to stand trial on the rape charge. we got this written statement from standefer and had a phone conversation with him from his jail cell in manila. standefer says, he s no con man. but a legitimate treasure hunter. and he s never phonied up or salted sites, he said. he said karl and his friends tried to kill him and paid off police in three countries and interpol, all to get at his platinum bars which

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i was doing business with. i considered him a friend. reporter: so, karl ignored his father. he was utterly wrapped up once more in something he considered a dream come true. and in the summer of 1997, he found himself in the philippines again with dennis standefer. while karl was abroad, his father s health already weakened by emphysema continued to deteriorate. and shortly after karl s return to the u.s., his father died. i feel like the last couple of years i had with him were somewhat stolen. reporter: he needed you. yeah. and i should have spent more time with him. i mean, i was working full time. but i would find time to go to the philippines and i didn t i should have gone over to see him more. reporter: deep in grief, karl began to feel it might be time to leave the dream behind. but then, just as before, the treasure hunter reached out with

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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 photos of standefer with someone 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 it was through correspondence and they met. reporter: in 1999, during a school break, karl headed back to the philippines alone.

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him extradited to the philippines to face the rape charge. and back in los angeles, private eye harold karaka heard the news from karl and he flew in to jakarta to see standefer in prison for himself. to me the chase is the exciting part. we caught him. he was there. he was in jail. i went there to see it. kar a ka thought dennis migh say he was sorry, promised to change. and karaka says, dennis started out that way, sort of. only thing he said that he did wrong was sending those letters to the fbi about karl and the school district. and said that was the only thing i did wrong. the rest of it, i don t understand why people are upset. he says i could have got your money back and i was on the verge of doing that before i got arrested. then karaka said, dennis did plea for help, with an escape. he goes, what can you do to get me out of this? i said, i said, what do you have to offer? he said, i have the richest ship in the history of salvage. and treasure hunting.

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