at haley s motel. longtime friends nancy ambrose and susan fox. had always been her lifetime dream to have her own resort. haley s came on the market. at the time it was pretty rundown. and we were like, oh, you ve got your hands full here. we knew that them could do it. the two of them could turn this around. and they did. tom did the fixing. sabina had the ideas. they invited the whole town to their quirky events. dress up parties. hello. welcome to haley s motel. please join me for a tour. this is her with jackie moe, her ever-present parrot. she was the star of her own promotional videos for the hotel. i hope you like our room so far. all the activities we offer you. neighbor barbara hines.
she would not even allow people to smoke around her. she would not allow people to smoke at the hotel property. she was kind of a health fanatic. she was. had a private personal trainer. she was very in the health. so they arrested corona. threw him into a county jail. in the mueller earning, drove over to haley s motel to talk to sabina husband tom. and tom said he hadn t seen sabina in a couple of days. he hadn t file a missing persons report, but did after police came around. was he like? what was the impression of the guy? he was concerned for her well-being. she wouldn t answer her phone, he couldn t find her. and something else, according to tom. sabina never let anybody drive her car. not even him. now there was a stolen car, a missing woman, and unknown criminal. not adding up to a good
bridge. it s like ha. it is. yeah. here is where she found her little paradise to. came all the way from germany. sabrina bugler. whether they called her subpoena. or a summed it, so been. they all knew her here on the island. a larger than life person. absolutely. the minute you met her, you were just drawn to her. she was just one of those people that you wanted to get to know better. even now, looking back on what happened to subpoena on the awful mystery. it just doesn t seem possible. not here. when nothing happens on this island, it s sweet town. though, and certainly not to her sabina made good things happen here. crazy things, happy things. here at the 50s motel she reimagined, along with tom bugler. within t weeks of meeting.
the whole background of their courtship, their marriage, and how it disintegrated. how did it disintegrate? he told me that it just slowly, grew apart. and that they stay together, because they were very good friends. and they owned a business together. but, this seemed unusual. well they stayed married, they moved in with other people. remember, in the year before subpoena went missing, tom started dating a new woman. and, sabrina took up with a handsome younger man, who once worked at the motel. his name was bill. bill number. the man was very charismatic, drop dead gorgeous. years later, sabina was 49. and bill was 39, and very different than tom. tom, meanwhile, was sabina s business partner. things got dicey, they found
out. after hearing reporters noticed an unusual group of observers listening to the proceedings. the whole back row of seats were taken up by sheriff deputies. tom was not successful. they denied a death certificate, tom was denied insurance. i could see, how they could deny a death certificate, there was nobody. and then the police knew, corona did not kill sabina. they were able to confirm the essentials of the story, so he was convicted of car theft, not murder. detective kenny, who was an island a cop that known sabina and tom for years, decided to have another try, much closer to home. he asked tom for any details, no matter how small, that might take the investigation beyond the conjecture and whispers of suspicion. that floated on the island breeze. he wanted to hold