when todd s company sent him to live briefly in australia, he invited rachel s dad to visit and paid his way. every night, after work, boom, we re going to cirque du soleil, to comedy clubs, to dinners. i mean, it was a big it was a six-week party down there. but it was back home in the airpark, where the winklers social life blossomed. gosh, we have all kinds of things, from oktoberfest in october where the neighbors get together. christmas parties, easter, valentine s day parties. ice cream social and paper airplanes. yes. these were the neighbors. rich and linda johnson. lina and marion cockrell. todd had one airplane in the hangar and one in the driveway. they loved having an ex-fighter pilot for a neighbor. todd was always i mean, he was just a genuinely interesting guy. he would make eye contact with
from todd. you are not samurai. stop, stop, stop. stop, stop, stop. you do not speak truth. you only want to destroy. you have no bushido. you have no bushido. reporter: bushido? in japanese, the way of the warrior, the honor-based code of conduct of a samauri. why was todd winkler raving about it now? was this another psychotic episode? judge, off the bench. stop, stop, stop. reporter: of course, the trial came to a screeching halt. a mistrial loomed. may we have the courtroom cleared? reporter: instead, the judge came down hard on todd. if you want to play the game, we ll play it. and we ll just make sure everyone s here, it s safe. reporter: were there parallels?
reporter: but todd had always had a knack for making money and he figured it out, got into the booming wi-fi business. and pretty soon cathy and todd moved into a big lakeside house in georgia with a boat, fancy cars, and of course an airplane. cathy, always so nurturing, told her friends she was ready to take the next step. i remember cathy calling me and telling me that they were living in georgia and that she was excited about it, and that she wanted to have children. so i was excited for her, because i can see her with little kids. reporter: but nine years into what looked like a happy marriage children had yet to arrive. and now we know, because of what was in that blue box they never would. time to find out what happened. who knew the discovery in that box would bring investigators all the way across the county to the blue ridge mountains of north georgia, to a campsite, high on a hill. here was a lonely place.
and paid his way. every night, after work, boom, we re going to cirque du soleil, to comedy clubs, to dinners. i mean, it was a big it was a six-week party down there. but it was back home in the airpark, where the winklers social life blossomed. gosh, we have all kinds of things, from oktoberfest in october where the neighbors get together. christmas parties, easter, valentine s day parties. ice cream social and paper airplanes. ice cream socials. these were the neighbors. rich and linda johnson. lina and marion cockrell. todd had one airplane in the hangar and one in the driveway. they loved having an ex-fighter pilot for a neighbor. todd was always i mean, he was just a genuinely interesting guy. he would yeah. make eye contact with you. he always wanted to know about my job. what sorta cases are you working on? what kind of law do you practice? i had actually kind of looked
reporter: mh-mm. they were both very proactive parents - reporter: yes. loving parents, caring parents as well to each other, a couple. they seemed like the perfect couple. and in our experience, we saw todd more on a social level with the kids than we saw rachel. not every day, mind you. todd landed a lucrative job with an international pharmaceutical company. grew expense account soft on his desk-bound track toward what he called a c suite as in c-e-o. the only catch was, his office was a long drive away in the san francisco bay area and, not wanting to uproot his family, todd got an apartment in town, returning home to the airpark for the weekends. which meant of course, that rachel was now anchored to home, and two toddlers, monday through friday. she was soon quite restless. so she put her kids into day care and got a full time job managing the airpark. reporter: how was she as a mother, by the way? oh, she was okay, i guess.