Rest of our lives. A perfect life until she disappeared. Imagine you were calling, leaving messages. Calling, texting, and we started wondering. Why would she just leave . I called her Best Friend and said does she have a man . Where would she go . Why did someone she know own her slice of paradise . He got away with murder . He got away with murder. Hello and Hello And Welcome to dateline. It was a tropical hideaway where a group of adventurous americans thought they found paradise. Good times, sunshine, and a relaxed lifestyle. A place where people didnt ask a lot of questions about their neighbors. Until some of those neighbors started to disappear. Here is Kate Snow with Stealing Paradise. Its a dream that seems so out of reach. Quit the rat race, move to an exotic lapped, and buy your very own private island. Even when she was young, she wanted to travel. She wanted to see the world. She made it come true in the most unlikely place. The tiny faraway islands of panama. She would ju
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
and that s it. that will be our spot for the rest of our life. she said it s like living in a postcard. a picture perfect life. until she disappeared. imagine you were calling leaving messages. calling, texting, and we started wondering. why would she just leave? i called her best friend and 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 had found paradise. good times, sunshine, a relaxed lifestyle, a place where people didn t ask a lot of questions about their neighbors until some of those neighbors started to disappear. here is kate snow with stealing paradise . it is a dream that seemed so out o
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
excites, and jewelry that ma have belong to the victims and the most gruesome discovery? about a dozen gold teeth he lived these things, he lived with personal effects an corpses around him the ex pats in bocas, were i turmoil, two friends dead an their friends fan of the backyard of a man they onc trusted, wild bill cortez. it was my home, i invited him to dinner, we did th social neighbor thing. and he shot my wife. it s just inconceivable. authorities launched search for bill and his wife who they also suspected wa involved but it was too late, they ha already fled this is now a major manhunt right, i knew he was alread out of the country already, on the fly. the most important thing a that point was to get hi picture out there. every television screen, o every newspaper cover, on ever computer monitor it s got to get out there in a big way. by then, wild bill and hi wife jane were in costa rica someone recognize them there and contacted the police, as the search intensi