dateline. i had a huge crush on him. he had this amazing voice. very gregarious. charismatic. the passion for people he had came through. he was the guy the whole town came up to. morning deejay steven bee. so funny. he had such a great love of music. he s lovable. everyone loves steven b. soon, it was fatally clear not everybody did. they came up on a body floating in the water. shot him one time in the back of the head. it s like this can t be happening. what did happen? the hunt is on. a gleaming yacht. i thought, why did you get on that boat? a scheming businessman, and a missing fortune. you re a multi-millionaire and you don t have any money. from high seas adventure to heart-stopping murder. i don t think i ll ever get another case quite like this. hello. and welcome to dateline. steven b. williams was a man with a golden voice. a former deejay who found fame, fortune, and a wealth of friends. then suddenly, radio silence. steve
people came through. he was the guy the whole town woke up to, morning dj steven b. he was so funny and he had such a great love of music. he s loveable. i mean, everybody loves steven b. but soon, it was fully clear that not everybody did. they came upon a body floating in the water. shot him one time in the back of the head. i felt like i was in some made-for-tv movie. it s like this can t be happening. what did happen? the hunt is on. a gleaming yacht. i thought, why did you get on that boat? a scheming businessman, and a missing fortune. you re a multi-millionaire and you don t have any money. from high seas adventure to heart-stopping murder. i don t think i ll ever get another case quite like this. hello. and welcome to dateline. steven b. williams was a man with a golden voice. a former dj who found fame, fortune, and a wealth of friends. then suddenly, radio silence. steven b had disappeared. detectives would follow a trail of
entitled action find the defendant, harvey morrow, guilty of the crime of willful, deliberate and premeditated first-degree murder of steven b. williams. oh my gosh. we were all holding hands. and when they read it, we all started crying and just were so grateful. and steven s many friends poured into the courtroom the day harvey was sentenced. doug johnson read a statement for all of them. things he had to say to harvey. for years you ate his food, lived and worked under what he thought was a common goal, the whole time stealing from him and ultimately taking what was most precious, his life. you worship a false god, the god of arrogance, ego and greed. today our nightmare ends. today yours really begins. harvey was sentenced to life without parole. after which his now ex-wife, debbie, invited us down to the pier where she took harvey s fake engagement ring and the other costume jewelry he d given her and i threw them into the water as a tribute to steven.
he said he would, but then he secretly brought it back to the u.s. in small increments and used the money to refurbish the boat. harvey just sucked up all that money? all of it. steven, by his own admission a lousy money manager, trusting, vulnerable after the death of his father, was, said detectives, the perfect mark. steven was no match for this man at all. nor, apparently, was his wife, debbie. i was really very much in love with harvey. but as she now began to discover the man she loved had lied. a house in vail, colorado, which he told her he owned outright, actually belonged to someone else. the money she sent him when she went back to work? vanished. the auto insurance he told her he bought for her didn t exist. and what he said was a $125,000 diamond ring he slipped on her finger when he proposed? a fake. it was cubic zirconium. just who was that man she married and believed she loved? i don t think harvey even liked me. you know, love is not only blind, in
iolair mara. harvey and debbie had big plans for that boat. they d talked about it ever since their first date. he says, what do you want to do when you retire? and i said, i want to sail all over the world. it was her dream of a lifetime and now debbie actually found the man who shared it. they married at the dawn of the new millennium, right here on the front porch of their new texas home.