oh he s just a quiet easy-going guy. he came up to him and said, oh my gosh, i m such a huge fan of steven b. and the hawk. steven thought that was awesome. reporter: steven soon became fast friends with harvey and his wife, debbie. what d you think of steven? he was so funny. and he had such a great love of music. and he loved to cook. and i thought, oh, this man s going to be perfect to go on the boat with us. reporter: ah yes, the boat. harvey had it docked at the l.a. yacht club. a 69-foot beauty called the 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. reporter: 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. all that adventure to look forward to. and now harvey
multi-millionaire and you don t have any money. and he said, well, harvey s got it all tied up in these offshore accounts. reporter: the detectives discovered harvey morrow had put steven s inheritance money into an off-shore bank account in the british virgin islands, just as 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. reporter: 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. reporter: nor, apparently, was his wife, debbie. i was really very much in love with harvey. reporter: 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.
we the jury in the above 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. reporter: 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. reporter: 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
steven was no match for this man at all. reporter: nor, apparently, was his wife, debbie. i was really very much in love with harvey. reporter: 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 $25,000 diamond ring he slipped on her finger when he proposed? a fake. it was cubic zirconia. reporter: 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 my instance it s also deaf and dumb. reporter: but devastating as those lies were, debbie couldn t bring herself to believe harvey could kill. i never once thought it would, it would be harvey that would have hurt steven.
oh he s just a quiet easy-going guy. he came up to him and said, oh my gosh, i m such a huge fan of steven b. and the hawk. steven thought that was awesome. reporter: steven soon became fast friends with harvey and his wife, debbie. what d you think of steven? he was so funny. and he had such a great love of music. and he loved to cook. and i thought, oh, this man s going to be perfect to go on the boat with us. reporter: ah yes, the boat. harvey had it docked at the l.a. yacht club. a 69-foot beauty called the 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. reporter: 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. all that adventure to look forward to. and now harvey