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
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
right, yeah. it wouldn t have surprised me that, oh mary, i went sailing and then my phone fell off the deck when i dropped my purse. that would be cher for three to four days. reporter: the messages were reassuring, but not for long. a few days passed, and cher didn t return. then another text message this one from cher to keith. she just said i met somebody else who s better than you, yeah. she said she had met someone else? yes. and she was running away with that person? yeah. reporter: a mystery man? keith wanted to get to the bottom of it. i called her best friend, and said did cher meet somebody? does she have a man that i don t know about? is there something going on? she said she s never mentioned any guy to me ever. she s waiting for you. there s no man in her life. she didn t run away. reporter: but keith noticed something strange about the messages. they weren t written in cher s usual style. instead of small letters, it d be all capitals.