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
more slowly and life is supposed to be easy. cher first visited the islands in 2000. for the outdoorsy cher, it was love at first sight. what s more, it was affordable for the same money cher had been saving up to sail aren t world, she bought her little piece of asmall house and that tiny round island. we saw that lump in the water and we said that s our it. that will be our spot for the rest of our lives. cher and keith met seven years before that when the vivacious blonde walked into a little bar keith owned in florida. came in and those big blue eyes and big smile. i was hooked. she was just so beautiful. cher grew up in st. louis where her all american good looks got her into modelling as a teenager. she would walk in a room and, beep, everybody knew she was there. she was always happy. she always had a smile for everybody. eventually, cher moved to
coast of panama and weight off the beaten path. it s the kind of place where things move more slowly. and life is supposed to be easy. cher first visited the islands with her boyfriend, keith werle,. with cher it was love at first sight. what s more, it was affordable. for the same money cher had been saving up to save around the world, she bought her little piece of paradise. a rental property, a small house, and that tiny rhode island. we saw that lump in the water inside, that s it. that will be our spot for the rest of our lives. cher and keith met seven years before that when the vibrations blond walk into a bar keith owned in florida. came in big ice, big smile and it was, she was just so beautiful. grew cher up in st. louis where her all american good looks got her into modeling as
the beaten path, it s the kind of place where things move more slowly and life is supposed to be easy. cher first visited the islands in 2000. for the outdoorsy cher, it was love at first sight. what s more, it was affordable for the same money cher had been saving up to sail around the world. she bought her little piece of paradise, a rental property, a small house and that tiny round island. we saw that lump in the water and we said that s it. that ll be our spot for the rest of our lives. cher and keith met seven years before that when the vivacious blonde walked into a little bar keith owned in florida. came in and those big blue eyes and big smile. i was hooked. she was just so beautiful. cher grew up in st. louis where her all american good looks got her into modelling as a teenager. she would walk in a room and, beep, everybody knew she was there. she was always happy.
the sunset and mail it to me. life was beautiful and simple. and an escape from the pressures of modern living. who could have known that evil could find a place in paradise, too? that beneath all that beauty was a dark secret. it still seems very unreal. i don t want to believe it. this is a really, really bad guy. it just sent chills down my spine. before the nightmare, came the dream. this is where people come to escape, a group of islands off panama and way off the beaten path, it s a place where things move more slowly and life is supposed to be easy. cher first visited the islands in 2000. for the outdoorsy cher, it was