something is not right. someone said the motel owner had checked out and left town. they saw her in line to get onto an airplane. but her prized carts horned up with the ex con behind the wheel. we thought, oh my god, it was him, he killed her. was it really that simple? her personal life was really complicated. a younger boyfriend. the man was charismatic. drop dead gorgeous. and, and estranged husband. caught him having sex in room 11. the case really started to sizzle when somebody torched the motel. someone was trying to destroy some evidence or something. this is a murder mystery of epic proportions. people were obsessed with this case. can this get any more bizarre? hello, and welcome to dateline. she moved there for her own piece of heaven on earth. life on a sunny island in florida. when she vanished, her friends knew it wasn t her idea to leave. but that was about all they were sure about in this complicated missing persons case. the here is
At haley s motel. longtime friends nancy ambrose and susan fox. had always been her lifetime dream to have her own resort. haley s came on the market. at the time it was pretty rundown. and we were like, oh, you ve got your hands full here. we knew that them could do it. the two of them could turn this around. and they did. tom did the fixing. sabina had the ideas. they invited the whole town to their quirky events. dress up parties. hello. welcome to haley s motel. please join me for a tour. this is her with jackie moe, her ever-present parrot. she was the star of her own promotional videos for the hotel. i hope you like our room so far. all the activities we offer you. neighbor barbara hines.
She would not even allow people to smoke around her. she would not allow people to smoke at the hotel property. she was kind of a health fanatic. she was. had a private personal trainer. she was very in the health. so they arrested corona. threw him into a county jail. in the mueller earning, drove over to haley s motel to talk to sabina husband tom. and tom said he hadn t seen sabina in a couple of days. he hadn t file a missing persons report, but did after police came around. was he like? what was the impression of the guy? he was concerned for her well-being. she wouldn t answer her phone, he couldn t find her. and something else, according to tom. sabina never let anybody drive her car. not even him. now there was a stolen car, a missing woman, and unknown criminal. not adding up to a good
Whom she was living at the time. in any missing persons case, you look at the inner circle first. bill gave detectives his story, the night you disappear. sabina left his place at 10 pm, intending to go to that obama victory party. next thing he knew, detectives were at his door, saying they found her car, and there was blood inside. a few days after that, bill told his story again, to a local tv reporter. it s a tragedy. i think the world is missing somebody, somebody special. he told a reporter, he blamed himself in a way. because sabina left after they argued about his smoking. i feel responsible for leaving, leaving here. as far as what happened after that, i have no idea. the detectives weren t busy looking at records, and discovered that a bill once
He s something of an amateur artist, though his sketches did not seem to amount to much. but, sabina was determined to help build jump-start his career. get his artwork sold, maybe start-up a woodworking business. she had set him up in a wooded shop, bought all of his tools. around town, they certainly looked like lovebirds. still, two weeks after sabina vanished, the detectives asked bill to come in for another interview. that is when he told them about, the argument. but, did they push him? did they challenge him? yes they did.