and he had encouraged her to do this. and she had a flower with her and she d written mike a note. and i guess probably 30, 45 minutes later she came back. and she d been crying. the flower and the letter in particular? those were left at the lake. gone but definitely not forgotten, according to becky mass, denise s friend and co-worker. she loved him like a woman would love your life partner, your soul mate. the official death certificate said mike drowned while duck hunting. but for mike s family and friends, doubts started creeping in, spurred on by little things that just didn t add up. like those waders found six months after mike disappeared. they looked almost pristine. no. huh-uh. something is wrong here. staged? i thought staged because i know that anything left in a lake for any period of time is gonna have algae on it. speculation gave way to suspicion. could mike s disappearance be the result of foul play? enter the wild card, the squeakiest of squeaky whe
he will finish what he has started, no matter what age he is when he is released. i am asking you to sentence him to life in prison for the crimes he has committed. in the end, the judge gave brian winchester 20 years. in court, nothing had been said about mike williams. when they shuffled him off, we walked out and i looked to patti and i said, well, that s it. the door has just been we ll never know. slammed on whatever happened to mike. and we will never know. but the next day, fdle had a major announcement. they d found a skeletal body in a shallow grave. the human remains are those of mike williams. after all those, it was over. police were mum on how they d found mike s body. but speculation was that brian had led them to it. further forensic analysis concluded that mike williams was in fact murdered. and his body wasn t in lake seminole after all. it was 50 miles away. back in tallahassee, off a dead-end road by another swampy lake. i said, he can t b
at somebody drowning and not help him? how do you do that? a perfect husband. a perfect father. a perfect mystery. they found the boat. mike wasn t in it. we thought maybe he s had an accident. the thought is the alligators have eaten mike. but this lake was hiding more than gators. mike was the only hunter that has gone overboard in that lake that had never been found. something don t add up. people were saying, well, i bet he ran off. there have just been so many wild stories. two lovers share a secret. he had this desire to have her. there was an affair happening for years. they can choose each other. you re waiting for that crack. he was going to kill you to make you go away. obviously she knew what she
easily. they didn t have a body, but there was an early theory among seasoned hunters about what might have happened. mike, in the predawn hour, had hit a stump and been thrown into the weed-filled lake. like most duck hunters, he was known to wear chest-high waders and they could turn deadly just like that. waders are bulky, they re basically like putting two buckets on your legs. you ve got problems with them filling up with water and taking you down. and what was down there, everybody knew, were alligators. hard to think of such an awful end for a nice hard-working husband and father like mike williams. popular mind, the gators got him, huh? yes. your heart is kind of and your stomach is kinda gripped by that. just the sheer awfulness of it. but there was a big problem with the gator theory. with such unusually cold temperatures, fish and wildlife officers like alton ranew knew the alligators weren t stirring much. his metabolism is down so low he don t wanna eat. th
that person could. and he did. that s who he was then. he has conned you to no end. it s not your fault. i mean that person today could have done anything. anything. i just that s not the person that i married. that s not the person that i knew. mike devaney, the fdle lead agent, couldn t believe denise was finally being questioned about what happened to mike. fdle agents had approached brian and denise on one occasion, and they both refused to talk. they went straight to an attorney, and that was that. devaney had waited a long time for this moment. now it was his turn to enter the room and find out what denise knew. where do you think mike s buried at? oh, i have no idea. you don t really believe he died on the lake. i do. why? i just always have. that s what i believe.