we just bought like $200 worth of groceries. all of a sudden i see a squad car. i said, dennis, i think we re going down. she was right. police throughout the midwest had been on the lookout for a very large balding man driving a camper and using tim wicks credit cards. a warrant was out for gaede s arrest at this time for embezzlement. police also wanted to question him on the disappearance of timothy wicks. the phone rings. police on the phone. what do they tell you? he let me know that we got dennis, we ve got diane and we ve got joshua, her son. they got them in custody and no one was hurt that. was very good news. coming up three years after tim wicks goes missing, diane fruge breaks her silence. he told me that he gets tim up to canada, that no one will ever miss him. [ male announcer ] feeling like a shadow of your former self? c mon, michael! get in the game!
24-hour phone service and cashed out a cd and had it deposited into a savings account. a total of $17,000 was taken, and gaede was long gone. but police say gaede kept and he, fruge, and her son drove from state to state, campground to campground. by staying at campgrounds one night each, they were able to stay one step ahead of the law for four more weeks. finally one day i broke down and cried and i said i can t live in this camper any longer. i can t take this. this isn t fair to my 3-year-old. he should be outside playing. no, he doesn t deserve this. i said, i m going crazy. i said let s just go turn ourselves in. that wasn t going to happen. but fruge was able to convince gaede to spend an extra night at this campground in lincoln, nebraska, where once again they used wicks credit card, this time to buy groceries at this store.
the person you re dealing with? cold. sick. and trying to keep the fact that the victim might be identified. investigators moved in on the house, but gaede was gone. police took these photos inside. they also tracked the real timothy wicks credit card use and also discovered the credit card was used here to rent a truck. u-haul was ultimately returned with over 1,700 miles having been put on it. you do the math, between north dakota and the upper peninsula of michigan, where the body was found, and how does that equation work out? it s pretty consistent with that trip. and there s more. wicks credit card was also used here to buy burlap bags, gloves, and an axe like these. the purchase all caught on a store security camera. that s dennis gaede and diane fruge with her son at the store. i believe that by the time
found out where he was. and that s when dennis gaede decided to disappear by hiding behind the identities of other people. using the name of a young boy who died, she says gaede went to college, did some accounting work, even got engaged and had a son. then, she says, he made the mistake of applying for a student loan. he went into the loan office and they typed in his i.d. number, canadian social security number. and the loan officer said, hey, wait a second, you re dead. gaede serves some time in a canadian jail for identity theft and told a local television reporter, he was afraid of the police and the bikers back in the united states. they said they were going to set me on fire, they were going to burn my house down with me in and make sure i was on fire too. but when gaede was deported back to the u.s., somehow none of his worse fears came true. not only did no one try to kill
it turns out the man impersonating timothy wick was someone police knew very well. his real name was dennis gaede. so the big question is, where is timothy wicks and what happened to him? we don t know where to go. so we figure what we need to do is we got to find dennis. at this point, dennis gaede, posing as tim wicks, was scheduled to be questioned by fargo detective tammy lynx about allegations of stealing from his employers. well, he doesn t show up for the interview. we re really shocked by that. back in wisconsin detective schoonover wasn t shocked because, in a short amount of time, he d already learned a lot about dennis gaede. none of it good. we found his ex-wife, talked to her. we found his mother, talked to her. everybody we talked to basically