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
And tapped into the coconut telegraph. what is the coconut telegraph? that s just the rumor mill. they call it the coconut telegraph. when something happens, word spreads quickly. and from what don was hearing, things just weren t adding up. he checked to see if bo and cher might have left the country. i knew that bo and cher, both of them, their passports had not gone through the airport. if you look at immigration movements, both of them you can track. you look at they come in. and they leave. they come in and leave. they came in, they never left. all right. so they re still in panama somewhere. but where? there was one more piece of the puzzle falling into place and that would point a finger of suspicion at someone living right among them. . coming up. he d text everybody sake your lord commands you, come to my party. a pirate out to make a killing in real estate. he wasn t selling that place. she loved it. he showed up and said, yep, i
Time christine reached out to someone she thought could. help me another expat, don winner, who went ran panama guide. a news website for foreigners living in panama. i was contacted by one of her friends that was concerned she was missing. and they asked for my help. had don lived in panama for decades and acted as a consultant on this story. he had originally come here with u.s. military intelligence. the case of the two missing americans caught his attention. i knew right off the bat that this was like, whoa, hey, what is going on here? i knew that i had to apply a lot of time to it and a lot of attention to it. and also knew that i had to get it. right he hopped on a flight from his phone in panama city to bocas del toro, and tapped into the coconut telegraph. what is the coconut telegraph? it s just the rumor mill. they call it the coconut telegraph. it s when something happens, word spreads quickly. and from what don was hearing, things just weren t
They just put it in a file. and they go just yeah, yeah, yeah. people get lost in panama all the time. she reached out to someone she thought could help, another ex-pat, don winner, a man that runs a website for foreigners living in panama. i was contacted by one of her friends that was concerned that she was missing. and they asked for my help. don has lived in panama for 23 years and is our consultant on this story. he came here with u.s. military intelligence back when noriega was in power and never left. now he turns his attention to the two missing americans. i knew right off the bat, whoa, hey. what s going on here? and i knew that i had to apply a lot of time to it and a lot of attention to it. and i also knew that i had to get it right. with contacts in high places, he knows the ins and outs of the panamanian system. he hopped on a flight to bocas and tapped into the coconut telegraph. what is the coconut telegraph? that s just the rumor mill. they call it the cocon
Telegraph. when something happens, word spreads quickly. and from what don was hearing, things just weren t adding up. he checked to see if bo and cher might have left the country. i knew that bo and cher, both of them, their passports had not gone through the airport. if you look at immigration movements, both of them you can track. could they come in and they leave. they come in and leave. they came in, they never left. all right. so they re still in panama somewhere. but where? there was one more piece of the puzzle falling into place and that would point a finger of suspicion at someone living right among them. a pirate out to make a killing in real estate. he wasn t selling that place. she loved it. he showed up and said, yep, i bought everything. when stealing paradise continues.