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  Additional material for Court TV's documentary,
"A Husband's Secret - Eric Bechler"
     
   On July 7, 1997, Pegye Bechler and her husband, Eric, rented a boat and headed out into the harbor. It was Eric's idea — a romantic cruise off the Newport Beach, CA coast to belatedly celebrate their anniversary and her birthday. But by nightfall, Pegye was missing and Eric was sobbing uncontrollably in front of local news cameras. Her body was never found and it appeared to be a tragic accident. As police investigated Pegye's disappearance, they began to suspect a boating accident might be a case of homicide.  
 
     
   Photo Gallery of Pegye Bechler, Eric Bechler and Tina New.  
 
     
   Home video of Pegye and Eric Bechler on Southern California beach.  
       
   Police try to recreate the boating accident as related by Bechler: a wake or wave knocked Pegye out of the boat while Eric was towed on a 'boogey board.' February 2000.  
       
   Tina New in bikini contest, in 1993, at Mission Beach, California, four years before she met Bechler. They met October 6, 1997; three months to the day after Pegye's death.  
       
   Officers from the Orange County Sheriff's Homicide Detail read Miranda rights to Bechler. October 30,1999.  
       
     
   Investigators from the Newport Harbor Patrol question Bechler about boating death six days after incident. July 12,1997.  
       
   Cooperating with police and wearing a concealed radio transmitter, Tina New gets Bechler to implicate himself in murder. October, 1999.  
       
 
     
 

 Chat transcript with former lingerie model Tina New

 Web site set up by Eric Bechler's mother and supporters.

 
 
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