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in palm beach. >> she was heavily involved with the kids school, she was into her children. >> but soon, she was in danger. someone wanted her killed, his job, was to save her, an undercover agent on a mission. >> he is a master actor, and obviously must have nerves of steel. >> to protect, or he had to infiltrate a world right out of miami vice. -- drug runs, hidden tapes -- >> nobody knows nothing. >> could he learn the suspect from the shadows, this man with murder on his mind. >> it must have taken a lot of bravery. >> could he take on the role of his life? >> he was a man hunt somebody killed, maybe -- >> hello, and welcome to

dateline, power, greed, and jealousy, it can be a toxic combination. the story you are about to, here it led one sold down a dark path. sending off a dramatic undercover operation and the bizarre twist of it all, the woman whose life was at stake had no idea she was in danger. here is keith morrison with recipe for murder. >> it was the cake that should have told him something, the killer cake, the cake to die for. it was supposed to be the jewel on the crown of the gourmet deli, a daily with more than a few regular customers weren't right up there at the top. >> the stormy? >> and just a two minute drive across from palm beach florida, with its five star hotels, it's perfect beaches, and insanely pricey houses. hungry billionaires, who wanted only the best.

-- manage the gourmet daily for four years. >> we were doing about $3 million a year and business 450 seat delhi, that is incredible. we would have waiting lines two hours long for people coming in. >> it used to be the three cheese delhi, that's one its reputation was born. brothers andy and -- had developed some other restaurants as, well and back in the mid 80s, they were feeling a little over extended. >> and then one day they met a 33-year-old entrepreneur named gwen sandler, -- >> and on the gulf, course he just said he was looking to get into business. i said, why don't you bite to my restaurant? >> just like that. >> over lunch, i think over a tuna salad. >> what was he doing before? >> playing golf. he was retired. >> retired from what? >> he had a few different businesses. i think one was a no name, or no ad company that he had different products, and i think he sold at.

i think he did videos, or some other stuff. >> but he made a lot of money? >> he made a ton of money. he was basically a self made millionaire. >> so he bought the restaurant, the expectations were to put it mildly, low. >> at the time, i thought the guy is going to try and do it for a little, while maybe be bored, with it be done with it. >> but he surprised everyone. >> from the date he bought that restaurant, he was there every single day from -- open to close, he was passionate about learning how to be the best delhi guy, or advertising, or -- he worked alongside dale guys, he worked alongside the guys in the kitchen, who worked alongside the reporters. he was determined to learn every aspect of his business. >> there was no doubt, he was a workaholic. >> he probably did not have to work so hard, he was raised in the boston suburbs with family money, instead was a very successful businessman, but he,

well after college in miami he proved he had some talent of his own for making money. he seemed to be lucky as well. business and in life. in 1981 he married a beautiful young miami woman named betty. >> pretty much looked like the old barbie in the playmate, she was outgoing, fun, she was a very pretty woman. very beautiful lady. >> and soon enough, a mother. he had two sons. >> i think she was a good, wife and an outstanding mother. i knew she was heavily involved with the ptc, i think at school, she was just into her children. >> but after he bought the delhi, the former owners got to know both of them, and he and his wife went on a cruise with them. >> we went down to the islands, we had a great time -- >> they got along? well >> we got along great. we had a house down in the, keys we wrote down there with him and spent a few days on his boat fishing, not that i'm much

of a fish, or he was not flashy or anything, just a real nice guy. >> so it was a charmed life apparently. this was his neighborhood. a place called the aero club. >> you get up from dinner, and you can jump in your plane and go flying. >> business meant john herring was one of his neighbors. >> bring your cars to the front of the garage, you take your airplane out the back of the garage. you taxi it down and you take off. >> and sandra was so proud of his force either, like an airborne sports the neighbors say. >> he was very particular, and very detailed, and took great care of his airplane. >> the beautiful wife, a big house, an airplane in the garage, it suited lent perfectly. >> len loved flying, and betty was always with him. she always says, glenn was a

good has been. >> but of course, nobody is perfect, everybody has flaws, every marriage as well. and even this neighbor found himself wondering if he was a little too to torment to get his way. >> i think glenn is a control guy, and he wanted to control everything that happened. >> it was a competitive thing, he had to win, he just had to. -- sold their deli, -- >> he'd pay for, golf by huge, to give you the shirt off his back. when it came to business, cutthroat. >> no option, -- >> he could not lose? >> he could not. lose >> anything? >> and anything. >> like for example, cake, not just any cake of course, but chocolate cake. so good, so creamy, so tempting, it was known as the killer cake. >> people would actually come from all over to buy this killer cake. >> when he bought the delhi, the recipe for the cake came

with it, but -- >> this was one recipe that glenn, you know, just could not get right. he hired a baker to come in and read the recipe, and just could not get it right. >> he believed that was out to sabotage him right now giving the right recipe to the cake, and from that day our relationship went down. >> he felt that he lost, because he could not get the cake recipe right. >> and so, given the untimely falling out, the brothers did not see sandler or his wife but it very much anymore. that savvy businessman would not expect defeat, and it seemed it did not matter when it cost him. >> a lot of the times it was in his way or the highway. >> was that why the marriage went down, why any new millennium life will became intolerable for glenn? in 2004, after more than 20 years of marriage, but he had had enough, she asked for divorce. but sadler, felt blindsided,

emotionally and financially. if any contest had to be one, then this was it. -- sadler's manager at the core mentally heard a running commentary on the bitter divorce battle from the boss. >> if he had it has way, she was not getting a penny. >> she kept warning more? is that something? >> yeah, basically, feeling like she's just a greedy you know what. >> and he saw sandler change, first there was the nose job, then sandler started showing up with women, a few. >> was he bringing girls in? >> you have bringing girls, and tell me, look at this new girlfriend of mine. >> did he seem to change after that divorce happens? >> absolutely. >> personality a changed? >> absolutely. she wanted the divorce, he didn't, so he was unhappy. you can't leave me, if i want to leave, you i will leave, you but you are not leaving me. that would mean i lost. >> but glen sandler was a man

who could not lose, now he took steps that would make a win absolutely certain. >> sadler approached him, asked if he knew anyone that could kill his wife. >> coming up. kill his wife? was when stan lurk serious, but it was. >> and when the fbi an undercover operation begins, when dateline continues. when dateline continues. only cascade uses dawn... as a built-in pre-rinse system. it rehydrates dried on food... ...lifts it off... ...and breaks it down. doing the pre-rinse for you. cascade platinum. scrape, load, done. covid-19. some people get it, and some people can get it bad. and for those who do get it bad, it may be because they have a high-risk factor. such as heart disease, diabetes, being overweight, asthma, or smoking. even if symptoms feel mild, these factors can increase your risk of covid-19 turning severe.

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investor and restaurant with a high fly around pump leach florida, and even if he did not quite master the killer cake, is deadly, as whole existence looked like a huge success, except there was this one quirk. sandler said one of his friends and colleagues could not stand losing anything. and a pot on a golf course. >> if he hit a bad shot, it was like his club could fly. >> and sandler was not a man to cross. a deli employee found that out when he asked her what you thought was undeserved -- >> just took an ashtray, slammed on the desk, and broken ashtray, and another occasion just nap a pencil. >> never hit anybody, never actually grabbed anybody by the should caller to throw them out, these were intimidation things that he would -- >> then there was another time, his manager heard the boss pull

out a gun in a showdown with another employee. >> he did not pull the trigger or anything, so i think he did as a scare tactic. >> then in july 2004, betty, his wife of 25 years threw him out. the man demanded a divorce, and glenn found himself competing with her over who got what. detroit was a reporter for the palm beach new times, -- >> at one point he offered her more than $2 million, and she said that is not enough, that is not enough. i want more, that is not enough. and this bugged him to know and. >> you don't cross him, you don't try to take advantage. >> and you don't leave him. >> around the gourmet deli, settlers employees watched his once busy -- life start to unravel. >> he was there 8:00 sharp, every monday, for a year after year, and then all of a sudden they got to be where he was

showing up at 8:00 in the evening. >> that about a year into -- fall 2005, sadler made a three secret friend. a drug dealer, named chris robinson. >> kris robinson became -- crack dealer? >> yeah. >> cocaine. hotel, rooms prostitutes, all supplied by this small time dealer. and it wasn't long before sandler turned to robinson for help with his domestic troubles as well. >> len sandler, after he had known chris for a while asked chris if he could throw a birthday party for his wife. that was the terminology he used to throw a birthday party. >> is there any doubt about what that meant? >> it became clear he wanted his wife killed. and kris robinson said he and his, brothers, could get it done. >> what would they do? >> they hatched a plan, that chris and his brother would

take two stolen cars and they would ram into betty at an intersection and flee. >> and how do you know you have a killer? >> i don't know. but that was the plan that glenn gave chris a 5000 dollar deposit to enact. >> and, well, it was like the killer cake recipe, it just did not come together. >> no one will ever know whether chris robertson really would have carried out that plan, because before he could actually carry it out, he got arrested on a drug charge, unrelated. >> and sent off to jail? >> and sent off to jail. and i guess he realized he had a bargaining tool, and he summoned a detective and said, hey, i have some news for you, there is a guy out there who is trying to have his wife whacked. >> the cop west palm beach detective jason latoya, -- >> i got there and realized this was good information -- >> and quickly, because drug

dealers robinson revealed that sandler had been shopping around that sandler had told him he had already been jolted by yet another hitmen. >> -- was some kind of biker who is supposedly part of the outlaw motorcycle gang, and apparently glenn sandler asked this guy if he would kill betty. and, he gave him a 5000 dollar deposit. >> he was serious? >> he was serious, but nothing ever happened. he wrote off into the sunset. >> but was sandler still looking for a hit man? maybe the cops could replace chris with a fake hitmen, like for example this man, an undercover agent. we agreed to conceal his identity. the agent called glenn sandler on the phone, the name he gave himself was fraud. here's the post role, drug dealer chris robinson's fed up

streetwise boss. >> that's me. >> hey, -- >> right here began a precarious stance between the fbi agent, and the man who always liked to call the shots. the man who did not know that this time the shots were being called on him. assuming that in this dance it would be hitmen could get sandler's trust. >> how do you go about making that happen? >> there's things about someone that you can talk, about opening conversation with, makes agreeable and understanding to talk. >> [inaudible] >> you're living the life? >> well, i'm trying. i work, i've done my best. >> as fred, the agent, arranged a face-to-face meeting -- >> i met the assailant in the parking lot -- >> this is where he would begin fishing for the job sandler had

earlier offered the no child drug dealer. >> hey this is -- [inaudible] >> then, sandler told fred he had also become fed up with a drug dealer robinson. >> you know what, i needed job done. >> fred dismissed robinson's plan to kill but it with a car, laughable. >> [inaudible] back, problem wheelchair the rest of her, life she ain't done. what good is that? >> now fred proposed a different, planet a new price, 20, 000, plus the 5000 dollar chris had already taken. fred told sandler that his own recipe for murder had one key ingredients. >> how much does she weigh? >> she's very muscular, she's only five, three about 130 pounds. >> eight bags of -- all it is, so if it's, found it

looks like she got raped or -- that is what use, lime lime -- >> so you told him quite specifically it might be e could say, chilling detail, what you would do to make sure she would disappear forever. >> i would note where she's, married and made with lime and it would take care of all that. >> bizarre, but deadly serious because he knew that if he did not win the job to kill betty, someone else might. >> i'm sitting in a position where i want to make sure that somebody else doesn't get hired in the time it's taking me to sit in that chair and talk to him. >> the undercover agent thinks he can play glenn sandler, but turns out, there is more to this would be wife killer then he realizes. >> coming up. the murder the only crime on his mind? >> i was there for one criminal activity, and all of a sudden a second popped up. >> the mission was about to become more dangerous than fred

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hated it so much she had already given a man $5,000 to kill the wife who rejected him analyst amending millions of his money. but he had no idea the man now

offering to do the job was an undercover agent from the fbi, and going to get the -- on his wife. the angry husband and phony hitman hit it off, often -- >> was it hate? or just greed? >> probably both at some point. losing his airplane, believed he was losing his home, his business, and he was concerned that the money was never going to be enough that he was paying her. >> sandler also told fred, the number the undercover officer went by, that his wife betty reveal some very compromising information. >> he was considered about her blackmail, and other illegal activities. >> other illegal activities? >> yes sir. >> what? >> we did not know at the time. >> quickly here we can the only one who knew the depth of his desperation. >> i have -- that i own. she is blackmailing me. i can't -- with her at all.

she wants so much money, money i don't even have. >> i think that fred really tapped in to glenn's vulnerabilities, because as his former employees to test, he didn't have any friends. here comes fred who seems like a cool guy, who is calling him brother, and i think that glenn sandler felt that you know he had finally met someone that he could relate to. >> it was a precarious balancing act, fred quickly set up a plan telling sandler he needed to do surveillance on betty, sandler supplied details where -- even maps showing his home location. >> i needed something, something to fully understand what her daily positives would be, where she, shops where she goes, and -- >> what sandler did not know, is fraud had helpers, fellow detectives like jason.

>> we call our tech team to conduct surveillance, and determine whatever information we could, and provide that to the undercover officer such that he could go back to mr. sandler and make it seem like she comes here, and last week she was here kind of thing. >> it was a doctor too involved, it seemed like a dog traveled with her a lot so i made mention of that. >> what did you say? >> the dog always with her. that was enough for him to understand that things were rolling in the direction he wanted to, he was excited about that. >> several weeks went, by and fred knew sandler had come to trust he was the man for the job. >> he became very comfortable, i could tell he was -- he was very satisfied, and i could tell i was being hired. >> what about betty? surely she should know her husband was cooking up more than just pastrami sandwiches? >> did you also go up to, her

and tell her, i had to tell you, that's what your ex-husband wants to call, you and i'm a company will prevent that from happening? >> not at that time. >> why not? >> the detective and i sat, we talked about saying that we had no idea what they were involved, and what she will give me, up testify to the, police we didn't know, and if it was something that would be bigger than what he was involved, and she would go back and tell him. >> so did you did not know for sure whether she was just a bystander, here or whether she may be involved? >> correct. >> there was another reason to play along with sandler detectives had a hunch, and wanted to see where it went. in one of their parking lot meetings, fred had schmoozed about the drug business, but sandler not only think he sold drugs, but transported them to buy airplane, what he did not expect to hear with handlers reply. he volunteered to fly the drug themself, in his own plane, at this airport. >> this may be your past, but

i'm your future. if you knew my history, you -- >> what's the capacity of your plane? >> my capacity? it's about 200 pounds. >> that's -- >> then, another surprise, sandler seemed to have done this before, he boasted about his smuggling back in those seductive miami vice days, only then a speedboat was his transport choice. >> i lived in my, emily -- i've had a couple of customers, just to transport. okay? and i always had a minimum of 100. so i'd get 100 grand just to get out of bed. >> was it true? is it to establish his credibility as a criminal, he claimed he had once been charged with cocaine traffic, and then bought his way out of trouble. >> we wound up buying the judge, got away with, it got expunged, the whole nine yards.

>> was sandler still in the game? was his unknown drug ring? i had to improvise, not only play hitman, but drug smuggling. the case becoming more complex than anyone would imagine. >> i was there for one criminal activity, all of a sudden a second criminal activity set up. all of a sudden, am i sitting within major smugglers? >> now to keep his credibility -- and connection with the drug, business he would have to stage something that looked like a real drug run. >> i -- i had to tell him, why it was not available, it was available before, i let him believe i received kilogram amounts from georgia, and i would meet him halfway and pick it up, and if they saw me arrive in this aircraft, they would give me a lot more. >> so he agreed to fly you in his airplane to a meeting place?

>> yes. >> to get cocaine? >> yes. >> so the hit on betty was delayed, while fred organized a drug run from sebring to palm beach, the whole thing a sham, only sandler had no idea he was being played. what was real was the fact that in that little airplane, fred's life could be in the hands of pilot glenn sandler, a desperate man perhaps capable of anything. >> were you concerned about your own safety? here's a man who once somebody killed, maybe he wants you killed as well? >> i'm always concerned about my safety. >> coming up. fred climbs aboard, and the risks are sky-high. >> you have five kilograms of cocaine in your airplane, and the guy who you think is a bad guy. >> when dateline continues. when dateline continues ♪things are getting clearer♪ ♪i feel free to bare my skin♪

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>> who among the loyal patrons of the gourmet deli would have believed it? a resident of florida's exclusive aero club community could even imagine, that one of their own had put out a contract with a hitman to kill his wife. now, ready to use his own plane to run cocaine. >> it seems to me like he had just come out of a period of really stable, possibly boring stage of his life where he had been married to the same woman for years and, years doing the same business day today for years and years, and maybe missed those miami vice type of days. >> and now he was getting to live the moment? >> yeah. >> assuming that is that the fbi man who called himself fred did not blow his cover, -- >> because your face reads what is going on in your soul, you have to be careful with it, what did he say? >> partly because now the undercover team expanded along

with the risk. >> something to happen in sebring florida, at the sebring airport, and agents let it work with locally are also went to sebring airport. >> so as he took off from the sebring airport the undercover agents still posing as fred sat beside him. the little plane stored into the air, sandler was enthusiastic, rare for a man cautious. after all, he could not know if he had bought the act, or seen his way through it. after all, a plane ride would be just the place to shoot front and have a spotty disappear in the ocean. >> i flew up to sebring with him in his aircraft, i was by myself and of course concerned. >> once the, ring they met the supplier, fred called him tee bone, he was actually another federal agent. over coffee, fred put everyone at ease.

then, on cue, t-bone excuse, himself went to the bathroom. >> he left the back between sandler and i and we opened it to see how many, he looked over and saw the five kilos. he said good, that is five kilos. i didn't care if it was 15. he made that statement to me. he was comfortable. >> the plan was to fly the goods back to north palm beach airport, he said he needed to accompany the cargo. to make things look real, fred told sandler he wanted to have a little fun with t-bone, who said was afraid of small planes. [inaudible] >> and practice fear of flying, was also a cover. he was himself a pilot. >> but sandler did not know

that? >> no. >> as insurance, fred made sure he set up -- still in that little plane, sandler was the one in control, in control of several kilos of coke, and to undercover fbi agents. >> i studied the aircraft, i knew where the turn of key was, i know of course he was bigger than i was, so the second bigger person i could bring into handle himself, the aircraft -- >> and i suppose you have five kilograms of cocaine on the airplane, and a guy you think is a bad guy, in the plane with, you you just have -- >> a lot of things could have been? >> but the aircraft landed safely in north palm beach. >> i let him think my guys were going to be there, and they got from georgia would be there -- >> then, fred proposed to sandler that he abandoned his plan to kill his wife, why? well, for one thing, he did not want some defense attorney later on claiming he had

encouraged sandler to commit murder, and for another, it seemed to him that sadler still had real feelings for betty. >> she looks different -- >> as she was a honey. >> he also seemed to have something aphasia-less streak. glenn had heard she was out at a bar in town -- >> and this drove him crazy? >> sort of advertising her newly single status. >> there's no doubt, she's the new play girl in wellington, you know, she's a party girl. >> so, friends suggested, why not used his beloved airplane to run enough drugs to allow him to pay off betty, instead of killing her? >> it's a shame, man, we could have made so much money. >> but, sandler was not buying it. he wanted her dead. >> she's done. it's like somebody that blackmails you. once it starts, it never stops.

they don't go away. >> what was sandler's big secret? the one he couldn't afford to have betty reveal? >> it was an issue from a business day on, together a cash business, and concerned should they be able to testify to large amounts the weren't paying income tax on. >> was that a reason to kill? still, fred held off, giving sandler every possible chance to change his mind, or reveal some darker source for his murderous intent. >> i wanted to know for sure that is what he wanted to do, or was there a coconspirator somewhere to push him to do this, where is there something on the outside, a girlfriend telling him he had to do this. >> coming up, gland sandler gets the news he wants to hear. and his wife gets the truth. >> i told her her husband had hired someone to kill her. >> when dateline continues. n dateline continues

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or someone else? >> was there something on the outside, a girlfriend telling him he had to do this, because she was tired? that never came up. it was self driven, it was him, it was not somebody -- who was him who wanted it done. >> how many times -- that he didn't need to kill, her you can do something else that was lost severe? >> several different times, putting her in a chunk of a car, driving around for several, days threatening her that more would come next time. that was not good enough. marrying her alive, pulling her out of the, whole threatening, her if this goes any further, this will get, finish that was not good enough. at some point, he told me he offered two point $5 million, and $5,000 a month, and it was not big enough for good enough for her. >> in the divorce, any offer that he made financially she said it is never enough. it is never enough. and then, when fred promised to have her killed, there is a

point where he said i promise the last words she's going to hear our, is that enough? >> sadler liked it. >> [inaudible] >> is this enough? it is the only things i've heard, it is not enough. i want more. >> so now, it was time, just how he would do, it but he told sandler he would use a code to revealed that the murder had happened, that betty was dead and buried under lime. >> it's going to be done, because i'm going to say something like i'll just say the weather is good up north. the weather is good up north. that means -- >> on the morning of november 8th 2005, detective jason followed betty's car at a stoplight, pulled her over, and gave her the news. >> he told her her husband had hired someone to kill her, that fortunately it was an undercover police officer.

>> how did she take it? >> she really was not surprised. >> you are kidding? she didn't break down in history are something? >> no. and that is what really surprised me, but she acted really exasperated, and just kind of a what now sort of thing. just like she had grown tired of his shenanigans, so to speak, that this was just the latest in a series of behaviors. she was not surprised. >> betty sandler cooperated fully with detective latoya as he went for arranging her disappearance. >> we basically took her into custody, staged her death, and collected some personal belongings of her in her car and parked in a grocery store parking lot at a conspicuous location, so it looked like she was abducted during her normal daily routine. >> with betty safe, friend called sandler.

the weather is good of north he said. which meant, she is dead. the next day, fred ranged to meet sandler at this parking lot to collect the 15,000 he had agreed to pay the killer, and here, fred confided in his new friend, that even he a hardened killer for murdering suburban housewives disturbing. >> i said even though i have done this before, i -- he think that just came back from being, her and i took a shower -- >> she's dead, she's done -- >> i need to go get out of here. >> he was a little uneasy as well, but he thought she was dead, he mentioned what was said to her. >> she was more concerned about her kids, -- >> they're going to grow up. >> i said her is this enough? >> she said i was only wanting

one half was mine. >> i said whatever, yes you're not getting -- >> friend gabe sandler buddies kharkiv, and herself, own proof he said that she was dead. >> you want this? >> you have the phone. >> he wanted to look at herself on to see who she had been calling. >> he was jealous even then? >> apparently. >> he seemed to have no remorse at all? >> none. >> called? >> called, excited -- >> excited? >> yes, he was happy this was over. >> but of course, it was not over, glen sandler had been a man who wanted to control everything, but what he didn't know was that perhaps for the first time in his life, he would have no control over what would happen next. >> let me adjust my mirror. >> coming up, the swat team swarms in before glenn sadler can move, out busted at last. when dateline continues.

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near palm beach florida, glen sandler chatted with the man he had hired to kill his wife. as life went on around them, the two discussed future drug deals, is airtight alibi for that day, and the need for secrecy. >> nobody knows nothing.

that is why it is -- to hold it in, because you want to talk about is so bad. >> and then, -- >> just my mirror. >> just at that moment, glen sandler discovered the truth, a no sweat, team and the game was, up and he had understood he had been tricked, big time. how did he react to that? >> it became quite. >> here is a guy who goes to wanting to have his wife, killed happy she is dead, to then discovering he has been hoodwinked by an undercover cop. what did he just, give up at that point? is he remorseful? is the story? what? >> he became quite. >> he became quiet? >> he did. from reading his body language, it's gestures, the way he

cooperated, he said he was more upset that he was arrested, he wasn't -- making any other statements besides being upset. >> he had been duped by a master, an agent who had been working undercover for 24 years. >> here is a master actor, a great improviser, and obviously must have nerves of steel to be able to get into a situation like this and just act on it on the fly. it must have taken a lot of bravery. >> around palm beach, people who knew the sandler were quite stunned. >> i just, it can't be. >> you did not believe? it but it happened. >> i don't know where that would come from. >> the palm beach authorities carefully crafted their case with tapes recorded by undercover agent fraud, and glenn sandler then briefly he considered an insanity defense, he ultimately pleaded guilty to solicitation to commit first degree murder, and trafficking.

he got 15 years in prison. >> so what do you think about this guy? >> i don't know what you think of, it because i do not know that glenn sandler. i know the glenn sandler that taught me a tremendous amount of things about business, cutting edge -- but i don't know that glenn sandler -- the killer glenn sandler. >> did anyone? his one-time colleagues -- and tell their stories about the man who would kill rather than lose. >> and knowing he's capable of that, makes him a very capable of remembering everything he knows after ten years, and wanting revenge. >> do you worry a bit about -- >> this, yes. >> why? >> why? i don't know. hopefully he comes out being a nice guy. >> but, -- >> who can say?

>> betty sandler sold the house at the arrow club and moved away, tragedy would not let her go. neither betty nor her plan. >> glenn had two sons while he was in jail, one died in a motorcycle accident. his father died, and since he's been, until his mother has died. >> and yet, the minute financial fight spun out. he claimed he hadn't lots of money from the irs baseless. >> i believe the police seized his plane, and his motorcycle, because they were used in the course of running drugs, and that i presume she got the house, he got the restaurant, she got a golf cart -- >> all that cash that seemed to floor from the deli -- >> when it all played out in divorce court, considering his

assets have been seized, she undid a pink untitled to $100 a year. >> that was it? >> that was it. >> does she worry still? perhaps. but he has declined all interview requests, including ours. >> i know that when i tried to contact her, she did not want to speak because she was still frightened. >> as for the delhi, it went to his brother, but last we checked, they had yet to perfect the recipe for the creamiest chocolate cake around, that cake to die for, that killer cake. >> that is all for this edition of dateline, i'm craig melvin. thank you for watching. thank you for watching this sunday, leaving the party. arizona senator kyrsten sinema says she is leaving the democratic party and registering