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i'm not surprised by anything. it's just a crazy twist after a crazy twist. it really was an internationally-choreographed, good old-fashioned sting operation. did you think it was going to work? honestly, i gave it a 50/50 chance. it wasn't about retribution. it was about justice. narrator: it was a quiet fall night, close to midnight. a young couple finished dinner, and then walked the dimly-lit, centuries old cobblestone streets of old san juan, puerto rico, heading for their car. suddenly, a man armed with a knife and a loose block from those cobblestone streets, attacked. the husband, adam anhang, fell to the ground.

what the witness remembers hearing was adam screaming, "run, baby, run." narrator: fighting back as hard as he could, adam never stood a chance. he was stabbed repeatedly. hit with a brick over the head. narrator: and like that, it was over. the attacker melted back into the darkness, leaving adam and his wife, aurea, lying on the street. an ambulance arrived, loaded aurea, who had injuries to her head and leg, onto a stretcher, and whisked her away to the hospital. but for adam, it was too late. he was 32 years old. the police quickly arrived on the scene. and they cordoned off the area. narrator: journalist jose sanchez fournier covered the murder for el nuevo día, puerto rico's highest circulation newspaper. it happened in september 2005. right here on these cobblestone streets. yes, he died right here.

and that kind of thing doesn't happen. i mean, old san juan is relatively safe, right? especially this time of night, that time of year. in my years of experience as a journalist, i don't remember a murder in old san juan. i'm talking about, like, 20 years. so the murder of a businessman in puerto rico is something unheard of in old san juan. narrator: unheard of to jose, unfathomable to those who knew adam, like friend, lily gracia. it was absolutely devastating because adam had so much potential. narrator: another friend, andy weddle, remembers finding out in the middle of the night. a professor from business school called me and told me he was dead, that he had been murdered. i couldn't believe i was just-- what happened? narrator: lissette calderon got a call from the same professor. and he said, adam passed away. and i still get chills. and i think at that moment, it just was a wail of--

a cry of just pain. and everybody ran in to see what happened. all i could say was, adam died, adam died. narrator: in winnipeg, canada, adam's parents, barbara and abe and anhang, learned of adam's death from their daughter, becky. the devastating news left them reeling. it was as if the ground had disappeared beneath our feet. we felt like we were whirling through the universe and could not even register the information. and to hear how it happened, abe, how painful was that? well, i'll tell you something. i made a resolve then and there, then and there, whoever did this is going to pay for it. and that was what i said to myself 5 seconds after i heard it. that was your mission. yep, that's what it was. narrator: abe anhang, you'll hear more from him later, and how his love for his son would lead him

on a 13-year quest for justice that would uncover secrets and spanned continents. but in those first hours and days after the murder, it would be up to the san juan police to find adam's killer. and in the early 2000's, that was an almost herculean task, because while the tourist heart of puerto rico, old san juan, was all but free of violent crime, the rest of the island was not. during that time, puerto rico was bordering 1,000 murders a year. we had a higher murder rate than los angeles. and there's 6 million people in los angeles, less than half in puerto rico. narrator: but this was a high profile case. adam was a prominent businessman on the island. he was also canadian, and therefore considered a tourist. so his murder smack in the middle of old san juan became a top priority for law enforcement. how much pressure was there on the police,

then, in the days that followed, to make an arrest in the case? the detective in charge of the case, he was being very pressured by the higher-ups to solve the case. narrator: the detective didn't have much to go on. robbery didn't seem to be the motive because nothing was taken. they didn't take his wallet, didn't take the watch. they didn't take his watch. so it looks like a senseless murder. narrator: a senseless murder with multiple witnesses, including adam's wife, aurea, who was in the hospital recovering from her injuries. detectives got her statement and fanned out, looking to speak to any others. they had eyewitness accounts. what did the description of the killer look like? the general description from two witnesses who came forth since the beginning was a heavyset guy, tall, who attacked them both, pushed aurea, and then continued to attack adam. narrator: heavyset, tall, so the police knew

what the killer looked like. now, the pressure was on to find him and answer the most important question, why did he kill adam anhang? narrator: coming up, adam had been working on million dollar real estate deals. had one of them gone wrong? he's doing this all over the world. all over the world. narrator: and later, marriage and deception. he came to realize immediately that it was all about the money. narrator: as a father searches for the truth. he didn't stop. narrator: and the fbi launches a sting to catch an international fugitive. did you think it was going to work? i gave it a 50/50 chance. narrator: when "dateline" continues. ooo! our car's value went up! maybe we should track all our cars' value on carvana? we need more trackers! oh! i'm getting a value update! do you see which one is going off? how's it trackin'? some dips, some rises. now what? "hold?" sold. track your car's value on carvana today. why pay more for an effective daily body lotion?

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he returned for a final time in a casket. at 32, still a young man, but if the size of his funeral was any indication, he had succeeded in leaving an indelible mark on those around him. there was hundreds of people. there wasn't an empty seat inside the service. and it was this gloomy day. to see abe, and to see barbara and becky, and to see their pain that day, haunts me still. narrator: the anhang family is jewish. and part of a traditional burial service is shoveling dirt on the casket. to watch mr. anhang, you could see it was like, this pain and anger and sadness, and just the way he would shovel quicker. and it was a very powerful visual for the rest of my life, to see his dad burying his son.

narrator: parents aren't supposed to bury their children. and so for the anhang's, it marked the unnatural end to a life that began with so much promise. i heard he used to walk around with a little briefcases. is that true? he came to the first day of kindergarten with his briefcase. i never thought of him as a little boy. he was a little man. he liked to do things on his own, always something a little different, creative. he loved to solve problems, especially other people's problems. when people got into trouble, they would come to him. he was that kind of a personality. narrator: according to his parents, adam was a computer whiz with an entrepreneurial spirit and big dreams beyond the big skies of his hometown. he left home at age 18 or 19. and he went to the wharton school eventually, which of course is the top business school in the world for entrepreneurs. narrator: the wharton school at the university of pennsylvania-- adam was taking graduate level courses

at the prestigious business school, even though he was still an undergrad. that's where he found a kindred spirit in lissette calderon. we happened to sit next to each other in a real estate class. we just started talking-- and just not very tall, thin person, but had this giant personality. and i was just so enamored by him. and you know, a friendship just kind of organically ensued from there, that in many ways became inseparable. narrator: andy weddle was also struck by adam the first time they met. i was going to spend the afternoon studying. i had a great table. you're a little older. so you're-- yeah, i'm an mba. and i had earplugs in. and i sensed somebody who was standing next to me. and there was adam with his friend. and he said, can i sit with you? and my instinct was, hey, can't you see that i'm busy here? but he had this great smile and energy. so he sat down. and i just felt like i wanted more.

narrator: mike waller met adam at a college competition for business students. just that kind of friend that was always there, always available. and our conversations rotated between business topics and business ideas, to just the kind of things that young kids go through. he was the person i would call it 2:00 in the morning if i had a business idea i wanted to run by. he'd do the same. and then we'd talk until we had to go to work or go to class. narrator: it's a recurring theme among adam's friends, the man with the big smile and giant personality was always there when you neede what was it about his personality that lissette, to you, is the signature adam? he had the biggest heart of anybody i've ever met. whether you needed the friendship, you needed the advice, whatever you needed, he was giving. and he was there. and to this day-- and very trusting to a fault. he was-- to an extreme fault, he was trusting.

and he was trusting of everybody. and he believed that the kindness that he exuded, the kindness that he gave out, everybody had. and that was always a conversation that we had, that i would say, adam, not everybody's like you. narrator: after graduating from college, adam dove headfirst into the business world, where he possessed an innate ability to spot a good deal. i always would tell him, you're the smartest person i know because he could think outside the box. and he saw what nobody else saw. he was building buildings, hotels, in markets that had no hotels, largely, some of them. and he's doing this all over the world, then, at this point? all over the world. my name is adam anhang. and i am class of wharton '96. narrator: adam's success brought him back to the wharton school as a guest lecturer. how many men in this room are single? how many women do you have to ask before they agree to go out with you? ok, the nature of being an entrepreneur is that you are constantly pitching some idea.

i know you're very successful. you can point to that. narrator: as adam's business acumen grew, so did his reputation as a problem solver. that reputation is what first brought him to puerto rico in 2002. carlos tirado was working for a real estate developer who wanted adam's help in finalizing a hotel deal. and what was your impression of adam? young, innocent, really nice kid. and he came here. he fell in love with the island. narrator: puerto rico, la isla del encanto, "the enchanted island," as it's called. and with its pristine beaches, crystal blue water, and historic old san juan, it's easy to understand why. but adam was enchanted by something else he saw in the island, opportunity. i thought, what is this little kid

going to come up with? i mean, what can he do? this is a child! narrator: lily gracia met adam through his business partner. we didn't think there was that much potential there. but five minutes into a conversation with adam, you realized there's something there. narrator: in fact, adam helped open the first major hotel on vieques, the small puerto rican island once used by the us navy as a bombing range, but now, a tourist mecca. was there a lot of hope in what he was planning? absolutely, absolutely, he had a lot on the table. narrator: but to lily, there was much more to her friend adam than just his forward-thinking business savvy. for me, i loved his wit. he had that bright, sarcastic humor. but yet he was very kind. he wasn't pretentious. he was just adorable, sweet, sweet adam. narrator: sweet adam had found a new place to call home, a new place to pursue his dreams.

and it wasn't long before he found himself pursued by a beautiful young woman. natalie morales: did she catch his eye right away? i don't think it was right away because he had other girls around him, too. it wasn't her. but she was the most persistent. narrator: coming up. they were at a restaurant. and aurea had parked the car. narrator: adam's last hours alive. and they came down the street, where they were met by the assailant who killed adam right here in this cross section. narrator: and detectives make an arrest. he had no criminal record. did you think, oh, a sense of relief, finally. oh, yeah, of course. natalie morales: they caught a guy. sure. narrator: when "dateline" continues.

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narrator: adam anhang had not been in puerto rico long before he met 23-year-old aurea vázquez-rijos rios. it was at a party.

his friend lily was also there. the attraction for him was that she was giving him all the attention that he needed, that he wanted. narrator: adam felt he had hit the jackpot in landing aurea. he thought she was miss puerto rico for him, and he had hooked the girl. he was proud of his accomplishment. like, he had really done it. narrator: lily says aurea, who had a modest upbringing, tried her best to fit in with adam's upscale circle of friends. she really wanted to belong. she really tried to do all the right things around us to try to belong. narrator: aurea was seen more and more frequently on adam's arm. and he introduced her to his parents when they visited the island. what was your impression of her? she was striking, very attractive, articulate. bright. narrator: aurea dreamt of running her own business. so adam bought her a restaurant

and bar in old san juan. she named it pink skirt. in march 2005, adam and aurea wed in a small ceremony. but by september, adam would be dead, murdered just blocks from pink skirt. everyone was shocked because old san juan is not a dangerous place. in fact, it's quite safe. businessmen come and go here. and this doesn't happen. narrator: the detectives tasked with finding adam's killer had pieced together the last few hours of his life. he and aurea had driven into old san juan that night to have dinner. they parked their car and were captured on security footage walking down the street at about 10:00 pm. and a few minutes later, inside the trendy restaurant, dragonfly, where they ate. an hour and a half later, they can be seen leaving the restaurant and walking in the direction of aria's bar, pink skirt.

journalist jose sanchez fournier. so it was just up the street. they were at a restaurant. they were at a restaurant. and aurea had parked the car. they went to dinner. and then she told him that they had to stop at pink skirt for a moment. and after stopping at pink skirt, they came down the street, where they were met by the assailant, who killed adam right here in this cross section. narrator: aurea had also been attacked. the assailant pushed her or struck her. and then she fell. narrator: the police were working diligently to identify and track down adam's murderer. but they weren't the only ones poking around the streets of san juan, so was adam's father, abe. you made several trips to puerto rico. oh, many times, many times. what were you hoping to get out of going there? well, first of all, i had to clean up his business affairs. but most important of all, i wanted to talk to the people out onto the street in old san juan. everybody knew the story. they hadn't had a murder in old san juan for 20 years.

and they were ashamed of this one, is what everyone kept telling me. it's an unauthorized killing, abe. it's an unauthorized killing. so of course, you know, what was an authorized killing, right? right. so i had to understand, to get to know the lingo of the underworld, and what really went on. narrator: abe wanted answers. if you want to know who adam is, just look at abe. look at that quiet strength, that strategic intelligence. narrator: "dateline" began covering this story not long after adam was killed in 2005. abe allowed our cameras to follow him when he visited the intersection where his son was murdered. adam's family put up a $25,000 reward, asking for information that would lead to the arrest of adam's killer. eyewitnesses described that killer as a tall, heavyset man who fled the scene on foot towards a neighborhood called la perla, a depressed area of old san juan.

but there were discrepancies in the various eyewitness accounts, including the one aurea gave in the hospital. detectives wanted to clear them up. so one of them went to talk to aurea at her restaurant 2 and 1/2 weeks after the murder. she wasn't there. but someone else caught his attention. so he went directly to pink skirt. he finds a kid who looks like-- this is the first time he's seen somebody with a similar description to the assailant. narrator: when the man refused to answer the detective's questions, he was arrested on the spot for suspicion of murder. his name was jonathan román. and he lived in la perla. he had no criminal record. narrator: the 22-year-old denied killing or even knowing adam. but when he was picked out of a photo lineup by one of the eyewitnesses who was a lawyer, it was enough for the authorities. román was charged with adam anhang's murder.

when you heard jonathan román had been arrested, did you think, oh, sense of relief, finally. oh, yeah, of course. natalie morales: they caught a guy. sure. narrator: román pleaded not guilty and was released on bond. jonathan roman: [non-english speech] interpreter: i am not a murderer. narrator: he spoke with "dateline" in 2007 as he awaited trial. jonathan roman: [non-english speech] interpreter: i don't have anything to hide. i'm innocent. narrator: román said he'd been at home, sleeping on the night adam was murdered, but didn't have anyone to back up his alibi. interpreter: they saw someone. but they didn't see me. narrator: in september 2007, two years after adam's murder, román's trial began. and of course, abe was there. the case hinged almost exclusively on the testimony of that lawyer who identified román as adam's killer. that lawyer was adamant in his statement. and he would say, i sleep well every night. narrator: the jury believed him.

jonathan román was convicted of killing adam, and sentenced to 105 years in prison. but román's conviction didn't bring the anhang family the closure one might expect. today, part of the truth came out. natalie morales: you told the press after jonathan román was convicted, today, part of the truth came out. that's just the beginning because there are others involved. that's exactly what i said. and that's what i said? what did you mean by that? in retrospect, i had a sneaking suspicion there was all kinds of craziness going on that didn't make any sense. narrator: abe's suspicions were fueled by a theory the prosecution had raised at trial, that adam's murder hadn't been random at all. román had targeted him. and somebody had put him up to it. for adam's family and friends, it was clear who that somebody was. in spite of the pain and the agony, we all connected the dots very quickly.

there was no doubt in my mind, and in those of us that knew and loved adam, that she had something to do with it. narrator: coming up. it was a total game. she wasn't even attracted to him. narrator: a very smart guy fooled by the oldest trick in the book. she tricked him into marrying him. she tricked him into marrying him. she's the ultimate con. and she's very, very skilled at what she does. narrator: when "dateline" continues. (cough cough) (sneeze) (♪♪) new alka-seltzer plus cold or flu fizzy chews. chew. fizz. feel better fast. no water needed. new alka-seltzer plus fizzychews. why pay more for an effective daily body lotion? gold bondo water needed. healing lotion hydrates for half the price of the leading daily moisturizing lotion. it visibly heals and moisturizes dry skin in just 1 use.

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it marks the first live performance from her grammy nominated album, cowboy carter. let's get you back to dateline. e his friends believed one person was behind the murder, his wife, aurea. so you all pretty quickly came to the conclusion, it sounds like, that she was connected in some way to his death. absolutely. narrator: lissette and the others were convinced adam's killing had been a setup. we knew it wasn't a robbery. we knew it wasn't random. we knew it was her. narrator: adam's family also felt aurea was somehow involved. when did you start thinking aurea is somehow implicated in this? well, i had suspected her a little here and there, of course. narrator: as abe and barbara learned more about adam and aurea's relationship,

they came to an alarming conclusion. she's certainly the ultimate con. and she's very, very skilled at what she does. narrator: what she did, says adam's friend, lily, was used adam for his money, and the social circle he brought her into. it was a total game. i mean, she wasn't even attracted to him. you could tell. she was mean to him. but she was nice to us. she wanted to belong. so she needed him as a ticket to fit in. narrator: adam seemed to have his own doubts about the relationship because when they got married, he tried to keep it a secret. he didn't tell any of us. none of us were invited, none of his friends, none of his business partners, not his family. you didn't know he was married at all? oh no, nobody knew. how did you find out that he had gotten married? do you remember when he told you? well, it was about a month after he got married. narrator: abe says the marriage happened so quickly because aurea told adam she was pregnant.

the mother basically said, you know, you've got to preserve our daughter's honor and her name. and you've got to marry her. he married her because that's the kind of stand-up person that he was. and that's the kind of individual he was. so he did what he believed was the right thing to do. and knowing full well the kind of kid he was, and the background he came from, that was probably the strategy that was worked out. and it was unfortunately successful. narrator: friends like mike waller say the marriage was rocky from the start. what kind of problems did he tell you he was having with her? he just shared that he had gotten married. it had been-- it happened quickly. and he came to realize immediately that it was all about the money and about the prestige of being with him, and that he realized he needed to get out of the situation. adam is a fixer. and so in prior relationships where one of us would probably point out the shortcomings of a relationship, adam could fix it.

but he had very quickly realized that this was all about the money and that he was being used. narrator: adam and aurea lived in a house in the upscale ocean park neighborhood of san juan. but they weren't alone. aurea brought along her sister, marcia, mother carmen, and her two brothers. it was like the whole family was there, living off of adam, taking advantage of adam, very blatant. it wasn't subtle. it was obvious. and adam would tell us, i feel like a stranger in this home. the mother is there. they speak spanish. i know they're talking about me. and they're making fun of me. i know it. he was uncomfortable there. he couldn't be there. narrator: and it got worse. it soon became obvious that aurea was not pregnant, never had been. she had faked it. adam was devastated. here's the smartest person in the world falling for the oldest trick in the book. and he became real angry about that. she tricked him into marrying him.

she tricked him into marrying him. narrator: just months after marrying aurea, adam moved into an apartment and began to plan for a divorce. the divorce for her would have meant an end to her being able to move up in the world. so she was desperate. and when people are desperate, they do desperate things, i guess. narrator: adam became afraid of what aurea might do. he turned to his friend carlos tirado, hiring him to be his bodyguard. so you went with him everywhere? i travelled with him. i went with him everywhere. i picked him up in the morning. and i dropped him off in the evening. narrator: but fearful as he was, adam did not cut off all contact with aurea. they went to couples therapy in a last ditch effort to save the marriage. but by late september of 2005, just six months after they had gotten married, adam decided to move ahead with the divorce. he planned to discuss it with aurea the night he died.

to keep the peace, he told carlos to take the night off. he thought, she didn't like me. and he thought that without me there, he had a plan that he could convince her to give him the divorce. i went home. and i was hoping that by the next day, we would hear that it was over. narrator: to this day, carlos carries the weight of knowing he wasn't there that night to help his friend. the guy that i'm supposed to protect his life, my friend, this kid was everything i would like to have in a son, gone on my time, on my watch. it wasn't easy for a while. it doesn't go away. it just-- it's easier to live with it, you know? narrator: the grief carlos and so many of adam's friends and family feel over his death is still apparent,

a grief they say aurea and her family never shared. in fact, aurea didn't attend adam's funeral in winnipeg. and abe says she never offered any condolences to his family. natalie morales: she's not grieving adam. grieving? she's not grieving him at all, nah-- greeding him, greeting him. she's thinking about money. yeah, right, greeding him, not greeding him. narrator: when she recovered from her injuries, aurea made a claim to what she said was her share of adam's estate, $8 million. and carlos says she and her family were gathering up as many of adam's possessions as they could. they all went out to collect the material things that they had from him. they got the bmw. she was already cleaning his house. she was cleaning house. narrator: as adam's family and friends thought back to what

they saw as the calculating way aurea inserted herself into his life, how she deceived him for her own personal gain, and how she acted after his death, they became convinced she had a hand in his murder. but something else was nagging at abe. he was beginning to wonder if jonathan román was not adam's killer after all. natalie morales: when we interviewed you back then for our first "dateline" piece-- yeah, i had no idea. natalie morales: --that was the beginning. yes, it was. it seemed like the ending. that's right. 80% of what had happened has happened since that event. narrator: abe was on a crusade to uncover the truth about his son's death. and he was about to take a drastic step. to know abe is to know that justice, as we know it on this earth, was going to be served. narrator: coming up.

i just had a feeling that it wasn't-- it didn't fit together. narrator: so what did fit together? abe said he felt like his son was targeted, right? correct. that it was a hit job? correct, the agents came back and said, you know, a lot of the stuff that abe is telling us is checking out. so we think there's more to this story than meets the eye. narrator: when "dateline" continues. let's monopoly go! friends are like money. keke, i won again? they make everything more fun. and you can never have enough! toodaloo. my moderate to severe crohn's symptoms kept me out of the picture. now i have skyrizi. ♪ i've got places to go and i'm feeling free. ♪ ♪ control of my crohn's means everything to me. ♪ ♪ control is everything to me.♪ and now i'm back in the picture. feel significant symptom relief at 4 weeks

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he has nothing to do with this. narrator: reporters weren't the only ones who had begun to question whether román was the actual killer. abe anhang also had doubts. it wasn't until after the trial with jonathan. and i sat through it for eight weeks. i just had a feeling that it wasn't-- it didn't fit together, you see. narrator: abe found himself troubled by the seeming lack of hard evidence implicating román in the murder. it was very skimpy. it was just a description, eyewitness description. it was a single witness. narrator: but it wasn't just what abe was hearing in the courtroom that gave him pause. he was out talking to people in restaurants, bars, even the la perla neighborhood where román lived. you can get more information in a bar, whether it's alcohol or coffee, than you'll get in a courtroom. people talk.

narrator: and what people were saying was that jonathan román had not killed his son. the joke was that everybody in the street knew about the police. narrator: abe was unsettled by the prospect that adam's real killer might still be out there. so he set off on a decade-long odyssey to uncover the truth about what happened that september night. abe's first step, not 24 hours after román had been convicted, was to take his doubts to the fbi. abe took it upon himself to go on a crusade to open our eyes up. narrator: carlos cases is a retired fbi assistant director. he served 17 years in the san juan field office, three of them as the special agent in charge. he says the fbi, which operates in puerto rico because it is a us territory, typically leaves homicide cases to local authorities,

as they had with adam's murder. sad to say, but it was just one more homicide among the hundreds that occurred here every year. so the fbi had no reason to even look into the matter until abe anhang walked into your offices. correct. narrator: abe was able to sit down with an agent. abe wanted the fbi to investigate his son's murder, the circumstances surrounding the murder, and basically figure out why he was killed. and he felt that jonathan román had nothing to do with the homicide, and had been arrested, charged, and convicted for something that he did not do. abe said he felt like his son was targeted, right? correct. that it was a hit job? correct. narrator: abe told the agent who he thought had ordered the hit. abe anhang had suspected aurea had something to do in the murder of his son. narrator: but abe had no real evidence to back him up,

and no idea if the fbi would be willing to help. at the time, did you think, yeah, they said they're going to open a file. my file is going to be one of many files. did you think that they were going to be as adamant about pursuing justice as you were? oh gosh, i had no idea how much i could-- i mean, first of all, remember, i was canadian. i had no real right to demand things that an american citizen might demand, ok? i mean, i realized that. why would they take an interest? we aren't a priority for them. so i had to really rely on the goodwill of these men, almost all men, to do the right thing. that was all i had. narrator: the right thing in the fbi's mind was to take a closer look at what abe was telling them. and the fbi agreed to look at the case, why? we agreed to look at the case because of the notoriety of the case at the time. and it happened in old san juan,

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well, this bench, adam and i used to sit here. narrator: when adam was a kid, abe says the two of them would walk to this nearby park to sit and watch the airplanes fly overhead. adam would memorize the flight schedule for the local airport. he would then tell me where they were from, where they were going. and we would talk about what those people were likely talking about, and what they were coming to winnipeg for, and where they were going. narrator: abe says these moments helped adam understand and appreciate the larger world beyond winnipeg. and here was a way that we could relate to the world by a simple act of sitting here on a saturday afternoon. narrator: it is bittersweet now for abe, knowing that the big plans adam dreamt up on this bench would ultimately lead him to puerto rico and his murder, a murder that the fbi now

is looking into. and we see discrepancies. and we see that there is a description of an individual that is inconsistent with the individual that was at local trial and convicted. narrator: special agents devin kowalski and scott patterson would join the team that worked the case. they say one of the first things the fbi did was re-interview the witnesses. unfortunately in puerto rico, when maybe local law enforcement goes out and talks to the community, there might be story a. when the fbi goes out and talks to individuals in community, there's story b. generally, story b is a little more accurate. narrator: and story b was leading the fbi to a different suspect, not jonathan román, who had been convicted of killing adam, but someone named alex pabón, known on the street as el loco, "the crazy one." when this all happened, the name, alex pabón, was provided.

narrator: turns out, it was a name authorities had heard before. in fact, during jonathan román's trial, a defense witness testified that she saw the murder and recognized the killer. she said it was not román, but a man named alex. the jury evidently disregarded the testimony. the fbi agents did not. and they went into la perla and started conducting interviews and talking to people, looking for him. narrator: remember, la perla is the neighborhood where witnesses said the killer fled after the murder. it's nestled between the ocean and a cliff that abuts old san juan, just blocks from where adam died. and while it occupies a beautiful piece of real estate, it has a reputation for harboring criminals. natalie morales: so here's la perla. so here's la perla. jonathan román lived here. jonathan román lived here. and alex pabón. so did alex pabón. narrator: adam's friend, carlos tirado, was born and raised in san juan.

he says la perla's reputation is well-deserved. there's families that have been here for generations. then there's also the drug kingpins that discover that they can hide in here and walk out of here. so they don't allow any robberies. they don't allow anything going on here that's not supposed to go on. they protect the tourists in that way. they protect the tourists. they protect themselves. they keep the tourism going in the island and avoid the cops coming in after them. narrator: that criminal element was not happy with the heat alex pabón had brought into la perla. la perla is a little bit of a self-policing area. and you know, obviously, like, alex pabón was no longer welcome there. and they had told him to leave, or else they probably would have killed him himself, for allowing, you know, an innocent man to be charged with a crime that he committed. so he was pretty much in hiding. narrator: pabón had left la perla, but not san juan. and in april 2008, the fbi tracked him down.

what story did alex tell them? initially, he denied it. but then he started cooperating. narrator: he didn't just cooperate. alex pabón confessed. he said, yeah, i killed him. i beat him in the head, stabbed him. and then i just left him there to die. narrator: but pabón kept talking. he said he didn't act alone, that adam's murder was part of a conspiracy. who did he say was part of the ring? so he basically said that he had been hired by aurea vazquez-rijos. narrator: aurea, just as adam's family and friends had suspected. he basically said that aurea offered him $3 million to kill adam. narrator: alex pabón's confession and implication of aurea was a major breakthrough in the case. but agents couldn't base aurea's arrest solely on the words of a killer. we had to corroborate everything he said. it's a sensational story.

narrator: a sensational story, but was it true? narrator: coming up. she makes multiple phone calls to adam's work, in an attempt to speak with him to arrange a dinner later that evening. narrator: did aurea lead adam to his death? she is having dinner at the dragonfly. and that is when the plan goes into action. narrator: and later, aurea's new plan. i guess she figured, i don't want anything to do with this. so let me get away. you got to give her credit, she's a very smart woman, very conniving. narrator: when "dateline" continues.

narrator: back to our story. an alleged killer is behind bars, but a mystery remains. abe said he felt like his son was targeted, right? correct. that it was a hit job? correct. narrator: the fbi is trying to prove it's adam's estranged wife who ordered the hit. she's one of the very few people that i would say, are very evil and conniving.