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this is "nightline." >> tonight, tragedy or murder? she called 911 saying she was watching her fiance drown. >> my fiance fell in the water. can you please call anybody? >> was she really responsible for a kayaking trip turned deadly. what newly obtained video of the interrogation reveals. >> plus, from olympian to escort. when her olympic dreams fell apart one of the world's fastest runners started chasing a different rush? >> why shouldn't i get paid for sex. >> she takes us inside her double life as a married famous athlete and las vegas escort and road to redemption. >> when tyra banks and christie tiegan join forces. from fashion to food.
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good evening. thank you for joining us. tonight new details in a bizarre case of romantic boating trip
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gone horribly wrong. did a young woman lose her fiance in a tragic accident or was it murder? we have obtained video of her interrogation that may help answer those questions. >> reporter: in this newly released 911, her voice sound like a frantic call for help. could it be a cold-blooded cover-up. >> reporter: police and prosecutors say the drowning of graswald's fiance was no accident. it was murder. she has been in jail on $9 million bond awaiting trial. but tonight abc news has obtained the interrogation video which attorneys believe could help set her free. she made a desperate call to 911 after a romantic kayaking trip
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when her trip turned tragic. it was a warm april evening. but the river deceptively 46 degrees, cold enough to kill and it does. with no life jacket, no protective dry suit her fiance vincent who had been drinking sinks into the bone chilling current. and then vincent villafor disappears. his body not resurfacing until weeks later. while he was still missing angeliqa spoke with the station. >> he was trying to figure out how to paddle the waves. they were getting crazy. and -- and then i just saw him flip. i saw him struggling a little
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bit. >> reporter: police soon becoming suspicious of her. she didn't seem like the grief stricken girlfriend on social media to authorities. changing her facebook photo with the caption if only i could have paddled harder. uploading the seemingly lighthearted video of her returning to the place where she met villafor when he was still missing. >> what a beautiful day. driving at the yacht club. >> she made statements that implicated herself in the crime. enough that have reasonable cause. >> reporter: after questioning her nearly 12 hours, police arrest her charging her with second degree murder. insisting she confess during the interrogation. >> reporter: in this interrogation video obtained by abc news, graswald continually denies killing her fiance. >> i didn't want to kill him. >> reporter: cooped up overnight stretching in yoga poses, she admits to police the relationship with vincent did
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take a toll on her. >> he pushed for sexual, sexual stuff. >> he always wanted sex. always wanted you to do sexual things. >> he wanted threesomes, foursomes. everything. and i was just not ready. >> she is 35. vincent was 46. though he was demanding and often jealous. she still want aid life with him and kconsidered his death a tragic accident. >> i wanted to have kids with him. and get married and live happily ever after. he was driving me crazy for a long time. i didn't want to kill him or anything look that. >> did you want him gone? isn't that what you said? >> i agree. i still wanted kid with him though. >> she admits she may have tampered with the paddle and removed the drain plug on his kayak weeks earlier but insists it wasn't part of a plot to kill him. >> why didn't you have the plug in there? >> he didn't have it because. i guess i had it. >> reporter: at time she
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expresses relief that he is dead. which police and prosecutors used to make the case against her. >> did you intentionally take that plug out because you wanted to -- >> could be. >> when you watched him in the water, was a part of you saying, my worries are gone away now? were you almost -- >> euphoric? >> euphoric that he was going to be gone? >> there is no question she would have been much better off legally if she had said not going to answer your questions. i want to talk to a lawyer. >> reporter: her lawyers say she struggles with english and cultural differences. but even so in the video she never says she was trying to kill him. >> a confession would be her saying, i did it. i killed him. and incriminating statement is, i'm relieved that he's gone.
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those are two very different things. >> reporter: experts tell abc news, a missing drain plug would not cause a kayak to sink even in rough waters. >> she set out to kill him via a drain plug in my mind is ridiculous. i don't, i don't see that as beg plausible at all. if she wanted to kill him by kayak, all she would have had to have done is basically capsized his boat and paddle away. >> reporter: she was indicted for murder and manslaughter has been in jail since april. defense attorneys say her defense will come down to common sense. >> i think that we're getting more of the discovery. and we are, now we can actually listen to the interrogation and see it. i think that you, know, curious, rational, intelligent people all come to the same conclusion. that is that she is not guilty. >> reporter: those who know her tell us they're shocked by the allegations. >> she is a very sweet girl as far as, as far as i have known. very energetic. very happy-go-lucky. you know, just a really nice
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person. >> it is this sunny personality in the days after the tragedy that graswald's lawyers say have led to unfair public trial. >> they try to paint her as a murderer. in fact she was a fiance who was very much love and now the victim of a tragedy. we are trying to avoid her being the victim of a second tragedy. >> next, why would a famous athlete seek out a double life as a las vegas escort? golden girl gone wild, susie faber hamilton opens up. >> and model mogus chrissy tiegen and tyra banks on the set of their show. and what if this happened again? i was given warfarin in the hospital but i wondered if this was the right treatment for me. then my doctor told me about eliquis. eliquis treats dvt and pe blood clots
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how does a former olympian rising star fall into a dark world as a paid las vegas escort? tonight susie faber hamilton gets candid with elizabeth vargas about her life, her lies and the medical diagnosis that changed it all.
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>> reporter: susie faber hamilton has been running for most of her life. a famous olympian known for cover shots and commercials. but now living a secret double life. why shouldn't i get paid for sex? one day i had run a half marathon in the morning in a different state. got to vegas. had five appointments. >> reporter: when you say five appointments? >> five different clients i saw that day. >> reporter: you slept with five different men. until one day her world comes crashing down. >> my life went from the all-american girl to the whore overnight. >> reporter: the early 1990s are a time of hope and optimism for susie. she and her long time boyfriend mark get married the week after graduation. >> how did you feel watching her, proud? >> yeah, absolutely. very proud. it was pretty cool. >> susie hamilton, u.s. middle distance runner. >> reporter: as the olympics approach the glamorous blond is solid gold. endorsements from shampoo and shoe companies come quickly.
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>> pump up and air out. >> reporter: that was putting this extra pressure on. >> reporter: to do what though? >> to make the next olympic team. to win a gold medal. >> one of the medal favorites. >> reporter: she is at the starting line at the women's 1500 in the sydney olympics. >> when i got to the starting line i just wanted to vanish. i told myself just fall. >> into the home straight away. susan faber hamilton has fall in down. >> reporter: how long did you keep the story alive that you were injured and not that you deliberately fell? >> for a long time. long, long time. >> reporter: humiliated the one time cover girl begins to slide into depression. what did it look like? >> ugly. it was just anger. i saw anger for the first time in her. >> reporter: mark insists his wife get medical help. after trial and error with various anti-depressants, susie believes she found one that works. but things continue to go downhill on the home front. had the two of you lost your spark attraction for each other?
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>> yeah, i was not very attracted to my wife. i know she felt the same. >> we needed a spark to the relationship. >> reporter: susie suggests a trip to las vegas for the 20th wedding anniversary. but she has something more in mind than slot machines and the celine dion show. >> we decided why don't we try a threesome? >> reporter: a threesome? >> yeah, something we talked about. >> reporter: forgive me that's not on most people's bucket list. >> i kind of felt like why isn't everybody else doing this, why isn't everybody living life to the fullest? >> reporter: susie is hooked. she is in a world of sex, money and freedom. >> it came back. it was such an extreme. so slow. going back to my ordinary life. >> reporter: within months the need to feel that euphoric high is too much. she announces to mark she must return. this time alone. >> reporter: you peick up a man in a bar and have sex. how do you then make the jump to i will get paid for sex?
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awe thought was that lightbulb moment in my head. wow, well, why shouldn't i get paid for sex? >> reporter: did you run this by mark? >> i had talked to him. all he thinks is she wants to just sample this, she'll do it once. she'll be done. >> mark, i don't know how anybody can understand how you didn't get up and say i am leaving you this is crazy. >> sometimes i wonder that too to be honest. it's what i did though. i tuned out. you live your life. i live my life. >> reporter: very quickly you begin working under the pseudonym of kelly lundy. >> yes. >> reporter: she advertises her services with these alluring photos. her price $600 an hour. >> reporter: were you worried someone was going to recognize you and figure out you were susie faber hamilton. >> i was completely delusional. whatever it took, whatever risk i was going to do it. >> reporter: any gambler will tell you luck can't last forever. >> i'm waiting for the elevator.
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i hear this man go, hey, susie. i'm like, oh it's just another runner. >> reporter: no, not a runner. but investigative journalist william bastone, co-founder of smoking gun.com. and he's got the goods. according to susie, he tells her he has spoken to several clients and also matched the dates of kelly's availabilities with susie's public appearances. >> i just, i about wanted to, just, die at that moment. because i knew, i knew my life was probably over. >> reporter: two weeks later the story hits with the force of freight train. >> susie faber hamilton was working as a high priced las vegas escort. >> this is unbelievable. there was so much hate mail pouring in. said you need to kill yourself. >> reporter: worried susie might in fact do just that, mark calls the family doctor. finally the question of how all of this happened is answered.
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susie is diagnosed with bipolar disorder. were you surprise to find out you were bipolar? >> completely shocked. >> reporter: and one other key insight. one of susie's doctors, claudia rierdan explained anti-depressants can help some. in susie's case it compounded symptoms. >> we see symptoms, hypersexuality. spending lots of money. engaging in lots of reckless kinds of behaviors because people generally aren't in the state of mind to think through to the consequences of those kinds of behaviors. >> reporter: it has taken years of therapy, medication, and determination for suesie to control her mental illness and confront the horror of her past. yet the ghost still lingers. susie hasn't thrown out her vegas outfits. >> it is interesting that i kept the stuff. it remind me of this kelly and this sex and all of the crazy things she did.
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a and -- >> reporter: today susie can be found not on a running track or the las vegas strip, but up here in the canyons of malibu. >> this is one place you can go to totally get away from the world. her feet and her mind have stopped racing. at long last, the fast girl has learned to slow down. >> ooh. >> reporter: for "nightline," i'm elizabeth vargas in new york. next, chrissy teigen has something tasty in store for us on the set of her new show "fab life" where food and fashion are getting a cozy new home. >> announcer: abc news "nightline," brought to you by macy's.
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finally tonight, tyra banks and chrissy teigen take us behind the scenes of "fab life." lots of beautiful people, good food and tips for the rest of us looking to spice things up. what makes a life fabulous? abc's nick watt find out like only nick can. ♪ oh! >> reporter: tyra banks pouring white wine all over chrissy teigen, entertaining. educational? >> giving out red wine is a -- >> reporter: fab life premieres monday in daytime. the idea teaching us how to live a fab life. that's fun and beautiful. >> lot of education. lot of take away. we call that take away. >> reporter: behind the scenes, and chrissy, john legend's
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