anne myers declined our recent request for an interview, but once spoke with robert anglen. >> this cases cold, as cold as ice. anne meyers is moving through her career. the family never holds a memorial service for eric, but they do have him declared legally dead. >> reporter: with no body, no funeral, nothing except this death certificate to mark his passing, eric myers' life comes to an unceremonious close on june 30th, 1996. his family cashes out an insurance policy worth close to a million dollars. but now when there should finally be closure, there is not. troubling questions remain. >> anne never believed he was dead in the beginning, but as the years passed, what she told me was she wanted him to be dead. she wanted him to be dead, and she wanted him to die unmourned, unloved, and unsung. >> reporter: and as time went on? >> i stopped crying. >> reporter: did you assume that he'd died? >> no. the only logical conclusion that i could come to was, you know, it's a lot easier to find a dead body than it is to find a living one. and if a living body doesn't want to be found, then it