according to "vanity fair" writer buzz bissinger, he cut away people from the past, anyone who knew hishe cool detachment of a surgeon. >> i think it's i'm rejecting everything i had in the past. maybe you don't like your wife or maybe you do. he leaves in september of 2004. never, ever contacts her again. he's got a brother neil who he's very close to. never, ever contacts him again. so that's what we're dealing with. >> it must have been exhilarating at first, using fake names and covering your tracks like a character in some spy novel. but in all pulp fiction stories, there comes a time and place where a woman enters the story and carefully wrought plans begin to crumble. for the man calling himself mark stern, the place was courmayeur, and the woman in question had a past as intriguing as his own. >> i saw him in my market. >> a customer. >> yeah. he came to bring milk, bananas, some cheese. >> he was buying milk, banana, cheese from you. >> yeah. >> monica spaconi, a transsexual who says the man who walked into her store bought groceries from her more than two times in the winter o

and according to writer buzz bissinger he did. at home there were maids, a personal trainer, and a masseuse. >> he would go on spending sprees, lived in a $2.5 million condominium, had three drivers on call by limo. >> who could have known in those first blissful days as the music played and champagne flowed how it would all end? certainly not his new bride michelle. >> a northwest indiana doctor is apparently on the run tonight and left behind serious legal trouble. >> in the weeks and months after her husband left her in greece michelle was bound and determined to find out why her husband abandoned her. coming up, lying low, living large. >> he had apparently packed two huge suitcases full of water filtration systems, equipment, language tapes, all types of bizarre things. i think he before he left. >> $500,000. and where did the diamonds go? >> with him i suppose. i didn't find out anything about diamonds until after he had left. >> when "the great escape" continues. ♪ ♪ memories. what we deliver by delivering. noso let's promo

and according to writer buzz bissinger, he did.personal trainer and masseuse. >> he would go on these spending sprees. he lived in a $2.5 million condominium. he had three drivers on call by limo. >> who could have known in those first blissful days, as the music played and champagne flowed, how it would all end. certainly not mark weinberger's new bride, michelle. >> a northwest indiana doctor is apparently on the run tonight and he's left behind serious legal trouble. >> in the weeks and months after her husband left her in greece, michelle was bound and determined to find out why her husband had abandoned her. >>> coming up -- lying low, living large. >> he had apparently packed two suitcases full of water filtration systems and language tapes. i think he bought about maybe $500,000 worth of diamonds before he left. >> $500,000? >> uh-huh. >> and where did the diamonds go? >> with him, i suppose. i didn't find out anything about diamonds until after he had left. >> when "the great escape" continues. escape" continues. for people