and we will never know. >> reporter: but the next day, fdle had a major announcement. they'd found a skeletal body in a shallow grave. >> the human remains are those of mike williams. >> reporter: after all those years it was over. police were mum on how they'd found mike's body but speculation was that brian had led them to it. >> further forensic analysis concluded that mike williams was in fact murdered. >> reporter: and his body wasn't in lake seminole after all. it was 50 miles away, back in tallahassee, off a dead-end road by another swampy lake. >> i said, "he can't be dead. he can't be." and they said, "it's mike." i said, "you know that?" and they said, "yes. we've done all the dna." >> reporter: fdle agent will mickler broke the news to denise. >> i saw her tear up when the death notification was provided to her that mike williams's remains had been identified and located. >> reporter: now you'd think with the recovery of the body, murder charges would be filed forthwith, but that didn't happen. detectives continued to investigate. they had another suspect in