elkins. >> investigators believe that howard elkins lured reyna to the factory one night, shortly after she told elkins' wife about their affair, and elkins beat her to death. he then took the body to his suburban long island home, probably with the intention of dumping her into the ocean from his boat. he placed the body into a steel drum from work. to make sure it would sink to the bottom of the ocean, he weighted it with plastic pellets. but he miscalculated the weight of the drum after he sealed it. at 350 pounds, it was much too heavy to carry onto his boat. his only alternative was to push it into a crawl space in his home, and there it remained undisturbed through numerous owners for 34 years. and if trash collectors hadn't refused to pick up the drum, the secret of howard elkins and reyna angelica marroquin might never have been discovered. oscar corral covered the story for "news day." he flew down to el salvador to try to find reyna's family. in san martin, a small village, outside san salvador, he found reyna's 95-year-old mother. >> she came out to the front of the house whe

a message possibly from reyna herself to howard elkins. it said, don't be mad. i told the truth. >>> dianna green was just 20 years old and pregnant when she was brutally raped and beaten in her apartment. the assault caused the death of her unborn baby. when dianna came out of a coma three weeks later, she told police she knew the identity of her attacker, but was her memory accurate? >>> in 1979, dianna green was in the first year of marriage to kevin green, a 21-year-old marine stationed at the el toro military base in tustin, california. on september 30th, 1979, dianna was nine months pregnant, and the baby was due any day. >> come on, what's the matter with you? >> that night, neighbors say they heard the couple engaged in a heated argument, just one of many in what was described as a volatile relationship. >> maybe if you didn't drink so much, i would. now leave me alone. >> at 1:30 in the morning, kevin green left the apartment for a hamburger at a fast food restaurant. when he returned a half hour later, kevin said his wife was bleeding from a gaping hea