he ran off with laura michelle reese who would later be known as jane cortez in bocas.n 2005 police say dathan started in on real estate scams. he sold a home that wasn't his for $200,000. police charged him with obtaining property under false pretenses. by the time the owner realized what had happened, dathan was on the run. that landed him on the television program "america's most wanted." somewhere along the line, police say dathan sold a stolen car in montana and when cops pulled him over for speeding in wyoming, he took off. >> stop, right now. >> leading them on a high speed chase before escaping. it seems it was only after he moved to panama the dathan scams took a sinister turn. >> the change was he killed people to get the documentation to take away the property and not only did he steal the property, he would steal everything in the house. cars, boats, right down to the toothbrush and the underwear and their dogs. >> he took down their lives? >> yea. right down to the change in their pockets. >> he was finally in police custody after four years, charged with h