detective jeff bliss decided to pay a visit to corona in jail. my business card down on the table and slid it across, and we said we're homicide detectives. this isn't about an auto theft.truth and we and he's like, hey, i had nothing to do with any murders. and then he changed his story. >> reporter: corona's new story? named sabine. he just found her car parked behind a place called the gator scale wine bar. in a jailhouse interview, corona claimed it was just a crime of >> you didn't see anybody, though, did you? >> i didn't see nobody inside the car or around the car. so that's why i decided to take >> you know? so i go inside, then i see the keys. so i'm like oh [ bleep ].mean? >> mm-hmm. >> and joy ride, you know? >> so the vehicle was left, like, somebody wanted it stolen.liberty of stealing that car. >> reporter: was the second story any more true than the first? the local paper jumped on all this, of course. ot of stories. >> there were a number of people who speculated that sabine mightown to go to an obama celebration that was being he

. >> reporter: detective sergeant john kenney and his partner jeff bliss kept organizinsearches on the beach. looking for any area where the ground or the white sand beach looked disturbed. >> we took cadaver dogs, walked them up and down the beach. we used ground-penetrating radar, checked various spots on the beach just trying to find skeletal remains. >> reporter: to no avail. d in november 2009, the first anniveary of whatever it was that happened, on the beach sabine loved they had a little memorial. husband tom tossed a flower wreath into the surf. >> there was no hope. we knew. she was gone. she was no longer alive. life insurance company wasn't so sure. and right around the time of that memorial service at the beach, tom went to court to takeke the first step to get that money. wasn't it tom who petitioned the court to declare her dead? >> yes. >> reporter: if she's declared dead, he gets a lot of insurance money. >> correct. >> reporter: he gets the ownership outright of the motel. >> correct. >> reporter: yes, that. funny, tom had told the detectives before he'd held a $100,0

bliss, idaho potatoes. got the trinity right here as well too. kathryn: absolutely. have to have it. jeff: so the reason why i don't parboil my potatoes, 'cause i cut 'em small. we're gonna cook 'em right there in all our great flavor. potatoes in first.