. >> her husband karmen picked up a newspaper, looked at the bust and thought he recognized her as wellck and i said, it's awful close. i think we ought to do something. >> they said the bust looked like their friend who lived in a nearby town whom they hadn't seen for the past five years. they told police she left her husband richard and had returned home to her native thailand. when police questioned richard, he did not believe that the skull found at the boy scout ranch 100 miles away from his home was that of his wife. richard said she told him she missed her family in thailand and she wanted to divorce him. he said he personally drove her to the st. louis airport five years earlier to take her flight to thailand. he said that was the last time he and his children saw her. and they never heard from her again. and neighbors confirmed that she had, in fact, spoken of returning to thailand. i knew she told me she had gotten her passport. she had gotten her citizenship and her passport. so it wouldn't have surprised me, you know, if she had done that. >> she mentioned to me, you know, s