so we had a lot in common. >> it took a few years, but michelle kramer has moved on in her life.e felt about the lawyers who had begun zeroing in on her ex-husband just before he fled? >> i think it's a bit opportunistic, but that's the state of our legal system in this country. >> she's changed her mind about that. >> i thought that the lawyers were targeting him and that he was just too cowardly to stand up and that's why he left. but i didn't think he actually did any of these things. >> but now you do. >> i do. >> you think the lawyers had a right to go after him. >> oh, yeah. i'm very glad that they did. >> whether he hopes to return to monica in the alps one day or write that book about his time there, mark weinberger will apparently have plenty of time to plan his next step. the federal judge in this courthouse rejected the plea deal weinberger had agreed to with prosecutors saying 4 1/2 years was not nearly enough given the scope of the crimes. after the judge rejected the deal, mark weinberger withdrew his guilty plea. >> it feels so god to know that he's not going to ge

. >> she was michelle kramer back then, a 25-year-old college student from a blue collar family, stillger, 11 years older, was already a very successful ear, nose and throat doctor. >> we were bonding about medicine because i had just gotten through doing a stint in neuroscience at the university of chicago. we were just making jokes about the medical millew. he was very funny. >> you hit it off right off the bat? >> right. we went out to dinner. it was on a thursday and i spent thursday, friday, saturday and sunday with him and by monday i was enamored and smitten. >> reporter: within month, michelle moved out of her parents' home and into his townhouse in chicago. the whirlwind was on. for a girl whose father was a pipe fitter, this was head turning stuff. >> i want to say this is the best vacation ever. i love you. >> her new love was a philosophy poetry writing renaissance man. >> he swept me off my feet. >> you had an unbelievable life. >> i did. it was so romantic when i met him it was awesome and things got exponentially outrageous as time went on. >> outrageously good. >> for i