but for mike lensing and paul hagis, these quirky old gold mining towns are their beat.igating the sudden and violent deaths of loopy characters who could have stepped out of the pages of a mark twain novel. ron presba, for instance, spent his whole life up here, never left the mountain, was as constant as the wind. >> with ronald presba, i can honestly say i didn't meet one person or talk to one person that didn't hold him in the highest regard. everybody said that he would have given his shirt off of his back to anybody. >> and that was the problem about the presba case. nothing added up. >> this, by far, is one of the most interesting murder cases that i have worked. >> due in no small part to patty, who they discovered, was rather hard to pin down. >> do either one of you have boyfriends or girlfriends that you're currently seeing? >> no. >> not a word about jaime. that relationship would be disclosed by ron's daughters. >> when i mentioned jaime, they didn't even know who he was. they're like, who's jaime? >> when the detectives confronted patty about jaime -- >> we