then, just four months before pegye vanished, the bechlers were fired. egations they had overbilled medicare for more than a million dollars. so when linda heard pegye had vanished -- >> i started thinking about how disturbed she was about going to jail. >> reporter: and she wondered if pegye had somehow staged her own disappearance. pegye's friend glenda said no way. >> was peggy bechler capable of committing white collar crime? medicare over-billing? >> in my opinion, no. >> but if you're wrong about that -- >> uh-huh. >> --then maybe the idea that she faked her death to escape possible prosecution for that, maybe that's a little bit more plausible. >> but white collar crime and faking your death and leaving your children and your family are two really separate issues. >> reporter: glenda said pegye adored her children and would never abandon them. >> i will say that people who have never been in the inside of a courtroom or the inside of a jail cell -- >> uh-huh. >> --sometimes do pretty crazy things when they realize that might happen to them. >> i be