representative ralph hall: we got our wings one morning, and i got my wife that night. we got married the same night i got my wings. we were commissioned. the first promotion was lieutenant. i always wanted to stay until i got to be a commander where my wife would have to call me commander but i didn't get this day that long. >> being in the navy, when did you enlist or did you join? representative rahall: december of night 1942. they had some major battles by that time. actually, i started out at the university of texas and roberts hall. that was flight prep. we went from there to memphis for another flight prep, athens, georgia for the strange part of it, kind of like boot camp. we were stationed there at the university of georgia. 20 of us were picked up from austin texas and sent to texas christian university on an experiment that didn't work. they wanted us to start flying 260 horsepower, rather than the cubs, which were 45 horsepower. the flying part didn't bother us. they put 20 red-blooded american boys in jarvis hall at tcu. the girls dormitory back in 1943 tha

. >> reporter: in fact, after investigators explain the full extent of the scam, ralph goes missing. when brett hallosecutor. >> i said, donna, "if you don't take these people into custody, there's nothing i can do." >> and he communicated to us that the only way that we could ensure the victim's safety at that time was to make sure that rachel lee was arrested. >> reporter: you were concerned that he was going to get killed? >> the victim's attorney was concerned for his client's safety. >> reporter: that's when the agents race up to bend, oregon, to the psychic shop where ralph had his first consultation with rachel a decade ago. agents in bulletproof vests move quickly toward the house. inside they find rachel and porsha, bags packed, looking like they are about to embark on a "thelma and louise"-style getaway. >> their bags were packed. it looked like they were going away. >> they had what we called burner phones. they had gotten rid of their traceable iphones and had disposable phones. porsha lee had $36,000 in cash in her underwear at the time. >> reporter: in her underwear? >> in three rolls

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