1 00:00:20,120 --> 00:00:21,588 BEAUTIFUL PLACES ON EARTH. 2 00:00:21,588 --> 00:00:24,758 >> OUR 911 DISPATCHER GOT A CALL 3 00:00:24,758 --> 00:00:27,961 SOMEONE'S MISSING. >> THERE'S A WOMAN WHO ALLEGEDLY 4 00:00:27,961 --> 00:00:30,096 FELL OVERBOARD, AND THAT'S ALL WE KNOW. 5 00:00:30,096 --> 00:00:32,732 >> WE SEND DIVERS OUT, WE DID AERIAL SEARCHES. 6 00:00:32,732 --> 00:00:34,334 >> Reporter: AND NOTHING >> NOTHING 7 00:00:34,334 --> 00:00:37,003 >> IT IS ALMOST LIKE A VANISHING ACT. 8 00:00:37,003 --> 00:00:39,639 >> Reporter: TIME IS TICKING HERE, AND THERE'S NO SIGHT OF 9 00:00:39,639 --> 00:00:44,444 HER. >> IT'S JUST AN OVERWHELMING 10 00:00:44,444 --> 00:00:47,113 FEELING! >> Reporter: WHAT DID THAT 11 00:00:47,113 --> 00:00:49,749 SURVEILLANCE VIDEO SHOW YOU? >> TWO INDIVIDUALS GETTING ON A 12 00:00:49,749 --> 00:00:52,919 DINGHY, AND GOING INTO THE WATERS 13 00:00:52,919 --> 00:00:56,656 >> THE FACT THAT NO BODY WAS FOUND IS VERY SUSPICIOUS 14 00:00:56,656 --> 00:00:59,859 >> IT'S HEART WRENCHING EVERYDAY 15 00:00:59,859 --> 00:01:03,063 SHE IS AN HONEST AND TRUTHFUL FRIEND 16 00:01:03,063 --> 00:01:06,232 SHE'S GOT A REAL LUST FOR LIFE >> HOW CAN YOU GIVE UP ON YOUR 17 00:01:06,232 --> 00:01:09,936 FRIEND WHERE ON EARTH IS SHE? 18 00:01:10,070 --> 00:01:15,342 >> Reporter: IT'S ANDREA CANNING 19 00:01:15,342 --> 00:01:17,977 FROM "DATELINE." COULD WE TALK TO YOU 20 00:01:17,977 --> 00:01:24,884 DID YOU HAVE ANYTHING TO DO WITH THE DISAPPEARANCE OF SARM? 21 00:01:24,951 --> 00:01:27,921 * 22 00:01:29,756 --> 00:01:35,095 >> HERE'S ANDREA CANNING WITH 23 00:01:35,095 --> 00:01:38,264 "SIREN SONG. >>> THE US VIRGIN ISLANDS OF 24 00:01:38,264 --> 00:01:41,968 SAINT THOMAS, SAINT CROIX AND SAINT JOHN EARNED THE NICKNAME, 25 00:01:41,968 --> 00:01:46,239 "AMERICA'S PARADISE" FOR THEIR MILES OF WHITE SANDY BEACHES AND 26 00:01:46,239 --> 00:01:48,975 IMPOSSIBLY BLUE WATER. >> THE SAILING'S THE BEST IN THE 27 00:01:48,975 --> 00:01:52,112 WORLD. GREAT FOR SNORKELIN' 28 00:01:52,112 --> 00:01:55,448 GREAT FOR ALL WATER ACTIVITIES >> ITS THE EASTERNMOST POINT OF 29 00:01:55,448 --> 00:01:58,985 THE UNITED STATES. IT'S A BEAUTIFUL TROPICAL 30 00:01:58,985 --> 00:02:02,155 ISLAND >> Reporter: IT'S TRULY A "WISH 31 00:02:02,155 --> 00:02:05,325 YOU WERE HERE" DESTINATION SO BREATHTAKING, IT'S HARD TO 32 00:02:05,325 --> 00:02:10,663 IMAGINE SOMETHING TRAGIC HAPPENING IN THIS IDYLLIC PLACE. 33 00:02:10,663 --> 00:02:14,401 BUT, OF COURSE IT DOES ON MARCH 8, 2021, A BEAUTIFUL, 34 00:02:14,401 --> 00:02:17,671 FORMER FLIGHT ATTENDANT MOVED HERE FOR LOVE AND HER DREAM JOB. 35 00:02:17,671 --> 00:02:21,274 WEEKS LATER, THE WOMAN WITH A LUST FOR ADVENTURE DISAPPEARED 36 00:02:21,274 --> 00:02:23,943 WITHOUT A TRACE. >> IT IS ALMOST LIKE A VANISHING 37 00:02:23,943 --> 00:02:26,079 ACT. YOU KNOW, ALL HER PERSONAL 38 00:02:26,079 --> 00:02:28,915 BELONGINGS ARE STILL ON THE BOAT 39 00:02:28,915 --> 00:02:31,918 NO ONE SAW ANYTHING. >> Reporter: IT'S A MYSTERY THAT 40 00:02:31,918 --> 00:02:35,088 MADE INTERNATIONAL HEADLINES FOR HER FRIENDS BACK IN ENGLAND, 41 00:02:35,088 --> 00:02:39,893 THE NEWS WAS DEVASTATING >> I JUST SOBBED 42 00:02:39,893 --> 00:02:42,562 SOBBED THEN I JUST WAS ON THE FLOOR, JUST HYPERVENTILATIN', I 43 00:02:42,562 --> 00:02:46,266 GUESS. I WAS JUST PANICKIN' 44 00:02:46,266 --> 00:02:48,935 >> Reporter: TONIGHT, "DATELINE" TRAVELS TO PARADISE TO TRY TO 45 00:02:48,935 --> 00:02:51,571 FIND OUT WHAT HAPPENED TO THE WOMAN NAMED SARM HESLOP. 46 00:02:51,571 --> 00:02:54,240 CAN THE HELICOPTER SEE INTO THE WATER? 47 00:02:54,240 --> 00:02:56,343 COULD IT SEE A BODY FROM UP THERE? 48 00:02:56,343 --> 00:02:59,546 AND TO TRACK DOWN THE LAST PERSON KNOWN TO HAVE SEEN HER 49 00:02:59,546 --> 00:03:05,418 ALIVE. DO YOU HAVE ANY IDEA WHERE SARM 50 00:03:05,418 --> 00:03:09,122 IS OUR STORY BEGINS OFF THE ISLAND 51 00:03:09,122 --> 00:03:12,826 OF SAINT JOHN, SPRING BREAK 2021 52 00:03:12,826 --> 00:03:17,630 TOURISTS WERE TRAVELING AGAIN. EVERY HOTEL WAS SOLD OUT, EVERY 53 00:03:17,630 --> 00:03:21,368 SAILBOAT BOOKED. ANCHORED JUST A SHORT DISTANCE 54 00:03:21,368 --> 00:03:26,172 FROM SHORE WAS A 47 FOOT LUXURY CATAMARAN CALLED "SIREN SONG." 55 00:03:26,172 --> 00:03:30,410 ALL WAS QUIET ON A WARM, STARRY MARCH NIGHT WHEN SUDDENLY, AN 56 00:03:30,410 --> 00:03:35,715 UNUSUAL DISTRESS CALL CAME FROM THE BOAT 57 00:03:35,715 --> 00:03:39,185 >> OUR 911 DISPATCHER GOT A CALL AT APPROXIMATELY 2:35 A.M. 58 00:03:39,185 --> 00:03:43,890 >> Reporter: THE CALL WAS MADE BY THE BOAT'S CAPTAIN, 59 00:03:43,890 --> 00:03:46,893 HE SAID HIS BRITISH GIRLFRIEND AND FIRST MATE, SARM HESLOP, WAS 60 00:03:46,893 --> 00:03:49,662 MISSING FROM THE BOAT THEY'D BEEN LIVING AND WORKING ON 61 00:03:49,662 --> 00:03:52,799 THEN U.S. VIRGIN ISLANDS POLICE COMMISSIONER, TREVOR VELINOR 62 00:03:52,799 --> 00:03:55,468 SAYS OFFICERS RUSHED TO THE DOCK NEAR WHERE THE BOAT WAS 63 00:03:55,468 --> 00:03:58,004 ANCHORED AS THEY APPROACHED, RYAN WAS IN 64 00:03:58,004 --> 00:04:00,607 A DINGHY COMING TOWARD THEM. >> Reporter: SO HE ACTUALLY 65 00:04:00,607 --> 00:04:02,809 LEAVES THE BOAT TO MEET YOUR PEOPLE 66 00:04:02,809 --> 00:04:06,046 >> YES SO OFFICERS MEET HIM ON THE 67 00:04:06,046 --> 00:04:09,716 DOCK, AND HE EXPLAINS THAT "I WENT TO SLEEP, AND -- WHEN I 68 00:04:09,716 --> 00:04:13,420 AWOKE SHE WAS NOWHERE TO BE FOUND. 69 00:04:13,420 --> 00:04:17,691 >> Reporter: RYAN SAID HIS BOAT ALARM HAD WOKEN HIM UP 70 00:04:17,691 --> 00:04:20,393 >> THERE WAS A ANCHOR ALARM THAT ALERTED THAT THE THE BOAT HAD 71 00:04:20,393 --> 00:04:23,063 SHIFTED OR MOVED >> Reporter: DOES RYAN HAVE ANY 72 00:04:23,063 --> 00:04:25,699 IDEA WHERE SHE COULD BE, OR DOES HE HAVE A HUNCH OR A THEORY OR 73 00:04:25,699 --> 00:04:29,436 ANYTHING >> HE SIMPLY SAID, "MAYBE SHE 74 00:04:29,436 --> 00:04:32,072 COULD HAVE FALLEN OFF THE BOAT." >> Reporter: WITH TIME OF THE 75 00:04:32,072 --> 00:04:36,142 ESSENCE, THE OFFICERS BEGAN SEARCHING FOR SARM IN THE DARK 76 00:04:36,142 --> 00:04:38,445 WATERS OF FRANK BAY. >> THEY LIT THE AREA UP, LOOKED 77 00:04:38,445 --> 00:04:40,580 AROUND THE AREA, DID NOT SEE ANYTHING 78 00:04:40,580 --> 00:04:43,750 >> Reporter: DID HE EXPRESS IF THEY HAD FOUGHT, OR IF SHE WAS 79 00:04:43,750 --> 00:04:46,953 UPSET ABOUT ANY -- ANYTHING THAT, YOU KNOW, MAY HAVE LED HER 80 00:04:46,953 --> 00:04:51,725 TO LEAVE ON HER OWN? >> NO, HE DID NOT PROVIDE ANY 81 00:04:51,725 --> 00:04:54,894 INFORMATION OF AN ARGUMENT OR ANY TYPE OF DISHARMONY 82 00:04:54,894 --> 00:04:57,764 >> Reporter: INSTEAD, RYAN TOLD THE OFFICERS IT WAS AN 83 00:04:57,764 --> 00:05:01,267 UNEVENTFUL NIGHT. THAT HE AND SARM HAD GONE ASHORE 84 00:05:01,267 --> 00:05:04,471 AROUND 6:30 FOR DINNER >> HE IDENTIFIED THAT THEY HAD 85 00:05:04,471 --> 00:05:06,573 BEEN TO A RESTAURANT I THINK IT WAS 420 ON THE 86 00:05:06,573 --> 00:05:09,242 CENTER >> Reporter: A DIVE BAR POPULAR 87 00:05:09,242 --> 00:05:12,612 WITH THE LOCALS. HE SAID THEY STAYED AT THE 88 00:05:12,612 --> 00:05:14,047 RESTAURANT FOR ABOUT AN HOUR AND A HALF 89 00:05:14,047 --> 00:05:17,550 DID HE SAY IF THEY HAD BEEN DRINKING ANYTHING, YOU KNOW, 90 00:05:17,550 --> 00:05:19,853 THAT MIGHT HAVE IMPAIRED HER JUDGMENT 91 00:05:19,853 --> 00:05:23,556 >> MR. BANE INDICATED THAT THEY WERE DRINKING. 92 00:05:23,556 --> 00:05:28,294 BUT HIS EMPHASIS WAS THAT HE WENT TO SLEEP, HE AWOKE, AND SHE 93 00:05:28,294 --> 00:05:31,531 WAS NOWHERE ON THE BOAT. >> Reporter: AFTER THAT BRIEF 94 00:05:31,531 --> 00:05:34,968 INTERVIEW, THE POLICE LEFT, WITHOUT SEARCHING RYAN'S BOAT. 95 00:05:34,968 --> 00:05:38,838 OFFICERS SAY THEY TOLD HIM TO CONTACT THE COAST GUARD, WHICH 96 00:05:38,838 --> 00:05:41,107 HE DID LATER THAT MORNING. >> HE CALLS COAST GUARD SECTOR, 97 00:05:41,107 --> 00:05:44,277 SAN JUAN COMMAND CENTER. THAT IS THE SEARCH AND AREA 98 00:05:44,277 --> 00:05:46,413 COORDINATION CENTER. >> Reporter: LIEUTENANT 99 00:05:46,413 --> 00:05:49,582 COMMANDER JAN LEAGUE SAYS A TEAM SPRUNG INTO ACTION 100 00:05:49,582 --> 00:05:53,820 >> AND THEY LAUNCH OUR 33 FOOT SMALL BOAT 101 00:05:53,820 --> 00:05:57,090 THEY THEN LAUNCH A HELICOPTER -- AN MH-65 OUT OF PUERTO RICO AND 102 00:05:57,090 --> 00:06:00,827 THEY BEGIN AN URGENT MARINE INFORMATION BROADCAST. 103 00:06:00,827 --> 00:06:02,829 >> Reporter: ALERTING THE PUBLIC TO BE ON THE LOOKOUT FOR A 104 00:06:02,829 --> 00:06:08,702 41-YEAR-OLD FEMALE WHO MAY HAVE GONE OVERBOARD 105 00:06:08,702 --> 00:06:11,338 COAST GUARD OFFICERS TOOK US TO THE AREA WHERE THEY SEARCHED 106 00:06:11,338 --> 00:06:13,473 YOUR TEAM PULLS UP TO THE "SIREN SONG" IN A BOAT LIKE THIS. 107 00:06:13,473 --> 00:06:16,142 >> EXACTLY THIS 33-FOOTER 108 00:06:16,142 --> 00:06:18,244 >> Reporter: AND WHAT HAPPENS WHEN WHEN YOU APPROACH "SIREN 109 00:06:18,244 --> 00:06:20,914 SONG"? >> AT THAT POINT, THEY JUST PULL 110 00:06:20,914 --> 00:06:23,049 UP ALONGSIDE, THEY GO ABOARD >> Reporter: AND HOW IS 111 00:06:23,049 --> 00:06:26,219 RYAN BANE REACTING TO THE COAST GUARD ARRIVING 112 00:06:26,219 --> 00:06:30,457 >> HE'S COOPERATIVE. HE SHOWS US ALL OF HER KEYS, HER 113 00:06:30,457 --> 00:06:33,126 PHONE, HER PASSPORT. THEY LOOK ON -- IN THE COCKPIT 114 00:06:33,126 --> 00:06:36,329 THEY DO A QUICK LOOK DOWN THE PASSAGEWAYS. 115 00:06:36,329 --> 00:06:38,965 >> Reporter: WHEN SOMEONE'S PERSONAL BELONGINGS ARE STILL ON 116 00:06:38,965 --> 00:06:42,435 THE BOAT, AND THEY'RE NOWHERE TO BE FOUND, IS THAT A REALLY BAD 117 00:06:42,435 --> 00:06:44,804 SIGN >> WE JUST TAKE IT AS THERE IS 118 00:06:44,804 --> 00:06:47,974 SOMEBODY IN THE WATER, AND WE BEGIN OUR SEARCH ACCORDINGLY 119 00:06:47,974 --> 00:06:50,643 >> Reporter: THE LIEUTENANT COMMANDER'S TEAM USED SOMETHING 120 00:06:50,643 --> 00:06:54,881 CALLED "DRIFT ANALYSIS" TO HELP FOCUS THEIR SEARCH 121 00:06:54,881 --> 00:06:57,550 >> WITH THE GOOD WEATHER, WE CAN QUICKLY COVER A LOT OF THE AREA, 122 00:06:57,550 --> 00:07:00,720 THE SHORELINE AND THE OPEN OCEAN, THE ISOLATED ISLANDS LIKE 123 00:07:00,720 --> 00:07:03,423 WE SEE OVER THERE. >> Reporter: DOES IT HAVE TO 124 00:07:03,423 --> 00:07:06,026 ENTER YOUR MIND AS YOU'RE SEARCHING THAT THERE COULD HAVE 125 00:07:06,026 --> 00:07:08,161 BEEN A CRIME COMMITTED >> NO. 126 00:07:08,161 --> 00:07:10,563 AT THAT POINT, OUR FOCUS, AGAIN, IS ALL SEARCH AND RESCUE 127 00:07:10,563 --> 00:07:13,033 >> Reporter: AFTER A FULL DAY OF SEARCHING -- 128 00:07:13,033 --> 00:07:14,501 >> WE STARTED AT APPROXIMATELY 1:00 AND WE 129 00:07:14,501 --> 00:07:17,203 SEARCHED UNTIL SUNSET. >> Reporter: THEY ALSO FOUND 130 00:07:17,203 --> 00:07:20,373 NOTHING. LIKE, WHERE COULD SHE BE 131 00:07:20,373 --> 00:07:22,108 >> THAT, I'M HONESTLY NOT SURE >> Reporter: THE COAST GUARD WAS 132 00:07:22,108 --> 00:07:24,611 PUZZLED. IF SARM HAD DROWNED IN THE 133 00:07:24,611 --> 00:07:27,280 WATERS OFF SAINT JOHN, THEY BELIEVED THEY WOULD HAVE FOUND 134 00:07:27,280 --> 00:07:29,916 HER BODY A MYSTERY IN PARADISE WAS 135 00:07:29,916 --> 00:07:35,855 UNFOLDING. WHERE WAS SARM HESLOP? 136 00:07:35,855 --> 00:07:37,891 >>> WHEN WE COME BACK -- THE SEARCH FOR SARM GROWS DESPERATE, 137 00:07:37,891 --> 00:07:40,226 AND URGENT >> START ROUNDING UP THE TROOPS. 138 00:07:40,226 --> 00:07:43,263 WE'RE NOT GIVING UP UNTIL WE HAVE SOME RESOLUTION 139 00:07:43,263 --> 00:07:45,331 >> IT'S JUST REALLY CONFUSING AS TO WHERE SHE IS. 140 00:07:45,331 --> 00:07:47,467 >> Reporter: DO YOU HAVE ANY HOPE THAT SARM IS STILL ALIVE? 141 00:07:47,467 --> 00:07:54,974 >> I TRY TO! [ CRYING ] 142 00:07:55,075 --> 00:08:11,024 >> Reporter: AS DARKNESS FELL 143 00:08:11,024 --> 00:08:15,228 OVER THE CARIBBEAN WATERS OF SAINT JOHN ON MARCH 8th, 2021, 144 00:08:15,228 --> 00:08:19,466 SARM HESLOP HAD BEEN MISSING FOR MORE THAN 16 HOURS 145 00:08:19,466 --> 00:08:23,203 THE COAST GUARD HAD NO LUCK FINDING HER AND RETURNED TO 146 00:08:23,203 --> 00:08:26,373 THEIR HEADQUARTERS >> THERE WAS NO SIGNS OF ANYONE 147 00:08:26,373 --> 00:08:30,110 IN DISTRESS IN THE WATER AND THEN THE RADIO BROADCAST 148 00:08:30,110 --> 00:08:32,445 ALSO DID NOT RECEIVE ANY -- ANY LEADS. 149 00:08:32,445 --> 00:08:34,514 >> Reporter: DID YOU RESUME SEARCHING THE NEXT DAY 150 00:08:34,514 --> 00:08:36,483 >> NO. WE HAD SUSPENDED OUR SEARCH AND 151 00:08:36,483 --> 00:08:38,618 RESCUE, BUT THERE WAS LOCAL EFFORTS. 152 00:08:38,618 --> 00:08:41,821 >> Reporter: LOCAL VOLUNTEERS, LIKE JEFF JONES WHO RUNS A BOAT 153 00:08:41,821 --> 00:08:45,058 RENTAL BUSINESS. HE HAS EXTENSIVE EXPERIENCE IN 154 00:08:45,058 --> 00:08:49,596 SEARCH AND RESCUE. WHEN YOU GET THE CALL ABOUT THIS 155 00:08:49,596 --> 00:08:52,232 INCIDENT, WHAT ARE YOU TOLD AS FAR AS WHAT THEY KNOW, WHAT -- 156 00:08:52,232 --> 00:08:53,566 WHAT'S HAPPENED? >> THERE'S A WOMAN WHO -- WHO 157 00:08:53,566 --> 00:08:55,635 ALLEGEDLY FELL OVERBOARD IN FRANK BAY. 158 00:08:55,635 --> 00:08:58,304 REPORTED MISSING AND AT THIS TIME, THAT'S ALL WE 159 00:08:58,304 --> 00:09:01,474 KNOW SO START ROUNDIN' UP THE TROOPS. 160 00:09:01,474 --> 00:09:04,644 >> Reporter: JEFF AND OTHER VOLUNTEERS GRABBED THEIR SCUBA 161 00:09:04,644 --> 00:09:07,313 GEAR AND HIGH POWERED DRONES AND BEGAN SEARCHING THE WATERS WHERE 162 00:09:07,313 --> 00:09:10,517 SARM WAS LAST SEEN >> MOST LIKELY, BASED ON THE 163 00:09:10,517 --> 00:09:13,687 DATA WE HAVE, SHE WOULD HAVE WASHED INTO FRANK BAY, WHICH 164 00:09:13,687 --> 00:09:15,822 WE'VE -- YOU KNOW, DID EXTENSIVE DIVES. 165 00:09:15,822 --> 00:09:18,491 >> Reporter: JEFF ALSO SERVED ANOTHER ROLE 166 00:09:18,491 --> 00:09:24,364 HE BECAME THE LINK TO SARM'S FAMILY AND FRIENDS 167 00:09:24,364 --> 00:09:26,466 >> I CAN DO MY BEST TO KEEP THEM UPDATED, TO LET THEM KNOW THAT, 168 00:09:26,466 --> 00:09:29,102 "HEY, WE'RE NOT GIVIN' UP. WE STILL WANNA KEEP THIS THING 169 00:09:29,102 --> 00:09:31,271 GOIN' UNTIL WE HAVE SOME RESOLUTION." 170 00:09:31,271 --> 00:09:33,373 >> Reporter: TWO PEOPLE DESPERATELY WAITING FOR JEFF'S 171 00:09:33,373 --> 00:09:36,242 UPDATES WERE VICKI MOGRIDGE-PERCY AND 172 00:09:36,242 --> 00:09:38,712 KATE VERNALLS -- TWO OF SARM'S BEST FRIENDS WHO LIVE THOUSANDS 173 00:09:38,712 --> 00:09:41,381 OF MILES AWAY IN ENGLAND THEY FELT GRATEFUL FOR JEFF AND 174 00:09:41,381 --> 00:09:43,616 THE OTHER VOLUNTEERS >> THE AMOUNT OF PEOPLE WHO ARE 175 00:09:43,616 --> 00:09:46,119 OUT SNORKELING AND DIVING, LOOKING FOR HER -- 176 00:09:46,119 --> 00:09:50,357 >> UH-HUH. >> IT'S THE GENEROSITY OF 177 00:09:50,357 --> 00:09:53,059 STRANGERS. AND IT'S BEEN AWESOME. 178 00:09:53,059 --> 00:09:57,831 >> Reporter: WHAT DO YOU THINK HAPPENED TO SARM 179 00:09:57,831 --> 00:10:02,569 >> I DON'T KNOW. IT'S JUST REALLY CONFUSING AS 180 00:10:02,569 --> 00:10:05,238 TO -- TO WHERE SHE IS. >> Reporter: VICKI HAS KNOWN 181 00:10:05,238 --> 00:10:07,374 SARM FOR YEARS THEY MET WORKING AS FLIGHT 182 00:10:07,374 --> 00:10:10,710 ATTENDANTS, AND VICKI REMEMBERS ALL TOO WELL THEIR FIRST FLIGHT 183 00:10:10,710 --> 00:10:14,481 TOGETHER -- TRANSPORTING A PRISONER 184 00:10:14,481 --> 00:10:16,416 >> I WAS QUITE NERVOUS BY IT, AND HE WAS TRYING TO GET HIS 185 00:10:16,416 --> 00:10:18,518 HANDS OUT THE HANDCUFF IN FLIGHT 186 00:10:18,518 --> 00:10:20,854 AND I WAS LIKE, "GOD, DO YOU SEE WHAT HE'S DOING? 187 00:10:20,854 --> 00:10:24,357 AND SHE'S LIKE, "YEAH, DON'T WORRY ABOUT IT." 188 00:10:24,357 --> 00:10:27,527 SHE WASN'T FAZED BY THINGS >> Reporter: VICKI DESCRIBES 189 00:10:27,527 --> 00:10:30,764 SARM AS BOLD, FEARLESS, A ONE-OF-KIND WOMAN. 190 00:10:30,764 --> 00:10:34,467 >> SHE'S NOT YOUR 9:00 TO 5:00 KIND OF -- WANTS TO BUY A 191 00:10:34,467 --> 00:10:37,137 HOUSE AND THEN HAVE CHILDREN SHE'S VERY MUCH A SPONTANEOUS 192 00:10:37,137 --> 00:10:40,840 KIND OF PERSON, BUT WITH A VERY DEEP, BEAUTIFUL HEART AND CARED 193 00:10:40,840 --> 00:10:42,976 DEEPLY FOR FRIENDS AND FAMILY. >> Reporter: KATE, A FORMER 194 00:10:42,976 --> 00:10:46,146 ROOMMATE OF SARM'S, SAYS SHE WASN'T SURPRISED WHEN SARM 195 00:10:46,146 --> 00:10:49,349 STUMBLED INTO SAILING. ONE OF SARM'S FIRST ADVENTURES 196 00:10:49,349 --> 00:10:52,519 WAS ONE MOST ACCOMPLISHED SAILORS WOULDN'T EVEN ATTEMPT. 197 00:10:52,519 --> 00:10:56,256 FRIENDS INVITED HER ON A TRIP ACROSS THE ATLANTIC. 198 00:10:56,256 --> 00:10:58,892 EVER THE ADVENTURER, SARM COULDN'T RESIST THE OFFER. 199 00:10:58,892 --> 00:11:01,528 >> SHE GRABBED IT WITH BOTH HANDS. 200 00:11:01,528 --> 00:11:04,731 SHE MADE SURE THAT SHE WAS QUALIFIED TO DO IT 201 00:11:04,731 --> 00:11:06,866 >> SHE'S BRAVE AND -- AND COURAGEOUS 202 00:11:06,866 --> 00:11:11,638 ISN'T SHE? SO YOU SORT OF ADMIRE HER. 203 00:11:11,638 --> 00:11:14,074 BUT, YOU KNOW, I THINK I WAS A BIT WORRIED IN THE SENSE THAT, 204 00:11:14,074 --> 00:11:17,477 YOU KNOW, YOU ARE TRAVELING ACROSS THE ATLANTIC. 205 00:11:17,477 --> 00:11:20,847 >> Reporter: IT WAS AT THE END OF THAT TRIP, WHEN SARM ARRIVED 206 00:11:20,847 --> 00:11:22,782 IN GRENADA, THAT SHE MET RYAN BANE. 207 00:11:22,782 --> 00:11:24,384 >> THEY MET ON TINDER. >> Reporter: I GUESS YOU DON'T 208 00:11:24,384 --> 00:11:27,087 REALLY THINK ABOUT DATING ON THE HIGH SEAS. 209 00:11:27,087 --> 00:11:29,155 >> NO. NO, I DON'T THINK YOU DO 210 00:11:29,155 --> 00:11:30,757 >> Reporter: WHAT DO YOU SAY, "COME OVER TO MY BOAT," OR, 211 00:11:30,757 --> 00:11:33,393 "I'LL COME OVER TO YOUR BOAT"? >> YEAH, ANYTHING LIKE THAT. 212 00:11:33,393 --> 00:11:37,130 NO, THEY -- THEY SEEMED TO HIT IT OFF, WHICH IS GREAT 213 00:11:37,130 --> 00:11:40,834 >> Reporter: BASED ON HIS PROFILE, RYAN APPEARED TO BE THE 214 00:11:40,834 --> 00:11:44,004 PICTURE OF SUCCESS AND SWAGGER THE 44-YEAR-OLD WAS A FORMER 215 00:11:44,004 --> 00:11:47,741 FINANCE GUY WHO TRADED IN HIS SUIT AND TIE FOR SHORTS AND 216 00:11:47,741 --> 00:11:50,377 FLIP-FLOPS IN 2015, HE BEGAN CHARTERING HIS 217 00:11:50,377 --> 00:11:53,580 LUXURY CATAMARAN TO TOURISTS IN THE CARIBBEAN. 218 00:11:53,580 --> 00:11:56,750 SARM TOLD VICKI WHAT SHE FOUND MOST ATTRACTIVE WAS RYAN'S 219 00:11:56,750 --> 00:11:58,885 PERSONALITY. >> SHE LIKED HIS SENSE OF HUMOR. 220 00:11:58,885 --> 00:12:01,054 HE MADE HER LAUGH, WHICH IS REALLY IMPORTANT 221 00:12:01,054 --> 00:12:04,758 SHE'S A VERY, VERY FUNNY GIRL AND ALWAYS MAKING US LAUGH 222 00:12:04,758 --> 00:12:07,394 >> Reporter: IN THE BEGINNING, HER FRIENDS SAY THE RELATIONSHIP 223 00:12:07,394 --> 00:12:10,063 WAS NOTHING SERIOUS. THEY'D ONLY BEEN DATING A LITTLE 224 00:12:10,063 --> 00:12:13,266 WHILE WHEN SARM DECIDED TO LEAVE THE CARIBBEAN AND GO TO MALTA 225 00:12:13,266 --> 00:12:15,468 WHERE SHE HAD CLOSE FRIENDS. >> SHE LEFT AND NEEDED TO GET 226 00:12:15,468 --> 00:12:18,071 SOME WORK. AND SO THAT -- SHE PRIORITIZED 227 00:12:18,071 --> 00:12:20,140 THAT AND WENT TO MALTA AND THEN THEY KEPT IN CONTACT, 228 00:12:20,140 --> 00:12:22,642 AND THEY WERE SPEAKING EVERY DAY. 229 00:12:22,642 --> 00:12:25,445 >> Reporter: BUT SOMETHING WAS CALLING HER BACK TO HIM. 230 00:12:25,445 --> 00:12:27,580 >> YEAH. SHE JUST DECIDED THAT JUST, YOU 231 00:12:27,580 --> 00:12:31,484 KNOW, "WELL, THIS IS A RELATIONSHIP THAT'S WORTH 232 00:12:31,484 --> 00:12:34,487 CONTINUING," AND SO DECIDED TO FLY BACK OUT AND -- AND JOIN HIM 233 00:12:34,487 --> 00:12:36,589 IN THE AMERICAN VIRGIN ISLANDS AT THAT POINT. 234 00:12:36,589 --> 00:12:39,793 >> Reporter: HER FRIENDS SAY THE TIMING WAS PERFECT 235 00:12:39,793 --> 00:12:42,462 SARM NEEDED A JOB, AND RYAN INVITED HER TO COME WORK ON HIS 236 00:12:42,462 --> 00:12:45,131 BOAT IT WAS A CHANCE FOR SARM TO 237 00:12:45,131 --> 00:12:49,402 PURSUE THIS BUDDING RELATIONSHIP AND DO THE THINGS SHE LOVED 238 00:12:49,402 --> 00:12:52,539 MOST -- SAILING AND COOKING. SARM EVEN SHOWED OFF HER 239 00:12:52,539 --> 00:12:55,742 CULINARY SKILLS ON INSTAGRAM THE CLINCHER, THOUGH, WAS RYAN'S 240 00:12:55,742 --> 00:12:59,179 DOG, HUNTER. >> SHE'S A REALLY BIG ANIMAL 241 00:12:59,179 --> 00:13:02,115 LOVER. LIKE, SHE ABSOLUTELY LOVES -- 242 00:13:02,115 --> 00:13:05,318 LOVES DOGS >> Reporter: SO OFF SHE WENT TO 243 00:13:05,318 --> 00:13:08,521 BE WITH HER NEW MAN. TO HER FRIENDS, ALL SEEMED WELL. 244 00:13:08,521 --> 00:13:11,157 >> SHE LOOKED SO HAPPY IN ALL HER PHOTOGRAPHS. 245 00:13:11,157 --> 00:13:14,327 AND WHEN WE SPOKE, SHE WAS REALLY, REALLY ENJOYING HERSELF. 246 00:13:14,327 --> 00:13:16,463 IT WAS LIKE THE ULTIMATE OUTDOORS - 247 00:13:16,463 --> 00:13:19,132 >> UH-HUH. >> IT WAS EVERYTHING FROM 248 00:13:19,132 --> 00:13:23,403 PREVIOUS RELATIONSHIPS KIND OF PIECED TOGETHER TO MAKE THIS, 249 00:13:23,403 --> 00:13:26,573 WHAT SEEMS LIKE A GREAT -- GREAT LIFE THAT SHE WAS STARTING 250 00:13:26,573 --> 00:13:28,708 >> Reporter: SHE'D ONLY BEEN LIVING AND WORKING ON 251 00:13:28,708 --> 00:13:31,378 "SIREN SONG" FOR ABOUT TWO WEEKS. 252 00:13:31,378 --> 00:13:35,081 HER FRIENDS NEVER COULD'VE ANTICIPATED THE DARKNESS HEADED 253 00:13:35,081 --> 00:13:41,421 SARM'S WAY DO YOU HAVE ANY HOPE THAT SARM 254 00:13:41,421 --> 00:13:48,328 IS STILL ALIVE >> I TRY TO. 255 00:13:48,328 --> 00:13:51,865 >>> COMING UP -- A CRUCIAL NEW CLUE FROM A SINGLE 256 00:13:51,865 --> 00:13:56,302 SECURITY CAMERA. >> IT SHOWS MR. BANE AND 257 00:13:56,302 --> 00:13:58,938 MISS HESLOP GETTING ON A DINGHY AND GOING INTO THE WATERS. 258 00:13:58,938 --> 00:14:01,074 >> Reporter: YOU HAVE NO REAL CONFIRMATION THAT THEY EVER MADE 259 00:14:01,074 --> 00:14:03,209 IT TO THE BOAT >> THAT'S CORRECT. 260 00:14:03,209 --> 00:14:05,478 >> Reporter: THIS IS A REAL MYSTERY. 261 00:14:05,478 --> 00:14:22,295 >> IT IS >> Reporter: THE STORY OF THE 262 00:14:22,295 --> 00:14:26,433 BRITISH WOMAN WHO VANISHED OFF A SAILBOAT IN THE CARIBBEAN WAS 263 00:14:26,433 --> 00:14:29,169 MAKING INTERNATIONAL NEWS. EVERYDAY A NEW ARTICLE ASKED THE 264 00:14:29,169 --> 00:14:33,840 SAME QUESTION, "WHERE WAS SARM HESLOP? 265 00:14:33,840 --> 00:14:36,109 THE POLICE HAD NO ANSWERS. YOUR OFFICERS ARE REALLY LOOKING 266 00:14:36,109 --> 00:14:39,279 AT THREE POSSIBLE SCENARIOS -- SHE WILLINGLY DISAPPEARED, THERE 267 00:14:39,279 --> 00:14:41,414 WAS A TRAGIC ACCIDENT, OR THERE WAS A CRIME. 268 00:14:41,414 --> 00:14:45,151 >> ABSOLUTELY. THOSE ARE THE OPTIONS. 269 00:14:45,151 --> 00:14:47,253 >> Reporter: HER FRIEND VICKY WAS CERTAIN SARM WOULD NEVER 270 00:14:47,253 --> 00:14:50,990 JUST TAKE OFF WITHOUT TELLING ANYONE 271 00:14:50,990 --> 00:14:53,660 SHE FELT IT IN HER BONES SOMETHING WAS TERRIBLY WRONG 272 00:14:53,660 --> 00:14:57,364 SHE ALSO DOESN'T BELIEVE SARM DROWNED. 273 00:14:57,364 --> 00:15:01,101 >> SHE IS A GOOD SWIMMER WHEN WE TRAIN, RIGHT, AS CABIN 274 00:15:01,101 --> 00:15:03,203 CREW, YOU HAVE TO, IN YOUR CLOTHES, DIVE IN A SWIMMING POOL 275 00:15:03,203 --> 00:15:06,039 AND SWIM ACROSS IT IN YOUR CLOTHES, TO BE ABLE TO PASS YOUR 276 00:15:06,039 --> 00:15:08,041 TRAINING >> Reporter: VICKI GREW 277 00:15:08,041 --> 00:15:11,177 INCREASINGLY WORRIED, AND FRUSTRATED 278 00:15:11,177 --> 00:15:13,847 BECAUSE OF COVID, SHE, KATE, AND THE REST OF SARM'S FRIENDS IN 279 00:15:13,847 --> 00:15:16,082 ENGLAND WERE UNABLE TO TRAVEL TO THE U.S. VIRGIN ISLANDS TO HELP 280 00:15:16,082 --> 00:15:21,287 LOOK FOR HER >> TO A CERTAIN EXTENT, YOU FEEL 281 00:15:21,287 --> 00:15:23,390 A BIT GUILTY BECAUSE YOU CAN'T DO ANYTHING. 282 00:15:23,390 --> 00:15:26,059 [ CRYING ] WE DON'T WANT HER TO THINK THAT 283 00:15:26,059 --> 00:15:33,400 WE'RE NOT DOING ANYTHING >> Reporter: IN FACT, SARM'S 284 00:15:33,400 --> 00:15:36,670 FRIENDS WERE DOING A LOT SEVERAL OF THEM FROM DIFFERENT 285 00:15:36,670 --> 00:15:39,339 PARTS OF EUROPE HELD DAILY ZOOM MEETINGS, BRAINSTORMING WAYS TO 286 00:15:39,339 --> 00:15:46,246 KEEP THE MEDIA AND POLICE FOCUSED ON FINDING THEIR FRIEND. 287 00:15:46,246 --> 00:15:50,250 >> SHE WOULD NOT LEAVE HER POSSESSIONS. 288 00:15:50,250 --> 00:15:52,218 >> Reporter: THEY APPEARED ON BRITISH AN 289 00:15:52,218 --> 00:15:54,320 AMERICAN TV. >> WE'RE STILL LOOKING FOR YOU, 290 00:15:54,320 --> 00:15:55,922 SARM WE WON'T GIVE UP ON YOU. 291 00:15:55,922 --> 00:15:58,091 >> Reporter: AND SHARED VIDEOS ON SOCIAL MEDIA, PLEADING FOR 292 00:15:58,091 --> 00:16:00,160 HELP >> WE WON'T GIVE UP ON YOU, 293 00:16:00,160 --> 00:16:02,295 SARM >> Reporter: YOUR GROUP HAS BEEN 294 00:16:02,295 --> 00:16:03,930 A FORCE, THOUGH. I MEAN, KEEPING THIS - 295 00:16:03,930 --> 00:16:06,032 >> YEAH. >> Reporter: -- IN THE MEDIA, 296 00:16:06,032 --> 00:16:08,301 YOU KNOW, CONNECTING WITH SEARCHERS. 297 00:16:08,301 --> 00:16:09,736 I MEAN, REALLY - >> YEAH. 298 00:16:09,736 --> 00:16:11,338 >> Reporter: -- KEEPING THE STORY ALIVE. 299 00:16:11,338 --> 00:16:13,606 >> UH-HUH. >> WE'VE GOT TO GET IT OUT 300 00:16:13,606 --> 00:16:15,041 THERE. WE CAN'T SIT ON IT AND NOT DO 301 00:16:15,041 --> 00:16:16,676 ANYTHING >> Reporter: MEANWHILE, THE 302 00:16:16,676 --> 00:16:18,778 POLICE WERE FEELING THE PRESSURE 303 00:16:18,778 --> 00:16:20,914 THE COMMISSIONER SAYS HIS TEAM WAS DOING EVERYTHING IT COULD TO 304 00:16:20,914 --> 00:16:23,049 FIND SARM. >> WE SPARE NO RESOURCES 305 00:16:23,049 --> 00:16:27,287 WE SEND DIVERS OUT - CANINE 306 00:16:27,287 --> 00:16:31,057 WE DID AMBULATORY SEARCHES, WE DID AERIAL SEARCHES. 307 00:16:31,057 --> 00:16:33,660 WE PUT FLIERS OUT. >> Reporter: AND NOTHING 308 00:16:33,660 --> 00:16:37,197 >> AND NOTHING >> Reporter: AS THE DAYS TICKED 309 00:16:37,197 --> 00:16:40,567 BY WITH NO SIGN OF SARM, THE POLICE REQUESTED OUTSIDE HELP. 310 00:16:40,567 --> 00:16:44,804 THE FBI GOT INVOLVED IN THIS CASE 311 00:16:44,804 --> 00:16:48,074 >> SO THE FBI WAS ABLE TO -- TO ASSIST IN TRYING TO LOCATE ANY 312 00:16:48,074 --> 00:16:51,177 TYPE OF CAMERA >> Reporter: THEY FOUND ONE 313 00:16:51,177 --> 00:16:55,115 SECURITY CAMERA POINTED RIGHT AT THE SPOT WHERE SARM AND RYAN 314 00:16:55,115 --> 00:16:59,719 LEFT THE ISLAND THAT NIGHT >> IT SHOWS TWO INDIVIDUALS, 315 00:16:59,719 --> 00:17:04,524 MR. BANE AND MISS HESLOP, GETTING ON A DINGHY AND TAKING 316 00:17:04,524 --> 00:17:07,093 OFF ON THE DINGHY, AND GOING INTO THE WATERS IN THE CRUISE 317 00:17:07,093 --> 00:17:08,762 BAY. >> Reporter: AND THEN DO YOU 318 00:17:08,762 --> 00:17:10,897 LOSE THEM FROM THERE LIKE, SO YOU HAVE NO REAL 319 00:17:10,897 --> 00:17:14,134 CONFIRMATION THAT THEY EVER MADE IT TO THE BOAT 320 00:17:14,134 --> 00:17:15,635 >> THAT'S CORRECT. >> Reporter: BRITISH POLICE ALSO 321 00:17:15,635 --> 00:17:18,038 GOT INVOLVED >> WE'VE HAD TO GO BACK THROUGH 322 00:17:18,038 --> 00:17:19,372 TEXT MESSAGES AND EVERYTHING - >> YEAH. 323 00:17:19,372 --> 00:17:21,041 >> -- FOR THE POLICE HERE IN THE U.K. 324 00:17:21,041 --> 00:17:24,177 >> Reporter: ISLAND POLICE LOOKED THROUGH SARM'S PERSONAL 325 00:17:24,177 --> 00:17:27,380 BELONGINGS AND ALSO SEARCHED HER PHONE RECORDS -- ALL DEAD ENDS 326 00:17:27,380 --> 00:17:30,050 THIS IS A REAL MYSTERY THAT YOU HAVE ON YOUR HANDS 327 00:17:30,050 --> 00:17:32,619 >> IT IS >> Reporter: WHEN INVESTIGATORS 328 00:17:32,619 --> 00:17:36,923 SPOKE TO THE OWNER OF THE RESTAURANT ON SAINT JOHN, 329 00:17:36,923 --> 00:17:39,592 "420 TO CENTER," THE ONE SARM AND RYAN WENT TO ON THE NIGHT 330 00:17:39,592 --> 00:17:43,830 SHE DISAPPEARED, HE SAID THEY LOOKED PERFECTLY HAPPY 331 00:17:43,830 --> 00:17:46,733 AND WHEN THEY LOOKED INTO RYAN AND SARM'S RELATIONSHIP, THEY 332 00:17:46,733 --> 00:17:49,135 FOUND NOTHING CONCERNING HER FRIENDS AGREED 333 00:17:49,135 --> 00:17:52,339 THEY'D NEVER MET RYAN BUT SAID IT WAS CLEAR FROM SARM THAT 334 00:17:52,339 --> 00:17:56,076 THINGS WERE GOING WELL THERE WERE NO SMOKE SIGNALS, NO 335 00:17:56,076 --> 00:17:58,178 S.O.S., YOU KNOW, CRYPTIC MESSAGES FROM HER THAT WOULD 336 00:17:58,178 --> 00:18:00,313 LEAD YOU TO BELIEVE THAT SOMETHING WAS WRONG. 337 00:18:00,313 --> 00:18:03,516 >> NO. AND SINCE WE'VE ALL COME 338 00:18:03,516 --> 00:18:09,356 TOGETHER, AS IN HER GROUP OF FRIENDS FROM SPAIN AND -- AND 339 00:18:09,356 --> 00:18:11,458 THE U.K., NO ONE CAN PUT THEIR FINGER ON ANYTHING THAT CASTS 340 00:18:11,458 --> 00:18:14,127 ANY SHADOW OF DOUBT OVER THEIR RELATIONSHIP 341 00:18:14,127 --> 00:18:17,297 >> Reporter: VICKI SAYS THE NIGHT OF THE DISAPPEARANCE, SHE 342 00:18:17,297 --> 00:18:20,500 GOT A TEXT FROM SARM ABOUT LIFE ON THE BOAT. 343 00:18:20,500 --> 00:18:23,703 SHE WASN'T HER BUBBLY SELF, BUT IT DIDN'T CONCERN VICKI. 344 00:18:23,703 --> 00:18:26,873 AT LEAST, NOT AT THE TIME. >> ON THAT EVENING, SHE 345 00:18:26,873 --> 00:18:31,144 LITERALLY JUST SENT ME A TEXT SAYING, "AHHH" -- IN BRACKETS 346 00:18:31,144 --> 00:18:33,246 ABOUT WORK >> Reporter: LIKE, WHAT DO YOU 347 00:18:33,246 --> 00:18:36,449 MEAN "AHHH"? LIKE SCREAMING 348 00:18:36,449 --> 00:18:39,085 >> YEAH, BUT NOT IN A SCREAM WAY, JUST ABOUT, "AHHH, WORK." 349 00:18:39,085 --> 00:18:42,822 LIKE, AS IN MOANING ABOUT WORK, SO I THINK IT WAS JUST HER 350 00:18:42,822 --> 00:18:44,924 COMPLAINING ABOUT WORK I GUESS WHATEVER THAT CHARTER 351 00:18:44,924 --> 00:18:47,427 HAD BEEN LIKE THAT DAY, MAYBE IT'D BEEN REALLY BUSY, I DON'T 352 00:18:47,427 --> 00:18:49,162 KNOW, THE PEOPLE WERE DIFFICULT. >> Reporter: VICKI NEVER GOT TO 353 00:18:49,162 --> 00:18:51,831 FIND OUT WHAT WAS BOTHERING SARM ABOUT WORK 354 00:18:51,831 --> 00:18:55,068 THAT WAS THE LAST TEXT SHE EVER GOT FROM HER 355 00:18:55,068 --> 00:18:58,204 SARM'S FRIENDS WERE HOPING TO GET ANSWERS FROM RYAN. 356 00:18:58,204 --> 00:19:00,340 >> I WANT TO KNOW WHAT HE THINKS HAPPENED 357 00:19:00,340 --> 00:19:02,642 "DID YOU HAVE AN ARGUMENT WHEN YOU GOT BACK TO THE BOAT 358 00:19:02,642 --> 00:19:04,611 WERE YOU HAPPY DID YOU FALL ASLEEP WATCHING A 359 00:19:04,611 --> 00:19:07,247 FILM?" >> Reporter: BUT STRANGELY, HE'D 360 00:19:07,247 --> 00:19:10,450 GONE QUIET AND THEY WEREN'T THE ONLY ONES 361 00:19:10,450 --> 00:19:14,688 GETTING THE SILENT TREATMENT YOU MIGHT REMEMBER, INITIALLY 362 00:19:14,688 --> 00:19:17,891 RYAN HAD COOPERATED WITH AUTHORITIES, BUT LIEUTENANT 363 00:19:17,891 --> 00:19:21,594 COMMANDER LEAGUE SAYS RYAN'S BEHAVIOR QUICKLY SHIFTED 364 00:19:21,594 --> 00:19:25,098 ABOUT 15 HOURS AFTER SARM WAS REPORTED MISSING, COAST GUARD 365 00:19:25,098 --> 00:19:27,467 OFFICERS WENT BACK TO THE "SIREN SONG" FOR A SECOND TIME, AND 366 00:19:27,467 --> 00:19:30,103 BROUGHT ALONG DETECTIVES FROM THE VIRGIN ISLANDS POLICE 367 00:19:30,103 --> 00:19:32,238 DEPARTMENT THEY TRIED TO TALK TO RYAN BANE. 368 00:19:32,238 --> 00:19:33,840 >> YES >> Reporter: TO NO AVAIL 369 00:19:33,840 --> 00:19:36,042 >> NO, RIGHT AT THAT POINT, HE REFUSED TO 370 00:19:36,042 --> 00:19:38,078 ALLOW THE VIRGIN ISLANDS POLICE DEPARTMENT TO GO ON BOARD. 371 00:19:38,078 --> 00:19:42,349 >> Reporter: AND WHILE THE COAST GUARD WAS ABLE TO BOARD, 372 00:19:42,349 --> 00:19:45,051 ACCORDING TO THE CASE REPORT, "MR. BANE WAS HEAVILY 373 00:19:45,051 --> 00:19:49,155 INTOXICATED AND WAS TELLING THE BOARDING TEAM HE DID NOT WANT 374 00:19:49,155 --> 00:19:50,824 THEM ONBOARD HIS VESSEL. >> AND AT THAT TIME HE ACTUALLY 375 00:19:50,824 --> 00:19:52,959 OBSTRUCTED OUR POST-SEARCH AND RESCUE BOARDING. 376 00:19:52,959 --> 00:19:55,061 >> Reporter: IS IT GETTING TENSE? 377 00:19:55,061 --> 00:19:57,731 >> HE WAS VERY UNCOOPERATIVE >> Reporter: THE COAST GUARD 378 00:19:57,731 --> 00:20:00,934 CITED BANE FOR OBSTRUCTION OF BOARDING, AND SAFETY EQUIPMENT 379 00:20:00,934 --> 00:20:05,171 VIOLATIONS AS FOR THE POLICE, THEY LEFT THE 380 00:20:05,171 --> 00:20:07,841 "SIREN SONG" FRUSTRATED, FILLED WITH UNANSWERED QUESTIONS, AND 381 00:20:07,841 --> 00:20:11,578 NO CLOSER TO FINDING OUT WHAT HAPPENED TO SARM HESLOP. 382 00:20:11,578 --> 00:20:15,815 >>> COMING UP -- A MYSTERY AT SEA 383 00:20:15,815 --> 00:20:19,019 AND SUSPICIONS BEGIN TO SWIRL. >> Reporter: IF SHE HAD FALLEN 384 00:20:19,019 --> 00:20:21,154 OVER, WOULD YOU HAVE EXPECTED THEM TO FIND THE BODY? 385 00:20:21,154 --> 00:20:23,256 >> IT'S VERY LIKELY THAT THEIR BODY WOULD BE FOUND. 386 00:20:23,256 --> 00:20:40,907 THE FACT THAT NO BODY WAS FOUND IS VERY SUSPICIOUS 387 00:20:40,907 --> 00:20:44,010 >> Reporter: IN THE SHORT TIME SARM HESLOP HAD BEEN MISSING, 388 00:20:44,010 --> 00:20:47,747 LOCALS IN THE U.S. VIRGIN ISLANDS SWAPPED THEORIES ABOUT 389 00:20:47,747 --> 00:20:50,417 WHAT HAPPENED TO HER SCOT McCHAIN, AN AVID SAILOR AND 390 00:20:50,417 --> 00:20:53,086 A VIRGIN ISLANDS DEFENSE ATTORNEY WITH OVER 23 YEARS OF 391 00:20:53,086 --> 00:20:56,790 EXPERIENCE PRACTICING LAW IN THE TERRITORY, THOUGHT SOMETHING WAS 392 00:20:56,790 --> 00:20:59,459 OFF. HE DIDN'T KNOW SARM OR HER 393 00:20:59,459 --> 00:21:03,830 BOYFRIEND RYAN BANE, BUT HE'S VERY FAMILIAR WITH THE WATER 394 00:21:03,830 --> 00:21:05,298 WHERE RYAN'S BOAT, "SIREN SONG," WAS ANCHORED 395 00:21:05,298 --> 00:21:08,501 IN THAT AREA THAT WAS PRETTY CLOSE TO SHORE, IF SHE HAD OF 396 00:21:08,501 --> 00:21:13,807 FALLEN OVER, WOULD YOU HAVE EXPECTED THEM TO FIND THE BODY 397 00:21:13,807 --> 00:21:15,909 >> I THINK THAT IF SOMEONE FALLS OVERBOARD AND DROWNED -- I THINK 398 00:21:15,909 --> 00:21:19,112 IT'S VERY LIKELY THAT THEIR BODY WOULD BE FOUND VERY CLOSE BY THE 399 00:21:19,112 --> 00:21:24,417 BOAT SO I THINK THE FACT THAT NO BODY 400 00:21:24,417 --> 00:21:26,853 WAS FOUND IS VERY SUSPICIOUS >> Reporter: THIS IS THE BIG RED 401 00:21:26,853 --> 00:21:29,723 FLAG FOR YOU >> IT IS A BIG RED FLAG. 402 00:21:29,723 --> 00:21:32,926 >> Reporter: AND AUTHORITIES SAW RED FLAGS OF THEIR OWN 403 00:21:32,926 --> 00:21:35,562 COMMISSIONER VELINOR SAYS NOT ONLY WOULD RYAN NO LONGER SPEAK 404 00:21:35,562 --> 00:21:39,299 TO HIS OFFICERS. HE ALSO REFUSED TO ALLOW THEM TO 405 00:21:39,299 --> 00:21:43,003 SEARCH HIS BOAT FOR CLUES. >> THAT'S NOT HAPPENING. 406 00:21:43,003 --> 00:21:46,206 HE INDICATED, "NO, WE -- I WILL NOT ALLOW YOU ONTO MY BOAT." 407 00:21:46,206 --> 00:21:48,308 >> Reporter: INSTEAD - >> HE INDICATED THAT HE HAD AN 408 00:21:48,308 --> 00:21:51,511 ATTORNEY >> Reporter: THAT WAS QUICK. 409 00:21:51,511 --> 00:21:54,714 >> IT WAS VERY QUICK FROM 2:30 IN THE MORNING, NOW 410 00:21:54,714 --> 00:21:56,816 IT'S ABOUT 4:00 OR 5:00 IN THE AFTERNOON. 411 00:21:56,816 --> 00:21:58,418 >> Reporter: RYAN BANE HAS NOT BEEN CHARGED OR NAMED AS A 412 00:21:58,418 --> 00:22:02,155 SUSPECT IN THE SARM HESLOP MISSING PERSON CASE. 413 00:22:02,155 --> 00:22:05,058 BUT HE DID HIRE A DEFENSE ATTORNEY WHO ADVISED HIM TO STOP 414 00:22:05,058 --> 00:22:07,761 TALKING TO POLICE. THAT DIDN'T SURPRISE 415 00:22:07,761 --> 00:22:10,130 SCOT McCHAIN HE SAYS LAWYERS RECOMMEND THAT 416 00:22:10,130 --> 00:22:13,700 ALL THE TIME BUT IT CAN COME WITH A DOWNSIDE. 417 00:22:13,700 --> 00:22:16,503 >> YOU LOOK LIKE YOU'VE BEEN INVOLVED IN SOMETHING ILLEGAL. 418 00:22:16,503 --> 00:22:19,172 >> Reporter: IT'S THAT FINE LINE OF, LIKE, IS IT -- IS IT -- IS 419 00:22:19,172 --> 00:22:22,876 IT A SMART THING TO DO, OR DOES IT MAKE YOU LOOK SUSPICIOUS? 420 00:22:22,876 --> 00:22:26,079 >> THE ANSWER IS IT CLEARLY MAKES YOU LOOK SUSPICIOUS. 421 00:22:26,079 --> 00:22:29,282 BUT IT PREVENTS YOU FROM SAYING ANYTHING THAT WOULD IMPLICATE 422 00:22:29,282 --> 00:22:33,520 YOU OR RESULT IN A FINDING OF GUILTY 423 00:22:33,520 --> 00:22:37,223 >> Reporter: AS FOR SARM'S FRIENDS, RYAN'S BEHAVIOR ONLY 424 00:22:37,223 --> 00:22:39,626 ADDED TO THEIR QUESTIONS >> IF SOMETHING LIKE THAT HAD 425 00:22:39,626 --> 00:22:40,927 HAPPENED TO ME AND I HAD FOUND SOMEONE MISSING, BE IT IN MY 426 00:22:40,927 --> 00:22:43,697 HOME, I WOULD WANT TO DO EVERYTHING I CAN TO HELP THE 427 00:22:43,697 --> 00:22:45,732 POLICE >> JUST LET THEM SEARCH THE 428 00:22:45,732 --> 00:22:47,434 BOAT AND IF THERE'S NOTHING ON THERE, 429 00:22:47,434 --> 00:22:49,969 THEN FINE. THERE'S NOTHING ON THERE AND WE 430 00:22:49,969 --> 00:22:52,105 STOP LOOKING THERE, DON'T WE >> Reporter: EVEN MORE ALARMING 431 00:22:52,105 --> 00:22:54,741 TO VICKI AND KATE -- THEY LEARNED RYAN DIDN'T IMMEDIATELY 432 00:22:54,741 --> 00:22:58,478 CALL THE COAST GUARD FAR FROM IT. 433 00:22:58,478 --> 00:23:02,716 THE YACHT WAS MOORED HERE IN FRANK'S BAY, AND AFTER RYAN BANE 434 00:23:02,716 --> 00:23:05,919 CALLED THE POLICE, THEN HE REPORTEDLY TOOK NINE HOURS TO 435 00:23:05,919 --> 00:23:08,588 CALL THE COAST GUARD >> WHY 436 00:23:08,588 --> 00:23:11,257 IF YOU THINK SHE'S GONE OVERBOARD, WHY DID YOU NOT LET 437 00:23:11,257 --> 00:23:14,060 THE COAST GUARD START SEARCHING THAT WATER EARLIER 438 00:23:14,060 --> 00:23:17,063 >> Reporter: JAMES STEPHENS, CAPTAIN OF A SIMILAR CATAMARAN 439 00:23:17,063 --> 00:23:19,699 TO "SIREN SONG," SAYS RYAN'S BEHAVIOR THAT NIGHT MAKES NO 440 00:23:19,699 --> 00:23:22,836 SENSE TO HIM IF YOU WOKE UP IN THE MIDDLE OF 441 00:23:22,836 --> 00:23:25,071 THE NIGHT AND YOUR FIRST MATE OR SOMEONE ON YOUR BOAT WAS 442 00:23:25,071 --> 00:23:28,241 MISSING, WHAT WOULD YOU DO >> I ABSOLUTELY THINK I WOULD 443 00:23:28,241 --> 00:23:30,877 HAVE GONE TO THE OTHER BOATS I WOULD HAVE BEEN OUTSIDE 444 00:23:30,877 --> 00:23:34,180 SCREAMING TO SEE IF IF THERE WAS A VOICE. 445 00:23:34,180 --> 00:23:36,182 >> Reporter: BUT JAMES, WHO WAS MOORED RIGHT NEXT TO 446 00:23:36,182 --> 00:23:39,386 "SIREN SONG" THE NIGHT SARM DISAPPEARED, SAYS RYAN NEVER 447 00:23:39,386 --> 00:23:42,555 CONTACTED HIM. >> SO I SAW HIS BOAT TUCKED UP 448 00:23:42,555 --> 00:23:44,157 IN PRETTY MUCH THIS LOCATION RIGHT HERE 449 00:23:44,157 --> 00:23:46,259 >> Reporter: IT WAS JUST -- JUST THE TWO BOATS. 450 00:23:46,259 --> 00:23:48,428 YOUR BOAT AND HIS BOAT >> YEP, HIM -- NO, IT WAS MY 451 00:23:48,428 --> 00:23:49,996 BOAT AND THEN THERE WAS ONE OTHER 452 00:23:49,996 --> 00:23:51,898 THAT WAS DIRECTLY BEHIND HIM >> Reporter: HE ALSO SAYS HE 453 00:23:51,898 --> 00:23:54,801 HEARD NOTHING OUT OF THE ORDINARY THAT NIGHT. 454 00:23:54,801 --> 00:23:58,004 NO ARGUING WOKE YOU UP NO LOUD NOISE. 455 00:23:58,004 --> 00:24:01,174 NO -- NO SOUNDS OF A STRUGGLE. >> NOTHING 456 00:24:01,174 --> 00:24:03,276 I MEAN, I WAS 300 FEET AWAY. BUT NOT TO SAY I WOULD WAKE UP 457 00:24:03,276 --> 00:24:06,079 BUT IF SOMEONE WAS SCREAMING, YOU KNOW, LIKE A LIFE CURDLING 458 00:24:06,079 --> 00:24:09,149 SCREAM, I WOULD IMAGINE I'D WAKE UP TO SOMETHING LIKE THAT. 459 00:24:09,149 --> 00:24:11,251 >> Reporter: IF THERE WAS A STRUGGLE ON A BOAT AND SOMEONE 460 00:24:11,251 --> 00:24:15,488 DID DIE, I MEAN, WHERE -- WHERE AROUND HERE DO YOU THINK SOMEONE 461 00:24:15,488 --> 00:24:18,158 WOULD TAKE A BODY? >> I MEAN, IT'S 16,000 FEET OUT 462 00:24:18,158 --> 00:24:20,827 THERE, YOU KNOW, 12,000 FEET, I GUESS IT IS, BETWEEN HERE AND 463 00:24:20,827 --> 00:24:24,097 SAINT CROIX. YOU PUT A BODY DOWN TO 464 00:24:24,097 --> 00:24:26,666 12,000 FEET AND WRAP IT UP IN SOME ANCHOR CHAIN AND, NO, IT'S 465 00:24:26,666 --> 00:24:28,802 NOT GOING TO FLOAT BACK UP >> Reporter: WHATEVER DID HAPPEN 466 00:24:28,802 --> 00:24:31,438 THAT NIGHT, JAMES CAN ONLY SPECULATE. 467 00:24:31,438 --> 00:24:36,242 WHAT HE DOES KNOW IS THAT WHEN HE WOKE THE NEXT MORNING AROUND 468 00:24:36,242 --> 00:24:38,345 7:00 A.M., ALL WAS QUIET >> THERE WAS NOTHING HERE. 469 00:24:38,345 --> 00:24:40,480 THERE WAS NO POLICE PRESENCE THERE WAS NO NOTHING OUT OF THE 470 00:24:40,480 --> 00:24:42,082 ORDINARY I JUST PULLED UP MY ANCHOR AND 471 00:24:42,082 --> 00:24:45,251 LEFT >> Reporter: IN A STATEMENT, 472 00:24:45,251 --> 00:24:50,590 RYAN'S ATTORNEY TOLD "DATELINE," "MR. BANE HAD ABSOLUTELY NOTHING 473 00:24:50,590 --> 00:24:52,726 TO DO WITH SARM'S DISAPPEARANCE. HE SPENT UNTOLD HOURS SEARCHING 474 00:24:52,726 --> 00:24:56,429 FOR HER AND REMAINS DEVASTATED THAT SHE IS MISSING. 475 00:24:56,429 --> 00:25:00,133 HIS THOUGHTS, AS ALWAYS, ARE WITH SARM AND HER FAMILY DURING 476 00:25:00,133 --> 00:25:02,802 THIS DIFFICULT TIME. HE ADDED THAT RYAN ALLOWED THE 477 00:25:02,802 --> 00:25:05,438 COAST GUARD ON HIS BOAT TWICE. AND AS FOR WHY HE DIDN'T CALL 478 00:25:05,438 --> 00:25:09,709 THEM RIGHT AWAY, HE SAID RYAN THOUGHT THE POLICE MARINE UNIT 479 00:25:09,709 --> 00:25:11,845 WAS ON ITS WAY STILL, RYAN ISN'T TALKING TO 480 00:25:11,845 --> 00:25:16,082 POLICE OR LETTING THEM SEARCH HIS BOAT 481 00:25:16,082 --> 00:25:19,119 THE POLICE COMMISSIONER ADMITTED TO "DATELINE" HIS TEAM MADE A 482 00:25:19,119 --> 00:25:21,388 MISTAKE BY NOT SEARCHING IT WHEN THEY RESPONDED TO THE 911 CALL 483 00:25:21,388 --> 00:25:24,057 WHY NOT SEARCH THE BOAT AT THAT TIME 484 00:25:24,057 --> 00:25:27,227 >> THAT WAS A DECISION THAT THE OFFICERS MADE AT THAT PARTICULAR 485 00:25:27,227 --> 00:25:29,062 TIME IT WASN'T THE BEST DECISION. 486 00:25:29,062 --> 00:25:33,099 >> Reporter: WHY DO YOU SAY THAT NOW? 487 00:25:33,099 --> 00:25:35,735 >> YOU WANT TO MAKE SURE THAT EVERY AREA POSSIBLE IS SEARCHED. 488 00:25:35,735 --> 00:25:38,938 >> Reporter: THE BIG QUESTION I THINK PEOPLE HAVE IS, "WHY NOT 489 00:25:38,938 --> 00:25:42,676 GET A SEARCH WARRANT AND SEARCH RYAN BANE'S BOAT?" 490 00:25:42,676 --> 00:25:44,811 >> YES, SO ABSOLUTELY. SO WE'VE REACHED OUT TO THE 491 00:25:44,811 --> 00:25:47,981 ATTORNEY GENERAL OF THE TERRITORY. 492 00:25:47,981 --> 00:25:51,718 WE'VE ALSO REACHED OUT TO THE UNITED STATES ATTORNEY 493 00:25:51,718 --> 00:25:56,489 AND TO THIS POINT, WE'VE BEEN UNSUCCESSFUL IN GETTING SEARCH 494 00:25:56,489 --> 00:25:58,725 WARRANTS FOR THE "SIREN SONG." >> Reporter: VELINOR SAID THEY 495 00:25:58,725 --> 00:26:01,795 WERE TOLD THEY DIDN'T HAVE ENOUGH EVIDENCE TO JUSTIFY A 496 00:26:01,795 --> 00:26:04,464 SEARCH BUT POLICE WERE ABOUT TO LEARN 497 00:26:04,464 --> 00:26:06,599 MORE ABOUT RYAN BANE FROM THIS WOMAN. 498 00:26:06,599 --> 00:26:10,303 TURNS OUT THIS WASN'T RYAN'S FIRST INTERACTION WITH THE LAW 499 00:26:10,303 --> 00:26:12,839 AND, BOY, DID SHE HAVE A STORY TO TELL. 500 00:26:12,839 --> 00:26:17,210 >> THAT MAN SHOULD COME WITH A WARNING LABEL. 501 00:26:17,210 --> 00:26:20,380 >>> COMING UP -- A DARK NEW PICTURE OF RYAN BANE. 502 00:26:20,380 --> 00:26:22,816 >> Reporter: DID YOU THINK YOUR LIFE WAS IN DANGER 503 00:26:22,816 --> 00:26:25,719 >> YES I THOUGHT HE WAS GONNA KILL ME 504 00:26:25,719 --> 00:26:28,655 THAT POOR GIRL HAD NO IDEA WHO HE REALLY IS 505 00:26:28,655 --> 00:26:46,139 WHENDA >> Reporter: A FEW DAYS AFTER 506 00:26:46,139 --> 00:26:49,876 SARM WENT MISSING, POLICE LEARNED TROUBLING INFORMATION 507 00:26:49,876 --> 00:26:53,079 ABOUT RYAN BANE'S PAST THEY GOT A CALL FROM HIS EX-WIFE 508 00:26:53,079 --> 00:26:56,216 WHO TOLD THEM, 10 YEARS EARLIER, RYAN HAD BEEN CONVICTED OF 509 00:26:56,216 --> 00:27:01,021 ASSAULTING HER THE NEWS CAME AS A COMPLETE 510 00:27:01,021 --> 00:27:04,190 SHOCK TO SARM'S FRIENDS. >> IT WAS A GOOSEBUMPS MOMENT, 511 00:27:04,190 --> 00:27:09,029 GOOSEBUMPS ALL OVER MY BODY. IT'S JUST A SINKING FEELING TO 512 00:27:09,029 --> 00:27:12,165 THINK THAT SHE WAS WITH SOMEBODY WHO HAD THAT PAST AND SHE DIDN'T 513 00:27:12,165 --> 00:27:15,368 KNOW >> WE REACHED OUT TO RYAN'S EX, 514 00:27:15,368 --> 00:27:18,538 CORIE STEVENSON, WHO SAT DOWN FOR HER FIRST NETWORK TV 515 00:27:18,538 --> 00:27:21,474 INTERVIEW. SHE TOOK US BACK TO THE 516 00:27:21,474 --> 00:27:24,577 BEGINNING WHEN SHE FIRST MET RYAN, THEY WENT TO HIGH SCHOOL 517 00:27:24,577 --> 00:27:27,113 TOGETHER IN LAKE ORION, MICHIGAN IN THE '90s. 518 00:27:27,113 --> 00:27:30,383 >> AT THAT TIME, I REALLY WASN'T INTERESTED IN KNOWING ANYTHING 519 00:27:30,383 --> 00:27:31,818 ABOUT HIM. >> Reporter: IT WASN'T UNTIL 520 00:27:31,818 --> 00:27:35,055 SEVERAL YEARS AFTER GRADUATING, WHEN SHE RAN INTO RYAN AT A BAR 521 00:27:35,055 --> 00:27:37,657 WITH FRIENDS, THAT SHE TOOK AN INTEREST 522 00:27:37,657 --> 00:27:40,860 >> HE WAS A LOTTA FUN. YOU KNOW, HE WAS FUNNY 523 00:27:40,860 --> 00:27:45,532 HE REALLY GRABBED MY ATTENTION >> Reporter: WAS HE HANDSOME 524 00:27:45,532 --> 00:27:49,369 >> HE'S -- HE'S HANDSOME >> Reporter: AND CHARMING? 525 00:27:49,369 --> 00:27:54,174 >> VERY CHARMING VERY GLITZY AND GLAMOUR AND, YOU 526 00:27:54,174 --> 00:27:55,875 KNOW, MAKES YOU FEEL WONDERFUL >> Reporter: AT THE TIME, CORIE 527 00:27:55,875 --> 00:28:00,013 WAS A SINGLE MOM WITH A YOUNG DAUGHTER AND HAD A JOB WORKING 528 00:28:00,013 --> 00:28:02,682 AS A NANNY RYAN HAD GOTTEN HIS MASTERS 529 00:28:02,682 --> 00:28:04,784 DEGREE AND WAS WORKING IN THE AUTOMOTIVE INDUSTRY. 530 00:28:04,784 --> 00:28:06,386 >> HE LOVES TO TALK ABOUT HIS EDUCATION. 531 00:28:06,386 --> 00:28:10,090 HE LOVES TO TELL EVERYONE HOW EDUCATED HE IS 532 00:28:10,090 --> 00:28:12,225 >> Reporter: EDUCATED, AND FROM A WELL-TO-DO FAMILY IN MICHIGAN. 533 00:28:12,225 --> 00:28:17,564 >> THEY LIVE IN A NICE HOUSE THEY DRIVE NICE CARS 534 00:28:17,564 --> 00:28:20,767 EVERY WEEKEND, THEY GO ON A BOAT, AND IT'S A LARGE BOAT, AND 535 00:28:20,767 --> 00:28:23,937 THEY ACTUALLY HAVE A -- AS RYAN WOULD TELL ME, THEY HAVE A SMALL 536 00:28:23,937 --> 00:28:26,072 BOAT ON THE BOAT >> Reporter: IT WAS 2007, AND 537 00:28:26,072 --> 00:28:30,510 CORIE AND RYAN HAD BEEN DATING FOR ABOUT A YEAR 538 00:28:30,510 --> 00:28:31,945 WHEN HE PROPOSED, HE WAS EVERYTHING SHE HAD WANTED. 539 00:28:31,945 --> 00:28:34,614 STILL, SHE HAD SOME BRIEF MOMENTS OF COLD FEET 540 00:28:34,614 --> 00:28:38,852 >> THERE WERE PROBABLY ONLY A COUPLE OF TIMES WHERE HE KINDA 541 00:28:38,852 --> 00:28:40,954 LET THE CRAZY SLIP AND I THOUGHT, "MM." 542 00:28:40,954 --> 00:28:43,289 >> Reporter: LIKE, YOU SAW ANOTHER SIDE OF HIM, YOU'RE 543 00:28:43,289 --> 00:28:44,691 SAYING >> YEAH. 544 00:28:44,691 --> 00:28:46,326 AND I -- I WAS LIKE, "MM, THAT'S A LITTLE CRAZY, TO ACT THIS 545 00:28:46,326 --> 00:28:51,064 WAY," AND -- >> Reporter: WHAT WOULD HE DO? 546 00:28:51,064 --> 00:28:55,335 >> JUST -- IT WAS LIKE -- LIKE THE RAGE WOULD JUST HAPPEN SO 547 00:28:55,335 --> 00:28:58,071 FAST BUT I ONLY SAW IT A COUPLE OF 548 00:28:58,071 --> 00:29:01,675 TIMES, AND THEN HE KINDA LIKE REELED IT IN REAL QUICK. 549 00:29:01,675 --> 00:29:05,412 AND I WOULD THINK, "WELL, EVERYONE HAS BAD DAYS. 550 00:29:05,412 --> 00:29:07,047 >> Reporter: DESPITE HER RESERVATIONS, A YEAR LATER, 551 00:29:07,047 --> 00:29:11,251 CORIE WENT THROUGH WITH THE WEDDING. 552 00:29:11,251 --> 00:29:14,454 BUT SHE SAYS THE HONEYMOON PERIOD DIDN'T LAST, LITERALLY. 553 00:29:14,454 --> 00:29:16,723 >> THERE WAS AN ISSUE ON OUR -- ON OUR HONEYMOON, ACTUALLY 554 00:29:16,723 --> 00:29:17,757 >> WOW I WASN'T EXPECTING IT TO BE THAT 555 00:29:17,757 --> 00:29:20,326 QUICK. >> IT WAS -- IT WAS PRETTY 556 00:29:20,326 --> 00:29:23,029 QUICK. >> Reporter: THEY HAD BEEN 557 00:29:23,029 --> 00:29:25,632 BACKPACKING THROUGH SPAIN, STAYING IN HOSTELS 558 00:29:25,632 --> 00:29:27,734 CORIE SAYS SHE WANTED TO STAY ONE NIGHT IN A NICE HOTEL, BUT 559 00:29:27,734 --> 00:29:30,403 RYAN SAID NO >> I WASN'T REALLY SAYING 560 00:29:30,403 --> 00:29:34,674 ANYTHING BUT I WAS KINDA DISAPPOINTED 561 00:29:34,674 --> 00:29:36,443 AND HE DOESN'T LIKE THAT >> Reporter: THAT YOU WERE 562 00:29:36,443 --> 00:29:37,944 DISAPPOINTED >> THAT I WAS DISAPPOINTED IN 563 00:29:37,944 --> 00:29:40,046 HIM. YEAH 564 00:29:40,046 --> 00:29:41,581 SO WE GOT IN THE ELEVATOR AND HE, LIKE, FREAKED OUT, AND HE 565 00:29:41,581 --> 00:29:45,385 ACTUALLY GRABBED ME BY THE SHOULDERS AND SHOVED ME TO THE 566 00:29:45,385 --> 00:29:47,420 FLOOR. >> Reporter: IN THE ELEVATOR 567 00:29:47,420 --> 00:29:49,055 >> IN THE ELEVATOR ON OUR -- >> Reporter: ON YOUR - 568 00:29:49,055 --> 00:29:50,690 >> -- HONEYMOON. >> Reporter: ON YOUR HONEYMOON 569 00:29:50,690 --> 00:29:52,759 >> YEAH. >> Reporter: THE TRIP WAS RUINED 570 00:29:52,759 --> 00:29:57,063 AND CORIE TOLD RYAN SHE WANTED TO GO HOME 571 00:29:57,063 --> 00:30:00,200 >> WE WERE SUPPOSED TO BE THERE FOR TWO WEEKS AND WE LEFT AFTER 572 00:30:00,200 --> 00:30:03,403 TEN DAYS >> Reporter: SHE SAYS LIFE GOT 573 00:30:03,403 --> 00:30:06,606 BACK TO NORMAL BUT OVER TIME, THINGS ESCALATED 574 00:30:06,606 --> 00:30:09,943 >> THE LONGER WE WERE TOGETHER, THE -- THE WORSE IT WAS. 575 00:30:09,943 --> 00:30:12,445 IN THE BEGINNING, IT WAS LITTLE THINGS 576 00:30:12,445 --> 00:30:15,115 IT WAS, YOU KNOW, HE WASN'T HAPPY ABOUT SOMETHING SO HE'D 577 00:30:15,115 --> 00:30:17,550 PUSH OR SHOVE ME HE'D THROW WATER BOTTLES AT ME. 578 00:30:17,550 --> 00:30:20,453 HIT ME WITH WATER BATTLES. >> Reporter: SHOULDN'T YOU BE 579 00:30:20,453 --> 00:30:24,157 RUNNING? >> I KNEW THAT I HAD TO LEAVE. 580 00:30:24,157 --> 00:30:27,894 BUT AT THAT POINT, I HAVE NO SELF-ESTEEM WHATSOEVER 581 00:30:27,894 --> 00:30:31,064 LIKE, HE'S ALREADY MADE ME FEEL LIKE I CAN'T LIVE WITHOUT HIM, I 582 00:30:31,064 --> 00:30:33,733 CAN'T DO ANYTHING WITHOUT HIM. AND AT THAT POINT, I FELT LIKE I 583 00:30:33,733 --> 00:30:35,835 WAS TRAPPED, I KNEW I WAS TRAPPED. 584 00:30:35,835 --> 00:30:38,505 HE TOLD ME I WAS TRAPPED >> Reporter: CORIE SAYS SHE WAS 585 00:30:38,505 --> 00:30:42,242 TRAPPED BY A MASTER MANIPULATOR. THAT RYAN, IN CHARGE OF THEIR 586 00:30:42,242 --> 00:30:45,145 FINANCES DIDN'T ALLOW HER ACCESS TO THEIR MONEY, SO 587 00:30:45,145 --> 00:30:49,683 OUT-OF-CONCERN FOR HER DAUGHTER, SHE STAYED 588 00:30:49,683 --> 00:30:52,852 AND THEN YOU SAY THAT -- THAT THINGS REALLY HIT ROCK BOTTOM. 589 00:30:52,852 --> 00:30:59,259 >> YEAH. WE'D GONE TO A WEDDING AND WAS 590 00:30:59,259 --> 00:31:02,062 DRINKING, AND IT WAS -- I DON'T EVEN KNOW WHERE WE WERE. 591 00:31:02,062 --> 00:31:05,398 >> Reporter: SHE WAS THE DESIGNATED DRIVER. 592 00:31:05,398 --> 00:31:07,233 RYAN WANTED TO SLEEP >> THIS IS BEFORE, YOU KNOW, ALL 593 00:31:07,233 --> 00:31:09,336 THE IPHONES AND THINGS LIKE THAT 594 00:31:09,336 --> 00:31:12,072 SO I DIDN'T KNOW HOW TO GET HOME, AND I'M ASKING HIM 595 00:31:12,072 --> 00:31:14,674 DIRECTIONS AND HE JUST STARTS YOU KNOW, HE 596 00:31:14,674 --> 00:31:17,310 JUST STARTS SCREAMING. BASICALLY, I MEAN, IMAGINE AN 597 00:31:17,310 --> 00:31:21,581 OUT-OF-CONTROL 5-YEAR-OLD. SO HE'S IN THE CAR AND HE'S 598 00:31:21,581 --> 00:31:24,584 KICKING THE DASHBOARD. AND HE'S KICKING ME, AND HE'S 599 00:31:24,584 --> 00:31:26,886 KICKING THE STEERING WHEEL AND HE'S KICKING THE GEAR 600 00:31:26,886 --> 00:31:29,089 SHIFTER. AND SCREAMING THE WHOLE TIME 601 00:31:29,089 --> 00:31:31,157 >> Reporter: AND YOU'RE TRYIN' TO DRIVE 602 00:31:31,157 --> 00:31:36,463 >> AND I'M JUST TRYING TO DRIVE TO GET HOME. 603 00:31:36,463 --> 00:31:40,200 SO BY THE TIME WE GOT HOME, HE WAS IN SUCH A CRAZY RAGE AS SOON 604 00:31:40,200 --> 00:31:43,370 AS I PUT THE TRUCK IN PARK, HE LITERALLY GRABBED ME BY MY HAIR 605 00:31:43,370 --> 00:31:46,573 AND DRAGGED ME OUT OF THE TRUCK. BOOM TACKLES ME. 606 00:31:46,573 --> 00:31:50,810 I'M ON THE GROUND. HE ACTUALLY TOOK MY HEAD AND 607 00:31:50,810 --> 00:31:55,615 SMASHED IT INTO THE FLOOR. AND THEN, LIKE, TURNED ME OVER 608 00:31:55,615 --> 00:31:57,717 AND -- STARTED CHOKING ME OUT. >> Reporter: DID YOU THINK YOUR 609 00:31:57,717 --> 00:32:01,454 LIFE WAS IN DANGER >> YES 610 00:32:01,454 --> 00:32:04,624 THAT'S I THOUGHT HE WAS GONNA KILL ME. 611 00:32:04,624 --> 00:32:07,394 THE LOOK ON HIS FACE, LIKE -- IT WAS -- I CAN'T EVEN EXPLAIN IT 612 00:32:07,394 --> 00:32:10,063 IT WAS LIKE NOBODY WAS HOME. IT WAS LIKE THE DEVIL BEHIND 613 00:32:10,063 --> 00:32:12,632 THOSE EYES THAT -- THAT'S WHAT SCARED ME 614 00:32:12,632 --> 00:32:15,268 THE MOST SO I WAS LIKE, "OKAY, THIS IS 615 00:32:15,268 --> 00:32:17,937 IT." >> Reporter: SHE SAYS HE FINALLY 616 00:32:17,937 --> 00:32:20,073 STOPPED AFTER CRACKING HER TOOTH AND CHOKING HER TO THE POINT 617 00:32:20,073 --> 00:32:22,175 THAT SHE PASSED OUT. WHEN SHE CAME TO, SHE CALLED 618 00:32:22,175 --> 00:32:24,310 9-1-1. DID THEY ARREST HIM AND TAKE HIM 619 00:32:24,310 --> 00:32:26,479 AWAY >> THEY DID. 620 00:32:26,479 --> 00:32:29,115 >> Reporter: TO JAIL >> UH-HUH. 621 00:32:29,115 --> 00:32:32,285 >> Reporter: IN 2011, RYAN PLEADED GUILTY TO ASSAULT AND 622 00:32:32,285 --> 00:32:36,523 WAS SENTENCED TO 60 DAYS IN JAIL, HE SERVED 21 623 00:32:36,523 --> 00:32:39,726 CORIE LATER FILED FOR DIVORCE AND SAYS SHE FEARED HIM EVERYDAY 624 00:32:39,726 --> 00:32:46,099 UNTIL IT WAS FINAL >> EVERY NIGHT I SLEPT WITH A 625 00:32:46,099 --> 00:32:47,567 SHOTGUN. IT WAS CRAZY 626 00:32:47,567 --> 00:32:50,470 >> Reporter: AFTER THAT, SHE THOUGHT SHE'D PUT RYAN BANE IN 627 00:32:50,470 --> 00:32:52,339 HER REARVIEW MIRROR. UNTIL -- 628 00:32:52,339 --> 00:32:55,008 HIS NAME POPS UP INTERNATIONAL MEDIA, "WOMAN GOES 629 00:32:55,008 --> 00:33:00,313 MISSING. >> I INSTANTLY FEEL TERRIBLE FOR 630 00:33:00,313 --> 00:33:04,751 THAT GIRL'S FAMILY BECAUSE THAT POOR GIRL HAD NO IDEA WHO HE 631 00:33:04,751 --> 00:33:06,686 REALLY IS. >> Reporter: CORIE HAS NO PROOF, 632 00:33:06,686 --> 00:33:09,923 BUT SHE'S CONVINCED RYAN HAD SOMETHING TO DO WITH SARM'S 633 00:33:09,923 --> 00:33:13,626 DISAPPEARANCE. >> I THINK HE DID SOMETHING TO 634 00:33:13,626 --> 00:33:15,762 HER, IN MY OPINION >> Reporter: THIS IS BASED ON 635 00:33:15,762 --> 00:33:17,864 YOUR PERSONAL -- >> BASED ON MY EXPERIENCE WITH 636 00:33:17,864 --> 00:33:19,466 HIM. UH-HUH 637 00:33:19,466 --> 00:33:21,067 >> Reporter: YOU'VE SEEN HIM SNAP - 638 00:33:21,067 --> 00:33:22,569 >> I'VE SEEN - >> Reporter: -- BEFORE 639 00:33:22,569 --> 00:33:25,305 >> -- IT I'VE SEEN THE RAGE 640 00:33:25,305 --> 00:33:28,508 IT'S -- HE CAN BE COMPLETELY ENRAGED ONE SECOND, I MEAN 641 00:33:28,508 --> 00:33:31,144 COMPLETELY OUT OF CONTROL, AND TWO SECONDS LATER, HE CAN HAVE A 642 00:33:31,144 --> 00:33:34,848 SMILE ON HIS FACE, "HEY, EVERYBODY. 643 00:33:34,848 --> 00:33:37,283 IT'S SO QUICK AND SO VIOLENT AND SO CRAZY, I COULDN'T IMAGINE 644 00:33:37,283 --> 00:33:40,720 BEING IN THAT SMALL SPACE WITH HIM. 645 00:33:40,720 --> 00:33:44,958 >> Reporter: THERE ARE ALWAYS TWO SIDES TO A STORY, WE HEARD 646 00:33:44,958 --> 00:33:49,362 CORIE'S AND NOW WE NEEDED TO HEAR RYAN'S, SO WE HOPPED ON A 647 00:33:49,362 --> 00:33:52,198 BOAT AND WENT LOOKING FOR HIM. RYAN DID YOU HAVE ANYTHING TO DO 648 00:33:52,198 --> 00:33:55,635 WITH THE DISAPPEARANCE OF SARM >>> COMING UP: 649 00:33:55,635 --> 00:33:58,805 THE BOAT: WHAT SECRETS MIGHT IT HOLD 650 00:33:58,805 --> 00:34:03,043 >> THERE MAY BE EVIDENCE THAT'S FALLEN THROUGH THE CRACKS. 651 00:34:03,043 --> 00:34:05,712 >> AND RYAN BANE, SURFACES AT LAST 652 00:34:05,712 --> 00:34:25,865 >> Reporter: WE JUST WANT TO ASK YOU, DO YOU KNOW WHERE SARM IS 653 00:34:25,865 --> 00:34:28,968 >> Reporter: SARM HESLOP HAS BEEN MISSING FOR A YEAR NOW. 654 00:34:28,968 --> 00:34:32,172 HER LAST REPORTED WHEREABOUTS, THE LUXURY CATAMARAN "SIREN 655 00:34:32,172 --> 00:34:34,841 SONG." A NAME FROM GREEK MYTHOLOGY THAT 656 00:34:34,841 --> 00:34:38,078 DESCRIBES SOMETHING APPEALING AND ALLURING ON THE SURFACE, BUT 657 00:34:38,078 --> 00:34:40,680 UNDERNEATH, DECEPTIVE AND DANGEROUS. 658 00:34:40,680 --> 00:34:42,816 THIS BOAT COULD BE THE KEY TO THIS MYSTERY 659 00:34:42,816 --> 00:34:46,553 >> MR. BANE IS THE KEY TO THIS MYSTERY. 660 00:34:46,553 --> 00:34:48,688 >> Reporter: WOULD YOU CALL RYAN BANE A SUSPECT IN SARM'S 661 00:34:48,688 --> 00:34:52,092 DISAPPEARANCE? >> HE'S ABSOLUTELY A PERSON OF 662 00:34:52,092 --> 00:34:54,928 INTEREST >> Reporter: IS THIS A CLASSIC 663 00:34:54,928 --> 00:34:58,231 CASE OF NO BODY, NO CRIME? >> YEAH, I THINK WITHOUT A BODY, 664 00:34:58,231 --> 00:35:01,434 IT CERTAINLY MAKES PROVING A CRIME MORE DIFFICULT 665 00:35:01,434 --> 00:35:04,637 >> Reporter: REGARDLESS OF WHAT HAPPENED TO SARM, LOCAL DEFENSE 666 00:35:04,637 --> 00:35:06,773 ATTORNEY SCOT McCHAIN BELIEVES SINCE RYAN'S NOT TALKING, THIS 667 00:35:06,773 --> 00:35:09,943 WILL BE A TOUGH CASE FOR POLICE TO SOLVE 668 00:35:09,943 --> 00:35:14,214 >> BECAUSE THERE'S NO OTHER WITNESSES EVEN CLOSE WHO COULD 669 00:35:14,214 --> 00:35:16,850 PROVIDE MEANINGFUL INFORMATION >> Reporter: BUT NOT IMPOSSIBLE. 670 00:35:16,850 --> 00:35:19,486 HE THINKS A FULL SEARCH OF RYAN'S BOAT IS A GOOD PLACE TO 671 00:35:19,486 --> 00:35:22,689 START. MONTHS HAVE GONE BY NOW, THOUGH. 672 00:35:22,689 --> 00:35:25,325 I MEAN, IT WOULDN'T -- IF THERE WAS ANY EVIDENCE, WOULDN'T IT BE 673 00:35:25,325 --> 00:35:28,528 GONE BY NOW? >> EVEN OVER TIME, THERE'S 674 00:35:28,528 --> 00:35:31,064 THINGS THAT ARE MISSED THERE MAY BE EVIDENCE THAT STUCK 675 00:35:31,064 --> 00:35:33,700 IN CRACKS. THERE MAY BE EVIDENCE THAT'S, 676 00:35:33,700 --> 00:35:35,969 YOU KNOW, FALLEN THROUGH THE CRACKS 677 00:35:35,969 --> 00:35:39,539 AND IF YOU TEAR APART THAT BOAT, THERE MAY STILL BE SOMETHING 678 00:35:39,539 --> 00:35:40,774 THERE. >> Reporter: HE ALSO BELIEVES 679 00:35:40,774 --> 00:35:43,276 THERE'S A WAY FOR POLICE TO GET A WARRANT. 680 00:35:43,276 --> 00:35:46,079 RYAN BANE HAS A HISTORY OF DOMESTIC VIOLENCE. 681 00:35:46,079 --> 00:35:48,081 COULD THEY USE THAT TO TRY TO GET A WARRANT? 682 00:35:48,081 --> 00:35:51,418 >> ABSOLUTELY. ABSOLUTELY 683 00:35:51,418 --> 00:35:54,587 BECAUSE IT SHOWS THAT IN THE PAST HE'S HAD A PREDILECTION TO 684 00:35:54,587 --> 00:35:57,223 ENGAGE IN CRIMINAL ACTIVITY. AND YOU COUPLE THAT WITH A 685 00:35:57,223 --> 00:36:01,027 MISSING BODY AND THEN I THINK YOU HAVE WHAT I 686 00:36:01,027 --> 00:36:03,596 WOULD CONSIDER PROBABLE CAUSE. >> Reporter: WHEN WE ASKED BOTH 687 00:36:03,596 --> 00:36:06,766 THE U.S. ATTORNEY AND THE ATTORNEY GENERAL OF THE U.S. 688 00:36:06,766 --> 00:36:11,571 VIRGIN ISLANDS ABOUT THIS, THEY SAID THEY DO NOT COMMENT ON 689 00:36:11,571 --> 00:36:16,376 ONGOING INVESTIGATIONS WE WERE HOPING RYAN BANE MIGHT 690 00:36:16,376 --> 00:36:19,546 TALK TO US, SO WE TRAVELED TO FRANK BAY, OFF THE ISLAND OF 691 00:36:19,546 --> 00:36:22,182 SAINT JOHN WHERE WE HEARD HE WAS STILL ANCHORED 692 00:36:22,182 --> 00:36:24,851 IT WAS THREE WEEKS AFTER SARM WENT MISSING, BUT WE'D JUST 693 00:36:24,851 --> 00:36:29,622 MISSED HIM RYAN WAS OUT IN THE OPEN ON HIS 694 00:36:29,622 --> 00:36:32,826 BOAT FOR -- FOR QUITE SOME TIME, AND THEN FINALLY SLIPPED AWAY. 695 00:36:32,826 --> 00:36:34,928 >> IF HE'S NOT UNDER ARREST AND THE BOAT HASN'T BEEN IMPOUNDED, 696 00:36:34,928 --> 00:36:38,131 I ASSUME HE'S GOT EVERY RIGHT TO BE 697 00:36:38,131 --> 00:36:41,301 >> Reporter: THEN WE GOT A TIP ABOUT WHERE RYAN MIGHT'VE GONE, 698 00:36:41,301 --> 00:36:45,572 SO WE CHARTERED A BOAT AND SEARCHED, AND SEARCHED 699 00:36:45,572 --> 00:36:48,508 WE'VE BEEN DRIVING AROUND THE ISLANDS ALL DAY TRYING TO FIND 700 00:36:48,508 --> 00:36:50,877 RYAN BANE. WE FINALLY LOCATED HIS BOAT HERE NEXT TO 701 00:36:50,877 --> 00:36:54,080 HASSEL ISLAND. WHEN WE PULLED UP, HE 702 00:36:54,080 --> 00:36:57,817 IMMEDIATELY WENT INSIDE. DESPITE REPEATED ATTEMPTS ASKING 703 00:36:57,817 --> 00:37:00,020 HIM TO SPEAK WITH US - RYAN, IT'S ANDREA CANNING FROM 704 00:37:00,020 --> 00:37:03,123 "DATELINE. COULD WE TALK TO YOU 705 00:37:03,123 --> 00:37:05,258 HE WOULDN'T COME OUT SO A FEW HOURS LATER, WE TRIED 706 00:37:05,258 --> 00:37:09,029 AGAIN. AND THIS TIME -- 707 00:37:09,029 --> 00:37:10,764 >> Reporter: RYAN! CAN WE TALK TO YOU 708 00:37:10,764 --> 00:37:14,300 WE JUST WANT TO ASK YOU, DO YOU KNOW WHERE SARM IS 709 00:37:14,300 --> 00:37:20,640 DO YOU KNOW ANYTHING ABOUT THE DISAPPEARANCE, RYAN? 710 00:37:20,640 --> 00:37:23,043 >> YOU'RE GONNA HURT MY DOG. >> Reporter: HOW ARE WE GONNA 711 00:37:23,043 --> 00:37:27,547 HURT YOUR DOG? >> HE'S GONNA JUMP IN AFTER YOU 712 00:37:27,547 --> 00:37:29,683 >> Reporter: OH, I'M SORRY HE WOULDN'T SPEAK TO ME, HE 713 00:37:29,683 --> 00:37:32,385 JUST -- KEPT TALKING ABOUT THE DOG WHICH, BY THE WAY, THE DOG 714 00:37:32,385 --> 00:37:34,454 IS - >> GRACE'S DOG 715 00:37:34,454 --> 00:37:36,589 [ LAUGHTER ] >> Reporter: YOUR DAUGHTER'S 716 00:37:36,589 --> 00:37:38,191 DOG? >> YES 717 00:37:38,191 --> 00:37:40,060 >> Reporter: SO HE TOOK THE DOG? >> HE DID. 718 00:37:40,060 --> 00:37:41,561 YEP. THAT WAS ONE OF THE MANY TIMES I 719 00:37:41,561 --> 00:37:43,496 CALLED THE POLICE ON HIM DURING OUR DIVORCE. 720 00:37:43,496 --> 00:37:46,166 ONE OF THE OFFICERS OPENED THE DOOR AND THE DOG WENT RUNNING 721 00:37:46,166 --> 00:37:52,072 OUT. AND HE PUT THE DOG IN HIS CAR, 722 00:37:52,072 --> 00:37:54,641 AND I HAD A CRYING 13-YEAR-OLD FOR MONTHS 723 00:37:54,641 --> 00:37:58,378 >> Reporter: SHE BROUGHT IT UP WITH THE JUDGE, BUT SHE SAYS THE 724 00:37:58,378 --> 00:38:01,581 JUDGE DIDN'T SEEM TO CARE, AND INSTEAD AWARDED THE DOG TO RYAN. 725 00:38:01,581 --> 00:38:04,250 HE KEPT SAYING THAT THE DOG, YOU KNOW, WON'T BE ABLE TO SWIM. 726 00:38:04,250 --> 00:38:06,920 >> HE'S A LAB. HE SWIMS ALL THE TIME. 727 00:38:06,920 --> 00:38:08,621 >> Reporter: DO YOU THINK THAT THIS WAS ANOTHER FORM OF SORT OF 728 00:38:08,621 --> 00:38:10,623 MANIPULATION - >> YES 729 00:38:10,623 --> 00:38:12,225 >> Reporter: -- BY RYAN -- >> 100%. 730 00:38:12,225 --> 00:38:14,194 >> Reporter: -- TRYING TO DEFLECT OFF MY QUESTION? 731 00:38:14,194 --> 00:38:17,030 >> ABSOLUTELY, YUP >> Reporter: CORIE BELIEVES SHE 732 00:38:17,030 --> 00:38:20,200 DODGED A BULLET WITH RYAN, AND AFTER YEARS OF THERAPY HAS FOUND 733 00:38:20,200 --> 00:38:23,403 HER HAPPY ENDING, ENGAGED TO THE MAN OF HER DREAMS. 734 00:38:23,403 --> 00:38:27,107 >> Reporter: WHAT IS IT LIKE NOW TO BE IN A TRULY HEALTHY 735 00:38:27,107 --> 00:38:29,809 RELATIONSHIP >> IT'S INCREDIBLE 736 00:38:29,809 --> 00:38:34,047 >> Reporter: SHE FEARS SARM WILL NEVER HAVE THAT CHANCE 737 00:38:34,047 --> 00:38:38,284 >> I FEEL BAD FOR HER FAMILY I FEEL BAD THAT SHE'S MISSING. 738 00:38:38,284 --> 00:38:41,488 YOU KNOW, AND IF, GOD FORBID, HE DID SOMETHING TO HER, I WANT 739 00:38:41,488 --> 00:38:43,923 THERE TO BE JUSTICE FOR HER. >> Reporter: THE POLICE SAY 740 00:38:43,923 --> 00:38:46,493 THEY'RE NOT GIVING UP. ALTHOUGH ONE POTENTIAL LEAD 741 00:38:46,493 --> 00:38:49,629 COULD BE SLIPPING AWAY SEVERAL MONTHS AGO, BANE PUT HIS 742 00:38:49,629 --> 00:38:52,632 CATAMARAN UP FOR SALE. SARM'S FRIENDS, WHO'VE BEEN 743 00:38:52,632 --> 00:38:54,801 TRACKING THE BOAT, SAY HE CHANGED THE NAME, AND HAS SINCE 744 00:38:54,801 --> 00:38:58,705 TAKEN IT OFF THE MARKET. THEY DON'T KNOW IF IT WAS SOLD 745 00:38:58,705 --> 00:39:01,341 AFTER THAT DO YOU THINK THIS CASE WILL EVER 746 00:39:01,341 --> 00:39:04,878 BE SOLVED? >> I HAVE OPTIMISM THAT WE'LL 747 00:39:04,878 --> 00:39:09,115 GET A LITTLE BIT MORE INFORMATION. 748 00:39:09,115 --> 00:39:12,886 SOMEONE SAW OR HEARD SOMETHING THAT CAN SAY, "THIS IS A PIECE 749 00:39:12,886 --> 00:39:18,158 THAT YOU'RE MISSING," OR THAT MR. BANE WILL HAVE THE 750 00:39:18,158 --> 00:39:20,827 CONSCIOUSNESS TO SAY, "LET ME DO THE RIGHT THING. 751 00:39:20,827 --> 00:39:23,596 LET ME EXPLAIN TO LAW ENFORCEMENT WHAT TOOK PLACE. 752 00:39:23,596 --> 00:39:26,833 >> Reporter: BANE'S LAWYER INSISTS HIS CLIENT HAD NOTHING 753 00:39:26,833 --> 00:39:29,336 TO DO WITH SARM'S DISAPPEARANCE, AND TOLD "DATELINE" HE HAS 754 00:39:29,336 --> 00:39:33,073 "ADVISED LOCAL LAW ENFORCEMENT THAT IF MR. BANE'S PRESENCE IS 755 00:39:33,073 --> 00:39:37,310 LEGALLY REQUIRED IN THE TERRITORY, HE WILL APPEAR 756 00:39:37,310 --> 00:39:40,046 VOLUNTARILY. WHAT DO YOU SAY TO ANYONE WHO 757 00:39:40,046 --> 00:39:45,618 SAYS YOUR POLICE DEPARTMENT ISN'T DOING ENOUGH 758 00:39:45,618 --> 00:39:48,455 >> WE HAVE LOOKED HIGH AND LOW WE'VE CONDUCTED AS OVERARCHING 759 00:39:48,455 --> 00:39:52,192 AN INVESTIGATION AS YOU POSSIBLY CAN FOR SOMEONE WHO WAS REPORTED 760 00:39:52,192 --> 00:39:54,494 MISSING. >> Reporter: AND AS FOR SARM'S 761 00:39:54,494 --> 00:39:58,064 TIGHT KNIT CIRCLE OF FRIENDS, THEY HAVE VOWED TO KEEP THE 762 00:39:58,064 --> 00:40:02,035 PRESSURE ON AND PUSH INVESTIGATORS TO FIND SARM, A 763 00:40:02,035 --> 00:40:05,505 WOMAN WHO CAME TO PARADISE IN SEARCH OF ADVENTURE AND LOVE 764 00:40:05,505 --> 00:40:08,775 NOW HER FRIENDS JUST WANT TO REFLECT ON THE PERSON WHO MEANT 765 00:40:08,775 --> 00:40:11,311 THE WORLD TO THEM. >> I WANT HER TO BE REMEMBERED 766 00:40:11,311 --> 00:40:15,015 AS THIS -- AS THE REALLY POSITIVE PERSON THAT SHE IS. 767 00:40:15,015 --> 00:40:19,252 SHE'S GOT A REAL LUST FOR LIFE SHE IS AN HONEST AND TRUTHFUL 768 00:40:19,252 --> 00:40:21,388 PERSON SHE'S SOMEONE THAT YOU WANT ON 769 00:40:21,388 --> 00:40:24,057 YOUR TEAM. >> UH-HUH. 770 00:40:24,057 --> 00:40:27,761 >> SHE'S FUN TO BE AROUND. SHE'S ADVENTUROUS, SHE'S HAPPY 771 00:40:27,761 --> 00:40:34,701 AND THAT KIND OF OOZES OUT OF HER, AND YOU GET REALLY CAUGHT 772 00:40:34,701 --> 00:40:36,803 UP IN -- IN THE SARM MOMENT. >> THAT'S ALL FOR THIS EDITION 773 00:40:36,803 --> 00:40:38,905 OF "DATELINE." WE'LL SEE YOU AGAIN NEXT FRIDAY 774 00:40:38,905 --> 00:40:41,574 AT 9:00/8:00 CENTRAL, AND OF COURSE, I'LL SEE YOU EACH 775 00:40:41,574 --> 00:40:44,244 WEEKNIGHT FOR NBC NIGHTLY NEWS I'M LESTER HOLT. 776 00:40:44,244 --> 00:40:52,285 FOR ALL OF US AT NBC NEWS, GOODNIGHT. 777 00:40:52,285 --> 00:40:52,352 GOODNIGHT.