They were kind of a Romeo and Juliet couple trying to run away together and the tragedy of it all going so terribly wrong.

A mystery hiding in a lake.

I remember it being so unbelievable that a plane had landed in our family's lake.

A couple of young people on it.

And we're trying to locate it with fish finders. They found it and her.

She was a pretty girl.

Some of her long hair was caught in the door.

She just looked like she was actually sleeping but where was the pilot?

They were pretty sure he was heading to Mexico.

I can remember we had calls from Interpol even.

24 years later a woman uncovers a little white lie.

He said that he was actually 43. I was like, so what else have you lied to me about?

Was he a monster? Was he Romeo? You just don't know.

And those are the best stories, aren't they?

Now for the first time in public the untold story.

You're the only person on the planet who knows the truth.

A mystery that dropped from the sky and sank out of sight.

Decades later will it finally be solved?

I'm Lester Holt and this is Date Line.

Here's Keith Morrison with at the bottom of the lake.

It is in its own strange way a dissertation on love.

Love intoxicating, impetuous, foolish.

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