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48 Hours

Cold-Blooded Killer

48 Hours

CBS News

Tv & Film, True Crime

4.17.8K Ratings

🗓️ 21 June 2020

⏱️ 44 minutes

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Summary

A father goes hunting in a Florida lake and vanishes. Many people thought he was eaten by alligators, but not his mother. Seventeen years later, a stunning confession proves she was right all along. “48 Hours” correspondent Richard Schlesinger investigates.

Transcript

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0:00.0

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0:07.3

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0:09.5

This story has always been one that has fascinated people,

0:23.8

because it's so bizarre that this could even happen.

0:28.3

17 and a half years, we have always talked about Mike Williams being missing.

0:35.0

Not ever finding his body, not ever having resolution, was very difficult.

0:44.0

He was going to wake up early and go duck hunting.

0:46.7

He was a big duck hunter.

0:48.0

And so he went off to the lake, and then he never came back.

0:59.3

Mike Williams was a straight shooter.

1:01.9

He loved his family.

1:02.9

He loved his wife.

1:03.9

He put her on a pedestal.

1:05.9

Mike did everything that she wanted done.

1:08.3

Denise said, jump.

1:09.9

Mike wanted to know how high they were going to be celebrating their winning anniversary.

1:13.8

And so when he did not come home about noon, when he was supposed to, Denise started getting worried and started calling around.

1:20.8

This search was the most intensive I've ever seen.

1:26.3

Law enforcement and friends and family combing the lake, looking for them.

1:32.3

They found the boat, his truck, the trailer.

1:35.9

That was all there.

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