This episode contains descriptions of violence. Use your best judgment.

In 1997, Peggy Beckler and her husband Eric had been married for five years.

To celebrate, they took a vacation to Newport Beach in California.

Peggy had been a champion swimmer when she was younger, and at 37, she was still athletic.

The couple rented a speedboat and planned to do some boogie boarding, but it didn't quite turn out as they had planned.

On July 6, 1997, the couple's rental boat was discovered empty,

moving in circles in the water.

Eric Beckler was spotted floating in his life jacket, drifting nearby.

The Coast Guard was alerted immediately. The Coast Guard rescue 6-584 of the blombage.

Two persons in the water, one of them has a visual lawn.

The Coast Guard couldn't see Peggy anywhere. No one could.

Peggy Beckler was never seen again.

From A&E, this is cold case files.

The Orange County Sheriff's Office was notified about Peggy's disappearance,

and Deputy Gary Gough was the first to arrive at the scene.

When we arrived on scene, we saw the Good Samaritan boat standing by,

and there was a person in the water later identified as Eric Bechler.

Deputy Gough took his patrol boat to where Eric was floating in the water and pulled him on board.

He had a few questions for Eric and was trying to understand how the current situation came to be.

He told us that he was boogie boarding behind a boat being driven by his wife,

and they had hit a wave or awake, he got knocked off the boogie board, and when he came to

the surface of the water, he looked into the distance and saw the boat going around in circles,

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