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This is part two of a two-part series.

Where we left off, Peter Beckett had given his version of events to police, both in an initial statement and during a recreation where he went out on a boat with three investigators.

But a lot of other information had started to come out, suggesting that there was a dark side of the marriage between Peter and Laura, which seemed at odds with Peter's side of the story.

Peter was described by some as overbearing and domineering.

Laura's cousin and friend Virginia reported Laura telling her that Peter predicted that she

would die of drowning. And even though this was hearsay, the RCMP had spoken to the psychologist

Laura had been seeing to help her deal with her unhappy marriage and learned how an unspecified

incident led to Laura filing a physical abuse complaint against Peter, which led to them separating

for three months. They reconciled and then Laura had a falling out with her family,

who found out that Peter had been married before, which went against the teachings of their religion.

Laura and her parents became estranged, which devastated her.

The RCMP also found out that Peter had a few different stories about what happened,

and his behaviour after Laura's death was considered odd,

like the way he wanted to know all about what Google Earth showed of Shelter Bay.

When looking into Peter and Laura's finances, the RCMP made an interesting discovery.

In the years leading up to Laura's death, she had life insurance policies worth almost $850,000.

But the year before she died, she lowered her coverage when she and Peter purchased that large motor home. The next year, just a few weeks before Laura's death,

Peter took out accidental death insurance policies on himself and Laura that increased her coverage.

He maintained that Laura was the one who handled the life insurance, and it wasn't him,

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