Hello and welcome to the podcast Crime Salad.

We are a husband and wife and partners in crime here to give you your weekly healthy

portion of true crime.

My name is Ashley and I'm Ricky.

So glad you can join us because we are about to dive in part two of this case about the mysterious death of Peggy Beckler.

As always, listener discretion is advised. Okay, so where we left off in part one, authorities they were lacking sufficient

evidence to charge Eric Beckler with Peggy's murder, and all that they had at

this point was circumstantial, so nothing that they had at this point was circumstantial.

So nothing that they had could take him to court and get him a murder conviction.

And like we said, there was a break in the case. So around this particular time, Eric met Tina a 27 year old at a trade show in October of 1997.

Eric's friend had hired her to be a model in his booth.

Tina, she was an actress who had appeared on shows such as Baywatch Nights,

married with children, and also Tina appeared on two episodes of Mr. Show in 1997, and there were a number of different shows

that she was in.

She was also a bikini contest winner and a part-time nude model.

Now, Tina, she agreed to go on a date after Eric asked her.

Eric told Tina at the dinner that he had three children and that his wife had tragically died in an accident and he went on to give her the details of what happened, you know, his story of what happened.

Specifically stating that the water was rough in choppy that day. So he fell off the boogie board and then Peggy was gone.

Tina saw a man who had lost his wife.

She felt sympathy for the man.

And she also was attracted to him.

And during this date, Tina actually asked him if the police

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