Peter Chadwick: Caught
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[Music] It was so unusual for something like this to happen right outside your door. Behind the gates of a beautiful community. Well, as they say, a lot of things go on behind closed doors. The Chadwicks lived a very suburban life. Peter was very quiet, very soft-spoken, QC. She was bubbly and vivacious. When you say bubbly and vivacious, did she have a sense of humor? She was very funny. Yes. It's so smart and talented she could do anything. Our kids started the same school as her children. They were all friends. You see she came from Malaysia, not speaking English. And she met Peter in school, she told us. Peter would work out of the home managing the family investments. You know, they lived well. So from the outside did it seem like the Chadwicks had this idyllic life? Yes, from the outside it definitely seemed that way. [Music] I work out of my house, so my office just faces the street here. Between 4 and 5 p.m. I saw cup cars in front of her house. [Music] And I'm thinking what's going on? One of our other friends, she came right up to me and said, "Karen, where's QC? Where's Peter?" At that point we just knew that she didn't pick up the kids. It was kind of talk of the neighborhood and that Peter and her were missing. [Music] We send a patrol officer out there, so they go inside. It just looks like a typical Newport resident, where there was lunch being prepared, the house is immaculant, that there's still vacuum lines in the carpet, everything's made, it looks good. And then when they go upstairs and they walk into the master bath, they realize there's a broken vase and a little bit of blood splattered around. Now we're actually starting to get worried about it. [Music] We had no idea this manhunt was going to become the logistical monster that it has. On the beep, you're going to draw on fire. And then martial servicers, everybody loves that Hemingway quote. There's no hunting, like the hunting of men. [Music] Two! [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music]
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A “48 Hours” report helps trip up a wanted fugitive who spent more than four-and-a-half years on the run for allegedly killing his wife and staging a kidnapping. Correspondent Tracy Smith reports.