Rage On The Run
Jan. 26, 2006
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After leaving the Marines, David Bieber focused
on becoming a professional bodybuilder. (CBS) |
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(CBS) Once the golden child of his Ft. Myers, Fla., high
school, David Bieber – with his good looks, athletic
abilities and nice car – developed a love for
bodybuilding and, with it, an appetite for steroids. A
combination of steroids and a love triangle involving
Bieber would lead to murder and ultimately turn Bieber
into a wanted man on two continents.
48 Hours correspondent Susan Spencer reports on this
case this Saturday, Jan. 28, at 10 p.m. ET/PT.
Bobby Ammons, a long-time friend of Bieber's, says that
Bieber used steroids in high school and it continued
into adulthood. Bieber began selling steroids to support
his expensive bodybuilding career.
Eventually, Beiber went into business with fellow
bodybuilder, Markus Mueller, a German who was able to
smuggle the drugs into the U.S. from Europe. While the
two were business partners, they were also rivals.
Then, Bieber had an affair with Mueller’s girlfriend,
Danielle LaBelle. It was an uncomfortable love triangle.
Surprisingly, only weeks later, Bieber and LaBelle were
married. Then, in February 1995, Bieber drove LaBelle to
Mueller’s home to retrieve her purse while he waited in
the car. LaBelle found Mueller dead in the doorway and
frantically called 911.
She had a strong hunch Bieber killed Mueller, and told
that to the 911 operator and Bieber’s former friend,
Ammons.
The police had their own suspicions that Bieber was
involved in the homicide. They knew about the love
triangle and the fact that Mueller and Bieber were in
business selling steroids. Police say that there were
steroids in Mueller’s home – potentially thousands of
dollars worth – that they couldn’t find. While working
the case, the police finally got the lead they needed
from two men who claimed Bieber had hired them to kill
Mueller. When the police finally put it together, they
were too late. Bieber had vanished.
Bieber tried to sidetrack police in their search. He
bought the birth certificate of a deceased child, Nathan
Wayne Coleman, and took on his identity. In September
1996, without police knowing, Bieber fled to Leeds,
England, where he worked as a nightclub bouncer. He went
undiscovered as Coleman for almost eight years.
Then, on Dec. 26, 2003, Leeds police approached a car
that was parked strangely on the side of the road. The
vehicle turned out to be stolen and there was a man
inside. The man told police he was Coleman, a Canadian,
and that he had not stolen the car. The officers did not
know that the man they were about to take into custody
was Bieber, wanted in the U.S. for murder. When the
police began cuffing Coleman, he began shooting the
three unarmed officers and escaped.
One officer died from his wounds. The last time a police
officer had been shot and killed in Britain was seven
years earlier. A nationwide manhunt was now on for
Coleman. Will Coleman's true identity be revealed –
Bieber, American fugitive – and will he be brought to
justice?
Tune in Saturday for "Rage On The Run."
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