Suspicion surrounds Rebecca Schwartz long after her wealthy husband's death

For John Diebel, she’s the suspect who got away.

Diebel, a retired detective, spent more than a decade investigating the brutal murder of Steven Schwartz, a wealthy doctor whose 2014 death shook Florida’s Gulf coast. In his first interview about the case, Diebel recalled that the investigation was one of the most extensive of his nearly 50 years in law enforcement — one filled with unexpected turns and dead ends that led detectives far from the doctor’s sprawling mansion northeast of Tampa.

Retired dectective, John Diebel who has spent more than a decade investigating the death of Steven Schwartz.

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Yet in the end, Diebel’s investigation for the Tarpon Springs Police Department produced a single conviction for a crime far less serious than murder. And it did not yield criminal c