took an awful turn. was sound asleep back in florida when the phone rang. 3:10 in the morning, i was in the bed with my dog, i picked up the phone, and concerned, he said i did not have a problem. i said where are you. he says, i m in italy. i said, okay. he says ricky is missing. i said what do you mean she is missing. he said, we cannot find her. when did he tell you he had last seen her. he said he went about that night, and they had tungsten a club, he couldn t sleep, so he took some ambien, and he woke up the next morning and she was not there. that is when lonnie sounded the alarm? yes. apparently he reported her, could not find her. he asked them to look. the crew of the island escape started searching the ship, and the captain made an announcement to passengers to be on the lookout for her. then he checked lonnie and mickey s cabin, and found nothing amiss. he recalled a bottle of wine, and this chair on the balcony
to them. i said, they are on it. this is good. i m all happy about this. here is something bill was not happy about, learning right then that when he flew from italy to southern california, it wasn t to sleep in his own bed, it was to visit a woman he had been dating, until he decided to patch things up with mickey. his wife missing off a cruise ship, he flies home, not to visit his friend, but to the home of the other woman, i mean, if you are lonnie, and it s like putting a target on you, and saying please investigate me. absolutely. the first thing out of my mouth was, do you know how this looks? you said i need to consult. i said, it is like i m talking to a moron. as sharp in attorney as he was, he seemed tone deaf to how his actions would play. the initial impression was, the guy is not quite right. the fbi said he seemed almost too eager to show agents he had no marks on his body. he volunteered to disrobe for, them to try and convince
protecting his assets from seizure from the feds. now there was much more than money at stake. i was stunned that he had been arrested, actually. i was absolutely stunned. this time, the charge was murder. lonnie faced life in prison. i ve been doing criminal defense for 45 years. i have done some heavy stuff. and i will tell you my belief 100% is that lonnie is innocent of killing mickey. he pleaded not guilty. attorney knew that the keys were lighted on amy lyn. the story that he says was one big lie. influenced by none other than bill price. he scared the hell out of amy. i have money, i have can protect you, i can save you. come on, he s a rat, he s a scumbag. he said horrible things about you. horrible stuff, i ve never heard of it before. and that s when amy turned.
whether micki was a good or bad person, nobody deserves to die. that way. nobody does. and i suppose, the guilt that i would ve had then would be, i believed him. that hurts. you are a pro and he fooled you? yeah. for micki kanesaki, the ocean always carried hope. a coal miner s daughter from japan, she once traveled across the sea for a better life. and the island escape was supposed to carry her and lonnie to calmer shores. he didn t know how good he had it? yeah, he does not know. he did not know. yeah, to the end. she was always there for him. and look what happened. look what he did to her. she didn t deserve that. she had a lot to live for. she was a beautiful person. and i m talking about her soul.
and attorney himself, lonnie filed a motion after motion and delayed the trial for years. lonnie is a bright man. lonnie worked very hard as an attorney, throughout these proceedings who wrote a lot of the briefs that were presented to the court. and how did he do? he s a good attorney. however, he was blinded by his own narcissism. and he s not as smart as he thinks he is.