thing happened. or things. emails suddenly popped up in sherry s computer. they talked about sonia being responsible for my brothers murdered. and he was offering to get my brothers ashes back. he signed them, john bourdeau. but wait, earl john duque bourdeau was long dead, so who was the guy sending that emails? i had learned that sonia first husband adopted a child by the name of john bourdeau when they were first married. yes, sonia had a secret son. a biological son born in the philippines before sonia married duke. we couldn t find any adoption papers, but the boy assumed
duke s last name. considered him his stepfather. i never knew that until after my brother passed away. and you never heard a thing about it? no. larry risken apparently didn t know sonia how tyson, either. so, sherry, a little suspicious about these uninvited emails right back. all chummy as if she and john bourdeau were online buddies. michael was to try to get my brother s ashes back. so, i was just kind of stringing him along. but the more sherry corresponded with this john bourdeau guy, the more she worried about what sort of person he was. there were quite a few emails asking for money. a lot of money. $35,000 to recover larry s ashes. it was very, very unsettling to receive emails. it was so outlandish that it was hard to make sense of. outlandish?
humid, hot, when duke bourdeau landed in manila. then he drove south to a town called it was about midnight when duke arrived at this little house. sonia s family lived here. duke was exhausted. he crashed on the couch. fell into a dead sleep. and then he was dead. when police arrived, they found duque lying in a pool of his own blood. he d been shot to death. and soon, the awful news made its way to iowa. it haunts you the rest of your life. you just dream about when he calls and begging you to go someplace, and you didn t do it. it survivor skill is a real thing, isn t it? yeah. it is. it hurts.
that caught on. that did catch on. nicole and jim townsend saw the headlines. heard the stories. it was hard to believe this was sweet little sonia, they re nice neighbor they were once so friendly with. not any more. for her to send to husbands back to the philippines and both of them get murdered, that change the relationship permanently. i m going to keep my distance. i said, this is way too coincidental. it s just too weird for me. and i don t want to be a part of it. but up in olympia, washington, sherry jackson hadn t seen larry s story about the black widow. and so, when philippine authorities called her and told her that sonia had a previous has been, and that he was murdered, too it was a huge shock. when i heard that, i literally dropped to my knees. then, sherry called dennis
you let him down and you let your parents down. what happened in their? who killed earl john duke bourdeau. john bourdeau was murdered in cold blood. bong oteza is a private investigator who once worked for the philippine equivalent of the fbi. somebody went inside the house. they thought it s just a burglary or a home invasion, something like that. but it didn t make sense. there was no sign of a break in. and duke was the only one shot. pretty much execution style. that police here in the town jumped on the bourdeau case right away and pretty soon they had identified some suspects. brought them in. charged them with murder. three of those people, three of those men, were members of sonia s family. and then two more were picked