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?
murdered. you never thought you d be? right. just so senseless. i m rangry, very angry. but the dark, empty parking lot did not speak. there was nothing here. then a couple of days before departure, a tip. he got an address for that aunty susan woman, the last relative known to have larry s ashes. shy lived an hour s drive from the hospital parking lot. and here it was, the biggest house on the block. well, this is our last hope. yeah. we don t know what s in there. but i say, let s find out.
had been passed around her relatives on orders of the man that orchestrated her murder, eric dela cruz. he said to give the ash to my aunty susan. aunty susan? where was she? he didn t know. in a city of cemeteries and 20 million haystacks, larry s ashes could be anywhere. her dream of finding them an impossible errand. so she looked for another way. she came to the place he was last alive. the hospital parking lot where on sonia s orders, somebody execute her brother. i feel somewhat numb that i m actually standing where he was
somebody. that news reached larry s family as they were preparing for his funeral. when we found out that sonia had him cremated and the remains were not coming back, that was yet another slap in the face. sonia controlling everything. the family still held the funeral and left a headstone with a small, empty nation. someday they told themselves, someday they would retrieve larry s ashes and put them here. at home. for his remains to be in the philippines is unthinkable. how much of this was a middle finger to you and to the family? a lot. a big one. whatever sherry s suspicions about sonia, there was a much she could do, except hope and