Dateline: O.C. Lawyer Woos Ex-Wife with Cruise, Throws Her Overboard, “Open Water”
The
52-year-old
Micki Kanesaki. At the time of her death, her ex-husband, former Orange County attorney Lonnie Kocontes, proposed that they give love a second chance on a romantic Mediterranean cruise. While aboard the
Island Escape, which left from Mallorca, Spain and stopped in Sicily, Italy, Kocontes reported Micki missing.
Kocontes reported to the authorities that he woke up in their cabin at 4:30 in the morning and was alarmed that she wasn’t there so he went looking for her. Thirty-six hours later, Micki’s body was found by a fishing boat in the Mediterranean Sea.