didn t matter. he was naive. it s not the sort of image you have a mind for a navy commander? right. his kindness made him naive. larry had always been close to his family. visited whenever he could. but, said sherry, after sonia came along, larry stopped coming. sonia would be sick. she d have a headache. she would sabotage every time he had planned to come home. a year or so in, larry and sonia got married. they settled into sonia s house in lomita, across the street from nicole and jim thompson. she was very pleasant, very generous. very nice. she seemed quite normal. it looked like just a normal marriage. although there was this odd thing about it, given larry s authority at work. although he was a commander in the navy, she was the stronger one of the two. far off in olympia, sherry got the same impression. to her, it seemed almost sinister. she had complete control over him.
bordeaux, offering what sherry so desperately wanted to return her brother larry s remains from the philippines. but the offer came at a price, an exorbitant one, that sherry was willing to pay. so, this john bordeaux had to be a con artist, maybe worse. and then, another email. he was worse. john bordeaux offered to add an extra little service, and it had to do with larry s widow, sonia. he was offering to kill her. wow! basically, to pay someone to kill sonia. first, extortion. and now, murder. did you feel in jeopardy yourself? i did. because at this point, anything could happen. oh, and sure enough, something was happening. and it wasn t pretty. sheriff s deputy, how can i help you? my mom dropped on the floor. is she breathing?
sonia came over and she said, larry is going to go to the philippines and we have a taxi business there. and he s got to get that taken care of. which he agreed to do, after all, he wanted to see quinzy and jetmark, and quinzy s 16th birthday was coming up. but, sonia? she didn t want to go. exactly, i brought that up. it s her family, why does she go? and he said what? no, i need to go. it was whatever sonia decided. but before leaving for manila, larry needed to take one other trip. back home. back to olympia for the first time in 13 years, for a family reunion. it was great. he was very happy to start another chapter in his life without her. without her, but with the gushed, the niece and nephew he still hoped to adopt. sherry listened.
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 had a son, either. so, sherry, a little suspicious about these uninvited emails right back. all chummy as if she and john bourdeau were online buddies. my goal 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.