It is time the truth come out. The call came in the middle of the night it was their friend in a panic. He had gone missing off the boat and that is where it started what did you think . That was the ticket to the count of three repeat of that let me here on wartime type of thing no matter how many times you heard it, it just did not make sense. You think of all these things, it rushes through your head. Except, this was clearly true. I just saw disaster happening, in a foreign country. You say this cant be, this cant be. I knew it. He has to be another explanation. There was some other explanation all right, it just was not the one anyone was expecting. My instinct said, this is going to go sideways fast, i just did not know which way or how. How we were going to get there. Maple says a marvelous city, and his beautiful market wasnt and castigated reporter for the italian newspaper it is full of life, it is full of colors, and it is a beautiful place to visit, as a tourist. One of tho
yes i was. that delay lasted more than two months. then on may 26, 2020. with covid-19 cases still spreading in orange county. the judge called a hearing. to determine whether lonnie s case could move forward. so she went to court with a heavy heart. it was the 14th anniversary of mckee s death. the hearing was livestreamed to the public. and no surprise, the defense argued for a mistrial. among the reasons, after the long delay, jurors could not possibly remember everything. putting lonnie at a disadvantage. to which the judge said. we have to continue. it is so important to have the rule of law. even during a pandemic. the judge denied the motion for a mistrial and two days later, all 16 jurors returned. following social distancing guidelines. jurors would spread throughout the courtroom.
And everyone would wear masks except for the witnesses. and the first witness to take the stand was lonnie. i don t know if my ex-wife was killed. i don t know what happened to my ex-wife. lonnie had an explanation for everything. why did you book a cabin with a balcony? well. i did not want to cheap out. i was trying to impress mckee with the fact that i was trying to change. more vacation, spending more money. all of it was to salvage a relationship, that according to lonnie, mckee s hot temper had destroyed. she broke cell phone, she threw things. one particular incident in 2001, she broke a fax machine. threw it from the second level down to the living room floor. that time, the cops were called. lonnie said that he talked them down from arresting mickey. so when lonnie learned that
Buck. this was not the type of ship that the american attorney would view as a vacation type of a vessel. it is designed to be cheap, and cheerful. it has one peculiar feature that was appealing to lonnie. it is a straight drop into the sea from the balconies that were welded on to the side of this converted ferry. and most modern cruiseship bay, if you fall off the aloha deck, you ve got a good chance of landing on the lead on deck. not so on the island escape. those balconies guarantee that in a fall, the only thing that you would head is the mediterranean. almost seven story straight down. that is a long fall. you re standing there looking over the balcony, that s a long fall in the ocean. definitely. a jury would decide if this unusual defendant was guilty of mckee s murder.
I did not expect her to make her lies about me again. lonnie said that amy wasn t the only person telling lies about him. there was also someone he met behind bars. someone who was prepared to tell the jury quite a story. back in april of 2014, a year after lonnie was arrested for mckee s murder. the orange county, da s office got a call. an inmate named tony. a frequent flyer in the criminal justice system, was requesting an emergency landing. sergeant don set up a meeting. so tony had told us that he was approached by lonnie, who asked tony and another inmate if they re willing to have lonnie s third wife recant her statement and then have her killed. this is a we re talking about?