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California Can Prosecute Lawyer Accused of Throwing Wife Overboard from Cruise Ship

By Jim Walker on July 30, 2013
Posted in Disappearances

Lonnie KocontesYesterday a judge held that a man accused of strangling and throwing his wife overboard from an Italian cruise ship should stand trial in California. The court rejected the argument of the cruise passenger’s defense lawyers that the state prosecutors in Orange County lacked jurisdiction to prosecute the crime which occurred in international waters off…

Charges Dismissed Against Cruise Passenger Accused of Strangling and Dumping Ex-Wife Overboard

By Jim Walker on June 1, 2013
Posted in Crime

Two days ago we reported on a ruling made by a judge in California holding that a cruise ship passenger accused of strangling and throwing his former wife overboard from a cruise ship in Italy could be prosecuted in state court.

But yesterday, the same judge reconsidered his ruling and decided that he did not have…

Cruise Ship Passenger Can be Tried in California State Court for Murdering Ex-Wife

By Jim Walker on May 31, 2013
Posted in Crime

Crimes on cruise ships on the high seas often fall into jurisdictional no-man’s lands where prosecutions are impossible to pursue. 

But yesterday a judge in Orange County, California ruled that local prosecutors can try a criminal case against a cruise passenger accused of strangling his ex-wife and tossing her off a cruise ship in Italy…

Cruise Ship Passenger Pleads Not Guilty of Strangling His Ex-Wife & Throwing Her Overboard

By Jim Walker on May 17, 2013
Posted in Crime

In a disturbing case we have covered over the years, U.S. lawyer, Lonnie Loren Kocontes, entered a plea today of not guilty in the strangulation death of his ex-wife, Micki Kaneski, during a cruise off of the Italian coast seven years ago.

This case seems to stand in stark contrast to the cruise industry’s claim…

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