SANTA ANA, Calif. — A former Southern California lawyer was sentenced Friday to life without the possibility of parole for strangling his ex-wife and throwing her body off a cruise ship in the Mediterranean in 2006. Kocontes “almost got away with murder,” Orange County District Attorney Todd Spitzer said in a statement after the sentencing. That miscalculation allowed us to convict him of murder,” Spitzer said. Kocontes was divorced from Kanesaki, had remarried and then divorced again when he booked the Mediterranean cruise. At trial, Kocontes said he had taken a sleeping pill on the ship and woke to find Kanesaki missing.

Source: Philippine Daily Inquirer September 19, 2020 01:18 UTC