Stone nodded. “That would be my assumption.”
“Did his autopsy turn up anything abnormal?” Dino asked.
“There wasn’t one, per the family’s request. We probably should have pushed, but it seemed obvious he’d drowned.” Choi paused, then added, “We did find that he had a head injury. Like he bumped into something before he fell into the water.”
“Or someone knocked him unconscious?” Dino asked.
Choi grimaced. “In view of this new evidence, that seems more likely, doesn’t it?”
“It does.”
“I suggest you request an exhumation of the body, so an ME can take a proper look,” Dino said.
“Not possible,” Stone said. “Trenton was cremated.”
“How convenient.”
“Stone,” Josie said, “didn’t you just oversee the reading of Trenton’s will?”
“I did.”
“Then wouldn’t the people he left his estate to benefited from his death?”
“Very much so.”
“I’m going to need to know who those people are,” Choi said.
“Not a problem,” Stone said. Ash had submitted Trenton’swill to the court on Friday, which made the information of those named part of the public record.
“Thank you.”
“I have another question,” Josie said. “Sorry, it’s the documentarian in me.”
“Don’t apologize,” Stone told her. “Fire away.”
“If the person who did the dirty work was hiding on the boat, how did they get on in the first place and then get off again once they’d ensured its sinking?”
“Good question. One way would have been to sneak on, but I doubt they did that. Too much of a chance of being discovered.”
“If it were me, I would have gotten hired on as crew,” Dino said.
“That’s much more plausible,” Stone agreed.
“How many of the crew survived?”
“Three,” Choi said. “Four total survivors, counting Mr. Barrington.”
“I can safely say I had nothing to do with it,” Stone said.
“Do you have any witnesses that can verify that?” Dino asks.
“Dino, I thought you were my friend.”
“I am your friend. And I promise to visit you in prison at least once year, unless I’m busy.”
“How very kind of you. But what would have been my motive? I wasn’t named in the will, and Trenton was a friend.”
Dino thought about it for a moment, then said, “All right, you’re tentatively off the suspect list.”
