Trial Begins for Irvine Husband Accused of Strangling Ex-Wife on Cruise They married in 1995 and divorced in 2002, but continued living together in Ladera Ranch and took steps to split up their assets to protect him from threatened litigation, she said. Kocontes, most recently a resident of Safety Harbor, Florida, and met Kanesaki while working at a Los Angeles law firm, where he was an attorney and she was a paralegal, Price said. 'Had they not found her body, we would never know she was strangled and was dead before she ever hit the water,'' Price said. In her opening statement of the trial - which began in February and was delayed by the COVID-19 pandemic - Senior Deputy District Attorney Susan Price said Kanesaki, at the time, 'was with a man who no longer loved'' Kocontes and had remained with her for 'financial'' reasons. Kocontes is a 'very smart, very educated'' attorney, but 'he made a very critical mistake,'' Spitzer said, adding that the defendant picked the cruise ship because every room 'had a direct drop'' to the water. He said the defendant strangled the victim before throwing her overboard, so there was no way for her lungs to fill up with water and the body floated instead of sinking, allowing it to be found.
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