The Murder of Mary Takahashi: A Shocking True Crime Story

By Rod Kackley

A woman's dead body is tossed off a cruise ship. It's homicide on the high seas, a story of murder and greed, a true crime story you'll never forget.

A research vessel finds a woman's decomposing corpse floating in the Tyrrhenian Sea, about twenty miles off the Italian shoreline.

Cruise ships frequent the area. Investigators' best guess is that she came from one of those boats. But which one? And is it a case of accidental death, suicide, or even murder?

 

Only one boat reported the possibility that a passenger had gone overboard. So she had to have come from the Island Star.

The mystery of how she died was also swiftly solved. For one simple reason, it had to be a case of homicide.

 

So, someone murdered this woman while both were aboard the cruise ship. But who was the killer? That's the real mystery in this shocking true crime novel.

After all, police figured there were only two-thousand suspects aboard the Island Star when Mary Takahashi went into the sea.

 

Another perplexing question: Why should the DA's office in Orange County, California, prosecute a murder that occurred off the coast of Italy?

 

Once the OCDA team settled that question, they also had to deal with the fact that their only two witnesses were thousands of miles away when Micki Kanesaki went into the water.

 

What further complicated the prosecution's case, was the propensity of their star witnesses to lie.

 

Would the jury believe them? Or would the witnesses rip open a hole of reasonable doubt through which the defense would be able to win a "not guilty" verdict?

 

The Murder of Mary Takahashi: A Shocking True Crime Story is a fascinating tale of greed and murder. But it's also an extraordinary story of legal intrigue and guile as prosecutors strive to put one of their own, a fellow attorney, in prison for the rest of his life.

 

The Murder of Mary Takahashi: a  Shocking True Crime Story is the true crime story of 2020 that you'll never forget.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Rod Kackley
• Release date: Nov 5, 2020
• ISBN: 9781393555803

Rod Kackley

It’s all about the story, as far as Rod Kackley is concerned. Whether it’s Shocking True Crime Stories or one of his many works of fiction. Rod wants to keep you turning pages and reading incredible tales of criminals, their victims, and their capture. Spoiler alert: No matter how long it takes, the bad guys rarely win. But it’s the criminal who is often the most compelling character. That’s true whether it’s “Mommy Deadliest,” the story of a woman who kills her children, or “The Murder of Thora Chamberlain,” the story of a teenage girl and her kidnapper. In Rod’s world of fiction, he spins yarns about “The Coffee Shoppe Killer, a woman who kills her lovers when they disappoint her. A teenage girl wraps a serial killer around her finger in “Go Big or Go Dead.” Then there’s “The Murder of Emma Brown,” where two young women go out to party one night, and one only returns home. Written in Kalamazoo, Michigan, Rod’s books and stories allow his readers to brush up against the world of crime without getting hurt. And it’s a heck of a ride!