[Krankor]

Possibly, but why go to all the trouble of creating a ‘pirate’ story when they could have easily just said he drowned.

Good point. Then again, she'd have to explain what happened to the body and the jet ski. Of course, if pirates killed him, she could claim they took his body and his jet ski to cover up the crime. Then again, these drug cartels don't appear to be too shy about leaving decapitated bodies around as a warning.

[az_gila]

Item #4 - the cell phone call....

Living in a fringe cell phone reception area, and having just used it last week to call 911 (suspicious car) I can easily see the first thing recorded being “hello”...:^)

I was surprised how long the phone took to connect through to the County, and the internal GPS wasn’t accurate enough to put me through to the correct city - I was about 1/4 mile inside the city boundaries.

When you are listening to silence, and something finally happens, “hello” seems reasonable...:^)