[maica]

I remember hearing that the engine was running when the empty boat was found. It is hard for me to understand how even a suicidally depressed person would leave his beloved yacht to be an unattended obstacle to everyone else on the Bay that day. Unless he left the boat aimed at a beach, knowing that it would be out of harm's way. But he was found farther away than the search area so it does not seem like he fell overboard (with an anchor around his ankle) near a beachy shore.

Maybe the blast of the shotgun blew him backward, and his feet entangled the anchor line accidentally.

[Roccus]

Or maybe he got caught poaching someone's crab pot.
Sort of a Chesapeake bay version of "Shoot, shovel and shut-up."

[mt tom]

to bad the TV show murder she wrote is no longer on old Jessica Fletcher could have figured it out before the last commerical