Where is Micki Kanesaki’s ex-husband Lonnie Kocontes now? Whereabouts explored ahead of NBC Dateline episode
Mia Horton
Published Jan 05, 2026
In excess of twelve years after Lonnie Kocontes, a previous California legal counselor, choked his ex Micki Kanesaki on a voyage and unloaded her body in the sea off the Italian coast, he was sentenced with a unique situation charge of homicide for monetary profit in June 2020 following a months-in length preliminary. Subsequently, he was condemned to life in jail without the chance of parole.
Kanesaki disappeared while on a voyage with Kocontes in late May 2006. Her body was found two days after the fact, and a dissection uncovered that she had been choked to death while being unloaded in the sea. Investigators accepted Kocontes arranged his ex’s homicide for monetary benefit since he was to acquire more than $1 million from her financial balances and the offer of a house they shared.
This Sunday, May 14, an all-new NBC Dateline episode, named Vast Water, will return to Micki Kanesaki’s 2006 homicide at 7 pm ET.
In June 2020, Lonnie Kocontes, 62, a previous California lawyer, was seen as at fault for killing his ex Micki Kanesaki in 2006 while on a Mediterranean journey and tossing her body over the edge, with a unique situation claim of homicide for monetary benefit. He was condemned to life in jail without the chance of parole in September.
The Orange Region Lead prosecutor’s Office expressed that he arranged and executed the homicide of his ex, then, at that point, 52-year-old Kanesaki, to have the option to acquire up to $1 million and a farm home property they shared and had been questioning more than a couple of months before the episode.
The New York Post announced that, according to the arraignment’s cases, Kocontes choked the person in question and unloaded her body adrift either in the late night long periods of May 25, 2006, or the early hours of the next morning. He later revealed her absent and, surprisingly, proposed that she might have fallen over the edge or committed suicide. His ex’s body was tracked down drifting off the shore of Paola, Italy, on May 27.
A post-mortem examination directed later uncovered that Kanesaki’s lungs “were totally liberated from water” and that she had “serious discharging around her neck.” These wounds were thought of “reliable with strangulation.”
As per the California Branch of Adjustments, Lonnie Kocontes is presently carrying out his punishment at the RJ Donovan Restorative Office in California.
Investigators guaranteed Lonnie Kocontes killed his ex on journey after explicitly reserving “an overhang room”
Reports express that Lonnie Kocontes and Micki Kanesaki separated from in 2002 following seven years of marriage. The previous couple kept on living respectively for quite a while as they attempted to divide their resources. Be that as it may, Kocontes wedded another lady, Amy Nguyen, and moved in with his new spouse in 2005.
In the wake of moving in with his new spouse, Kocontes then recorded a court movement to drive Kanesaki to sell their Ladera Farm home, however she denied. He then, at that point, selected to move back in with Kanesaki, and the two reconnected while likewise having new wills drawn up, in which the previous lawyer was named as agent of his ex’s domain.
From that point onward, he booked a Mediterranean journey with Kanesaki, “explicitly requested an overhang room,” and got back to remain with Nguyen after the homicide. After two years, specialists started researching Kocontes when he endeavored to move $1 million between different ledgers. He was just captured in 2013 regarding the homicide.
NBC Los Angeles detailed that Lonnie Kocontes was additionally accused of endeavoring to request the homicide of another ex, Amy Nguyen, while he was in prison. Be that as it may, examiners moved to excuse the charges brought against him in the Nguyen case since he had proactively been given a lifelong incarceration.
The body of evidence against Lonnie Kocontes is set to include on NBC Dateline this Sunday at 7 pm ET.