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(True Crime!) And the Sea Will Tell by Vincent Bugliosi (HB/DJ-GC/1st ED/Ex Lib)

Malcolm 43, and "Muff" Graham, 40, a yachting couple sailed a 38-foot ketch to Palmyra Atoll hoping to find it deserted & to pass an idyllic year or more there.

Also on Palmyra were Buck Walker & Stephanie Stearns, who had sailed there on the Iola, a deteriorating, patched-together wooden sloop that lacked a reliable auxiliary engine. Walker was an ex-convict fleeing a drug possession charge & had come up with the idea of growing cannabis on Palmyra to support himself. The Grahams were a happily married couple touring the world & had brought more than a year's supply of food for their voyage, but Walker & Stearns quickly consumed their own meager supplies & resorted to harvesting the island's few coconuts, often by chopping down entire trees. Walker's method of farming became unsustainable, he & Stearns were forced to plan a voyage in the rickety Iola, against prevailing winds & currents, to Fanning, a nearby atoll in Kiribati, to restock—a voyage that was somewhere between difficult & impossible without a working auxiliary engine.

According to Stearns, the Grahams disappeared & the young couple found the Grahams' Zodiac rigid inflatable dinghy upside down. On September 11, 1974, after days of searching & waiting for the Grahams to return to their boat, Stearns said she & Walker scuttled the Iola & sailed for Hawaii on the Sea Wind. Once in Hawaii, the couple had the Sea Wind repainted & also renamed it, which according to boating superstition brings bad luck. This act aroused suspicion.

Early one morning, Muff Graham's skull & other skeletal remains were found in the surf near a large metal container. The remains showed signs of dismemberment & burning and the body appeared to have been concealed underwater in the container.

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