Kocontes had met Kanesaki when they worked at the same Los Angeles-based law firm in the 1990s. They married in 1995 and divorced in 2001 but reconnected before their European getaway in 2006.
The couple boarded a cruise ship in Messina, Italy, on May 25. Kanesaki disappeared sometime after 11 that night; her body was found two days later.
At the time, Kocontes told authorities his wife had left about 1 a.m. to get a cup of tea and he’d taken a sleeping pill. When he awoke, she was gone.
Kocontes was the beneficiary on Kanesaki’s estate and gained more than $1 million from the sale of her home and bank accounts, prosecutors allege.
In 2008, Kocontes tried to move that money among his bank accounts with his fourth wife, triggering an FBI investigation.
The probe eventually led to the murder charge against Kocontes. He was arrested in Florida in February 2013.
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