A woman's dead body is tossed off a cruise ship. It's homicide on the high seas, a story of murder and greed, a true crime story you'll never forget. Why are you always killed by the one you love?. A research vessel finds a woman's decomposing corpse floating in the Tyrrhenian Sea, about twenty miles off the Italian shoreline. Cruise ships frequent the area. Investigators' best guess is that she came from one of those boats. But which one? And is it a case of accidental death, suicide, or murder? Another perplexing question: Why should the DA's office in Orange County, California, prosecute a murder that occurred off the coast of Italy? The Murder of Mary Takahashi: A Shocking True Crime Story tells a story of greed and murder. But it's also an extraordinary tale of legal intrigue and guile as prosecutors work for more than a decade to put one of their own, a fellow attorney, in prison for the rest of his life.