Just a few miles off the Thailand coast, the island of Kothau looks like a postcard.

I'd underneath the surface lies something sinister.

In the last 20 years dozens of tourists have died mysteriously on the island.

A dark cloud who's come over the island, death, mystery and danger.

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This week we'll hear more from the charismatic former marijuana smuggler, Bobby Platchorn,

on how and why he and Ron Elliott of the Coconut Grove Guys crossed paths at the end of the Black Tuna era.

So the question I had for you is after you and I spoke, Phil mentioned the name Ron Elliott.

And I did not remember that name from your book.

The Ron your chase and was really not part of us.

They threw him in the end because we tried to get him and his partner to do a rescue mission after we no longer had airplanes available.

But that's really all of it. He had nothing to do with us.

Did you get any read on him when you met him in person?

No, I was told he was an excellent pilot.

And I didn't really know him.

I reached out when that plane crashed and perverse and the other pilots were stuck down there.

Bobby's referencing a crash in Columbia that involved two of the Black Tuna gang pilots.

When their plane went down, Platchorn was in need of another pilot to attempt a rescue mission.

Enter Ron Elliott.

Well, he had done a number of trips flying to, I think, Ossessing the 421s, doing trips into Central Florida.

And he was using two so that one could be a ghost plane.

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