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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Previously on Murder and Miami.

So it's the fall of 1984 and basically you agreed to go to Georgia to help Lamar Chester

who you fully believe is a drug smuggler and who fully believes that you are in the CIA.

Create a greymail defense?

Pretty much, yeah.

Operation Lone Star was a sprawling federal investigation of money laundering.

Lamar Chester's involvement with a NASA trust company and ownership of islands became the focus.

There's over 10,000 co-cases in Miami-Dade, which is a staggering number.

The 80s were a very large part of the 10,000 cases.

The star witness, in fact, the whole point of the hearings was this tall, slim woman in her 30s,

Leslie Bickerton, who the newspapers were billing as Lamar's bookkeeper and mistress.

The government had been implying, if not outright, stating with witnesses fed to alligators,

the portrayal that they were doing of Lamar Chester.

Chester had told her that he, quote, got rid of a man and fed him to the alligators

and she says that he mentioned the man's name as Ed Clayton.

Hey, Lauren.

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