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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Murder in Miami is a production of I Heart Radio.

Previously on Murder in Miami.

Having been told by Chester that her life was in danger, not knowing who was behind that threat,

Bikerton's fears are left to fester.

I have a contract on my life, so I did reach out to the military guys.

And we kind of figured out a game plan, I would marry one, because that would then,

they could legitimately bring me over to the camp so that Lamar couldn't get near me.

After the rushed and staged wedding, Bikerton would land in Houston, the location of the Lone Star investigation.

The feds went to her soldier friends in Georgia, said, where is she?

And they said she's in Houston, and then they tracked her down.

She said her knowledge of what the government agents and prosecutors were willing to do made her fear them.

If Chester started to sound paranoid about perceived threats to his life, it's hard to know where they'd be coming from.

I'm back in DC for about a year, and I get a call from Bob Adams down in Miami and he says,

Lamar just died.

On June 20th of 1985, drug smuggler Lamar Chester was killed in a plane crash on his property in rural northern Georgia.

CB Hackworth, who was a young newspaper reporter for the Gainesville Times at the time,

recalls how and when he heard the news.

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