Brian Carson Williams
He was a professional basketball player.
He is believed to have been murdered at sea by his older brother in 2002.
He was born in Fresno, California, the second son of Patricia Phillips and of singer Eugene "Geno" Williams Jr. of the musical group The Platters.
He suddenly retired from the NBA in an perplexing fashion.
He retired before the start of the 1999–2000 season at age 30, when he was still in the prime of his career.
He had been the Pistons' highest-paid player.
On July 6, 2002 Dele and his girlfriend, Serena Karlan, along with skipper Bertrand Saldo, sailed from Tahiti on Dele's boat.
Dele's brother, Miles Dabord (Kevin Williams), was the only one who was seen or heard from after July 8, 2002, when the last of three satellite phone calls from the voyage was made.
Dele and Karlan had previously kept regular contact with their banks and family members.
On July 20, 2002 Miles brought the boat into Tahiti.
He was the only one on board.
On September 5, 2002 police used a sting operation organized by Dele's family and friends to detain miles in Phoenix, Arizona. Miles had forged his brother's signature in order to buy US$152,000 worth of gold.
He had used Dele's passport as identification.
Mexican police later found that Miles had been staying at a hotel in Tijuana, Mexico.
Two days before, Dele's boat, which had been registered in Tahiti under another name, was found off the coast of Tahiti with its name plate removed and some possible bullet holes patched.
About the same time, Miles' phoned his and Dele's mother, Patricia Phillips, telling her that he would never hurt his brother and that he could not survive in prison.
Miles, intentionally overdosed on insulin and slipped into a coma. On September 27, 2002 he died in a California hospital.
Miles said he and his brother had fought, that Karlan had been accidentally hit and died when her head struck part of the boat.
The captain Saldo had wanted to report her death and a panicked Dele had killed him; Miles then shot his brother in self-defense, threw the bodies overboard and fled back to the U.S.
Do you think Miles killed everyone on board?
Or do you think it happened as he said?
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