Frank Lee Black Jr. boarded a flight to Florida believing he was closing a business deal, unaware his oldest friend had already engineered a trap. What began as a decades long partnership curdled into obsession over a single school bus contract, ending in a killing the ocean itself refused to conceal. The truth only surfaced through a reluctant informant's wired confession, a case built entirely on loyalty, betrayal, and a body that would never be found.

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