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DIED. MILES DABORD, 35, a prime suspect in the disappearance of his brother, former NBA center Bison Dele, who was last seen sailing on a yacht in the South Pacific with Dabord and two others, who are also missing; after being found in a coma from an apparent drug overdose in Tijuana, Mexico; in Chula Vista, Calif...
...brothers" on July 6. That same day Saldo phoned a friend to say they would soon be leaving Tahiti for the Marquesas Islands. Karlan left a voice-mail message for her parents: "Everything is going super." That was the last anyone would ever hear from Saldo, Karlan or Dele. Three days later the Hakuna Matata was spotted by a hotel employee in the lagoon of the nearby island of Moorea with one person onboard--possibly Dabord. Sometime around July 18, the boat turned up docked in Tahiti's Phaeton Bay; its name had been removed. Dabord had caught a ride...
...Ohlgren, Karlan's stepfather. A break came when Dabord tried to buy $152,000 worth of gold from a Phoenix bullion dealer, using his brother's checkbook. On Sept. 5 he was arrested, but he was released a few hours later when police could not disprove his claim that Dele had authorized the transaction. Dabord left for Mexico--out of the hands of police until he surfaced in San Diego...
...Dele's agent, Dwight Manley, wonders if the ballplayer's wealth had triggered fatal sibling jealousy: "Brian provided things for him. Maybe this was a simple case of financial motives." For now the answer lies with Dabord and in the waters of Tahiti...
...DIED. MILES DABORD, 35, brother of former NBA player Bison Dele; in Chula Vista, California. Dabord was suspected of having killed Dele and two others aboard Dele's luxury catamaran near Tahiti and disposing of their bodies in the shark-infested waters. He died after his mother asked doctors to remove life-support that had been keeping him alive since Sept. 14, when he was found comatose on a Tijuana beach...