Annie Elise

It was just all very, very odd.

During this trial, Nathan even admitted that he had made the modifications to the boat that day, and that Michael had in fact asked him what he was doing and tried to tell him that it was a bad idea, which is crazy because again, he's pretty much confessing right then to tampering with the boat, yet somehow he still was not arrested for murder.

He acted like he was just clueless as to how serious these modifications to the boat really were.

He claimed that his one and only goal was to make sure that the boat didn't drag and use up more fuel than necessary.

He also claimed that he didn't know latitude from longitude, which is why his descriptions of where the boat was were so inconsistent with what the experts had revealed.

And I don't know about all of you.

Again, I'm not a boat expert.

I'm not an ocean expert.

No, not at all.

But I find it pretty hard to believe that somebody who owns a boat and has gone on that many fishing trips throughout his life doesn't know coordinates or latitude from longitude.

I don't know.

There was one really big question that he was asked, which was, of course, why didn't you call for help?

Because he knew how to do it.

In fact, he had called 911 in the Coast Guard once before when his engine had overheated, causing him to get stuck.

But for this, his only explanation was that he never called for help because his mom Linda herself had taught him to not ask for help.

Not, quote, unless your life or your limb is in imminent jeopardy.

Which basically, I mean, he sounded full of crap.

An overheated engine isn't exactly a limb missing or a life taken, but a sinking boat?

Uh, that's pretty deadly, right?

So in the end, the judge sided with the insurance company, and he said that the company owed Nathan nothing.