Prosecutors say man accused of killing first wife on cruise then tried killing second wife
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Prosecutors say a Florida man awaiting trial for allegedly strangling his ex-wife and tossing her overboard during a Mediterranean cruise tried to hire two inmates to kill another ex-wife.
The Orange County district attorney's office said Monday that Lonnie Kocontes planned to have his second wife killed after forcing her to sign a letter recanting her testimony in the murder case involving his first wife.
Kocontes now faces two counts of solicitation to commit murder and one count of solicitation to bribe a witness. That's on top of the murder for financial gain charge he already faces in the cruise ship killing.
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Kocontes has pleaded not guilty in that case.
Kocontes was arrested in February 2012. He is due in court Thursday.