Page 103 of Guess Again

Lake Morikawa, Wisconsin Thursday, August 7, 2025

ETHAN HAD MANAGED TO FIGHT THE STORM ON TUESDAY NIGHT AND get Maddie to the hospital in Duluth, which was a Level 1 Trauma Center.

He had stopped to load Kai into the backseat of the Bronco, but knew it was too late.

Kai was pronounced dead on arrival to St.

Mary’s.

Maddie was rushed to surgery. Ethan was treated in the ER, admitted, and discharged Thursday morning.

He spent most of his time Wednesday in a hospital bed talking with police and detectives about the carnage that had taken place inside his beloved fishing cabin on Lake Morikawa.

The blond-haired woman had been identified by the medical examiner as Harriett Alshon and was confirmed to be the woman in the photos from the transport van’s dash cam.

Her body was found in Ethan’s cabin.

The medical examiner determined her cause of death to be exsanguination—blood loss from a puncture wound to the abdomen that pierced the inferior vena cava.

Ethan’s left arm rested in a sling as he and Pete Kramer stood on the bank of Heaven’s River.

His cabin was behind them, roped off by yellow tape.

The river had calmed but remained high.

Divers from the DCI bobbed up and down as they combed the riverbed for Francis Bernard’s body.

Three DCI boats cruised back and forth through Lake Morikawa, dredging the bottom.

Finally, a diver surfaced with something in his hand.

He removed his mask and SCUBA regulator.

“Got a shirt, boss.”

Another agent met the diver on shore and dropped the shirt into a plastic evidence bag.

He brought it over to Ethan and Pete.

They examined it through the plastic.

The shirt was stained with blood and badly ripped.

Ethan remembered grabbing Francis by it on Tuesday night.

“Yours or his?”

Pete asked.

“I wasn’t wearing a shirt.

I gave it to Maddie to dress her wound.

It has to be his.”

“We’ve dragged it twice,”

the agent said.

“Nothing yet.”

“The river was raging,”

Ethan said.

“I wouldn’t be surprised if the current spit him into the middle of the lake.”

“We’ll keep looking,”

the agent said.

“And bring in sonar to assist.”

Despite their efforts, though, by the end of the day Friday, Francis’s body had still not been found.