‘Jack Amadeus LaSota left our lives but not our hearts on August 19 after a boating accident,’ an obituary, published on the Daily News-Miner on September 7 2022, read.
‘Loving adventure, friends and family, music, blueberries, biking, computer games and animals, you are missed.’
LaSota, who used feminine pronouns, had been out on a boat with her sister Naomi and friend Emma Borhanian when she fell overboard into the San Francisco Bay.
The Coast Guard responded to the scene, searching the choppy waters for hours. Her body was never found.
It appeared to be a tragic end for the promising, highly-educated 31-year-old whizz kid from Alaska who had moved to the Bay Area to pursue a career in the heart of the nation’s tech bubble.
That is until three months later, when – in November 2022 – an elderly man was brutally attacked in Vallejo. Among those detained by cops on the scene was none other than Jack LaSota.
Two months later, her ghost would crop up in another curious location when police raided a hotel room during a search for a firearm used in the murders of an elderly couple in Pennsylvania.