2015

Surfer Mark Joywell had two twin daughters who were 33 years old. Tiffany owned a small boutique in Cocoa Beach, selling surfing clothing by the beach. The other daughter Amanda when she was younger tried her hand at surfing. She had won a couple of surfing championships when she was 19 and 21 years old. He had hoped that Amanda would have continued to surf but once she got involved with ex-husband Josh Taylor, she pretty much gave up the sport.

Many of those surfers like Mark grew up working class. His father died when he was 5 and his mother worked two jobs. Mark loved surfing and learned how to surf in Cocoa. The ocean was his playground as a teen-ager. He became a world class surfer having won several titles in Cocoa Beach and in Hawaii. He also won one title in Australia. About 5 years ago he had retired from competition but still was involved with the surfing community.

Josh Taylor grew up with a silver spoon in his mouth. His father Tim was a world class surfer but Josh as a professional surfer was average and never would become a world class surfer. He was on the cover of a lot of surfing magazines. As far as Mark was concerned, Josh was a spoiled brat who had no discipline, no ambition and basically rode on his father's coat tails.

No one knew that Mark had possession of diaries that Josh had written. He had gone over to his home which Amanda still lived in and had found the diaries in his bedroom. This was shortly after Josh had been murdered. There were about 30 of them. Amanda who was sitting at the kitchen table sobbing barely noticed him taking them out. He also took several video tapes which were in Josh's room.

It had taken Mark several days to read all the diaries. A few of the diaries he kept. None of the diaries gave any clues as to who murdered his ex-son-in-law, even though everyone pretty much knew who did it. Some of the events that happened and what Josh had written pointed in the direction of others having a possible motive to harm him, Mark being on the top of the list.

It was very unusual that someone his age would write a diary on paper. Thankfully it wasn't on his computer, which was taken by police a couple of days after the murder. If someone else read the hand written diaries, they would have a field day with it. God only knew what he had on the computer as this was something that Mark couldn't control or hide.

He heard a knock on the door and was surprised to see federal agents at his door. They were investigating the murder of his ex-son-in-law.

Ten years earlier

Twenty Three year old Amanda Joywell was on her surfboard when she felt severe pain on her stomach. It was so bad that she decided to go to shore. This was during practice for a competition. Her father was talking to someone who was watching the competition. He was surprised to see her coming to shore.

2004

"Dad, I'm not feeling well."

Mark grabbed her before she passed out. She came to and there was blood everywhere. Paramedics were there right away. Two minutes later the ambulance came. Amanda was in severe pain and trying not to scream. Mark insisted on going with the ambulance to the hospital.

Amanda held her father's hand in the ambulance. Her worried dad tried to tell her everything would be okay.

"Did you know Amanda that you're pregnant?"said the paramedic who had been examining her.

"What I don't believe that. I can't be pregnant."

Amanda looked at her father and then the paramedics with a mortified look.

"How did that happen? I'm not pregnant."

"Oh yes, you are and soon we will be delivering a baby."

Mark was in shock and didn't say anything. He stayed in the waiting room once the ambulance arrived at the hospital. He got on the phone and called his ex-wife.. He could hear Amanda screaming thru the door and her denial that she was pregnant. Finally he'd had enough after 45 minutes of her screams on and went to the nurse at the front desk in the maternity waiting room.

"What the hell is wrong with them. My daughter is in severe pain and I demand that they give her something for the pain. This isn't the middle ages for God's sake. This is 2004 not 1904 for God's sake."

"Please call down Mr. Joywell."

"Calm down, right now, I'm...

His other daughter Tiffany and their mother Christine arrived having heard that her sister was taken to the hospital.

"Did you know that Amanda was pregnant?"

Tiffany looked shocked.

"I didn't know she was pregnant, Christine said. She was also surprised.

Amanda let out a blood curling scream and she could be heard down the hallway sobbing and saying she was in terrible pain.

The doctor came out about 5 minutes later.

"You're daughter and her son are doing fine. You can come in and see them.

Mark and Christine went in first. Amanda was still in shock. The baby was sleeping and then woke up and saw Mark and smiled. Mark instantly bonded with his grandson.

"Dad, I wasn't thinking." said Amanda.

"Who did this to you? When I get ahold of him...

Christine said nothing but started rolling her eyes.

"Who do you think he looks like? "

"Dad, please. Josh wasn't entirely to blame...

"Oh, my god. I can't believe it. Josh. All I can say Amanda, you picked a real winner as he is probably on the beach with some other girl, actually I saw him with another girl."