As children, Miles Dabord (top left) and younger brother Bison Dele (top right, and above) loved to build model airplanes and were meticulous in their endeavors. After ending his NBA career, Dele, formerly known as Brian Williams, traveled the world. (Photos special to the News)
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A killer and his three victims - case closed.
But the cut-and-dried theories about Miles Dabord and Bison Dele have infuriated the brothers' friends and relatives - Dabord, a jealous misfit who killed his famous, wealthy brother, Dele's girlfriend and the captain of Dele's 55-foot catamaran July 7 in Tahitian seas.
This is not Cain and Abel.
Not Dabord, all rage, all hatred, afflicted by the successes of his kid brother.
Not Dele, all youth and innocence, a golden child with the gift of game and the money to finance his dreams.
Two images - so incomplete they are false.
What has emerged during the past month is far more complex.
These were brothers who loved each other, brothers who were struggling to patch things up in the torpid waters of the South Seas.
In the final weeks of their lives as they sailed through paradise, Dabord and Dele bumped up against each other in the confines of a crowded boat. They engaged in petty arguments, squabbling about video games, sports figures and motorcycles.
Dabord was a man at once jealous and proud of his brother's stardom in the NBA, a man frustrated by his own life. Those who knew him say he never found solace, even as he crossed an ocean and half a world to end his estrangement with Dele.
Dele was a man who basked in the spoils of the NBA while in his 20s, then turned his back on the game that made him famous in order to indulge his nomadic impulses. Some say he controlled his family with money and turned his back on his only brother.
Dabord, born Kevin Williams in 1966, died Sept. 27 in a California hospital two weeks after he overdosed on insulin in Tijuana, Mexico, 24 days before his 36th birthday. He is accused of killing Dele, born Brian Williams in 1969, aboard the Hakuna Matata.
Serena Karlan, Dele's 30-year-old old girlfriend, and Bertrand Saldo, the ship's captain, were victims of circumstance.
Any and all concrete explanations evaporated when Dabord, comatose for two weeks at Scripps Memorial Hospital in Chula Vista, Calif., died a day after being removed from life-support.
No one knows exactly why Dabord would commit triple homicide, or whether he did. Dabord's accounts to friends and family contradict each other.
He took July 7 to the grave.
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