On a quiet Tuesday in early August, Andrew Fairbanks seems to achieve the fame he has always wanted. Years of Instagram fitness videos and a past relationship with a minor pop singer had brought him some attention, but now a shirtless selfie from a yacht is spreading everywhere and his name is trending around the world.

The reaction to the photo shows the cruel irony of Andrew Fairbanks's success. Alongside admiration and lustful comments are messages mourning him, which makes clear that Andrew Fairbanks has become famous because he is dead. People in entertainment briefly imagine what he might have become, but the public knows him only as a tragic dead influencer.

By Wednesday afternoon, that fame is already fading as new online scandals replace him. The chapter then states the facts of the case: Andrew Fairbanks has been found shot in the head, tied to a rope, and thrown from a yacht drifting in the Atlantic. No one else is found on the yacht, and there is no sign anyone else was there except for a leather bag containing nearly one million dollars.

The chapter ends by emphasizing how quickly attention moves on and how little is known about the crime. Questions about who killed Andrew Fairbanks and why remain unanswered, and social media offers only empty speculation. Andrew Fairbanks's brief moment of celebrity leaves behind a striking photograph, a body in a South Carolina mortuary, and an unsolved mystery.