The whole situation is very suspect. Redditors are doing their own investigation into cold wallet addresses, finding co-founders with criminal charges (fraud), etc.

https://www.reddit.com/r/BitcoinCA/

He probably isn't even dead.

I'm confused by people's actions. Instead of a laptop, imagine you have a box with $137M of US paper currency that's sitting in your office. Does that seem batshit insane to you? Say it gets burnt up or lost or stolen or damaged. Then why are you doing it with a laptop?

And that doesn't even touch on the fact that it's encrypted and that information can be lost too.