Passenger's Disappearance Spurs Cruise Probe
Tim Reid
Times Online, UK
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Washington (US):
A public investigation into a string of disappearances aboard luxury cruise ships was opened by the US Congress yesterday.
Spurred to action by the case of George Allen Smith IV, whose disappearance from a cruise ship on July 5 has all the ingredients of an Agatha Christie whodunnit, a congressional committee will hear evidence about at least 12 people who have vanished from liners in the past five years. Four days ago Jill Begora, 59, a Canadian travelling with her husband on a Royal Caribbean cruise, vanished as the ship was approaching Nassau, in the Bahamas.
There is no evidence of foul play. Mr Smith, 26, from Greenwich, Connecticut, vanished in the early hours from the Royal Caribbean ship Brilliance of the Seas in the Mediterranean, between Greece and Turkey.
Brett Rivkind, the lawyer for Mr Smith’s family, say the disappearance was also suspicious because of bloodstains found inside and outside the cabin. Another lawsuit was filed last month against Carnival Cruise by the family of Annette Mizener, of Wisconsin, who vanished on a cruise a year ago.
Dec 14, 2005
Tim Reid
Times Online, UK
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Washington (US):
A public investigation into a string of disappearances aboard luxury cruise ships was opened by the US Congress yesterday.
Spurred to action by the case of George Allen Smith IV, whose disappearance from a cruise ship on July 5 has all the ingredients of an Agatha Christie whodunnit, a congressional committee will hear evidence about at least 12 people who have vanished from liners in the past five years. Four days ago Jill Begora, 59, a Canadian travelling with her husband on a Royal Caribbean cruise, vanished as the ship was approaching Nassau, in the Bahamas.
There is no evidence of foul play. Mr Smith, 26, from Greenwich, Connecticut, vanished in the early hours from the Royal Caribbean ship Brilliance of the Seas in the Mediterranean, between Greece and Turkey.
Brett Rivkind, the lawyer for Mr Smith’s family, say the disappearance was also suspicious because of bloodstains found inside and outside the cabin. Another lawsuit was filed last month against Carnival Cruise by the family of Annette Mizener, of Wisconsin, who vanished on a cruise a year ago.
Dec 14, 2005
