Recently we were notified about the disappearance of a young Chinese woman from the MSC Magnifica.
It appears that she may have been a murder victim, according to the police in Italy who are investigating the case.
If this is true, this is hardly the first time that a cruise passenger has been killed at sea.
In another incident, Cruise passenger Karen Roston was thrown overboard by her husband during an Admiral Cruises vacation. He was later convicted of the crime.
Mindy Jordon went overboard from an NCL cruise ship when she went on a vacation with a husband reportedly with an abusive and violent background.
Crime at Sea:
The case of George Smith, of course, is perhaps the clearest example of a crime at sea, after he was reportedly thrown overboard by a man, who was also sailing on the Royal Caribbean Brilliance of the Seas as a passenger, who reportedly gave Mr. Smith a “paragliding lesson without a parachute.”
A Chinese cruise passenger murdered his wife by pitching her overboard during a cruise aboard the Macau Success. He falsely claimed that his wife committed suicide.
A drunken passenger killed his wife during a cruise on the Carnival Elation to Mexico.
A lawyer was arrested for allegedly strangling and throwing his wife, Micki Kanesaki off an Italian cruise ship several years ago.
A woman from Vancouver, Canada, Fariba Amani, who was cruising aboard the Bahamas Celebration cruise ship operated by the Celebration Cruise Lines, disappeared under mysterious circumstances during a cruise with her boyfriend.
There are many others who met with foul play on cruise ships.
Crew members are also victims:
A Brazilian crew member, Camilla Peixoto Bandeira, working aboard the MSC Musica was strangled to death by her boyfriend.
23 year old, Amy Lynn Bradley disappeared from Royal Caribbean’s Rhapsody of the Seas under highly suspicious circumstances where it appears that she was abducted.
Carnival passenger Annette Mizener appeared to have been thrown overboard from a Carnival ship cruising to Mexico.
A Holland America Line (HAL) crew member sexually assaulted, violently beat, and tried to throw a woman from her balcony on HAL’s Nieuw Amsterdam. The crew member was arrested and sentenced Jennifer Ellis-Seitz Balcony to jail, although in most such cases there are no arrests or prosecutions.
Other young, healthy and seemingly happy individuals have disappeared from cruise ships, with the cruise line wildly speculating that they probably committed suicide, like Denisa Markoska, and Angelo Faliva.
A murder investigation was opened after a 53 year old woman went overboard from the Costa Fortuna.
A young woman, Jennifer Ellis-Seitz, disappeared over the rails of her cabin’s balcony resulting in the FBI investigating the conduct of her husband when other passengers commented on what they considered his highly strange behaviour. The FBI eventually declined the case after finding no evidence of foul play. There was, of course, no automatic man overboard system in place.
It was the mysterious disappearance of Merrian Carver from the Celebrity Mercury back in 2004, and the resulting cover-up by the cruise line, which motivated her father, Ken Carver to create the International Cruise Victims organization.
Several lawmakers have asked whether a cruise ship is a perfect place to commit a crime, largely Camilla Peixoto Bandeira.
The cruise industry is quick to label disappearances at sea as “suicides” even when the facts suggest otherwise.
Mike Driscoll, the editor of Cruiseweek, a cruise publication, was recently quoted as saying “Most over-boards to date have been suicides.” He offered no statistical evidence to support this inaccurate claim. In fact, the majority of disappearances involve highly intoxicated individuals who go over the rails. Whether you view this phenomenon as the result of reckless conduct by the drunken passenger or the irresponsibility of the cruise line in over-serving their guests to make profits from the vast amount of alcohol sold during a cruise, there is no question that alcohol is involved in most disappearances from cruise ships.
Effects of alcohol:
You can track the last 288 case of over boards maintained by cruise expert Dr. Ross Klein and easily see that alcohol plays a significant role in most overboard cases.
Unfortunately, it also appears that a cruise is a perfect location for a murder, particularly when there is little automatic man overboard cameras installed on ships which would document and, possibly, deter criminal activity.
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Source: Cruise Law News
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