Posted on 01/05/2006 11:15:50 AM PST by COUNTrecount
January 5, 2006 -- A woman whose husband disappeared during their honeymoon cruise last summer was found sleeping in a corridor far from the couple's cabin the night he vanished, the cruise line said yesterday. George Smith, of Greenwich, Conn., vanished July 5 from a Royal Caribbean ship in the Mediterranean Sea.
Bloodstains were found running from his cabin to life boats.
The whereabouts of his wife, Jennifer Hagel-Smith, during the time of his disappearance are a mystery.
After facing criticism from Smith's family and Hagel-Smith for its handling of the incident, Royal Caribbean issued its first detailed account of the events surrounding Smith's disappearance.
The cruise line also said the FBI was investigating an alleged rape of a female passenger by the same men last seen with Smith.
Turkish authorities have said Smith and his wife had been drinking heavily and had been gambling at the ship's casino.
On the night her husband disappeared, Hagel-Smith was found at 4:30 a.m. sleeping on the floor of a corridor on the other side of the ship from her cabin, Royal Caribbean said. She was taken back to her cabin in a wheelchair by security guards, the cruise line said. Smith was not in the cabin and his wife said she was OK, Royal Caribbean said.
After the blood was discovered, Smith's wife was found before 10 a.m. getting a massage, wearing the same clothes from the night before.
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Any comment at this point would be considered "unkind" and "piling on"...
post the whole story please. not interested in signing up with the paper!
This is one of the oddest stories I've heard in a while.
NY Post must be excerpted.
If she received any life insurance money, I would be suspicious. Otherwise, there would be little motive for her to marry him and be involved in his death.
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I thought he got drunk and fell overboard.
It will probably be "ripped from the headlines" next season on Law and Order.They'll figure it out for us.
It was the butler, with the candlestick.
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What would have been a very boozy marriage was cut short.
You mean Greta isn't on the case yet?
I thought Generation Y or Z or whatever is supposed to be very sexually charged from all the internet, cable TV and crappy movies they have seen. The wife in this story is passing out in hallway - alone. Husband does not sleep in the cabin with his wife on multiple nights. Husband gambles and hangs out with men he met on the ship. This is a honeymoon? Call me a silly old romantic, but none of those items were on my honeymoon agenda (nor my wife's, I might add).
There was only one more sentence. when asked during her massage she stated that she had no idea he was missing.
Sounds more like spring break to me.
She was on it some months ago. This story surfaced to steal a bit of publicity from Natalee Holloway.
Women...cant live with em cause they kill you
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