TURKEY - George Smith, 26, missing from cruise ship, July 2005

[Niner]

http://www.bizjournals.com/jacksonville/stories/2005/06/06/story1.html?page=1

This link provides information on how cruise ships handle these cases. Information about Tim Sears, the man I spoke of in my previous post is on page 3 of the article.


http://abcnews.go.com/Primetime/story?id=1546015

The second link deals solely with Tim Sears. It is an amazing story.

The foreign cargo ship heading for Texas — named "Eny" — plucked Sears from the water, ending his ordeal at the last possible hour.

"It actually brought me to tears when I was sitting there," he recalled. "I was asking God to send me any ship and here 'Eny' ship had rescued me and it just did, it brought me to tears."

WOW! How cool! ANY thing is possible!! Like I said, I haven't had a chance to read ALL these articles you all have posted... sounds interesting in deed!

 

[Niner]

The NE can reveal shocking new photos that raise questions of evidence tampering in the honeymoon cruise mystery. The pictures show the trashed cabin of Smith's who went missing..., they reveal a trail of destruction in the newlyweds' room aboard the liner... documents & personal effects have been strewn on the floor, the contents of a safe appear to have been pulled out and thrown around and the bed is unmade.

"they show a very different scene from pictures taken immediately after George's disappearance two days earlier. Experts say possible "evidence tampering" may have taken place because the later photos show the cabin in a far messier condition than before.

... Spokesmen said a Turkish forensic team and also an FBI agent in Greece spent hours in the cabin taking evidence.
... Jennifer Smith - who has been cleared by the FBI - was put to bed by crew members after being found in another part of the ship at 4:15am...

"I don't remember anything - bride insists" is the title:

George reportedly left the bar with four men about 3:30am. They say they took him to his stateroom adn left him there ar 4am. At about tha time other passengers heard a commmotion and thud coming from the Smith stateroom.

Question - ?? - in the NE article it says the crew brought Jennifer back about 4:15am - so there is only a window of about 15 minutes that "something" happened to George... definitely a strange case!

Oh - here's a bit more...

Jennifer has also been cleared of suspicion following an FBI administered polygraph test.

 

[Niner]

from the NE 2/6/06 article:

The wife of missing cruise ship honeymoore George Smith has made a shocking claim - saying her newlywed husband may have spent the night he disappeared with another man and woman in their cabin.
{me... Galina & Paul!}
Jennifer made the shocking admission on Oprah, that George may have slept with another couple...
"I wke up... I remember that George and I have massage appointments. The first thing I thought was he must have slept in Paul & Galina's room."

wonder WHY she didn't go to P&G's room in the morning and get George and THEN go to their massage??

She admitted she and George had been drinking heavily before the tragedy. "We were definitely drinking but not to the extent that something this wild happens," she said.

"It was strange. But I wasn't the sharpest knife in the drawer at that point, I had just been found, thinking not very straight. I can't even speculate. People are going to slam me either way. If I say, maybe I was drinking too much, I'll get slammed as the drunk bride. If I say I was drugged, they'll say she's making excuses for herself."
It later emerged that Jennifer told investigators that it would not have been the first night George had slept in a different cabin. An official document released by the ship's operator said" "Mrs. Hagel Smith also told the officers... he had slept elsewhere on the ship on at least one other night during the cruise."

well - maybe that's why she didn't find it unusually NOT to have him sleeping next to her that morning when she awoke... but STILL... I would have gone to the couple's cabin & tried to find my husband... not just left for my appointment!!??

 

[Niner]

sorry about posting so many posts in one sitting... but I have just read all these threads and haven't had time to post anything before this (TONS of work also have kept me from posting from work!) I made notes along the way!

carry on...

 

[BrendaStar]

well - maybe that's why she didn't find it unusually NOT to have him sleeping next to her that morning when she awoke... but STILL... I would have gone to the couple's cabin & tried to find my husband... not just left for my appointment!!??

George was actually sleeping in other cabins during his honeymoon? I find that bizarro. But it explains why Jennifer wasn't alarmed that George wasn't in the room when they brought her back or when she awoke in the morning to go to the spa and good old George wasn't there. Doesn't sound like her new husband not sleeping with her on their honeymoon wasn't any big deal.

 

[AlwaysShocked]

Him sleeping in the other couples' room immediately makes me think he and the other couple were doing drugs together. Smoking pot? Snorting cocaine?

Has the other couple made any public statement about him sleeping in their room?

I too find the wife to be a bit "off".

 

[KatherineQ]

It doesn't make ME think of drugs.

 

[BrendaStar]

Anyway you look at it, it is just plain weird for being on a honeymoon for such a normal looking couple.

 

[Morag]

It makes me think of gambling.

 

[LinasK]

Did anyone catch the other day one of the news magazine shows, forgot if it was Inside Edition/Extra/ or A Current Affair, showed George & Jennifer's wedding and reception video? She's now making herself out to be the loving bride/widow. I think it's PR spin, and that she married him for his money. All she could think about while preparing for her wedding was if she looked enough like his favorite blonde celebrity (forgot now if it was Brittney Spears or Pamela Anderson), not about the actual wedding or feelings for him!

 

[Bobbisangel]

George's family have made the statement that they don't feel that Jennifer is telling them everything. Then they said that maybe the FBI has told her not to talk about certain things.

I don't buy that. Why would she hold information back from his family? What would the FBI tell her not to talk about. I believe that his family has the right to know everything that happened that day and night. As it is they have to hear everything through the media such as Jennifer kissing some employee of the ship...her and George getting into a fight and her kicking him in the crotch, etc. Why not sit down with them and tell them everything that she remembers? If that were my daughter-in-law and she refused to tell me everything I would wonder what she is hiding. If she told me the FBI didn't want her to talk about certain things I would be on the phone with the FBI and confront them. I would be throughly ticked off and my opinion of my daughter-in-law wouldn't be anything I would tell the media.

Her interview with Joe Scarborro..spelling...bothered me too. For the most part she answered that the FBI didn't want her to talk about it. Some of his questions were questions that I believe she could have answered without threatening the case. I just wonder if she didn't go to the employee's cabin and wake up later...left..and somehow ended up in that corner hallway by that employee door. If she wanted to find out if she was drugged she could give a lab some of her hair and they could test it. If she was drugged they would find the drug in her hair. They can tell how much it has grown since the cruise and they would test a certain area of the hair. It's interesting the things they can do now days. Maybe she doesn't want to have her hair tested though. I don't know. I know that we always hear that people grieve in different ways but the eyes are the windows of the soul and you can tell a person's state of mind by looking into their eyes...IMO anyway. I didn't see the deep grief...saddness in her eyes and that bothered me.

 

[nanandjim]

The entire thing is weird to me. Something is not right with that Jennifer. She may not have been involved in the murder, but the two definitely were not on any kind of honeymoon that I can relate to.

 

[BrendaStar]

the two definitely were not on any kind of honeymoon that I can relate to.

Or I bet the vast majority of newly married people can relate to.

 

[Only4Justice]

Someone posted this earlier...but what's interesting is some of the 'comments' you can click on the bottom

http://eyesforlies.blogspot.com/2006/01/jennifer-hagel-smith.html

I'm not sure about copyright laws, so I won't paste any of the comments, but there are some of the best theories I've heard about the case.

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The above is only MY opinion and I AM entitled to have it

 

[BrendaStar]

Wow, I just read that. I was really disturbed by Jennifer's lack of sorrow on her missing husband. The whole thing is bizarre and I believe that he was stabbed (pool of blood) and pushed over the balcony by one of the boys that brought him back to the room. However, where was Jennifer that whole night long???

 

[Lauren]

She reminded me of a female version of Scott Peterson. Something isn't right. Has she returned to work? I never saw her cry for anyone but herself or a problem she had. I would have told the FBI to go to you know where before I would not tell my in laws as much as I could. I doubt they would go talking if they were told to keep it quiet. She is guilty as sin, one way or another. IMO!:twocents:


Thanks for reading my posts.:silenced:

 

[Texana]

Those are the creepiest words I've read in a long time. Not a bit of sorrow expressed for George, for what he may have suffered--or may be suffering now, if still alive.(doubtful.)

Something stinks here, and it ain't last night's fish supper.

 

[Morag]

Apparently Josh was quite happy to tell everyone about how good his alibi was.

http://theday.com/re_ap.aspx?re=/C/CT_CRUISE_DISAPPEARANCE_CTOL-

 

[lilpony]

Apparently Josh was quite happy to tell everyone about how good his alibi was.

http://theday.com/re_ap.aspx?re=/C/CT_CRUISE_DISAPPEARANCE_CTOL-

Interesting article, thanks for the infor. But didn't the guy in the room next to george's cabin hear the noise, then opened his door immediatlely after that, and saw the men leave the cabin. In the article it says they were in the room when the thud happened. So I would think inconsistent statements, right?
I am always looking for info on this case, because it is so interesting. I hope we really find out what happened to George.

 

[eve]

She reminded me of a female version of Scott Peterson. Something isn't right. Has she returned to work? I never saw her cry for anyone but herself or a problem she had. I would have told the FBI to go to you know where before I would not tell my in laws as much as I could. I doubt they would go talking if they were told to keep it quiet. She is guilty as sin, one way or another. IMO!:twocents:


Thanks for reading my posts.:silenced:

Can you elaborate on this a little? I can't get the links for some reason. What did she say or not say?

Thanks!

Eve