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[John Albert Evans]

I've no idea how to cut and paste

John Albert Evans

[robpage]

Back in the mists of time I remembered reading something about murders at sea , I am sure one storuy had a guy smuggle his dead wife aboard and heave her over the side , and i hav it in mind that a locked cabin was founfd onb UCKK with the occupant missing , in the mid 1960s - 1970s , but could find neither , I do remember having herd that name Gy Gibson before , but would not have associated it .

Cruise Ship Passenger Pleads Not Guilty of Strangling His Ex-Wife & Throwing Her Overboard http://www.cruiselawnews.com/tags/murder/

Posted on May 17, 2013 by Jim Walker
In a disturbing case we have covered over the years, U.S. lawyer, Lonnie Loren Kocontes, entered a plea today of not guilty in the strangulation death of his ex-wife, Micki Kaneski, during a cruise off of the Italian coast seven years ago.
This case seems to stand in stark contrast to the cruise industry's claim that murders don't occur on cruise ships.
Kocontes met Kanesaki in the 1990s at a Los Angeles law firm where he worked as an attorney and she worked as an administrative assistant. They later married in 1995.
Kacontes Cruise MurderKocontes was fired from his job after he was arrested in 2000 for charges of sexual contact with a minor that were later dismissed. In 2001, they divorced to protect their assets from civil litigation. They continued to live together, but their relationship deteriorated.
In May 2006, the couple vacationed in Italy and sailed aboard the Island Escape cruise ship. On May 26, 2006, the cruise ship was sailing between Sicily and Naples, when Kanesaki went overboard. Her body washed ashore the next day in Calabria in southwest Italy. An autopsy was performed. An Italian medical doctor concluded that she had been strangled before she went overboard.
Kocontes claims that Kanesaki left the cabin around 1 a.m. to get a cup of tea. Kocontes reported her missing after he woke up and claims he couldn’t find her. Italian police boarded the ship, seized records and videotapes and took statements from the crew.
Prosecutors say that Kocontes strangled Kaneski to death on board the ship and then threw her overboard.
Kocontes later began transferring more than $1 million from Kaneski’s bank accounts into joint accounts he held with his new wife. That prompted the FBI to begin seizure efforts which were dismissed by a federal judge in California.
The Orange County Register covered the story back in 2006, and quoted Kanesaki’s mother saying that her daughter was in good spirits before the cruise. ‘‘I can’t imagine what happened to her. There’s no reason to believe it was a suicide.’’
A newspaper in Italy published an article "The Perfect Murder."

Before that there was Karen Rosten

Ms. Roston was 26 years old when she went overboard on the last night of her honeymoon cruise Scott Roston - Karen Roston - Murder - Cruise Ship Overboardfrom the Sundancer cruise ship operated by Admiral Cruises of Miami. Her husband, Scott Roston (photo right), claimed that high winds blew her overboard as she ran on the jogging track on an upper deck. But evidence introduced at his criminal trial indicated that the winds were just 4 - 5 mph.
An article in the LA Times explained that investigating FBI agents found Ms. Roston's hair embedded in the rubberized jogging track along with a broken earring matching one she was wearing in a photograph taken at a shipboard dinner. Mr. Roston was observed with scratches on his face after her disappearance. A medical examiner concluded from an autopsy that Ms. Roston had been strangled. Mr. Roston was tried for murder. The prosecutor stated "she was strangled and then thrown overboard . . . "
A jury convicted Mr. Roston of murder. An appellate court affirmed his conviction in the case of United States v. Roston, 986 F.2d 1287 (9th Cir. 1992). In affirming the murder conviction, the court noted:
Here, there was evidence of a substantial struggle. Parts of the decedent's earrings and remnants of her hair were found on the deck 11 1/2 feet from the railing where she went overboard. The injury to her forehead was consistent with the prosecution's theory that her head had been smashed against the deck of the ship. The hemorrhaging and bone warping in her neck indicated she had been strangled. The cumulative effect of this evidence suggests that the decedent's assailant, over the course of a fairly prolonged struggle, intended to kill her. Moreover, the killing process continued beyond the struggle and strangling. The decedent was not dead, but only unconscious when she was pushed or thrown into the ocean. There are Quite a few of them , but like a lot of things m they dont seem widely reported

[Louis the fly]

Cut and pasted I am afraid

http://usersites.horrorfind.com/home.../porthole.html

I need to go on a computer coarse, can do the very basics, but no idea how to post photos, links or cut & paste.

[Louis the Amigo]

Hi shipmates, Back a couple of years ago on the American passenger ships, they was a spree of people going missing? no one was ever convicted of any crime? and the criuse companys, made sure the public was not informed of this fact...

[robpage]

To true Louis , thjey wallpapered pover quite a fw ,

for cut and paste try this

http://lifehacker.com/5801525/help-n...-cut-and-paste

[Lou Barron]

During the war when I sailed on the D/Bedford in the time I was on her we had one or two going overboard not counting the ones we buried at sea

[happy daze john in oz]

I could be totally wrong, my booze and old age damaged brain, but was there not a steward many many years ago that murdered a passenger and poked her out through the porthole??, i thought that was either on Cunard or maybe UCL, This would have been approx 60 years ago, KT

Yes, UCL Durban Castle I think, pushed her out of a porthole after he had done with her. Think he was caught and punished in the end.

But over the years there have been a number of crew and passengers go missing at sea. I can recall three crew with UCL going missing, prersumed over the side.
Posted before I saw Rob's excellent cut and paste.

[happy daze john in oz]

Cut and pasted I am afraid

An honest comment Rob, you sure you were with UCL LOL?

[happy daze john in oz]

for cut and paste try this

Rob, are you saying he can cut and paste over the bodies missing at sea?????