When I think of Disney Cruise Lines these days, the popular saying "the cover up is always worse that the crime" comes to mind.
I’m sure that I am not the only one who thinks that. Disney Cruise Lines’s conduct over the last nine months after the unexplained disappearance of Disney youth counselor, Rebecca Coriam, has a number of
Today the case of missing Disney Cruise Line youth counselor Rebecca Coriam is again in the news as a MP from her hometown of Cheshire England spoke before the House of Commons.
You will recall that last March, Ms. Coriam "disappeared" from the Disney Wonder as the cruise ship was sailing a Los Angeles –
Mike and Ann Coriam appeared on CNN International yesterday to discuss the "disappearance" of their daughter, Rebecca Coriam, from the Disney Wonder cruise ship. Ms. Coriam worked as a youth counselor aboard the Wonder and went missing six months ago while the cruise ship was sailing a Los Angeles – Mexico itinerary.
The Coriam family are campaigning
Disney Cruise youth counselor Rebecca Coriam disappeared from the Disney Wonder in the early morning hours of March 22, 2011.
Her parents, Mike and Ann Coriam from Chester England, know no more today than in March when the cruise line told them their daughter was missing from the cruise ship.
How, exactly, can a person simply disappear
A passenger from the Disney Wonder cruise ship kayaking in Juneau was found dead over the past weekend. KINY Radio reports that the U.S. Coast Guard was notified Saturday morning and found 67-year-old cruise passenger Robert Newell unconscious in a kayak in the vicinity of Spuhn Island.
The Coast Guard brought him ashore, and rescue personnel declared him dead
The Rebecca Coriam Search Foundation is holding a fundraiser and rally to help raise money to continue the search and investigation into the disappearance of Disney crew member, Rebecca Coriam.
The rally is being held on July 23, 2011, from 7:00 p.m. – 10:00 p.m. at the Chester Race(2)(2).jpg)
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The Los Angeles Times has an interesting although very sad article about the mystery of a missing crewmember from the Disney Wonder cruise ship. Written by Corina Knoll, the LA Times article is entitled "Bereft Parents’ Loss is as Deep as the Ocean."
Rebecca Coriam, a 24 year old from Chester, England, joined Disney Cruise Line to work with kids
This afternoon BBC Radio (Radio Merseyside) interviewed maritime lawyer Jim Walker in Miami regarding the disappearance of Disney youth activities worker Rebecca Coriam from the Disney Wonder cruise ship.
Rebecca was reported missing when she failed to report to work aboard the cruise ship on March 22, 2011. You can listen to the BBC Radio interview here.
Today a newspaper in the U.K., the Chester Chronicle, contains an interesting article "Family Demand Answers as Investigation into Chester Disney Cruise Ship Worker Continues." Although the article is a bit of a rehash of events since last week about the disappearance of youth counselor Rebecca Coriam from Disney Cruise Line’s Wonder cruise ship, the newspaper reports that:
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Over the past years, we have been involved in a number of cases where cruise passengers and crew members have been victims of crimes on cruise ships heading to the Bahamas or ashore in downtown Nassau. We have witnessed the local police bungle the cases miserably and quickly close their files.
The Bahamian police cannot solve crimes against
Michael and Ann Coriam returned to the U.K. with their younger daughter’s belongings but no answers regarding the circumstances surrounding her disappearance. Sky News released a video today of the Coriam family’s interview with the media in Los Angeles before their return home.
Credit: Sky News via The Sun Newspaper
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A number of different news stations are reporting that the Coriam family remains without an explanation regarding the circumstances surrounding the apparent overboard disappearance of their daughter, Rebecca, from Disney’s Wonder cruise ship last week.
The Wonder returned to port in California yesterday amidst reports that the Coriam family had flown to Los Angeles to meet the cruise ship.
The parents and aunt of missing Disney Cruise Line employee Rebecca Coriam arrived in Los Angeles today from the U.K. seeking information about the young woman’s unexplained disappearance from the Wonder cruise ship. The video of Mr. and Ms. Coriam from ABC-7 Los Angeles is below.
We have written a number of articles about this situation:
The press in the U.S. and in the U.K. are continuing to cover the story of the disappearance of a Disney Cruise Line youth counselor who apparently went overboard from the Wonder last Tuesday during a 7 day "Mexican Riviera" cruise. BBC News reports that the parents of Rebecca Coriam flew from the U.K. to be present when
The disappearance of a youth counselor from the Disney Wonder cruise ship this week raises the issue of who is responsible for conducting investigations when crew members disappear at sea.
Disney released the following statement to us yesterday:
"The Mexican Navy has been conducting searches since Tuesday, and we immediately contacted the FBI and the
In the past day our office has received numerous requests for information about a woman who apparently went overboard from the Disney Wonder cruise ship two days ago.
There are no reports of this alleged incident in the mainstream press. This does not necessarily mean anything because the last three cruise line overboard were either not reported
A passenger from New York has finally been imprisoned for sexually assaulting a 13 year old girl on the Disney Wonder cruise ship.
A year ago we reported on this crime – Passenger Indicted for Sexual Abuse of 13 Year Old Girl on Disney Wonder Cruise Ship.
The girl’s family sailed on the Disney Wonder
Lucas G. Wickes, age 25, of Rochester New York pleaded guilty in federal court to sexually assaulting a 13-year-old girl on January 1, 2007, on board the Disney cruise ship Disney Wonder after it left Port Canaveral for a Caribbean cruise.
The passenger approached the girl when she left a teen club on the cruise ship and ordered her to accompany him. The
