In 2003, Mrs. Dianne Brimble (photo below) was smiling and waiving when she boarded P & O’s Pacific Sun cruise ship with her daughter for a vacation of a lifetime. Less than 24 hours later, she lay dead on the cabin floor of fellow passenger Mark Wilhelm who had given her the drug GHB. When he was finished with
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Travel Writers and the Ethics of Reporting Cruise News
By Jim Walker on
Posted in Crime, Maritime Death
Cruise Law News was the first in the U.S. to report on the death of Nina Elizabeth Nilssen in Antigua on January 19, 2010. The story was then quickly picked up by our followers on Twitter, such as CruiseCritic and CruiseLog.
Stories about crimes against tourists in Caribbean ports, as sad as they may be, serve an important…