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Cruise Passenger Pleads Guilty to Murdering His Girlfriend on Carnival Elation

By Jim Walker on December 19, 2019
Posted in Crime

Multiple news organizations are reporting that a man from the state of Kansas pleaded guilty today to murdering his longtime girlfriend during a cruise from Florida to the Bahamas in January 2018.

As we reported last year, Eric Duane Newman, now age 55, of Topeka, Kansas,  went on the Carnival Elation with his long term

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Miami Herald Looks at Cruise Ship Overboards

By Jim Walker on November 17, 2013
Posted in Disappearances

Today the Miami Herald published an article entitled "Overboard Cases on Cruise Lines Often Under-Reported to Public."

What jumps out from the article is that the cruise industry, as a whole, fundamentally still lacks transparency regarding the issue of cruise ship passengers and crew members going overboard on the high seas.

Miami Herald…

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