Honeymooner George Smith, son of a well to do Greenwich, CT, family, died in 2005 while on a cruise from Barcelona, Spain, to Istanbul, Turkey. Whether his going overboard was the result of an accidental fall or murder has never been determined.
Smith and his bride, Jennifer Hagel Smith, had been in the casino of the Royal Caribbean ship Brilliance of the Sea. They had been drinking heavily and reportedly had some kind of argument there.
George staggered back to the couple's stateroom in the company of three fellow passengers, who also were reportedly loud and drunk. Jennifer somehow ended up in another part of the ship, where she was found unconscious and taken sometime later to their balcony room by crew members using a wheel chair. The next day when George failed to appear, blood was found.
The three other passengers were put off the ship for a later disturbance, in which another woman passenger claimed that they had assaulted her.
Much later, Jennifer said that George had mixed alcohol and prescription drugs that night. She made various complaints against the cruise line and reportedly reached a settlement in 2006. Her view is that George's death was accidental. His family's opinion is that he was the victim of foul play.
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