Congress Opens Investigation Into Murder-Mystery Style Spate Of Cruise Ship Disappearances...

Times Of London Tim Reid December 13, 2005 at 11:11 PM
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A PUBLIC investigation into a string of disappearances aboard luxury cruise ships was opened by the US Congress yesterday.

Spurred to action by the case of George Allen Smith IV, whose disappearance from a cruise ship on July 5 has all the ingredients of an Agatha Christie whodunnit, a congressional committee will hear evidence about at least 12 people who have vanished from liners in the past five years.

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