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Josh Askin's lawyer, Keith Greer, says Josh did not have sex with the young woman -- but he was there. Royal Caribbean documents show complaints were made against some of the men for smoking, sneaking liquor and verbally abusing ship employees. "...Unfortunately, obviously, after eight years, this has become, pretty much, a cold case," he told CBS News senior correspondent John Miller. For the last few years, Mike Jones has been trying to reignite a case he believes has gone cold in the Connecticut FBI office. And the discovery of a homemade videotape only raises more suspicion. "You know, they ordered so much food, and they couldn't have killed George because they were in the room eating the room service," Jones told Miller.
Passengers Interviewed
"I looked out and saw three male individuals walking away from the room." In another cabin, Paul and Galina Kvitnisky were startled by a visit from ship personnel. Lee recently returned to the scene of George's disappearance -- combing the cabin, the balcony and the metal overhang for clues.
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New details in Greenwich man's 2005 cruise ship disappearance.
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MYSTERIOUS DEATH OF: Franchesca Alvarado
On Monday, his day off, George would swing by a Fresh Fields market to buy Jennifer’s favorite, Chilean sea bass, which he barbecued outdoors no matter the weather. “That was actually my engagement gift for him—a new grill—because every time we went over there, even in winter, we had to sit outside while George grilled,” says Maureen. The Smiths have been a fixture in the Greenwich area for decades.
Murder at Sea? The disappearance of George Smith
They sat around a table with George as several of the group took shots from a bottle of absinthe, the green, highly potent liquor that is illegal in most of the West and isn’t sold aboard Brilliance of the Seas. Royal Caribbean officials have suggested that the bottle was probably smuggled aboard the ship against the rules. Before long, all accounts agree, both George and Jennifer were very drunk. That night, as Brilliance of the Seas left Mykonos for the Turkish coast, George and Jennifer Smith headed to the casino after dinner. Jennifer has said they hoped to meet up with another couple they had gotten to know. Instead, by all accounts, they spent much of the evening gambling separately, Jennifer playing blackjack, George at a craps table, teaching Josh Askin the game.
Remembering Erin Gilmour
The first George Allen Smith, a major-league pitcher in the 1910s and early 1920s, taught high-school math there for years. His son, George Allen Smith II, was a dentist and prominent horse breeder. George Smith III, the missing George’s father, is an accountant who purchased the Greenwich area’s oldest liquor store, Cos Cob Liquor, in 1982. He and his British-born wife, Maureen, live in neighboring Glenville, where George IV and his older sister, Bree, now a lawyer in Hong Kong, grew up.
The cruise line said his wife was found passed out on a floor on the other side of the ship. "We couldn't be happier," her father, John Hagel said Monday. "We're just thrilled she's been able to move on with her life and start a new life with Jeff. We couldn't be prouder for both of them." Hagel Smith's other lawyer, Elizabeth Byrne, said any embarrassing behavior that may have occurred had already been reported and was not a motivation to settle. She said the probate ruling showed the settlement was reasonable and that her client acted in good faith.
July 4, 2005
In December of 2019, Rozenberg was murdered in front of his Davie home and police believe whoever murdered him had targeted him. “They claim they just left the room, but the evidence revealed afterward was that it was an attempted robbery gone wrong,” Jones said. After she stormed off, Smith kept partying with a group of guys that he had met on the ship. “Unfortunately, there’s a possibility that we may never find out now what happened to George,” Attorney Mike Jones, who represent’s Smith’s family, said.
His story has been reported on by Dateline NBC and 48 Hours and was depicted in a television film called Deadly Honeymoon, which still airs on Lifetime. Just about everyone on television appears to believe George Smith was the victim of foul play, though the F.B.I., which is investigating, hasn’t said a word. The longer the case remains unsolved, the darker its undertones grow. Allegations of a Royal Caribbean “cover-up” have been tossed about while journalists and congressmen murmur about the dangers lurking aboard cruise ships.
"It became clear to him very quickly that the boys weren't ... taking advantage of her. The girl was taking advantage of the boys." And two days after George Smith went overboard, an 18-year-old passenger came forward with a major allegation of sexual assault. As a group, the men told Turkish police, "And that was the end of it. ... We were all together ... But just remember not at one point or at no time did he ever seem angry or anything at all."
In videotaped depositions obtained by INSIDE EDITION, two of the passengers who carried George to his room repeatedly took the fifth when asked about George Smith's death. "And this got around because there were other passengers not within the circle of the Russians and Josh who heard the rumors about the money in the cabin. We don't believe it was true, but perception is everything," said Jones. A "48 Hours" investigation has uncovered questionable alibis, failed polygraphs and a provocative video made by some of these men just hours after George disappeared. And according to his attorney, Kofman and one of his friends were only interviewed by Turkish police for about 10 minutes. Clete Hyman, who heard the commotion that night, says he was not interviewed at all. After a brief investigation, the ship left port in Turkey.
"We're hoping to generate more leads with the reward," Bree Smith explained. "And we are hoping the FBI will re-open the investigation." "How do you collect 97,000 pages of an investigation to determine after almost 10 years that an accident may have occurred?" said Bree Smith. "When we were called into the meeting that finally closed the case down, it was just devastating to my family," George Smith said. "We're hoping with this $100,000 reward ... this might just be the thing that we need to get the arrest and convictions," Bree Smith told "48 Hours". "It's just a question of pulling together enough evidence to get an indictment and a conviction," he said.
George Smith, of Greenwich, CT, disappeared during the couple's 2005 honeymoon cruise, in the Aegean Sea. George Smith was on a honeymoon cruise aboard a Royal Caribbean ship in July 2005 when he vanished somewhere between Greece and Turkey. Afterward, the rape allegation was reviewed by a magistrate in Naples. According to an Italian newspaper article, the magistrate, after viewing the videotape, found no evidence of a crime. Others involved in the incident, however, say the magistrate did not rule on the evidence, but instead declared that the court had no jurisdiction, and turned the case over to the American Consulate. The investigation appears to have been over before it even started.
Episode SummaryWhen five young boys vanish from their village in South Korea, local authorities are quick to assume they ran away. However, their parents know that’s not what happened – and as their search for their children expands, they become convinced that... The Smith family is highly critical of the Turkish investigation. "I remember being at the casino, I remember being around George," Jennifer said on the show. "I remember very vaguely leaving the casino area to go to this revolving bar and then I remember nothing. We must have been drinking heavily. I don't remember anything."
Hagel Smith is not saying the prescription drugs and alcohol caused her husband's death, Sheeley said. The conspiracy, Sheeley said, was that the Royal Caribbean cruise line was withholding information from the Smith family. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed. Quotes displayed in real-time or delayed by at least 15 minutes. From the disco she took the elevator down to Deck Nine, but she was evidently so drunk she became disoriented. Instead of turning right, into the long port corridor that led to their stateroom, she turned left, into the starboard corridor.
George and Jennifer met 20-year-old Josh Askin and his family on a tour of Florence, Italy. 48 Hours reported last year that Michael Jones, the Smith family attorney, said a video involving three of four men who were the last to see Smith alive could be key in cracking the case. The family says they are "outraged and disgusted" at the FBI's decision to close the investigation.
From there she walked until the corridor ended in an alcove. Jennifer slumped against the wall, slid to the floor, and fell asleep. One likely explanation arises after a talk with the Rozenbergs’ New York attorney, Arthur Gershfeld. Gershfeld, himself a Russian émigré, is a former assistant district attorney in Brooklyn and an unsuccessful candidate for the New York State Assembly. When I told him I expected to print his clients’ names, he tersely threatened to sue me. One of the oddest things about the Smith case has been the media’s reluctance to identify these young men.
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