RSSNew Details in Death of of George A. Smith IV Who Died on Honeymoon Mediterranean Royal Caribbean Cruise … FBI Russian Organized Crime Agents Join Investigation … Could it lead to Justice for George?
WILL THERE FINALLY BE JUSTICE FOR GEORGE?
“We have truth on our side. “My son’s life is not going to be in vain.” (Maureen Smith, George’s mother – Jan. 2006)
It has been six years since George A. Smith IV disappeared on July 5, 2005 while on his honeymoon in the Mediterranean on a Royal Caribbean cruise with his then wife, Jennifer Hagel Smith. George’s body was never recovered; however, his body left bloodstains on an exterior overhang of the ship. Sadly, no one was ever held responsible for the death and disappearance of George Smith. Now the focus is on four men, among them three Russian-Americans from Brooklyn, New York.
Flash-forward to 2012 … there might just be new details into George Smith’s death that could lead to answers and the truth as what happened to George Smith on that fateful night in 2005. Much of the information comes from the legal settlement with Royal Caribbean cruise line where they also agreed to hand over its investigative file on Smith’s disappearance, which includes witness statements made to Royal Caribbean and Turkish authorities by those who last saw Smith, as well as from cruise ship employees.
Attorney Michael Jones, who represents Smith’s family, said cruise line documents obtained in a settlement over the Greenwich man’s estate and the lawyer’s own questioning of the four young men who are believed to have escorted a heavily intoxicated Smith back to his room that night raise doubts about their account of events.
Attorneys for the men have said their clients did nothing wrong.
One of the men, Josh Askin of California, failed an FBI-administered polygraph test, Jones said. When questioned by Jones about Smith, Askin did not answer, instead invoking his Fifth Amendment right.
“The evidence suggests that Josh Askin and the boys know more than they have let on,” Jones said. “It’s time for them to come forward and tell what they know about George’s disappearance.”
Also, Things that make you go hmm … As reported at the New York Post, New York based FBI agents assigned to the Russian organized crime have joined the federal probe into the disappearance of George Smith.
And the family of George Smith IV now believes he fell victim to “foul play” after he was escorted, drunk, to his cabin from the ship’s disco by a group that included a California college student and three young Russian-Americans with Brooklyn ties.
“The family believes it was a robbery-gone-bad,” said Michael Jones, the lawyer for the Smith family of Greenwich, who have now abandoned their initial suspicions that his bride, Jennifer Hagel, might have played a role in the 26-year-old groom’s demise.
Josh Askin has testified to a Connecticut federal grand jury that he and the three Russian-Americans, cousins Greg and Zachary Rozenberg and their pal Rostislav “Rusty” Kofman, were in the room with Smith before he went missing. George Smith goes missing with blood stains on the exterior overhang of the ship beneath his cabin. Also according to Jones, Askin was also overheard on the elevator telling others that George Smith had $50,000 in his cabin and that Hagel was playing “$200 hands of blackjack” in the hours before Smith disappeared. Are we starting to connect the dots?
Could there finally be … JUSTICE FOR GEORGE!!!
Posted January 7, 2012 by Scared Monkeys Burglary, Crime, Facebook, George Allen Smith IV, Missing Persons, Murder | 6 comments |
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It would be nice if there is finally Justice for George and closure for his family.
They all deserve that, at a miniumum.
Thanks to SM for posting this story.
I always thought something was fishy about the wife. Wonder if anything has come out about her
Maybe they will get some answers at last. Jennifer and George unfortunately fell victim to a group of thugs on their cruise.
When you do not watch those around you and proceed to party too much, things like this happen. IMO there are always people on a cruise who are looking to take advantage of of the unwary.
#2-Sully. I never really thought she was prime suspect bc of the timeline, blood and clues left at scene of Murder-however,she remarried shortly thereafter and my only thought about her was….Wow…nothing like a Widow that hardly grieved after such a tragic crisis right in the middle of a Honeymoon to your brand new Husband.
She always seemed a bit detached which is perhaps why others also viewed her behavior as suspicious. She “moved on” long ago.
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