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"Do you believe that George knows that you've been fighting -- that the family's been fighting this whole time?" Miller asked Bree. In the years following George's death, Jennifer has remarried and tried to move on. And until the day the case is solved, they vow to not let George's memory die on that ship. "Our theory is that Josh Askin knows what happened," Mike Jones said. "But we don't believe that Josh was involved in the actual, you know, tossing of George overboard." Greer thinks that there is a simpler explanation for all that took place aboard the Brilliance of the Seas -- the sex assault claim, George going overboard.
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The young men said that after putting George to bed, they had all left and then went back to one of their cabins and ordered a lot of room service. According to the young men, shortly after 4 a.m., they had brought George back to his cabin and while Josh went to the bathroom, the other guys had taken off George's shoes and put a drunken George to bed. This is a photo of the Smith cabin showing one of George's shoes on the floor. That night, the couple had dinner aboard the ship and toasted their future together according to Jennifer. "The evidence will be given to a woman whose whereabouts are unknown when George was thrown overboard... and who has done everything in her power to stop us from finding out what happened to George on July 5, 2005," the post reads.
The Smith Family
"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. Until the day the case is solved, the Smiths vow to not let George's memory die on that ship. "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". "He hesitates. He's clearly thinking. The question has thrown him for a loop. It's almost, 'What could they have found that -- that would've connected someone to the disappearance?" Houston said of Greg's reaction.
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"I want to know who took my son away from me. He wasn't a Dixie cup that you throw over the side of a ship," said Maureen. "We want the individuals that are responsible for throwing my brother George over his balcony at age 26 held accountable. We want them put in jail. We want them to rot in jail," said Bree. "People [who] have seen that videotape have told me that the person holding the camera is doing kind of a narration and asking her questions and she's responding to them. But as this continues she's crying," Miller pointed out. Photographs taken by Royal Caribbean inside the Smith cabin revealed two small lines of blood on the bed sheets.
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"George all of a sudden expresses a wish to go search for his wife ... at this time the boys are having a loud discussion, debate about whether they should assist George," Dayan explained. CBS News senior correspondent John Miller has worked in law enforcement and intelligence for 10 years and has been a reporter for 30 years. "48 Hours" asked Miller to take a new look at the unsolved case of George Smith, who went on his honeymoon cruise and was never seen again. The next morning all that was left of Smith was a blood stain on an overhang below his cabin’s balcony and now, 15 years later, the case remains unsolved. That arguing, Jones believes, is what Clete Hyman heard on the balcony. Jones also believes his theory fits with what the witness saw...
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Jennifer said she had almost no memory after leaving the casino ... Instead of a spectacular sunrise, Rausch's camera captured a huge bloodstain on the lifeboat canopy. Also making the rounds that night were a group of Russian-American students -- cousins Zachary and Greg Rozenberg, and a friend, Rusty Kofman.
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"I have no doubt in my mind whatsoever, that my son was murdered on that cruise ship. There is so much evidence, it is overwhelming," Maureen Smith said. NEW YORK (CBSNewYork) -- Eight years after a Greenwich, Conn., man vanished from a cruise ship while on his honeymoon, new questions have surfaced regarding his death. The videotape in question was filmed by three Russian-Americans who have long been suspected of being involved in Smith’s disappearance due to their actions on July 4 and 5, before Smith was last seen. While it was reportedly filmed on the ship, shortly after Smith went missing, the video was only brought to the Smith family a few years ago. Smith’s family has maintained all these years that George was murdered by several men with whom George had an argument. And now, new evidence suggests there may be some truth to the allegations.
"...Unfortunately, obviously, after eight years, this has become, pretty much, a cold case," he told CBS News senior correspondent John Miller. 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. "In addition to the blood, there were sounds of -- a fight, a struggle inside my brother's room," said Bree Smith.
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This was a terrible, terrible night, which filled the public’s imagination with speculation about what happened, night after night on the cable news programs. The FBI in Connecticut has closed its investigation into the disappearance of George Smith IV, a Greenwich man who vanished from his honeymoon cruise in July 2005 and whose family believes he was intentionally sent overboard. George Allen Smith IV (born October 3, 1978) was an American man who disappeared overboard from the Royal Caribbean International cruise ship MS Brilliance of the Seas in July 2005 under suspicious circumstances. 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. The FBI would begin an investigation that would span eight years and remains open to this day.
Smith's disappearance was preceded by a night of heaving drinking and gambling in the ship's casino. A passenger in a neighboring room said he heard men arguing on the Smiths' balcony that night. The next morning passengers photographed a bloodstain on a lifeboat canopy beneath the couple's balcony. Smith mysteriously disappeared in the early morning hours of July 5, 2005,[2][3] and evidence suggested that foul play might have been involved. Blood stains were found in his cabin as well as on the side of the ship, and it appeared that he might have been tossed off the ship or fallen overboard and drowned. The International Cruise Victims Association (ICV) is dedicated to helping the loved ones of passengers who have been involved in crimes at sea, especially those who have disappeared at sea.
Suspicions have focused on several men who were in Mr. Smith’s cabin before he went overboard, particularly after one of the men made incriminating statements. We have written many prior articles about the case which you can review here. "I'd like to invoke my Fifth Amendment right," answered the other passenger, Zachary Rozenberg. In another deposition, his cousin, Gregory Rozenberg, who was serving 3 years in prison for selling drugs, denies murdering Smith. "Did you have anything to do with George's death?" asked an interrogator. Josh Askin's lawyer, Keith Greer, argues that it's all nothing more than speculation -- the so-called robbery and fight.
The story of what happens next has been changed several times. 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.
Dr. Lee wanted to throw a manikin the same height and weight as George Smith over the cabin balcony railing to see where, and how, it would land on the life boat cover below. Dr. Lee believed it important to his investigation, but the cruise line was probably right in its refusal to allow this experiment. For one, it is presumed that Smith disappeared while the ship was under way and at sea. Therefore throwing the manikin from the balcony to the metal awning below while the ship was tied up in port would be nothing like a ship moving at 20 knots in a rough sea, perhaps with sea spray washing over the ship. Further, at the time Dr. Lee proposed conducting the test, 2500 new passengers were boarding Brilliance of the Seas and would have witnessed the test.
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