What happened to Merrian Carver?
If you watch too much TV it's easy to believe the fantasy that the cops and their sci-fi-esque technology can get to the bottom of any mystery, that perhaps real life private-eyes aren't quite as cute as Kristen Bell but maybe are just as dogged and that at the very least there's always one detective willing to play a hunch and turn around scratching his head to ask just one more thing.
Yeah, and somewhere in California there's a blonde girl staking vampires...
While taking a break from Blottered I stumbled across an article in today's Arizona Republic concerning a woman named Merrian Carver who boarded a cruise ship and never disembarked. It looks increasingly like Ms Carver committed suicide by throwing herself overboard, but doubts remain. Perhaps she was murdered. Perhaps she's alive and well. Perhap, perhaps, perhaps... More likely no one will ever know the truth.
Unlikely because the police were slow to act, unlikely because private detectives are expensive and unable to do the job that the police passed on and unlikely because the cruise line and its staff seemed to have done their best to ignore Ms Carver's disapearance and hope that no one asked too many questions.
After a lengthy and expensive investigation of their own Kendall and Carol Carver found that not only were several people aware that their daughter was missing and had done nothing, worse still they had simply disposed of her belongings and dismissed the disapearance as something that happens all the time.
Robert Anglen pulls all the known facts together for his article and after reading it it's difficult not to ask why the police didn't get more involved in this particular case.
In a sidebar to the story there's a list of eight other Americans who disapeared from cruise ships since July of last year.
Sadly this is the kind of thing that Hollywood are more likely to show an interest in than the authorities.
Strange disappearance of daughter on cruise - The Arizona Republic
Yeah, and somewhere in California there's a blonde girl staking vampires...
While taking a break from Blottered I stumbled across an article in today's Arizona Republic concerning a woman named Merrian Carver who boarded a cruise ship and never disembarked. It looks increasingly like Ms Carver committed suicide by throwing herself overboard, but doubts remain. Perhaps she was murdered. Perhaps she's alive and well. Perhap, perhaps, perhaps... More likely no one will ever know the truth.
Unlikely because the police were slow to act, unlikely because private detectives are expensive and unable to do the job that the police passed on and unlikely because the cruise line and its staff seemed to have done their best to ignore Ms Carver's disapearance and hope that no one asked too many questions.
After a lengthy and expensive investigation of their own Kendall and Carol Carver found that not only were several people aware that their daughter was missing and had done nothing, worse still they had simply disposed of her belongings and dismissed the disapearance as something that happens all the time.
Robert Anglen pulls all the known facts together for his article and after reading it it's difficult not to ask why the police didn't get more involved in this particular case.
In a sidebar to the story there's a list of eight other Americans who disapeared from cruise ships since July of last year.
Sadly this is the kind of thing that Hollywood are more likely to show an interest in than the authorities.
Strange disappearance of daughter on cruise - The Arizona Republic
posted by Sizemore at 2:53 PM
