If you’re interested in mysteries and crime and haven’t yet bookmarked Blottered, you should. They come up with crime news from around the world, summarized in a semi-snarky, semi-serious fashion, and that makes it essential reading.
Today they came up with this story from the Arizona Republic about Merrian Carver, who disappeared during an Alaskan cruise, why it’s doubtful anything will be done about it:and her parents, who quietly disposed of her things and
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.
The story also describes how Royal Caribbean, the cruise ship she was on, does nothing about passengers who go missing during a voyage. Someone leaves everything in her room at the end? Given to charity (except for her purse and ID). A steward notices that a room hasn’t been used in days, he’s warned to shut up and keep working. I wouldn’t expect Royal Caribbean to investigate a missing passenger — after all, she could have spent the night with a friend — but not to show up at the end to pick up her things? That should set off an alarm, at least.
Instead, the parents had to find out for themselves, after spending money on private investigators. Royal Caribbean officials should be ashamed.
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