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Corpus Delicti

139: Dark Water 2: Shirley McGill

Corpus Delicti

CDM Productions

True Crime

4.5608 Ratings

🗓️ 21 September 2020

⏱️ 40 minutes

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Summary

Bob and Shirley McGill were high school sweethearts who lost touch over the years, and later in life reconnected and rekindled their relationship. To celebrate both of their birthdays as well as Shirley's retirement, the couple took a cruise... but Shirley wouldn't make it back alive.
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Sources:
https://www.sandiegouniontribune.com/sdut-cruise-ship-killer-gets-life-sentence-2011dec08-story.html
https://www.cruiseshipdeaths.com/2009/07/31/shirley-mcgill-passenger-cruise-ship-death-birthday-murder-carnival-elation-mexico/
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/cruise-ship-killer-murdered-wife-with-bare-hands-say-feds/
https://www.dailynews.com/2011/07/15/husband-confessed-to-killing-wife-on-cruise-ship/
https://www.cruiselawnews.com/tags/shirley-mcgill/

Transcript

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0:00.0

Hey everyone, this is Jen.

0:25.5

And this is Lindsay.

0:26.5

And welcome back to Corpus Delicti Darkwater series.

0:30.3

We are going to be wrapping up this series on our next episode.

0:35.3

So you only have two more of the Darkwater series. We are opening it up to a new

0:41.0

idea. So if you have any thoughts on what we should be covering or what you would like to hear for

0:46.1

our next series, let us know. Drop us a line. Yeah. So we'll have the one we're about to talk about.

0:52.1

We'll have next week and then we'll have our listener

0:54.3

choice in between. So you've still got a few episodes. Another note is we want to update you guys.

1:02.0

We will be back on a normal schedule in October. We'll still be biweekly through September,

1:07.3

but then back in October, you can expect the weekly episodes again,

1:11.4

as long as nothing else crazy throws a kink in the system.

1:15.8

Yeah, right now, they're opening schools back up.

1:19.3

Not five days a week, but they're increasing it before.

1:23.4

So we're finally able to get a little bit of traction, you know, baby steps in the right direction.

1:28.9

And so that will free up a lot of my time to do more research, more outlines, and prepare better for the show.

1:36.8

With everything going on and homeschooling, it was a lot, you know, schooling during the day, catching up on everything work at night. So just want to

1:46.3

make sure that y'all get the best story possible. With all of those announcements covered, let's go

1:51.8

ahead and dive right in. So in this episode, we're talking about Shirley McGill. Now she was born

1:58.6

July 8, 1954 in Salem, Oregon. Shirley and husband Robert McGill. Now, she was born July 8, 1954 in Salem, Oregon. Shirley and husband Robert McGill

2:05.1

embarked on a five-night Mexican cruise on July 11, 2009. Now, this is a carnival cruise,

2:12.5

and it was going to Cabo San Lucas on the ship named Elation.

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