DEAD ON VACATION: Beautiful red-head poet vanishes from cruise - UNSOLVED

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🗓️ 23 June 2021

⏱️ 37 minutes

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Summary

40-year-old red-haired poet and investment banker Merrian Carver plans a cruise. She doesn't tell her family or her daughter. The teen is visiting with Dad in England for the Summer. Carver boards a Royal Caribbean’s Celebrity cruise ships for a seven-day excursion from Seattle, Washington to Alaska. After confirming plans to dine in her room for a second night, Carver disappears. Her conversation with the steward is the last time Merrian is seen alive. Joining Nancy Grace Today:Michael A. Winkleman - Maritime Attorney, Lipcon, Margulies & Winkleman, Expert on Maritime and Cruise Ship Law, www.lipcon.com, Twitter: @cruiseshiplaw Caryn Stark - NYC Psychologist, www.carynstark.com Sheryl McCollum - Forensic Expert & Cold Case Investigative Research Institute Founder, ColdCaseCrimes.org J.H. Moncrieff - Suspense and Horror Author, "Dragonfly Summer; City of Ghosts", Expert: "Cruise Ship Killers" True Crime Documentary Series, www.jhmoncrieff.com, Instagram: @jh_moncrieff, Twitter: @JH_MoncrieffJamie Barnett - President, International Cruise Victims (ICV), www.internationalcruisevictims.org

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0:00.0	I'm Cheryl McCollum, host of the brand new Cold Case Podcast, Zone 7.
0:04.1	We're going to be talking to family members, detectives, prosecutors, and nationally recognized
0:09.1	experts that are in my Zone 7. The group of professionals that I've called on
0:13.6	to help me work hundreds of cases you've heard of and thousands you haven't.
0:18.0	We are going to solve these cases on air together.
0:22.4	Listen to Zone 7 on the I Heart Radio app, the Apple Podcast app, or wherever you listen to
0:28.3	your favorite podcast.
0:58.3	This forgetaway abhorred an Alaskan royal Caribbean cruise on the Mercury, and she's never
1:05.0	seen alive again.
1:14.6	First of all, take a listen to our friends at Crime Watch Daily.
1:17.9	Marion Carver was a former investment banker from Cambridge, Massachusetts.
1:22.9	She was divorced and her 13-year-old daughter was spending the summer with her ex-husband
1:27.6	in England when she decided to take a cruise to Alaska.
1:32.0	Marion was a serious person. In her short lifetime, she was very successful.
1:38.9	Her parents didn't even know she was on a cruise that fought for August in 2004 until they
1:44.5	got a frantic call from Marion's daughter who hadn't heard from her in a week.
1:49.8	When they couldn't reach her, they filed a missing persons report in Cambridge, Massachusetts,
1:54.7	where she lived.
1:56.2	While the Cambridge police located a credit card transaction, which showed the airplane ticket
2:02.8	going to Seattle, the cruise ticket, and the return flight.
2:07.8	Marion never made the flight home.
2:10.1	Clearly, a last minute decision to jump on this gorgeous cruise line with royal Caribbean
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