Fiance Found Dead on Vacay Days After Boyfriend Proposes to Her in Africa; Family Asking for Answers
Surviving the Survivor: #BestGuests in True Crime
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4.6 • 1.2K Ratings
🗓️ 18 April 2026
⏱️ 98 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Engaged in paradise, separated after an explosive fight and found dead hours later. |
| 0:09.0 | Authorities in Zanzibar in East Africa say Ashley Jeannay unalived herself. |
| 0:15.9 | Her family, however, says no way that would never happen. |
| 0:19.2 | Her fiance, Joseph McCann, is not a suspect, |
| 0:23.6 | at least not right now, but he cannot leave the country. His passport's been confiscated. |
| 0:29.3 | And now the autopsy is done, but the answer isn't done. We don't know what happened. What really did happen to social media influencer |
| 0:40.4 | Ashley Jeney. Welcome to the global phenomenon, Surviving the Survivor, where we bring you the |
| 0:47.5 | best guests in awe of true crime. Here's your host Emmy award- winning journalist Joel Walton. |
| 0:54.9 | What's up, SCS Nation? Welcome to Surviving the Survivor. This is the global phenomenon, bringing you the very best guests and all of true crime. And we take our story globally today over to Tanzania and Zanzibar. And for full disclosure, that is where the COE and I went on our honeymoon. |
| 1:14.3 | We made a third stop in Rwanda, all to see in Tanzania. |
| 1:17.9 | It is a Serengeti, the East African safari. |
| 1:21.4 | Rwanda has gorillas and Zanzibar has some of the most beautiful beaches you will ever see. |
| 1:27.5 | Tonight, it is a story that sort of felt like a dream, like a fantasy, that suddenly |
| 1:34.4 | turned into an absolute nightmare. |
| 1:36.8 | This is a story about a young social media, a lifestyle influencer. |
| 1:42.4 | It's a birthday trip. |
| 1:49.4 | On this birthday trip, there is a proposal, a future, |
| 1:57.0 | just beginning bright. You see there, happy birthday, Ashley. She is petting a giraffe from her patio, |
| 2:04.3 | not something you get to do every day. And then she and her fiance get into a massive fight. |
| 2:06.5 | You're looking at her fiance there. |
| 2:14.3 | There is a forced separation between she and her fiance after this fight at the resort that they're staying at in Zanzibar. |
| 2:15.8 | The hotel says, you two can't stay together, |
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