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Crime Stories with Nancy Grace

Gorgeous young American cruise ship star found dead - investigation bungled?

Crime Stories with Nancy Grace

iHeartPodcasts and CrimeOnline

True Crime, News

3.97.6K Ratings

🗓️ 1 December 2017

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Summary

Jackie Kastrinelis, a 24-year-old Massachusetts woman, was found dead on the Seven Seas Voyager off Australia's coast in 2013. She was a singer on the cruise ship and was planning to make her move to the Broadway stage soon. Now her family is fighting police, who they think bungled her death probe, to reopen her case. Nancy Grace talks with parent Kathleen & Mike Kastrinelis in this Crime Stories episode. Nancy is also joined by Michele Barton, mother of Tanner Barton -- a college student who mysteriously died in Indiana, death scene investigator Joseph Scott Morgan, psychologist Caryn Stark, syndicated radio host David Mack, and CrimeOnline.com reporter Leigh Egan,

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The

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Times

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Crime

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Stories

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With Nancy Grace

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On Sirius XM Triumph Channel 132

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A family whose daughter died on a trip overseas, looking for answers and pushing for her

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case to be reopened.

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24-year-old Jackie Castranelis mysteriously died a February of 2013.

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Everything seemed good.

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She was working on board the Seven Seas Voyager off the northern coast of Australia.

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The 24-year-old girl in Good Health's active doesn't just fall asleep in the wake up.

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Authorities in the north are territory investigated Jackie's death.

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Ruin, she died of a sudden unexpected death syndrome, but her parents weren't convinced

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and asked for a second review.

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It's been a constant fight and struggle to get information.

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A beautiful young girl absolutely gorgeous and talented described as glamorous and when

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I look at her photos I can see why.

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She's described as a glamorous cruise ship singer.

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You know when you say a glamorous cruise ship singer it sounds like a grown lady.

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This was a 24-year-old girl, a university apart from a grad student who had been working

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for a cruise line for two years and her dream was to audition for Broadway when she got

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