A girl's surprising disappearance from a Disney cruise ship nonetheless stays unsolved greater than 11 years later. In March 2011, Rebecca Coriam, 24, mysteriously vanished whereas working onboard the Disney Marvel Cruise Ship.
The Liverpool scholar, from Chester, was employed as a youth exercise employee on the cruise liner, having beforehand graduated in Youth Research at Hope College. Eyewitnesses mentioned she was final noticed at daybreak on March 22, 2011, when the ship was crusing in the direction of Puerto Vallarta in Mexico, Cheshire Stay studies.
The younger girl's thriller disappearance stays underneath investigation and her household settled a lawsuit with Disney out of courtroom in 2016. In 2019, the Liverpool Echo reported that there was nonetheless many remaining questions concerning the unsolved case.
Rebecca's dad and mom, Mike and Ann imagine that their daughter was sexually assaulted and murdered earlier than being thrown overboard. However Disney insisted she was swept overboard by a freak wave and vanished at sea and the alarm was raised a number of hours later when she failed to show up for work.
A nine-month investigation accomplished by a solitary policeman within the Bahamas, the Caribbean nation the place the Marvel was registered, concluded her disappearance was "not suspicious." Nevertheless, plenty of points stay up within the air.
Key CCTV footage, first uncovered by the Echo , reveals Rebecca speaking on an inner Disney cellphone in Deck One’s crew quarters – at one level visibly getting upset. A male colleague briefly places a involved arm round her as she anxiously chats on the cellphone.
Her family and friends acknowledged this footage suggests Rebecca was sexually assaulted and in a state of misery. The footage, which was recorded in the course of the evening, additionally seems to point out Rebecca carrying males's pyjamas.
Her household imagine this can be a signal their daughter desperately threw on any obtainable clothes to flee the cabin after some form of assault. Rebecca's shorts had been additionally ripped once they had been handed again to her dad and mom, which led them to imagine she was engaged in a violent battle simply earlier than her loss of life.
Furthermore, the Echo's 2019 report included the element that, when Rebecca's dad and mom went aboard the ship, they had been shocked to see a pair of flip flops neatly positioned facet by facet on high of Rebecca’s suitcase in her wardrobe, which had not been taken away for forensic examination. Additional inconsistencies revealed they had been a size-and-a-half too small for Rebecca, and her mates by no means noticed her carrying them.
The footwear, mentioned to be left on the sting of the ship the place Disney mentioned she fell overboard, had a special signature and cabin quantity written on their facet. An additional potential inconsistency is that some Disney workers imagine Rebecca went overboard on Deck 5, near the crew swimming pool - or seem to have been instructed this was the case.
A reconnaissance journey of the world revealed the pool had no ocean view as a result of behind the railings is a excessive metal wall, which reaches nicely above head top. The Coriam household did question how their daughter may have been swept over any of the ship's 6ft-plus excessive partitions, considered one of which was the place Disney later laid flowers on deck to mark the tragedy.
The investigation into Rebecca's disappearance was carried out by one detective - Supt Paul Rolle of the Royal Bahamas Police Drive, as a result of that is the place the ship was registered. He flew in from Nassau within the Bahamas, 1,500 miles from the ship – only one man charged with conducting a forensic investigation and interviewing 3,000 passengers and crew.
Neither US forces, the place the ship docked after the tragedy in Los Angeles, or Mexican police, as her disappearance occurred in Mexican waters, close to Puerto Vallarta, had been concerned within the probe. The Coriam household didn't obtain any last report and little proof or associated materials to the investigation was disclosed to them.
They as soon as mentioned: "Cheshire Police had been knowledgeable and did liaise with the Bahamas authorities, however Cheshire Police didn't proceed with their very own investigation, on the grounds of lack of correct jurisdiction on this matter. Cheshire Police additionally obtained an interim report which of their phrases to us, was ‘completely and totally unsatisfactory’ and so they had been underneath directions to not confide in the household its contents.
“We've tried underneath the Freedom of Data Act with no success to see the report.” Cheshire Police has been contacted for remark.
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