Death cruise

 　　In 2020, the new crown pneumonia epidemic has ravaged the world, and it has made worse for the already declining cruise tourism industry. Reports of tourists dying on cruise ships due to infection with the new crown pneumonia are not uncommon, and news reports have also mentioned that the Emerald Princess was suspended for quarantine because of passengers infected with new coronary pneumonia on board. However, homicides also surfaced on cruise ships.

　　Alaska's wonderland of ice and snow is intoxicating. There were two passengers aboard the luxury cruise ship sailing in such beauty: Christie and Ken Manzannar who celebrated 18 years of happy marriage on this luxury cruise. But the accident happened on the ship, and life changed.

　　Drunk and wife killed

　　the new crown pneumonia epidemic in 2020, which is raging all over the world, and it is even worse for the already declining cruise tourism industry. Reports of tourists dying on cruise ships due to infection with the new crown pneumonia are not uncommon, and news reports have also mentioned that the Emerald Princess was suspended for quarantine because of passengers infected with new coronary pneumonia on board.

　　The murders also occurred on board the five-star luxury cruise ship, the Emerald Princess.

　　In July 2017, the Emerald Princess departed from Seattle, United States, and sailed to the waters of Alaska. In the first few days of the voyage, the 3,400 passengers on board watched the sharks swim by, revelling in the magnificent view of the sea; some people were always sleepy because of the 24-hour day.

　　On the night of July 25, the nightly entertainment on board was replaced by a murder mystery. Everything seems to follow the routine of the detective Sherlock Holmes story. After the murder, the detective appeared on the scene, surveyed the scene, questioned every passenger, checked one by one, and searched for the tools for committing the crime. The captain's voice came from the loudspeaker on the ship: "Attention everyone on the ship. Everyone on the ship, please pay attention. All medical personnel and security personnel please hurry to the ninth deck and the fourteenth deck."

　　This is Part of the evening entertainment program? Some passengers thought it was a bit fake, while others thought it was a funny joke. I only heard the broadcast repeat: "Everyone on the ship, please pay attention. Everyone on the ship, please pay attention. Please all medical personnel and security personnel hurry to the ninth deck and the fourteenth deck." The voice of the announcer was very urgent. .

　　Passenger Vic Simpson said: "At first we thought it was a show, to give us something fresh. Then there was a call on the radio to call for more medical and security personnel. Some people thought it was too much like a Sherlock Holmes detective drama, like a detective drama on a luxury cruise ship!"

　　"After a while, one or two passengers felt that something was wrong and started to panic." Simpson continued: "There was a hum in the entertainment hall where the vast majority of passengers were concentrated, and everyone was talking about it."

　　This is not new entertainment, and there is a real murder on the ship. The scene was horrific and bloody.

　　Christy and Ken Manzanar first met at a high school in St. George, Utah. Shortly after graduation, at the age of 21, the two got married and had three daughters after that. In the 18 years after their marriage, like most couples, they were happy and full of love at home, but there were occasional disputes between husband and wife over family income, but this was in every family Something that will inevitably happen.

　　The couple have a good relationship with neighbors and have a good reputation. Christie is a hardworking real estate salesperson and an award-winning landscaper. She spends a lot of her free time volunteering for her daughters' football games. In order to better accompany her husband, she even went to learn to play golf.

　　Now, to celebrate their 18th wedding anniversary, the couple have planned a family cruise to Alaska, which will include their daughters and both parents. The two decided to hold a special celebration to renew their wedding vows. But the perfect plan seems to be starting to go awry right from Seattle.

　　One night just after getting on the boat, the family found that Ken Mannzanar had been drinking throughout dinner, talking louder and more angry. In order to avoid making a fool of himself in front of everyone, Christie wants to be willing to go back to their cabin and calm down. When the couple got up to leave the restaurant, Ken began to go boozing. In order to avoid embarrassment, other passengers tried their best not to look at the two of them.

　　After the two left, the restaurant calmed down, but the children were still worried about what would happen to their parents. The dinner is over and the murder begins.

　　The emergency broadcast on the radio begins.

　　After dinner, one of the couple's daughters went to her parents' cabin to check on them. The scene in front of her shocked her.

　　In the cabin, Christie asks for a divorce. Enraged, Ken completely lost control, beating her with a blunt object in a frenzy until Christie was bleeding.

　　There was blood everywhere in the cabin, and screams came and went.

　　After seeing his daughter, Ken pushed her into the room of her grandfather and grandmother next door and tried to lock the hatch. At this point, a passenger heard chaotic noises and rushed over before security arrived. He was startled to see Ken dragging his wife up the next deck, trying to throw her off the boat.

　　Christie struggled desperately as the passenger grabbed her ankle and yanked her back hard, dragging her back into the blood-splattered cabin. At this time, the security also arrived.

　　The daughters, who had arrived on deck, watched in horror as their fathers straddled their mothers, "hitting their mothers with both fists".

　　Other passengers came one after another. The scene in front of them made them unbelievable. Charles Lorraine said: "I heard screams. Horrible!" Witness Brian Ekstram, who was on deck nine at the time of the incident, said: "A man came out of the aisle. He He was wearing a white tank top and jeans. His jeans were covered in blood, and he was walking around mumbling 'this is not good, this is not good'."

　　After the incident, when the security entered the cabin, Ken rushed to the balcony, wanting to jump into the sea. But he was caught by several security guards, restrained and handcuffed. Looking at Christie in a pool of blood, he suffered multiple head injuries and was pronounced dead 20 minutes later.

　　Ken Mannzanar, covered in his wife's blood, was taken away by the ship's crew. The daughters at this time could not recover from their panic. The little daughter sits on her grandmother's lap, wrapped in a blanket, crying. "I want to see my mother, what happened?" she kept asking.

　　The Emerald Princess headed straight for Juneau, the capital of Alaska, ready to dock.

　　Because the incident occurred in U.S. territorial waters, the case is being investigated by the U.S. federal government. The day after the murder, Ken Mannzanar was arrested by federal police, muttering, "It's over, it's over, it's over for my life." The

　　rest of the passengers had to wait on the boat for the police to finish the case . On-site processing. That night, the cruise ship was notified that it was time to leave port, and they were heading to the town of Skagway in southeastern Alaska.

　　"Our concern is with the Mannzanar family and all those affected by this incident," Princess Cruises, the company that owns the Emerald Princess, said in a public statement. The company compensated each passenger with a $150 onboard voucher.

　　Many passengers feel that this compensation is not enough. Traumatized by this, several passengers filed lawsuits.

　　A photographer on the cruise, Jean von Weck, also filed a lawsuit against the shipping company, saying he suffered from post-traumatic stress syndrome, which led to nightmares and nervousness at night. He was hired on a cruise ship to record lighthearted moments for guests, only to be forced by the ship's security services to take gory pictures of the crime scene after the murder. Ultimately, he and the shipping company settled the lawsuit privately out of court.

　　Ken Mannzanar, who was taken ashore, was charged with first-degree murder without parole. Alaska does not have the death penalty, but because this is a federal case, federal prosecutors have the power to demand the death penalty in all U.S. states by law.

　　Shortly before the trial, Ken Mannzanar's lawyers applied for a plea bargain, waiving the possibility of a death sentence and replacing it with a lesser second-degree murder conviction. That is to say, in theory, he has the possibility of parole in the future, facing up to 25 years in prison.

　　Maybe Ken Mannzanar will be free one day, but one drunken night he killed his wife, lost his children, and lost everything he once held dear.

　　Another Murder The

　　Mann Zanaar case isn't the only one that has turned a dream cruise into a nightmare. Tamara Tucker had a very similar fate to Christie Mannzanar. Tamara is a professor of social services at Parker University and director of a Kansas City-based agency dedicated to helping abused children.

　　She has been living in Topeka, Kansas, with her boyfriend Eric Newman. She dedicates all her time to helping others, so she and her boyfriend decided to celebrate her 50th birthday in a special way.

　　They went to a travel agency to book a four-day cruise from Florida to the Bahamas on the Carnival Excitement.

　　On January 18, 2019, their sea journey began in Florida and sailed south to Nassau, the capital of the Bahamas. The room for the two was on the thirteenth deck, a very unfortunate number for Tamara.

　　On the day the cruise departed, Tamara and her boyfriend had a heated argument in the cabin. Eric Newman grabbed her neck with both hands and pushed her off the balcony of the room. Tamara fell from the thirteenth floor to the eleventh floor and died of the impact.

　　There were no witnesses to the entire incident.

　　In the months that followed, Newman set up a Facebook page in memory of Tamara. "You can't imagine how much I miss you. How I look forward to seeing you right away. Love you, always, always," he wrote on the page.

　　In the end, however, he was charged with second-degree murder, which was premeditated for a long time. He was supposed to be tried by the court in January 2020, but in December 2019 he reversed his confession and did not admit his guilt.

　　His lawyers said: "He did this in the hope that the charge could be changed to manslaughter after deep intoxication." They said that the two drank a lot of alcohol that day, 22 drinks in four hours. An alcohol test report showed Tamara's blood alcohol level was 22mg/100ml. Although Newman was not tested for his alcohol concentration at the time, the ship's security staff said he was apparently intoxicated. He claimed that because he drank too much, he had no recollection of what happened at the time.

　　In the end, even though Newman pleaded guilty, the court reduced his sentence because of intoxication. He was eventually sentenced to 12 years in prison, suspended for five years.

　　In Tamara's eulogy, her family wrote: "Tamara's life was dedicated to public service. Teaching for those who could not defend themselves; social justice for them."

　　Sadly In the end, the person she didn't have to defend was herself.