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True Crime Documentary - Newlywed disappears while on Mediterranean honeymoon cruise · The Evolution of Evil - True Crime Stories

• 0:13
  Speaker 1: You can't look at the water and at the sea
• 0:15
  Speaker 1: without remembering what happened to George. It's got too many
• 0:20
  Speaker 1: bad memories for me now.
• 0:24
  Speaker 2: Oh, I miss him.
• 0:25
  Speaker 1: I miss him every day.
• 0:27
  Speaker 3: I miss his voice.
• 0:28
  Speaker 1: I miss his phone calls.
• 0:29
  Speaker 4: He called me all the time.
• 0:30
  Speaker 1: I just miss him as a son.
• 0:37
  Speaker 5: Pretty much every night I go to bed, I see
• 0:40
  Speaker 5: his face.
• 0:45
  Speaker 6: No parent should have to lose their son that way.
• 0:52
  Speaker 7: This is Captain Michael. May I get your attention, please?
• 0:55
  Speaker 7: A person may have gone overboard last night.
• 1:03
  Speaker 1: I have no doubt in my mind whatsoever that my
• 1:05
  Speaker 1: son was murdered on that cruise ship. There's so much evidence.
• 1:10
  Speaker 4: It's overwhelming.
• 1:12
  Speaker 6: It's just been a complete and awful nightmare for my family.
• 1:17
  Speaker 6: And we still do not have justice for George.
• 1:22
  Speaker 8: The first suspect is the surviving spouse.
• 1:25
  Speaker 6: She said she couldn't remember anything.
• 1:27
  Speaker 8: Eyebrows started to go up about, well, what exactly did
• 1:29
  Speaker 8: Jennifer know?
• 1:31
  Speaker 7: But the FBI soon turned its attention from George Smith's
• 1:34
  Speaker 7: widow to a group of young men the last people
• 1:39
  Speaker 7: to see George alive.
• 1:44
  Speaker 6: There were sounds of a fight, a struggle inside my
• 1:48
  Speaker 6: brother's room.
• 1:51
  Speaker 9: I heard some males arguing on the balcony.
• 2:00
  Speaker 8: What we're trying to do is sort through the facts
• 2:02
  Speaker 8: and figure out what happened that night because unfortunately this
• 2:05
  Speaker 8: has become Pretty much a cold case. While on the cruise,
• 2:08
  Speaker 8: did you meet George Smith IV? There was a series
• 2:11
  Speaker 8: of questions that I asked in each of the depositions
• 2:13
  Speaker 8: of each of the boys. Do you know what happened
• 2:16
  Speaker 8: to George Smith? Were you present when George Smith went overboard?
• 2:20
  Speaker 8: Did you kill George Smith?
• 2:21
  Speaker 2: Something crazy went down that night. And I hope one
• 2:25
  Speaker 2: day that they find out the truth.
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  Speaker 10: A 48 Hours investigation has uncovered failed polygraphs, questionable alibis,
• 2:36
  Speaker 10: And a provocative video made by some of the men
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  Speaker 10: just hours after George Smith disappeared.
• 2:43
  Speaker 8: On the videotape, you've got them joking about George's death,
• 2:46
  Speaker 8: very callous and at one point incriminating.
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  Speaker 6: I just can't comprehend that someone could snatch my brother
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  Speaker 6: from a cruise ship, throw him on an overhang. and
• 3:00
  Speaker 6: dies alone in the water, and then nothing's done about it.
• 3:03
  Speaker 6: The evidence is huge. Why hasn't someone been arrested?
• 3:36
  Speaker 1: Sometimes you still think, ah, he might be still out
• 3:38
  Speaker 1: there because we don't have a body.
• 3:41
  Speaker 3: We don't have a body.
• 3:44
  Speaker 1: It doesn't get any easier. And you know what? If
• 3:47
  Speaker 1: we had our answers for George and know what happened, maybe.
• 3:53
  Speaker 1: We don't know.
• 3:54
  Speaker 7: For 10 years, Maureen and George Smith have been tormented,
• 3:59
  Speaker 7: They don't know what happened to their 26-year-old son aboard
• 4:03
  Speaker 7: that cruise ship.
• 4:05
  Speaker 1: We have to just keep pushing the buttons and we
• 4:07
  Speaker 1: won't let it go. It's our son.
• 4:10
  Speaker 7: It wasn't supposed to be this way. George Smith IV
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  Speaker 7: had seemed destined to have it all.
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  Speaker 1: Fine young man, handsome, hardworking. He was just an all-round
• 4:23
  Speaker 1: great kid.
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  Speaker 5: He was the funniest guy, you know. I would sit
• 4:27
  Speaker 5: and have a couple beers with him, and he'd make
• 4:29
  Speaker 5: me laugh for the whole night. And besides, he was
• 4:31
  Speaker 5: so good-looking, the girls just fell all over him.
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  Speaker 4: It was a lot of fun.
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  Speaker 5: He was just a great guy.
• 4:40
  Speaker 7: George was about to take over his father's liquor store
• 4:43
  Speaker 7: in Greenwich, Connecticut.
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  Speaker 5: George made the store. He was much more of a
• 4:47
  Speaker 5: lively guy than I and loved to talk, and he
• 4:50
  Speaker 5: had that gusto in him, and he really wanted to
• 4:52
  Speaker 5: take the store and build it.
• 4:53
  Speaker 7: Stop by today. This is George working alongside his father
• 4:58
  Speaker 7: in a local commercial.
• 5:00
  Speaker 5: He always called me the old man because I wasn't
• 5:02
  Speaker 5: into modern tools and techniques like he was. So I
• 5:05
  Speaker 5: was the old man. I was the dinosaur they had
• 5:07
  Speaker 5: to deal with.
• 5:10
  Speaker 7: George's future seemed even brighter when he met Jennifer Hagel,
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  Speaker 7: an aspiring schoolteacher.
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  Speaker 1: I was overwhelmed with her because she had this dynamic personality.
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  Speaker 1: She was very fun-loving like him, very attractive, and he
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  Speaker 1: was very happy with her.
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  Speaker 7: After a three-year courtship, George and Jennifer were married in
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  Speaker 7: a ceremony overlooking the sea.
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  Speaker 6: It was a really lavish affair in Newport, Rhode Island.
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  Speaker 6: It was a storybook wedding.
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  Speaker 11: It was absolutely beautiful.
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  Speaker 7: George's older sister Bree remembers the day very well and
• 5:48
  Speaker 7: how excited they were to go on their honeymoon.
• 5:51
  Speaker 6: They were so excited to be starting their life together
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  Speaker 6: and they couldn't wait to start their cruise.
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  Speaker 5: I can remember shaking his hand in the street and
• 6:00
  Speaker 5: saying goodbye to him.
• 6:01
  Speaker 6: No one could ever imagine that just less than two
• 6:05
  Speaker 6: weeks later George would be missing.
• 6:09
  Speaker 7: In late June 2005, Royal Caribbean's Brilliance of the Seas
• 6:14
  Speaker 7: set sail from Barcelona. The footage you see is from
• 6:19
  Speaker 7: a sister ship. Fellow honeymooners Paul and Galina Kvitnitsky were
• 6:25
  Speaker 7: on board with the Smiths.
• 6:27
  Speaker 11: We sat down next to one another, and since the
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  Speaker 11: first day, we became acquainted.
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  Speaker 7: The couples hit it off immediately.
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  Speaker 3: They were really great.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, they were just very normal, down-to-earth.
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  Speaker 6: Happy people.
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  Speaker 11: I would say we spent a lot of time together.
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  Speaker 2: They loved the sights.
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  Speaker 11: I remember they were taking a lot of pictures.
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  Speaker 8: Like, everywhere they went, they were, like, always with the camera.
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  Speaker 7: And back on the ship, they socialized into the early
• 6:49
  Speaker 7: morning hours.
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  Speaker 11: I think he enjoyed himself a lot, you know, having
• 6:53
  Speaker 11: a drink or two.
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  Speaker 2: He didn't have a good tolerance for alcohol.
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  Speaker 4: Like, you could see he would have, like, four beers, and,
• 6:59
  Speaker 4: you know, you could see that he was pretty much drunk.
• 7:02
  Speaker 7: Around midnight on July 5th, the two couples headed for
• 7:05
  Speaker 7: the casino. It would be the last night of George's life. Jennifer,
• 7:14
  Speaker 7: who's seen here on casino security cameras, spent much of
• 7:18
  Speaker 7: her time at the blackjack table. And George, who was
• 7:22
  Speaker 7: also captured on tape, headed for his usual spot at
• 7:26
  Speaker 7: the craps table.
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  Speaker 11: He was just having fun at the table, and you
• 7:31
  Speaker 11: could see that right away.
• 7:33
  Speaker 7: George was soon joined at the table by another shipboard acquaintance,
• 7:37
  Speaker 7: California college student Josh Askin. 48 Hours spoke to Josh...
• 7:43
  Speaker 7: in 2006.
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  Speaker 4: Hung out with them for a little bit. Nothing too in-depth.
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  Speaker 12: Jennifer played a little blackjack, played a little craps with George.
• 7:52
  Speaker 12: There were a lot of other people around as well
• 7:54
  Speaker 12: who we'd met on the cruise so far.
• 7:58
  Speaker 7: And a group of Russian-American students were also making the
• 8:02
  Speaker 7: rounds that night. Cousins Zachary and Greg Rosenberg and their
• 8:07
  Speaker 7: friend Rusty Kaufman. Josh had met them on the cruise
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  Speaker 7: as well.
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  Speaker 12: Everyone who was over 18 pretty much congregated in the casino.
• 8:17
  Speaker 4: Everyone was in high spirits.
• 8:19
  Speaker 7: And George and Jennifer were high rolling. At one point, George,
• 8:23
  Speaker 7: who's seen here at the casino with Josh, went back
• 8:26
  Speaker 7: to his own cabin to get extra cash for Jennifer.
• 8:31
  Speaker 6: I think George looked prosperous. Additionally, had a really nice watch,
• 8:35
  Speaker 6: which was a Breitling watch, was worth a bit of money.
• 8:38
  Speaker 7: And Brie Smith wonders if someone on the ship was
• 8:41
  Speaker 7: getting the wrong idea about her brother.
• 8:44
  Speaker 6: People may have made assumptions that George was a millionaire,
• 8:47
  Speaker 6: even though he wasn't.
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  Speaker 7: And one thing that was clear to Paul that night
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  Speaker 7: was that by the time the casino closed, both Jennifer
• 8:55
  Speaker 7: and George were already drunk.
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  Speaker 11: And I just remember telling him, it's time to call
• 9:01
  Speaker 11: it a night. It's time to call it a night.
• 9:04
  Speaker 7: Paul wishes his new friend had listened. Two hours later,
• 9:09
  Speaker 7: George Smith would be gone. As the sun rose over Kusadasi,
• 9:31
  Speaker 7: Turkey on July 5, 2005, 16-year-old Emily Rausch stepped onto
• 9:37
  Speaker 7: her balcony to snap some photos.
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  Speaker 13: It was around 7.30 in the morning, and I noticed
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  Speaker 13: something on the overhang of the lifeboats.
• 9:47
  Speaker 7: Instead of a spectacular sunrise, Emily's camera captured this, a
• 9:54
  Speaker 7: huge bloodstain on the lifeboat canopy. This is Emily's account
• 9:58
  Speaker 7: from back then.
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  Speaker 2: I just assumed that someone had died there.
• 10:03
  Speaker 7: Security quickly determined the occupants of room 9062 were unaccounted
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  Speaker 7: for and snapped these pictures of the room. And then
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  Speaker 7: they began paging the Smiths.
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  Speaker 4: I had a stateroom attendant outside my room.
• 10:17
  Speaker 12: And I said, you know, you should probably go into
• 10:19
  Speaker 12: that guy's room and wake him up because he's not
• 10:22
  Speaker 12: going to hear that page because he was probably still sleeping.
• 10:26
  Speaker 7: In another cabin, Paul and Galena were startled by a
• 10:29
  Speaker 7: visit from ship personnel.
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  Speaker 11: And that's when the guy came in and he said,
• 10:33
  Speaker 11: have you seen George? And I'm like, what do you mean,
• 10:36
  Speaker 11: have I seen George?
• 10:37
  Speaker 8: And we said, what's going on?
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  Speaker 4: And he kind of told us he's missing. We're like, missing?
• 10:42
  Speaker 7: By now, they had been summoned to guest relations. Jennifer
• 10:46
  Speaker 7: was also there. she'd been located at the ship's spa
• 10:50
  Speaker 7: getting a scheduled massage. The crew soon delivered the crushing
• 10:55
  Speaker 7: news that her new husband, George, was presumed overboard.
• 11:03
  Speaker 2: She just kept saying that she doesn't remember what happened.
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  Speaker 2: I can't remember.
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  Speaker 8: I can't understand.
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  Speaker 3: I don't remember.
• 11:08
  Speaker 7: Jennifer said she had almost no memory after leaving the
• 11:12
  Speaker 7: casino and that when she had awakened in the cabin,
• 11:15
  Speaker 7: George wasn't there. She had just assumed George stayed with
• 11:20
  Speaker 7: Paul and Galena.
• 11:21
  Speaker 4: She's shocked and panicked, and she doesn't understand what's going on.
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  Speaker 3: She just kept saying that.
• 11:26
  Speaker 11: I want to call my dad, I want to call
• 11:27
  Speaker 11: my dad.
• 11:28
  Speaker 7: Half a world away, in Connecticut, the Smiths were trying
• 11:31
  Speaker 7: to absorb the shock from the call from Jennifer's dad.
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  Speaker 2: It's disbelief.
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  Speaker 5: You know, we just couldn't believe it.
• 11:39
  Speaker 8: He's got to be on the boat.
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  Speaker 7: But the Smiths had not yet been told about that bloodstain.
• 11:45
  Speaker 7: or the investigation now underway on the brilliance of the seas.
• 11:50
  Speaker 7: Turkish police had boarded the ship. Royal Caribbean documented the
• 11:55
  Speaker 7: forensic investigation. And in the ship's lobby, they rounded up
• 11:59
  Speaker 7: Josh Askin and the group of Russian-Americans, Rusty Kaufman and
• 12:04
  Speaker 7: Zach and Greg Rosenberg. They had all partied with George
• 12:09
  Speaker 7: the night before.
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  Speaker 4: I just didn't know what was going on.
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  Speaker 12: I knew I did nothing wrong, and that's all that
• 12:14
  Speaker 12: mattered to me.
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  Speaker 7: This video, secretly recorded by Josh's father, shows the police interview.
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  Speaker 7: Rusty Kaufman on the right appears to be shocked when
• 12:24
  Speaker 7: he hears about the blood. The video only captures snippets
• 12:34
  Speaker 7: of what has emerged over the years as a very
• 12:38
  Speaker 7: complex story. A story and a timeline that would be
• 12:42
  Speaker 7: dissected and debated for years.
• 12:46
  Speaker 2: The young man's account begins at 2.30 a.m. after the
• 12:48
  Speaker 2: casino closed.
• 12:49
  Speaker 9: It was on an.
• 12:49
  Speaker 12: Elevator to the disco where Josh says he noticed some
• 12:51
  Speaker 12: odd behavior from casino manager Lloyd Bota. There was maybe
• 13:10
  Speaker 12: a time when Lloyd, the casino manager, put his arm
• 13:13
  Speaker 12: around Jennifer and we thought a little awkward moment. It
• 13:16
  Speaker 12: was just a little awkward for a second.
• 13:19
  Speaker 7: At the disco, the party was in full swing and
• 13:22
  Speaker 7: the guys smuggled in a bottle of a potent liquor
• 13:26
  Speaker 7: called absinthe.
• 13:28
  Speaker 13: They weren't having shots of absinthe. They weren't having shots.
• 13:31
  Speaker 7: Albert Diane represents Rusty Kaufman. We spoke to him in 2006,
• 13:36
  Speaker 7: and Diane says there was tension between George and Jennifer
• 13:41
  Speaker 7: at the disco.
• 13:43
  Speaker 13: Rusty does not hear what is being said, but he
• 13:45
  Speaker 13: does observe Jennifer kick George in his groin.
• 13:50
  Speaker 7: Jennifer stormed out of the disco. And according to Zach, Rusty,
• 13:55
  Speaker 7: and Josh, the casino manager followed after her. Josh would
• 13:59
  Speaker 7: emphatically make this point when questioned by Turkish police later.
• 14:04
  Speaker 2: She has no idea what happened. She was with another man.
• 14:08
  Speaker 2: The casino manager would. You need to get him in here.
• 14:13
  Speaker 7: The men claim they didn't know where Lloyd and Jennifer went,
• 14:16
  Speaker 7: but by 3.30 a.m., the disco was closing, and George...
• 14:22
  Speaker 7: was in bad shape.
• 14:23
  Speaker 12: George was kind of slumped over in a chair. I
• 14:25
  Speaker 12: asked my buddies, will you help me take him home
• 14:27
  Speaker 12: real quick?
• 14:28
  Speaker 13: When they are walking to the cabin, they are literally
• 14:31
  Speaker 13: carrying George.
• 14:32
  Speaker 7: At 3.52 a.m., the guys entered the Smiths' cabin. The
• 14:38
  Speaker 7: ship's key entry log records the time, but Jennifer is
• 14:43
  Speaker 7: not there.
• 14:48
  Speaker 13: George all of a sudden expresses a wish to go
• 14:51
  Speaker 13: search for his wife. And at this time, the boys
• 14:54
  Speaker 13: are having a loud discussion, debate about whether they should
• 14:59
  Speaker 13: go and assist George.
• 15:00
  Speaker 7: The group heads out again, and after a brief search
• 15:03
  Speaker 7: of the ship's solarium, they return George to his cabin
• 15:08
  Speaker 7: at 4.01 a.m.
• 15:11
  Speaker 12: I went to the restroom right when we went in.
• 15:13
  Speaker 12: I probably saw him for like a minute, 30 seconds.
• 15:16
  Speaker 13: They actually lay George on his bed take off his shoes,
• 15:20
  Speaker 13: and he displays a tremendous gratitude towards these young men.
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  Speaker 13: In fact, he hugs and kisses one or two of
• 15:25
  Speaker 13: these young men.
• 15:26
  Speaker 2: Just remember, not at one point or no time did
• 15:30
  Speaker 2: he ever seem angry or anything at all.
• 15:32
  Speaker 7: But shortly after 4 a.m., passenger Cleet Hyman, a vacationing
• 15:37
  Speaker 7: deputy police chief, hears a disturbance next door.
• 15:42
  Speaker 9: My wife and I were awakened by a yelling coming
• 15:44
  Speaker 9: from the Smith cabin. This yelling sounded what I would
• 15:47
  Speaker 9: liken to a drinking game.
• 15:49
  Speaker 7: A few minutes later... Suddenly, though, there was.
• 15:52
  Speaker 9: An argument out on the Smith balcony. This argument appeared
• 15:57
  Speaker 9: to be between three, maybe four male individuals.
• 16:00
  Speaker 7: But Rusty's lawyer insists that the men never went out
• 16:05
  Speaker 7: on the balcony.
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  Speaker 9: After about two minutes of the argument, we heard one
• 16:09
  Speaker 9: lone male voice repeatedly say, good night, good night, like
• 16:15
  Speaker 9: they were ushering someone out of the room. I looked
• 16:18
  Speaker 9: out and saw three male individuals walking away from the room.
• 16:22
  Speaker 7: Three males walking away? Then where was the fourth man?
• 16:27
  Speaker 7: Diane insists all four men left together.
• 16:31
  Speaker 13: Rusty is a pretty wide type of a young man.
• 16:35
  Speaker 13: I believe that the witness just failed to observe the
• 16:38
  Speaker 13: fourth one.
• 16:39
  Speaker 7: What Cleet Hyman hears next would become the subject of
• 16:43
  Speaker 7: endless speculation. Was George alone in the room?
• 16:48
  Speaker 9: At this point, we heard just a lone male voice
• 16:51
  Speaker 9: in the room. We heard what sounded like the cupboard
• 16:53
  Speaker 9: doors being closed loudly and also sounded like furniture being moved.
• 17:00
  Speaker 7: Greg and Pat Lawyer, in the cabin on the other
• 17:03
  Speaker 7: side of the Smiths, hear something similar. There was what
• 17:07
  Speaker 7: I call trashing of the room sounds.
• 17:10
  Speaker 9: I thought somebody was throwing furniture around, either mad or
• 17:13
  Speaker 9: having a good time, so we dismissed it at that point.
• 17:16
  Speaker 9: After about two minutes of total silence, however, there was
• 17:19
  Speaker 9: a large, what I would call a horrific thud.
• 17:23
  Speaker 7: That thud is believed to be the sound of George
• 17:26
  Speaker 7: Smith hitting the metal canopy at around 4.30 a.m. About
• 17:31
  Speaker 7: that same time, Jennifer is found passed out in a hallway.
• 17:36
  Speaker 7: As for the men, they say they were all back
• 17:39
  Speaker 7: in their cabin ordering a lion's share of room service.
• 17:44
  Speaker 2: Room service. We ordered room service.
• 17:46
  Speaker 13: They were definitely in their own cabin, in Zach's and
• 17:49
  Speaker 13: Rusty's cabin, ordering food.
• 17:50
  Speaker 8: At that time.
• 17:51
  Speaker 7: But as it would turn out, the young men's alibi
• 17:55
  Speaker 7: would be called into question.
• 17:57
  Speaker 8: It doesn't hold up at all.
• 18:11
  Speaker 7: As the details surrounding George Smith's disappearance emerged, so had
• 18:16
  Speaker 7: speculation about his bride, Jennifer.
• 18:19
  Speaker 2: Was George murdered?
• 18:20
  Speaker 8: Was Jennifer somehow involved?
• 18:22
  Speaker 7: The widow went on Oprah to defend herself.
• 18:25
  Speaker 11: Not only to lose your memory, but then to have
• 18:27
  Speaker 11: nobody believe you.
• 18:29
  Speaker 6: I don't know what happened.
• 18:31
  Speaker 7: And Jennifer wasn't the only one in the spotlight.
• 18:34
  Speaker 14: What about the Ruskies in this story, the Russians? What
• 18:36
  Speaker 14: are these three guys hanging around a honeymoon couple for?
• 18:39
  Speaker 3: Did he fall overboard?
• 18:41
  Speaker 8: Was he pushed overboard? They found this big blood stain.
• 18:43
  Speaker 8: It's a CSI story that keeps unfolding by the day.
• 18:47
  Speaker 7: The FBI would begin an investigation that would span nine
• 18:51
  Speaker 7: and a half years. At the time, the ship's captain
• 18:55
  Speaker 7: described it as a likely accident, theorizing that an intoxicated
• 19:00
  Speaker 7: George sat on the railing and simply fell off. The
• 19:05
  Speaker 7: Smiths never bought the accident theory.
• 19:11
  Speaker 6: The blood is compelling evidence. There was blood in the room.
• 19:16
  Speaker 7: Photographs taken by Royal Caribbean inside the Smith cabin revealed
• 19:20
  Speaker 7: two small lines of blood on the bed sheets. The
• 19:25
  Speaker 7: Smiths say it was George's blood and another sign pointing
• 19:29
  Speaker 7: to foul play.
• 19:31
  Speaker 6: In addition to the blood, there were Sounds of a fight,
• 19:35
  Speaker 6: a struggle inside my brother's room.
• 19:38
  Speaker 7: The Smiths hoped that getting access to Royal Caribbean's investigative
• 19:42
  Speaker 7: case files would provide some answers.
• 19:45
  Speaker 8: So that shows the room.
• 19:46
  Speaker 7: And they brought on attorney Mike Jones to help them.
• 19:50
  Speaker 8: Then you got the blood spot. What it's not about
• 19:52
  Speaker 8: is an accident. And what it's not about is a suicide.
• 19:55
  Speaker 8: It's about a murder.
• 19:56
  Speaker 7: Jones immediately got to work, setting his sights on the
• 19:59
  Speaker 7: ship's documents and the four men last seen with George.
• 20:05
  Speaker 8: I took Josh Askin's deposition first. Do you know if
• 20:08
  Speaker 8: George Smith was murdered?
• 20:09
  Speaker 4: Invoke my Fifth Amendment right.
• 20:11
  Speaker 8: Do you know who killed George Smith?
• 20:13
  Speaker 4: Invoke my Fifth Amendment right.
• 20:14
  Speaker 8: That's a yes or no answer.
• 20:16
  Speaker 7: Josh Askin took the Fifth.
• 20:18
  Speaker 4: I invoke my Fifth Amendment right.
• 20:19
  Speaker 7: On everything.
• 20:20
  Speaker 4: My Fifth Amendment right. My Fifth Amendment right.
• 20:22
  Speaker 12: My Fifth Amendment right.
• 20:24
  Speaker 8: In late June of 2005, did you go on a
• 20:25
  Speaker 8: Royal Caribbean cruise with your family?
• 20:27
  Speaker 4: I invoke my Fifth Amendment right.
• 20:29
  Speaker 3: I had him take the Fifth as to his date
• 20:31
  Speaker 3: of birth, his name.
• 20:33
  Speaker 7: Attorney Keith Greer represents Josh Askin.
• 20:37
  Speaker 15: And so I told him the only way we're going
• 20:38
  Speaker 15: to do this, Josh, is if every single question you're asked,
• 20:41
  Speaker 15: you plead the fifth.
• 20:43
  Speaker 7: Greer says that Josh has always been cooperative, speaking freely
• 20:47
  Speaker 7: to everyone. But there came a point when he had
• 20:50
  Speaker 7: to shut him down because the feds were getting aggressive.
• 20:55
  Speaker 15: And they have told us that if Josh ever says
• 20:58
  Speaker 15: anything that is different than what he said before in
• 21:03
  Speaker 15: the grand jury, anything, they will fly him back to Connecticut.
• 21:07
  Speaker 3: On perjury charges. I couldn't have that happen.
• 21:10
  Speaker 7: Attorney Albert Diane says Rusty Kaufman got the same treatment
• 21:14
  Speaker 7: and has stopped cooperating with the FBI.
• 21:17
  Speaker 13: And the more he wanted to speak with them, the
• 21:19
  Speaker 13: more he wanted to tell them what happened, the more
• 21:21
  Speaker 13: they accused him of foul play.
• 21:22
  Speaker 4: Do you have to bet the truth?
• 21:23
  Speaker 3: I do.
• 21:24
  Speaker 7: During his deposition, Rusty Kaufman didn't plead the fifth, but
• 21:28
  Speaker 7: his memory on a lot of things seemed a bit rusty.
• 21:33
  Speaker 8: When you say we put him to bed, who put
• 21:34
  Speaker 8: him in the bed? I.
• 21:37
  Speaker 8: Don't have a recollection of that right now. Josh said
• 21:40
  Speaker 8: that he actually used the bathroom at that point. Do
• 21:43
  Speaker 8: you remember that?
• 21:45
  Speaker 2: I don't have a recollection of that.
• 21:46
  Speaker 4: Okay.
• 21:47
  Speaker 3: Morning, Zachary.
• 21:48
  Speaker 8: My name is Michael Jones.
• 21:49
  Speaker 7: Zachary Rosenberg also invoked his right against self-incrimination.
• 21:54
  Speaker 8: Was there any commotion in the room?
• 21:56
  Speaker 4: I'd like to invoke my Fifth Amendment right.
• 21:57
  Speaker 7: The only one who appeared forthcoming was Greg Rosenberg. In 2010,
• 22:03
  Speaker 7: Mike Jones found him in a Florida prison.
• 22:07
  Speaker 8: Why are you here in prison?
• 22:08
  Speaker 2: Trafficking.
• 22:09
  Speaker 7: Greg was serving three years for trafficking in oxycodone. He
• 22:13
  Speaker 7: says to support his expensive taste.
• 22:17
  Speaker 2: I'm a fanatic for clothes, jewelry, watches. That's why I'm
• 22:20
  Speaker 2: in here, man. Murder's a different deal. Murder's a different deal, man.
• 22:24
  Speaker 2: I don't have it in my heart to kill nobody, man.
• 22:27
  Speaker 2: Did you have anything to do with George's death?
• 22:29
  Speaker 3: No, never did.
• 22:30
  Speaker 2: Never would, never thought about it, no.
• 22:32
  Speaker 7: Greg brought up that room service party.
• 22:35
  Speaker 8: All right, what did you eat?
• 22:36
  Speaker 2: Tuna fish sandwiches, I know that. We had like tuna
• 22:38
  Speaker 2: fish sandwiches and.
• 22:42
  Speaker 2: I know we had something that fast food type. We
• 22:45
  Speaker 2: were infatuated with the fact that we can order whatever
• 22:48
  Speaker 2: we want.
• 22:48
  Speaker 8: They ordered so much food and they couldn't have killed
• 22:50
  Speaker 8: George because they were in the room eating the room service.
• 22:53
  Speaker 8: I mean, it's a nice story, but it doesn't work.
• 22:56
  Speaker 7: In 2010, Mike Jones finally got his hands on those
• 23:00
  Speaker 7: Royal Caribbean internal documents.
• 23:03
  Speaker 8: The room service party is pretty much blown by the
• 23:06
  Speaker 8: information we got from Royal Caribbean. I mean, that's a
• 23:08
  Speaker 8: big fact.
• 23:10
  Speaker 7: The ship's records show that although several short calls were
• 23:14
  Speaker 7: made from Zach and Rusty's cabin to room service after 4.13 a.m.,
• 23:20
  Speaker 7: there is no record of any order of any kind.
• 23:26
  Speaker 8: The handwritten records show that the room service was never delivered.
• 23:29
  Speaker 3: Was it human error they didn't write it down?
• 23:31
  Speaker 7: Keith Greer insists the room service party did take place,
• 23:35
  Speaker 7: but it was never really an alibi to begin with,
• 23:38
  Speaker 7: since the food... would have been delivered after George went missing.
• 23:44
  Speaker 15: The food service itself doesn't prove that they were in
• 23:48
  Speaker 15: a certain place at the time George went over, because
• 23:51
  Speaker 15: George goes over about 4.20 in the morning. So at
• 23:53
  Speaker 15: that point in time, really the only alibi they have
• 23:57
  Speaker 15: is each other.
• 23:59
  Speaker 7: If the ship's records raise some questions about where the
• 24:02
  Speaker 7: men say they were that night, they also cast doubt
• 24:05
  Speaker 7: on where they implied Jennifer was. Remember the casino manager
• 24:11
  Speaker 7: the guys said she left with at the disco?
• 24:14
  Speaker 2: She was with another man. The casino manager would.
• 24:20
  Speaker 8: And that didn't happen. That just didn't happen.
• 24:23
  Speaker 7: Other witnesses say Lloyd did not leave with Jennifer and
• 24:26
  Speaker 7: key records show that he entered his girlfriend's cabin. At 3.25 a.m.,
• 24:33
  Speaker 7: all the Smiths were still in the disco.
• 24:35
  Speaker 8: And he had gone to his girlfriend's room, and she
• 24:37
  Speaker 8: was able to corroborate that. So I think Lloyd became
• 24:41
  Speaker 8: the victim of this attempt by the Russians and by
• 24:44
  Speaker 8: Josh Askin to deflect attention from themselves.
• 24:47
  Speaker 7: As for Jennifer, several witnesses saw her leave the disco
• 24:52
  Speaker 7: alone and unsteady at 3.30 a.m.
• 24:57
  Speaker 8: There are some witnesses from the cruise ship, cruise ship employees,
• 25:00
  Speaker 8: that actually escorted her onto the elevator and tried to
• 25:03
  Speaker 8: help her get off the elevator on her floor before
• 25:07
  Speaker 8: she ended up going the wrong way on Deck 9.
• 25:11
  Speaker 7: An hour later, Jennifer was found passed out in that
• 25:14
  Speaker 7: hallway around the time George went overboard. Lloyd Bota and
• 25:19
  Speaker 7: Jennifer both passed FBI polygraphs.
• 25:22
  Speaker 8: People that the Russians and Josh were pointing fingers at
• 25:26
  Speaker 8: both came through very cleanly on their polygraphs.
• 25:30
  Speaker 7: The four men are still on the FBI's radar, and
• 25:34
  Speaker 7: the discovery of a homemade videotape only raises more suspicion.
• 25:40
  Speaker 8: It's ridiculously provocative. Unfortunately, obviously, after eight years, this has
• 25:52
  Speaker 8: become pretty much a cold case.
• 25:55
  Speaker 7: For the last few years, Mike Jones has been trying
• 25:59
  Speaker 7: to reignite a case he believes has gone cold in
• 26:02
  Speaker 7: the Connecticut FBI office.
• 26:05
  Speaker 8: If you talk to the FBI, they'll say it's active
• 26:07
  Speaker 8: and open, but I don't really believe that.
• 26:11
  Speaker 7: And Jones also doesn't believe the account of the four
• 26:14
  Speaker 7: young men last seen with George Smith.
• 26:18
  Speaker 8: When you left George in his bed, all you guys left,
• 26:20
  Speaker 8: no one stayed behind.
• 26:21
  Speaker 2: Nobody stayed behind. We all left.
• 26:23
  Speaker 8: There's a lot of evidence to suggest that that was
• 26:26
  Speaker 8: not as simple as the Russian men and as Josh
• 26:29
  Speaker 8: have said. You look at the behavior of these young men.
• 26:32
  Speaker 8: They're not good boys or good Samaritans.
• 26:34
  Speaker 7: Royal Caribbean documents show complaints were made against some of
• 26:38
  Speaker 7: the men for smoking, sneaking liquor, and verbally abusing ship employees.
• 26:45
  Speaker 8: They were dropping F-bombs on the room service people.
• 26:48
  Speaker 7: And two days after George Smith went overboard, an 18-year-old
• 26:52
  Speaker 7: passenger came forward with a major allegation of sexual assault.
• 26:58
  Speaker 8: She stated that she was in one of the Russians'
• 27:01
  Speaker 8: rooms and that there was group sex with her with
• 27:05
  Speaker 8: some of the Russians.
• 27:07
  Speaker 7: In the woman's statement, she says she was completely intoxicated
• 27:11
  Speaker 7: and in between blackouts... remembers having non-consensual sex with Greg Rosenberg,
• 27:18
  Speaker 7: Rusty Kaufman, and Jeffrey Rosenberg, Zach Rosenberg's younger brother.
• 27:24
  Speaker 8: And they actually videotaped the group's sex. And the fact
• 27:27
  Speaker 8: that they videotaped themselves doing this, I mean, who does that?
• 27:31
  Speaker 7: Rusty's lawyer says the sex was consensual.
• 27:35
  Speaker 13: That whole escapade was non-criminal in nature. The tape itself revealed.
• 27:40
  Speaker 7: That Josh's lawyer Keith Greer says Josh did not have
• 27:44
  Speaker 7: sex with a young woman But he was.
• 27:47
  Speaker 15: There Josh walks into the room and there's one of
• 27:50
  Speaker 15: the Russian boys having sex on the bed with the
• 27:53
  Speaker 15: girl and another one of the boys filming it and
• 27:57
  Speaker 15: Josh was concerned it became clear to him very quickly
• 28:01
  Speaker 15: that The boys weren't taking advantage of her.
• 28:04
  Speaker 3: The girl was taking advantage of the boys.
• 28:06
  Speaker 7: And Before he left CBS News to rejoin the New
• 28:10
  Speaker 7: York City Police Department, John Miller investigated the case for
• 28:15
  Speaker 7: 48 hours.
• 28:16
  Speaker 16: People who have seen that videotape have told me that
• 28:19
  Speaker 16: the person holding the camera is doing kind of a
• 28:22
  Speaker 16: narration and asking her questions, and she's responding to them.
• 28:27
  Speaker 16: But as this continues, she's crying.
• 28:30
  Speaker 3: I haven't heard anything about any crying from anyone.
• 28:34
  Speaker 7: Royal Caribbean had had enough and rounded up all of
• 28:38
  Speaker 7: the young men and their families for a tense meeting
• 28:42
  Speaker 7: with the ship's lawyer. Josh Eskin's father was, again, recording.
• 28:49
  Speaker 12: The FBI has.
• 28:50
  Speaker 7: Asked us to detain your sons. We're going to have
• 28:53
  Speaker 7: to ask you to have your sons go to their cabins,
• 28:57
  Speaker 7: and they're going to have to remain there. The group
• 28:59
  Speaker 7: angrily denied the allegations. The four men and their families
• 29:12
  Speaker 7: were then removed from the ship in Naples, where Italian
• 29:16
  Speaker 7: police looked into the rape allegation and washed their hands
• 29:20
  Speaker 7: of it, saying they had no jurisdiction. No one has
• 29:24
  Speaker 7: ever been charged in the sexual incident, and lawyers for
• 29:27
  Speaker 7: the men believe the tape saved them.
• 29:31
  Speaker 13: But for that tape, they could have been charged for
• 29:33
  Speaker 13: something that they did not commit.
• 29:36
  Speaker 7: But that tape may come back to haunt them. The
• 29:39
  Speaker 7: tape in the FBI's possession contained something else, a lunch
• 29:44
  Speaker 7: meeting filmed by the Russian Americans just hours after George
• 29:48
  Speaker 7: went overboard. Josh Askin was not present.
• 29:52
  Speaker 8: They pass a video camera around filming themselves commenting about
• 29:57
  Speaker 8: George's death in a very callous way. And they're laughing
• 30:00
  Speaker 8: and joking very callously about him being wealthy. And certainly
• 30:05
  Speaker 8: the way they were talking, they either knew or they
• 30:07
  Speaker 8: had a pretty good sense of what had happened.
• 30:09
  Speaker 7: A source close to the investigation has told CBS News
• 30:13
  Speaker 7: that on the tape, one of the men, Rusty Kaufman,
• 30:16
  Speaker 7: refers to George going parachute riding off his balcony. It
• 30:21
  Speaker 7: is not an admission, but it is at the very
• 30:24
  Speaker 7: least provocative. And there's more.
• 30:27
  Speaker 8: The really sort of incriminating statement is one of them
• 30:30
  Speaker 8: stands up at the end of the tape. and sort
• 30:32
  Speaker 8: of hunches his shoulders and flashes gang signs and says,
• 30:35
  Speaker 8: told you I was gangster. And that's in the context
• 30:39
  Speaker 8: of the discussion about George's death, almost as if he's
• 30:42
  Speaker 8: bragging about having done something to George.
• 30:45
  Speaker 7: Jones says that young man was Greg Rosenberg.
• 30:49
  Speaker 6: I just don't understand how the FBI could have had
• 30:52
  Speaker 6: this tape in their possession, and still we sit here,
• 30:56
  Speaker 6: get the guys in there, question them.
• 30:59
  Speaker 7: Lawyers for Zach Rosenberg and Rusty Kaufman declined to comment
• 31:03
  Speaker 7: on the video. In the spring of 2013, John Miller
• 31:07
  Speaker 7: tried to see if Rusty himself could provide any more answers.
• 31:13
  Speaker 16: There's a statement made on videotape where you say George
• 31:18
  Speaker 16: went parachute riding off his balcony.
• 31:21
  Speaker 8: I have no comment. Please contact my lawyer and then
• 31:24
  Speaker 8: we can.
• 31:24
  Speaker 5: Arrange a time to speak.
• 31:28
  Speaker 7: Greg Rosenberg's lawyer says Greg didn't know George was dead
• 31:32
  Speaker 7: at that point and that his client was just making
• 31:35
  Speaker 7: a stupid comment.
• 31:37
  Speaker 8: I don't think they're kidding around.
• 31:38
  Speaker 5: It's just not something you would just come out and
• 31:40
  Speaker 5: say you're kidding around because if you didn't do it,
• 31:42
  Speaker 5: why would you be saying it?
• 31:44
  Speaker 7: But if George was murdered, the question has always been why?
• 31:49
  Speaker 7: Mike Jones believes there is finally enough evidence to piece
• 31:53
  Speaker 7: it all together.
• 31:54
  Speaker 8: The first thing you look at is motive, okay? George
• 31:57
  Speaker 8: and Jennifer dressed well. George had a very expensive Breitling watch.
• 32:00
  Speaker 8: They sort of flashed the money in the casino.
• 32:03
  Speaker 7: What's more, witnesses heard George and Jennifer saying they had
• 32:07
  Speaker 7: thousands of dollars in their cabin.
• 32:10
  Speaker 8: And this got around because there were other passengers not
• 32:13
  Speaker 8: within the circle, the Russians and Josh, who heard the
• 32:15
  Speaker 8: rumors about the money in the cabin. We don't believe
• 32:18
  Speaker 8: it was true, but perception is everything.
• 32:21
  Speaker 7: Jones believes that perception fueled a robbery attempt, one that
• 32:25
  Speaker 7: was hatched when they put George to bed and Josh
• 32:29
  Speaker 7: had gone into the bathroom.
• 32:31
  Speaker 8: The theory would be that they were arguing about whether
• 32:33
  Speaker 8: or not one of them or two of them should
• 32:35
  Speaker 8: stay behind and see if they could find the money
• 32:38
  Speaker 8: and take the watch, because George was in no position
• 32:41
  Speaker 8: to argue or to put up a fight.
• 32:43
  Speaker 7: That arguing, Mike believes, is what Cleet Hyman heard on
• 32:46
  Speaker 7: the balcony. Jones also believes his theory fits with what
• 32:50
  Speaker 7: Hyman saw, just three men leaving.
• 32:55
  Speaker 8: And one of them stays behind, starts to rifle through
• 32:57
  Speaker 8: the drawers and the cabinets.
• 32:59
  Speaker 7: He has a possible explanation for the blood stain.
• 33:03
  Speaker 8: The blood is on the sheets. The blood is in
• 33:05
  Speaker 8: two sort of centimeter long splashes. And almost looks like
• 33:10
  Speaker 8: if you were taking off a watch and you pinched
• 33:13
  Speaker 8: your skin, it would be compatible with the blood splatter
• 33:16
  Speaker 8: that was on the bed. While they're doing that, George
• 33:19
  Speaker 8: wakes up, says, what are you doing? Fight ensues, which
• 33:22
  Speaker 8: is consistent with the noises that people on both sides
• 33:24
  Speaker 8: of the cabin heard. And George goes overboard. Other people
• 33:28
  Speaker 8: hear the loud thud.
• 33:29
  Speaker 7: Josh Askin's lawyer, Keith Greer, argues that is all nothing
• 33:33
  Speaker 7: more than speculation.
• 33:36
  Speaker 15: Even Cleet Hyman, he even said that he did not
• 33:38
  Speaker 15: hear the sounds that you would expect if there was
• 33:41
  Speaker 15: a fight.
• 33:42
  Speaker 3: You know, you dirty.
• 33:43
  Speaker 15: So-and-so, the smacking, the kicking and stumbling and yelling of
• 33:47
  Speaker 15: two guys going at each other in a fist fight.
• 33:50
  Speaker 3: I just don't think it makes sense.
• 33:52
  Speaker 7: Greer thinks that there's a simpler explanation for all that
• 33:55
  Speaker 7: took place aboard the brilliance of the seas, the sex
• 33:59
  Speaker 7: assault claim and George going overboard.
• 34:03
  Speaker 15: I don't know why everybody's missing the theme here, because
• 34:05
  Speaker 15: there's one common element, and it's too much alcohol. And
• 34:11
  Speaker 15: we can go and, you know, blame it on murder
• 34:14
  Speaker 15: and blame it on aggressive sexual behavior here.
• 34:17
  Speaker 3: You know what?
• 34:17
  Speaker 15: It's just everybody drinking too much and stupid stuff happening.
• 34:22
  Speaker 3: That fits.
• 34:23
  Speaker 7: But does it fit with what Josh Askin was heard
• 34:27
  Speaker 7: saying on an elevator? Mike Jones is a persistent man
• 34:37
  Speaker 7: and he believes his persistence will one day pay off.
• 34:42
  Speaker 8: It's just a question of pulling together enough evidence to
• 34:46
  Speaker 8: get an indictment and a conviction.
• 34:48
  Speaker 7: Jones and the Smiths maintain the key to solving the
• 34:52
  Speaker 7: case lies in California.
• 34:54
  Speaker 8: Our theory is that Josh Askin knows what happened But
• 34:58
  Speaker 8: we don't believe that Josh was involved in the actual,
• 35:01
  Speaker 8: you know, tossing of George overboard.
• 35:03
  Speaker 7: To support his theory, Jones is pointing to an intriguing
• 35:06
  Speaker 7: clue uncovered by Royal Caribbean. A ship employee overheard Josh
• 35:12
  Speaker 7: Askin speaking to a friend on an elevator.
• 35:16
  Speaker 8: He said, I know more than they think I know.
• 35:18
  Speaker 8: Those almost got me arrested in Turkey.
• 35:21
  Speaker 7: Keith Greer argues the comments were taken out of context
• 35:25
  Speaker 7: and Josh has nothing to hide.
• 35:28
  Speaker 16: Do you think that Josh Askin has told you everything
• 35:33
  Speaker 16: he knows?
• 35:34
  Speaker 3: Absolutely. No doubt.
• 35:36
  Speaker 7: But Greer admits the FBI told Josh he failed a polygraph.
• 35:41
  Speaker 7: Greer questions the test and the result.
• 35:44
  Speaker 15: I think it's another rubber hose ploy, you know, where
• 35:47
  Speaker 15: just to freak Josh out and upset him more, I
• 35:51
  Speaker 15: think it was just the psychological war that they were
• 35:53
  Speaker 15: waging on him and his family, or they didn't take
• 35:56
  Speaker 15: the time to do it right.
• 35:58
  Speaker 3: One or the other.
• 35:59
  Speaker 7: Sources tell CBS News Rusty Kaufman also was tested and
• 36:03
  Speaker 7: he too failed. Greg Rosenberg was administered a private polygraph test.
• 36:10
  Speaker 2: I took a polygraph.
• 36:12
  Speaker 4: You did take one.
• 36:12
  Speaker 2: Yeah, it was inconclusive because I'm ADHD because you could
• 36:15
  Speaker 2: tell I like to move a lot. It was inconclusive.
• 36:18
  Speaker 2: There ain't no lies that I need to tell.
• 36:20
  Speaker 14: Generally, it's much easier to tell the actual lie on
• 36:24
  Speaker 14: your own.
• 36:24
  Speaker 7: 48 Hours decided to bring in Phil Houston, a former
• 36:28
  Speaker 7: CIA case officer who for more than two decades specialized
• 36:33
  Speaker 7: in detecting deception. We asked him to take a closer
• 36:37
  Speaker 7: look at those depositions.
• 36:39
  Speaker 16: Is there anybody of the group that particularly jumps out?
• 36:43
  Speaker 2: That's the honest truth.
• 36:44
  Speaker 14: Greg stands out.
• 36:46
  Speaker 2: Above and beyond everyone.
• 36:48
  Speaker 14: There was just a ton of deceptive behaviors.
• 36:50
  Speaker 2: You can't judge a book by its cover.
• 36:52
  Speaker 7: In Houston's opinion, it's not what Greg Rosenberg says that
• 36:55
  Speaker 7: seems deceptive. It is often what he doesn't say.
• 37:00
  Speaker 14: What we should hear and see his focus on is,
• 37:04
  Speaker 14: I didn't do it. It wasn't me.
• 37:05
  Speaker 8: You got the wrong guy.
• 37:07
  Speaker 14: Instead, we don't. Where we hear his focus so many
• 37:10
  Speaker 14: times is, are reasons why he wouldn't do this.
• 37:14
  Speaker 2: But in no way, shape, or form would I ever
• 37:15
  Speaker 2: do anything like that to an individual. No reason, that's
• 37:20
  Speaker 2: not me.
• 37:20
  Speaker 7: And it appears some questions are more difficult for Greg
• 37:25
  Speaker 7: than others.
• 37:25
  Speaker 8: Did they find anything in either room that was connected
• 37:29
  Speaker 8: to George's disappearance?
• 37:32
  Speaker 14: He hesitates. He's clearly thinking. The question has thrown him
• 37:36
  Speaker 14: for a loop. It's almost, what could they have found
• 37:40
  Speaker 14: that would have connected someone to the disappearance. No.
• 37:45
  Speaker 8: Okay.
• 37:47
  Speaker 14: And then it's like, as he thinks through it, he realizes,
• 37:50
  Speaker 14: I've got to answer the question.
• 37:51
  Speaker 2: So he goes, well, no, no.
• 37:54
  Speaker 16: So he's thinking about something that is not going to
• 37:56
  Speaker 16: come out in his answer.
• 37:58
  Speaker 14: That's correct.
• 37:59
  Speaker 7: That's correct.
• 38:00
  Speaker 14: Something he's not sharing.
• 38:01
  Speaker 7: But Greg doesn't hold back on the one thing the
• 38:04
  Speaker 7: Smiths would agree with. He says George's death was no accident.
• 38:09
  Speaker 2: George Allen Smith did not disappear or kill himself or
• 38:13
  Speaker 2: hurt himself or slip and fall off a boat at 6'4,
• 38:16
  Speaker 2: however tall he is, and just dive off. I know
• 38:20
  Speaker 2: that didn't happen. Something crazy went down that night. And
• 38:23
  Speaker 2: I hope one day that they find out the truth.
• 38:27
  Speaker 7: In the years following George's death, Jennifer has remarried and
• 38:31
  Speaker 7: tried to move on. But for the Smiths, it's not
• 38:35
  Speaker 7: so easy. In 2014, they announced they are offering a reward, $ 100, 000
• 38:42
  Speaker 7: for information that leads directly to the arrest and conviction
• 38:47
  Speaker 7: of whoever is responsible.
• 38:49
  Speaker 6: We're hoping with this $ 100, 000 reward, this might just be
• 38:54
  Speaker 6: the thing that we need to get the arrest, to
• 38:57
  Speaker 6: get the convictions.
• 38:58
  Speaker 7: Until the day this case is solved, the Smith vow
• 39:02
  Speaker 7: not to let George's memory die on that ship.
• 39:10
  Speaker 4: There you go, Georgie.
• 39:14
  Speaker 8: We'll get justice.
• 39:15
  Speaker 2: We'll get justice.
• 39:17
  Speaker 5: Somehow.
• 39:19
  Speaker 1: Somehow we'll get justice for George. Somebody will talk. And
• 39:24
  Speaker 1: shame on them that don't. Shame on the people that don't.
• 39:30
  Speaker 8: Have put us through this hell.
• 39:41
  Speaker 7: On January 9th, 2015, the Smith family suffered yet another blow.
• 39:47
  Speaker 7: The FBI announced... they were officially closing the case on
• 39:52
  Speaker 7: George Smith.
• 39:53
  Speaker 6: The FBI has determined that there is not sufficient evidence
• 39:56
  Speaker 6: to continue the investigation.
• 40:00
  Speaker 5: When we were called in for the meeting that finally
• 40:03
  Speaker 5: closed the case down, it was just devastating to my family.
• 40:07
  Speaker 6: How do you collect 97,000 pages of an investigation to
• 40:12
  Speaker 6: determine after almost 10 years that an accident may have occurred?
• 40:16
  Speaker 7: Still, the family stands by that $ 100, 000 reward, and they
• 40:22
  Speaker 7: still believe it was murder.
• 40:25
  Speaker 5: The money that was going to be left to George,
• 40:27
  Speaker 5: we thought that.
• 40:37
  Speaker 5: Since he wasn't going to be here to get that money,
• 40:41
  Speaker 5: somebody else could use it to help our family.
• 40:45
  Speaker 6: We're hoping to generate more leads with the reward, and
• 40:49
  Speaker 6: we're hoping the FBI will reopen the investigation.
• 40:54
  Speaker 7: But the toll is great.
• 40:57
  Speaker 5: I never expected to be 67 and still sitting here
• 41:01
  Speaker 5: trying to get answers from my son.
• 41:05
  Speaker 7: It's sad.
• 41:06
  Speaker 5: We should be on with.
• 41:07
  Speaker 8: Our life, but we're not.
• 41:10
  Speaker 6: They could say there's no conclusive evidence. They could shut
• 41:12
  Speaker 6: down the investigation, but they're not going to shut down me,
• 41:14
  Speaker 6: and I'm going to continue until there is answers and
• 41:17
  Speaker 6: justice for George.
• 41:37
  Speaker 4: Thank you.