Dr.Lee's report

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Just found this on the web;

 

CONNECTICUT NEWSLee's Tests On Hold In Cruise Ship Case

 

February 8, 2006

By LYNNE TUOHY, Courant Staff Writer

Renowned forensic scientist Henry C. Lee said Tuesday he has put off indefinitely his trip to the Bahamas to throw a mannequin off a cruise ship comparable to the one from which George Smith IV of Greenwich disappeared during his honeymoon cruise last July 5.

 

Lee was invited by Royal Caribbean Cruises to board a ship in dry dock in Nassau this week to conduct the mannequin experiments they barred him from performing Jan. 23, when the "Brilliance of the Seas" was at its home port of Miami between cruises. Cruise line officials said they could not subject boarding passengers to the dangers of objects being hurled from balconies, even under controlled conditions.

 

Lee and a team of forensic investigators boarded the ship on Jan. 23 and spent nearly five hours taking measurements and samples, and doing all Lee had said in advance he wanted to do, except for using the mannequin to measure trajectories under a variety of circumstances.

 

Lee said his jam-packed schedule this week, coupled with the cruise line's failure to provide information on wind and ship velocity and weather conditions the night Smith disappeared, forced his postponement of the trip.

 

"It's not going to be for a little while," Lee said, of the second phase of his investigation into Smith's disappearance. Lee has been retained by Smith's widow, Jennifer Hagel Smith, to investigate her husband's disappearance during their Mediterranean honeymoon cruise. Cruise line officials in a reconstructed time line said drinking buddies of Smith twice escorted him back to his stateroom in the early morning of July 5. Hagel Smith was found sleeping in a corridor.

 

The staff members, according to the cruise line report, first went to the Smith stateroom to see if they could find someone to assist Hagel Smith, and found the stateroom empty. They then wheeled Hagel Smith to the stateroom in a wheelchair, laid her on the bed, and left when she told them she was OK.

 

After a passenger spotted the pool of blood on the lifeboat canopy about 8:30 a.m. the morning of July 5, the ship's officers tried to locate everyone in the staterooms above the canopy. Hagel Smith was located in the ship's spa, but George Smith could not be found. Ship's officers said Hagel Smith was not worried at firstbut was alarmed when she learned about the blood on the canopy

[kitty1]

Here in CT there is something on the local news almost every single day.

 

Dr Henry Lee is a very busy man. Heard he could not make it down to the Bahamas this week because of his schedule.