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(CBS) For Jamie Barnett, the loss of her daughter Ashley
has been a nightmare. "On October 14th, 2005, Ashley
sailed out of Los Angeles to celebrate her upcoming 25th
birthday and one day into that cruise, she was dead,"
she says.
Correspondent Bill Lagattuta reports on the mysterious
circumstances surrounding Ashley's death and a mother's
quest to find answers.
Jamie has made a promise to herself and to her daughter:
she is determined to find out how and why her daughter
died. Jamie knows this much is true: her daughter sailed
off with her boyfriend, Geoff Ginsburg. But he came
back, alone.
"She was very alive when I left that room," Geoff says.
What happened in the cabin after he left remains a
mystery.
This was not the ending that anyone would have predicted
for 24-year-old Ashley Barnett, who had everything to
live for. Ashley had the love and support of a large
extended family. Though he and Ashley’s mother were
divorced, there was a devoted father, and three adoring
brothers, as well as two half sisters and two
stepbrothers.
"They were all so close. A wonderful thing about all of
my children. Those boys adored their sister. And she
them," Jamie recalls.
Ashley seemed destined for a life in front of the
camera, right from the start, growing up in Burbank,
Calif., in the shadow of the Hollywood studios
Jamie works at the CBS Television Studios, behind the
scenes, running the grip department.
When she was 20 years old, Ashley landed a job on the
lot, just like her mom. She moved on to become a
production assistant on the TV show, “Will and Grace.”
It was just the kind of stepping stone that a young
aspiring actress needed. Soon, she caught the eye of
film composer John Debney. "She had star written all
over her. Not only was she beautiful, but she had such a
heart and soul," he remembers.
He wrote the scores to box office hits like “Princess
Diaries and "Bruce Almighty." Debney offered Ashley a
position as his music coordinator.
"There are a lot of fine actors and actresses in this
town. But Ashley had an extra something," Debney
remembers. "I think it’s a spark of fairy dust. It’s
this thing that very few people have."
Debney never imagined he would lead an orchestra at
Ashley’s funeral, with 40 instruments playing the music
he had chosen just for her
Many of Ashley’s closest friends stood up and paid
tribute but one person at the memorial was not welcome
to speak: her boyfriend Geoff Ginsburg.
"I felt you know like I should have been a part of it.
That, you know I could have, I could have shared a lot
of stories. I was a big part of Ashley’s life. You know
Ashley did love me. I did love Ashley," Geoff says.
Geoff and Ashley had been friends since the ninth grade
but became a couple in their early 20’s. By then, Geoff
was working as an electrician.
What did Geoff like about her so much?
"Her personality, her carefree you know look at the
world. Her eyes. Her hair. Everything. I mean her
laugh," he says.
But there was a problem that was bigger than both of
them. Geoff had struggled with drug addiction, saying he
was using the painkiller Vicodin.
"Did she know that he was a drug user when she started
dating him?" Lagatutta asks Ashley's mother.
"When she started dating him, she knew he had been, that
he was clean now," Jamie replies. "And she was proud of
him of what he had conquered, what he had gone through
to you know, to clean up."
Everyone who knew Ashley knew this: she did not use
drugs and didn't approve of them.
What was she doing with Geoff?
"I think she looked, she looked past it, she looked at
when I’m in my addiction. That’s not me. That’s not
Geoff," he explains.
"Ashley’s the type of girl where if somebody’s hurting
she will comfort you and try to help you and fix you,"
says Allie Tweast, Ashley’s best friend.
Allie says Ashley thought she could help Geoff and "that
her love could somehow wake him up."
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On Oct. 14, 2005, Ashley and Geoff boarded the Carnival
cruise ship "Paradise," in Long Beach, Calif. There are
conflicting versions of what went wrong that weekend.
But there are clues – some of the most compelling left
by Ashley herself - who was making a home video of that
fateful trip, documenting what would turn out to be the
last hours of her life.
"To me it was like a big rave at sea. Just people
dancing and everyone just having so such a good time you
know. You know drinkin’ and partyin’. This is gonna be a
cool time," says Joe Fischera, a friend of Geoff and
Ashley’s. He was part of the group that joined the
couple, along with Geoff’s brother, Keith.
But the nonstop music festival was not the romantic
getaway that Ashley was expecting. We know from Ashley’s
video tape that she and Geoff went to the casino that
night and also they went to hear the bands play.
"What I know is they went to the concert and then they
went back to the room," Joe says.
According to Geoff, back in the cabin, there was a
disagreement. He wanted to return to the casino but it
was about 2:30 a.m. and Ashley wanted to go to bed.
"You know it was kind of late, but still I kind of just
I was really excited about the cruise and I just wanted
to stay up," Geoff says.
He says when he left, Ashley was a little upset with
him. About 4:00 a.m., according to Geoff, he returned to
the cabin. He says Ashley was asleep and that he cuddled
up against her and went to sleep.
At midday on Saturday, Geoff said Ashley was still
sleeping. So he left her in the cabin and went upstairs
to join the group.
"He comes by and his exact words were, 'My baby doll’s
still snoring. Let’s let her sleep a little bit longer,
and we’ll wake her up in a little bit,'" Joe remembers.
About 2 p.m., Geoff says he returned to wake Ashley.
"I went up to her. I walked up to her and I was like,
'Baby you now, let’s, let’s go, come on, time to get
up," Geoff remembers. "And I kind of touched her on the
face and I was like, you know, baby, baby, what’s going
on, you know. And her eyes were shut and I was kind of
like trying to open her eyes a little bit and she wasn’t
responding. And I just started freaking out."
He knew something was very wrong and called for help. At
2:07 p.m., Geoff called 911. "I said you know my
girlfriend's not breathing. I don’t think she’s
breathing. Please come help," Geoff recalls.
Within three minutes a nurse arrived and attempted CPR.
At 2:10 p.m. an emergency announcement was broadcast to
summon the ship’s doctor.
At 2:12 p.m. the doctor arrived. According to his
statement, Ashley was unresponsive, cold, with no pulse.
At 2:45 p.m. she was pronounced dead….
Geoff says he has thought about it a thousand times and
says he just doesn't know what happened to Ashley. But
Ashley's mom Jamie disagrees. "He has to know what
happened," she says.
On Saturday, October 15, Jamie got that terrible phone
call from the nurse on board the ship. "And I said, what
happened to her? And she said, 'Well we don’t know.
That’s being investigated right now,'" Jaime recalls.
Asked whether Geoff talked to her, Jamie says, "No. Not
that night. I asked to speak to him and she told me I
couldn’t right now. That he was being questioned. She
later called me back and said that he had been cleared
to talk to me, but that he had so far declined to do
so."
And that’s how the mystery began.
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Ashley Barnett (Michael Maples/CBS)
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Carnival began an investigation, but because the boat
was docked in Ensenada, the Mexican authorities boarded
the ship. They needed to determine if a homicide had
been committed. Later that night, Geoff and the rest of
the group were all on board when the Paradise set sail
back to California. But Ashley Barnett was left behind
in a Mexican morgue. Alone.
"If that had been me, wild horses couldn’t have kept me
on that ship. I would have been with her," Jamie says.
"I did not wanna stay on that boat. I wanted to get off
that boat. I wanted to be with Ash. I didn’t want to let
her go into Mexico," says Geoff.
Carnival says Geoff had no choice and confirms to 48
Hours that he was required to remain on board the ship
until U.S. authorities could question him.
One day after Ashley’s death, as the ship was heading
back home, Geoff finally called Jamie.
Why did he wait so long to call Ashley's mom?
"I didn’t know what to say," Geoff says. "I was just
like in a comatose, kinda just in a state of shock. How
do you make that call? What do you say? You know? I‘d
never been it that situation before. I did not know how
to handle it. And you know maybe I didn’t do it right,
but I did end up calling Jamie. You know the following
day."
In that conversation, Geoff revealed what would be the
first troubling clue.
"The conversation was very short because the people in
the room with him took the phone away from him, because
he was so upset. He just said, 'I don’t’ know what
happened.' And I said, 'You know, Geoff, you have to
know what happened. You were with her.' And he said
'Jamie, I have no idea. She went to sleep and that’s all
I know. The only thing I know is some of my methadone
and some of my Vicodin was missing.' And I said, 'You
know, Geoff. What does that mean? What are you saying?
She wouldn’t have taken it.' He went, 'I know. I know,'"
Jamie recalls.
So, was Ashley’s sudden death caused by drugs, the drugs
Geoff says were missing? Jamie was about to learn that
the Carnival cruise was not just to celebrate her
daughters birthday. Geoff says he planned to use the
time on board to detox. He had relapsed into his Vicodin
habit. And that’s why he says he had methadone with him.
"Let me ask you this. At the time you were, you were
addicted to this Vicodin trying to get off, using
methadone. Is it a good idea to go on a three day party
cruise?" Lagattuta asks.
"No, it's not," Geoff acknowledges.
Most people associate methadone with heroin addiction
but it’s also used to help addicts withdraw from other
drugs.
Geoff says he wasn't under a doctor's care and attempted
to do this himself.
Asked where he got the methadone from, Geoff told
Lagatutta, "I’ve already answered that. I mean that
doesn’t matter. The fact is, is that I brought the
methadone on with me."
When the ship returned to Long Beach, the FBI stepped in
and began its own investigation.
"It makes you think, 'Oh thank God. It’s going to get
taken care of. The FBI is involved, you know help is one
the way," says Jamie.
Jamie says the FBI told her to be waiting at the harbor
when the ship came in. She believed she would find out
what happened to her daughter.
"We stood out in the rain and waited and waited. And
finally a woman from Carnival came and spoke to my
friends that had brought me there and said she was
terribly sorry to hear about our loss, and she would go
find someone to come and help us. No one ever came,"
Jamie recalls. "And it continued to rain, for four hours
and finally the FBI came out and took me inside to
interview me."
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The FBI revealed little to Jamie about what they knew.
Geoff Ginsburg was not charged with any crime and the
mystery was about to deepen. Ashley's body was returned
to the United States. Five days after her death, the
Barnett family hired Dr. David Posey to perform an
autopsy.
Dr. Posey found Ashley’s organs were healthy and her
body in pristine condition. There was evidence that she
had consumed some alcohol. There were no signs of
trauma.
"There were no signs of trauma," Dr. Posey explains.
His was the second examination of the body. The first
one was in Mexico and both autopsies reached the same
conclusion.
"It was the toxic effects of methadone that had killed
her. And I was just stunned. Stunned. You know he said
he had methadone on the ship. How in the world would it
have gotten in her?" Jamie wonders.
Methadone is a tricky drug – less than a teaspoon can be
fatal.
"You’re saying this is an extremely dangerous drug to
begin with. But, even more so, if your body has never
had any methadone in it," Lagattuta asks.
"That is correct," Dr. Posey agrees. "It’s a very
dangerous drug to be using, even in, even in the best of
hands."
Jamie and Ashley’s friend Allie are convinced of one
thing: that Ashley would not have tried methadone on her
own. And to prove it, the family ordered a test of
Ashley’s hair. One strand could determine if she was a
habitual drug user.
"No other drugs were found. Her hair was negative," Dr.
Posey says.
But who could tie this case together? Jamie demanded
that Carnival provide her with all the evidence they had
gathered and she turned to attorney Gloria Allred for
help. "
Their campaign yielded numerous documents from
Carnival’s internal investigation, and even landed them
a personal meeting with company officials in Miami.
Seven months after Ashley’s death, Allred and Jamie went
to Miami to meet with officials from Carnival, hoping to
finally get some answers to their many questions.
But the biggest question still lingered: how did the
methadone end up in Ashley's body.
There were so many places Jamie Barnett expected to go
in the name of the daughter she loved but she never
expected that one of them would be the FBI.
She wanted details of the federal investigation into the
death of her daughter. All she wanted to know was what
happened to Ashley.
When asking FBI officials, Jamie says she got few
answers. The FBI told her it was an ongoing
investigation, prohibiting them from disclosing facts.
The FBI confirms to 48 Hours that the investigation is
still open. But the truth in this case is especially
elusive. That’s because the only version of events about
what happened behind the doors of Geoff and Ashley’s
cabin comes from Geoff himself.
Asked if he gave Ashley the methadone, Geoff insists,
"No way. Never I would never ever, ever done that."
If Geoff didn’t give her the drug, did someone else?
"I think somebody may have slipped her something. Just
trying to loosen her up, I think maybe that she might
have been tricked into taking something she didn’t
know," says Ashley's friend Allie Tweast. "I just, I
know something’s wrong, in my heart."
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We have no way of verifying if Geoff went in and out of
the cabin at the times he said he did or if anyone else
might have entered, because on this cruise, on this
particular weekend, the key lock, which records all
entries to the door of cabin R-149 malfunctioned.
We do know this about that fateful day: as CPR was being
performed on his dying girlfriend, Geoff mentions those
missing drugs to the doctor and nurse.
"I told them, you know while they were working, I said,
'I have methadone. I have Vicodin. You know give her. If
she had taken that, give her something for that do
whatever you can,'" Geoff explains.
Is it possible that Ashley, the young woman with the
reputation for being so anti-drug, willingly took the
methadone herself?
The ship’s incident report from that day offers yet
another clue: in a statement attributed to Geoff, Ashley
had an abortion three weeks before the cruise and was
quote “quite depressed at times.”
"She was upset over having to make that kind of
decision. And I won’t deny that. She did not take it
lightly," Jamie says. "But it was the appropriate amount
of sadness."
"I was with her a day or two before she went on the
cruise, she was not depressed. She was talking about
getting back next week and her appointment with another
agent that she was going to hopefully sign with," John
Debney says.
Geoff also told Carnival about an earlier incident when
Ashley “had attempted to consume a large quantity of
medication – Aspirin – six months ago.”
"She had brought up something about something that
happened at her house, and that she had taken too much
Tylenol, or something, or some kind of over the counter
medication. And, but it was okay, because her mother was
there, you know it was a stupid idea. But she was just
depressed at the time. It wasn’t like she was a suicidal
person. She wasn’t," Geoff says.
Jamie denies that her daughter ever took a large amount
of Aspirin. "That never happened. I mean that just
unequivocally never happened," she stays.
Still, there is another theory offered by Jeanne
Ginsburg, Geoff's mom. Jeannie says that Ashley’s had a
flair for the dramatic - remember Ashley wanted Geoff to
stay with her that night in their room. She didn’t want
him to go back to the casino without her and there was a
disagreement.
"So in this scenario though she would have taken some to
get attention from Geoffrey? Is that what you’re
suggesting?" Lagattuta asks Jeanne.
"I thought maybe just to scare him a little bit. Like
don’t leave me like that again. Or you know something
like that," she says.
But there’s one last possible explanation. Geoff may
have set in motion events that would lead to a terrible
accident.
He doesn’t deny he was the one who brought the methadone
on board the ship. In fact Geoff admits he hid the
methadone in a bottle of over the counter cold medicine,
like Nyquil or Dayquil in order to smuggle it on.
In Ashley’s home video, Geoff seemed to celebrate when
he clears port security. "We’re getting ready to load
the boat. And we got past the dogs," he said into the
camera.
There is one more small detail in this story that may
have triggered absolute disaster. Ashley’s mother says
her daughter wasn’t feeling well before the cruise and
may have reached for that bottle of cold medication.
"So it’s highly likely that she would have taken some
Nyquil," Jamie remarks.
Jamie says Ashley wouldn't have taken something from the
bottle, had she known it was filled with methadone.
But Geoff insists Ashley did know. "I was with her and I
told her about it. I had put the methadone in the bottle
right in front her," he says.
Asked if he thinks Ashley took it by accident, Geoff
says, "I don’t know."
"If she took it by accident that would imply that she
didn’t remember that you had put methadone in that
bottle of Dayquil. It seems pretty far fetched to forget
something like that," Lagattuta remarks.
"I don’t know what happened. I have—I’ll never know. And
that can—I that’s one thing that I’ve come to understand
or accept is that I’ll never know what happened," he
replies.
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Not knowing is not an option for Jamie. So she and her
attorney press on with their own investigation. They
traveled to Ensenada, Mexico to learn what they can from
Mexican authorities.
On Jamie's fourth trip, Mexican officials spent several
hours talking to Jamie about the case. "I know this case
is still open. And I know they’re still investigating
it, and … they care, and that just overwhelms me," she
says.
But now, almost one year after Ashley's death, the
puzzle pieces still don’t fit.
"I just don’t know if I can bear to think that I’m gonna
have to forever not fit those pieces together. They’ve
just got to come together," Jamie says.
"I wake up every morning wishing I could hold her just
one more time. And I wake up every morning praying that
no other mother ever has to live this nightmare," she
adds.
But sadly, another mother is. "As time goes by it
doesn’t get better. It gets worse because you don’t have
that person in your life anymore," says Maureen Smith,
who lost her son on a cruise a little more than a year
ago. George Smith was on his honeymoon with his new
bride, Jennifer Hagel.
A few days into the cruise, George disappeared somewhere
in the Aegean Sea. A blood stain was found on an awning
beneath his room. The captain was quick to call it an
accident - something Maureen never accepted.
The FBI is investigating that case but no one has been
charged with a crime. “It’s not knowing what happened.
That’s the killer. And I know that was what was going
through Jamie’s mind, Maureen says.
Maureen heard about Jamie’s campaign for answers and
reached out to offer support.
George’s story echoes Ashley’s in many ways: both
couples spent time in the ship’s casino. The night
George disappeared, he was there with Jennifer when they
ran into a group of young men they met on the cruise.
Josh Askin was one of them – a college student traveling
with this family.
When the casino closed, Josh says the manager Lloyd
Botha suggested they head up to the disco. So they all
piled into the elevator together.
"Lloyd the casino manager put his arm around Jennifer
and—we thought—a little awkward moment," Josh remembers.
Asked if George see this happen, or had any reaction to
this, Josh says, "I don’t know – what he was thinking at
that time."
But later at the club, witnesses say George and Jennifer
argued and that she left without him. A short time
later, Josh and his buddies walked a very drunk George
back to his cabin.
Back at the cabin, Josh says George's wife wasn't there
and that he thought it was a bit odd, considering they
were on their honeymoon.
They went out for a quick look around and didn’t find
her. Josh says they returned George to his room.
"We just kinda said, 'You know, goodnight, man.' And he
said, 'You know—thank you. Thank you.' And then we just
left," Josh remembers.
But there’s more to the story.
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Clete Hyman, in the room next door, says he heard
strange sounds coming from the Smith cabin at 4:00 a.m.
"Suddenly there was an argument out on the Smith
balcony," he recalls.
After a couple of minutes Hyman says he heard someone
say goodnight and then says he saw three men walking
away from the room.
Next Hyman says he heard what sounded like furniture
being moved - followed by silence.
"After about two minutes of total silence, however there
was a large, what I would call a horrific thud," Clete
recalls.
The thud is believed to be the sound of George hitting
the awning. At almost the same moment, a crew member
found Jennifer on the other side of the ship, passed out
in a hallway.
Investigators later found traces of blood in the Smith
cabin.
Like Jamie, answers for the Smiths have been tough to
come by. The FBI won’t talk about the investigation and
the person they counted on the most - Jennifer - says
she has virtually no memory of what happened that night.
Her lawyer backed up her story, saying that she passed a
polygraph test with flying colors.
At first, the Smiths were supportive but they soon grew
apart. But George’s sister Bree and her family still
hoped to join forces with Jennifer when she filed her
wrongful death suit against Royal Caribbean - that and
that alone they said - would finally yield answers. But
just days before filing, Jennifer reached a settlement
on her own with the cruise line.
In addition to an undisclosed amount of money, Royal
Caribbean agreed to give Jennifer access to their
information on the case, something she hoped would bring
some closure to both families. It didn’t.
"Jennifer went behind our back, without my parents'
knowledge and has proposed a settlement with Royal
Caribbean that we didn’t even know about," says Bree.
The Smiths say Jennifer settled because she doesn’t want
to answer questions under oath about her actions that
night. They don’t believe she had anything to do with
George’s death but they do believe she knows more than
she’s telling.
Jennifer refused 48 Hours' request for an on-camera
interview - but said she and her family were deeply hurt
by the Smiths' accusations; that she has fully
cooperated with the FBI and has nothing to hide. "Short
of turning back the hands of time,” she says “ there may
be nothing I can do that will satisfy George’s family."
The Smiths meanwhile have filed their own suit against
Royal Caribbean and have vowed to continue their fight.
"When we get answers for our son, we can lay his soul to
rest. Because right now we can’t do that. And I’m gonna
keep going till I can do that for my son. I owe him
that," says Maureen.
Jamie Barnett feels she owes her daughter Ashley the
same thing. "I had a dream a couple of months ago," she
recalls. "And Ashley appeared to me in the dream. And I
said, ‘Ashley come home.’ And she said, ‘Mom I can’t
come home. I have things I have to take care of.’ I felt
like she was telling me you’ve got things that you have
to take care of. Because I can’t rest until you do."
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On October 15, it will be one year since the death of
Ashley Barnett.
Asked if he feels responsible for Ashley's death, Geoff
says, "I don’t feel responsible for her death."
"But you’re the one who brought the methadone onboard,"
Lagattuta asks Geoff.
"I know, it’s something I just have to live with and I’m
trying to do that now, at where I’m at, you know," he
replies.
Geoff says he has not withheld anything about that
fateful weekend. "I have told everybody the story. I
haven’t lied. I’ve been honest about it from day one.
And I’ve told a lot of people it. A lot of people the
story. And everything that I’ve told them is exactly
what I know. That’s it. I haven’t hid anything," he
says.
In a story filled with so many questions, there is one
more part of the mystery that haunts both Geoff and
Jamie. Remember, when the doctor and nurse arrived at
the cabin, Carnival statements described Ashley as
“unresponsive” and “cold to the “touch”.
Geoff says Ashley was warm when CPR was being performed.
"She was still warm. She wasn’t cold. She, you know her
lips weren’t blue," he explains.
And after receiving a 911 call that a passenger wasn’t
breathing, Geoff and Jamie believe that Carnival should
have brought more rescue equipment when they initially
responded: specifically a device to shock Ashley’s
heart.
"Everything you can do was not done," Jamie claims.
"You’re saying it wasn’t done in a timely fashion, or
just wasn’t done," Lagattuta asks.
"In a timely fashion," she replies.
Carnival insists they responded rapidly and
appropriately. Additional rescue equipment would not
have made a difference, they say, because Ashley had
already died before medical assistance was requested.
Geoff is now in a professional treatment program for his
addiction. Sadly, the person who thought she could save
him will not be around to see that.
"She’s in my heart and mind every day, all day long.
There’s not a there’s not a minute that goes by I don’t
think about her," he says tearfully. "You know I think
about her all day long. And you know, I wish she wasn’t…
You know I wish she was here with me. Not a minute goes
by that I don’t think about her."
Meanwhile, Jamie is determined to see this investigation
through to the end and find out how and why her daughter
died.
In place of the big dreams Ashley Barnett once had, a
Hollywood star marks the stone where she is buried.
"This could be the story of anybody. She was a victim of
a lot of different people, or a lot of different
circumstances that contributed to her untimely death.
And it could happen again," Debney says.
"Somewhere in some port, some 25 year old girl is
getting on a cruise ship with some friends. What do you
want their parents to know?" Lagattuta asks Jamie
Barnett.
"Don’t let 'em go. Don’t let 'em go," she says.
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Ashley's death remains an open case. The FBI and Mexican
authorities continue to investigate.
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