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THEY were a glamorous young couple, celebrating their honeymoon on a luxury cruise from Los Angeles to Mexico.
After a nine-month whirlwind romance, Karen and Scott Roston had travelled to Las Vegas, where they had a “quickie” wedding, before embarking on the 650ft Stardancer.
Staying in first class, Karen, 26, and Scott, 36, looked like the perfect pair.
But on the last night of their trip, on February 12, 1988, cracks began to show. During a lavish gala dinner, witnesses saw them arguing.
Karen was then spotted storming out of the dining room in tears.
Hours later, a panicked Scott contacted the captain asking for help.
He claimed high winds had blown Karen overboard and he’d been unable to save her.
But there were holes in his story. His face was covered in cuts and scratches, showing signs of a struggle. And according to the captain’s log, the sea was calm and the winds that night were just 5mph, not enough to blow a person overboard.
Could Scott have attacked his wife in a fit of anger, then thrown her overboard?
Tragic
Karen’s disappearance is one of several featured in a new documentary series, Cruise Ship Killers.
The true-crime show tells the tragic stories of people who took a holiday on a cruise liner, but never returned home. Since 2011, more than
200 cruise ship travellers and crew have gone missing, and many of these people have been murdered.
With Karen’s disappearance, Scott was to blame.
Her body was found bobbing on the water 10 hours after she went missing, which according to experts was proof she had been dead when she entered the water.
She had been kept afloat by air trapped in her clothing – but if she tried to swim towards help, there would have been no air. Her body also had signs of strangulation.
Scott – who had spent time in jail in Israel where he claimed to have been drugged and tortured – was arrested two days later when the Stardancer sailed back to California.
At his trial, he bizarrely claimed Karen had been killed by Israeli agents in front of him and he’d been forced to keep it quiet. But the two Israeli men turned out to be a wedding photographer and his friend, not secret agents, and the jury found Scott guilty of second-degree murder on the high seas.
He was sentenced to life in prison without parole.
Karen isn’t the only woman to be killed by her husband on a cruise. In 2017, Kristy Manzanares, 39, was slain by her spouse during a murder mystery game on the Emerald Princess ship.
Kristy was on an Alaskan cruise from Seattle with her husband Kenneth – her high school sweetheart – their children, and other extended family members.