Annette Mizener-Msg from Cruise [Archive]

awakening2lite

02-20-2008, 01:54 PM

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Annette Mizener and daughter

EXCERPT
http://www.internationalcruisevictims.org/LatestMemberStories/Annette_Mizener.html
On December 4, 2004, the last night of a 9-day Mexican Riviera cruise with her parents and daughter, my 37-year old wife, Annette Mizener, disappeared off the Carnival cruise ship, “The Pride”…

Some of the facts surrounding her disappearance include:

* Annette’s beaded purse that had been found with the beads missing.

* A map of the ship covered the security’s surveillance camera.

* The Captain did not drop rescue boats or turn the ship around for approximately 2.5 – 3 hours, and only upon being ordered to do so by the Coast Guard.

* The water was 60 degrees.

* A cup, given ONLY to children and Cruise Members was found in the area

* A pen and a pad of paper were found in the area (Annette would have used this to document a potential client’s information and provide it to me upon return from the cruise.)

Annette had already collected other names and numbers of potential clients, which were found among her belongings that her parents brought back with them. Missing was the notepad!

Why was Annette’s purse removed from the scene, taken to a room, later returned and placed in the original location? Why was it wiped clean? To remove fingerprints? To the best of my knowledge, there were NO pictures taken of the crime scene, despite the presence of Carnival’s highly trained security personnel.

Annette’s parents, daughter, and a couple of other passengers, were among those responsible for finding the beads, the purse, blocking the “clean-up” of the crime scene to ensure it was roped-off, and demanding that the crew clean out the gutters, where they had been sweeping everything from the deck.

The cruise ship personnel had 2 different stories, regarding the number of drinks that Annette had consumed. The bartenders tracked the drinks consumed by those affiliated with the Hilton Group’s (Annette’s group), and actually signed the patron’s name to those individual vouchers, not requiring the patron’s authorized signatures.

The FBI has NOT looked at any of the evidence (DNA) in over a year, which still remains in the laboratory. When the FBI came to my home to question ME, they specifically told me that they suspected “foul play”. Now, they say this may not be true.

Without questioning key passengers, looking at the evidence, the simple fact that the camera was deliberately covered-up, her shattered purse, all of this is totally absurd!

As far as the cruise line goes, how helpful are they? Let us view the videos of the ship, particularly the ones in the casino between 9:15 - 10:00pm, because Annette had been seen talking to a crewmember at that time.

That same crewmember lied to the FBI three (3) times, as they pointed out, regarding the time frame he had been speaking with Annette that evening. Throughout the cruise, he had been calling out the numbers at the Bingo games. She had been seen talking to him around 9:30 that evening in the casino, along with an elderly gentleman (wearing a tuxedo), who is a regular cruise ship traveler.

In order to get to the Bingo Room, you must walk through the casino. The crewmember had been asked to sit next to Annette at the last bingo call, just for “good luck”, because he would not be calling out the numbers for the last and largest bingo pot of that evening. (Annette had already won twice, when HE had previously been calling out the numbers.)

Although that crewmember was seen talking with Annette at 9:30 on the night of her disappearance, and was overheard asking him if he would be at Bingo, he failed to arrive.

Keep in mind that 10:00pm was the same time that Annette was expected to arrive for the scheduled bingo game, but she too never arrived! The FBI is also aware of this and has failed to question the couple, who had seen and overheard that 9:30pm conversation between Annette and the crewmember.

John Mizener
Waukesha, WI
Tel. 800-943-2122

awakening2lite

02-21-2008, 01:33 PM

http://www.cruisebruise.com/Annette_Mizener.html

EXCERPT

The cruise had been won in a Carnival Cruise Lines raffle by Annette's mother. A letter arrived in the mail to Annette Mizener offering a chance to win another cruise, after she died.

An FBI investigation continues. Early on John Mizener says the FBI told him they suspected foul play. There were some inconsistencys in a particular crew member's responses to questioning. Since the disappearance, John Mizener, her husband, has complained about a lack of communication from Carnival and the FBI. The agency told the family several months after she vanished, that there’s evidence in a crime lab preventing the probe’s completion.

On November 21, 2005, John Mizener filed a lawsuit in Miami federal court against Carnival Cruise Lines. Mizener has hired the Milwaukee law firm Quarles & Brady and also Miami-based lawyer Charles Lipcon.

At the time, the bank was foreclosing on his home, previously protected by bankruptcy court. His financial troubles in recent months, are related to the death of his wife. The family says the incident has really messed up John's life.

UPDATE: AUGUST 3, 2006

It is not the intent of Cruise Bruise to judge whether this FBI labeled 'person of interest' is a victim, or otherwise. We will leave that up to you. It is our intent to present the details he offered, to show another side of the case. If he is innocent, as the details below indicate, then other passengers should know they may become a secondary victim.

Our person of Interest (POI) says he too has become a victim in this case, hounded by the FBI, who he alleges told lies to his fiance, his friends, and his neighbors. His account is unverified. We have withheld his name, at his request. When Cruise Bruise first began to investigate this POI, his photograph was on the web, and we took a screenshot of it at that time. The day after we contacted him, it was gone. To our knowledge, it was the only photograph of him on the web.

He is age 35, employed as a chemical engineer, is a high school graduate, with a Bachelor of Science degree in Chemical Engineering, who is working full time and going to college full time to get a degree in Network Security. He has been with his fiance since high school, and she attended his high school graduation, as well as his college graduation. He has never been married, and has no children.

He says his friends, those that have not abandoned him after the FBI visited them, might describe him as honest and helpful. He loves the outdoors, surfing, hiking, camping, watching television, computing, and loves everything Disney. He says he travels every couple months, and back then, was making trips to Disneyland every other week because he and his fiance are "HUGE Disney freaks".

In the past he has volunteered with the local Lyons Club.
On the day Annette Mizener went missing, December 4, 2004, our POI says he was on his first cruise. He was with his fiance and about 10 friends having a good time, on the last day of this cruise. He says he hasn't cruised since, and will never cruise with Carnival Cruise Lines again.

It all began with a trip out to the deck to smoke a cigarette, he says. He arrived on deck and noticed that something seemed a miss. He saw a woman's black, beaded evening handbag laying open on deck, beads from the handbag strewn about, some blood on the deck, scattered papers on deck, an overturned beverage glass, a note tucked into a life ring nearby and an emergency strobe partially out of it’s bracket. Approximately 20’ further aft, he also saw a pen. He also saw a security camera covered with paper.Though at the scene, he says he never touched anything, and had never met Annette or anyone from her family.

The covered security camera has been discussed at length since the incident, and there are those who believe this pointed to a pre-meditated murder, perhaps even a contract killing. Seeing another angle, there are people who have identified themselves publicly as police officers, who say it could very well be the camera was covered for a lover's trist on deck, and had nothing at all to do with Annette Mizener. Only the video tape would tell when the camera was covered. That is a fact only the FBI and the cruise line know for sure.

Our POI says about the same time, two security guards arrived, and collected her open handbag, then removed a large amount of cash from it. This was around 10pm according to documented accounts of the scene. He went back and joined his traveling companions, and told them about what he saw. In some subsequent trips to the scene, he was accompanied by friends who were curious as well.

He is on record as having at least six trips to the scene. After discovering the scene, he initially visited the scene a couple times at 15-30 minute internvals, saw and talked to Annette's daughter at 11:00pm and again around 1:00am. He says it wasn't until around 4:30am that security roped off the scene, over six hours after Annette disappeared. This allowed anyone to walk through the scene, look at it, touch things, or whatever. He says he packed, and left the ship with everyone else.

In one account, he stated he was "followed and harassed by Carnival Cruise Lines Security employees who insinuated that I had something to do with the passenger’s disappearance. My cabin was searched without my authorization PRIOR to the Captain announcing that there would be a ship wide search for the missing passenger."

When he was disembarking, he saw a crew member handcuffed and being lead off the ship by the Department Of Homeland Security. Another passenger says he witnessed the arrest as well, but says he doesn't know if it was related to Mizener. Then, our POI says the FBI told him in the beginning the crew member was a suspect, they had a full set of prints. But, he had left the cruise line and gone back to his native country, and they 'couldn't touch him'. He says that at that point, they began to focus on him, an American, looking for anyone they could pin the crime on. That is our first indication that the case is being treated as a crime, according to this POI.

Immediate reports from the crew, jumping to conclusions, were that it was a suicide, and there are witnesses that heard them say that in front of Annette's daughter.

After leaving the ship, he told his story numerous times, in a wide range of places, saying he "sent numerous emails and faxes with information about what had happened." to the FBI, and he contacted Annette's husband and father, to tell them what he knew as well. He also says after reading a public statement he made, Annette's family contacted him.

A month after the cruise, he received a contact from the cruise line, saying "The head of security of Carnival did call me after the cruise and ask if there was anything that they could do for me and I told him to shove it and that they needed to start thinking about Annette's family."

He alleged, "The FBI waited for over a year [she went missing December 4, 2004] to finally interview me any questions despite the fact that I sent them numerous emails and faxes with information about what had happened.". When they finally did contact him, he was surprised that FBI agents were not from Long Beach, California where the case was being handled, but from Lancaster and San Jose, California. He says, "The Lancaster agent was retiring in a few months and he said he just wanted to close the case no matter what. The San Jose agent just did not care in the beginning."

He further alleges on July 31, 2006, "I have been harassed by the FBI for over a year and it was continual." and "I have not seen or heard from the FBI in over 6 months now, but I still think of them every day."

Then, in what the POI describes as a "crazy" twist to this case, he tell us that he was labeled by the FBI as a "hit man", who traveled to Southern California to kill people, and that they somehow drew a connection from his Disneyland trips to being a hit man, to killing Annette though he has never known or come into contact with anyone who was murdered. They never told him who might of hired him to kill Annette, or for that matter the others they loosely alleged he killed. Though "They did play the murder for hire thing pretty good", he says.

It is unclear how trips to southern California relate to Mizener who lived with her husband and children in Wisconsin, while her first husband lived in Arizona.
While he did visit the scene at least a half dozen times, and contact the FBI numerous times, that might be behavior associated with some killers, but it seems very odd for a seasoned professional contract killer.

He alleges they told his fiance that he never graduated from high school nor received a college degree. He says since she attended both events, she clearly knew they were fabricating lies. Not only that, he says his diplomas are on the wall in his office. "More puzzling he was labeled as a man with a history as a "woman beater" when they spoke to his fiance, though she is the only woman he has been with since high school. "They (the FBI) kept asking her (my fiance) to just tell them that I told her I did something to Annette and they would take care of the rest." he said. It is his impression the FBI agents were fishing with the past abuse story, but didn't know the woman they were fishing with knew their story was impossible. He says his finance labeled the agents as the "Federal Bureau Of Intimidation" because of their tactics with her.

Living in a gated community, he says they staked out the community, and went door to door questioning his neighbors. In an action seen on the television show The Sopranos, he further states, the agents would wave to him as he left and entered the complex, trying to intimidate him. The intimidation and contacts with friends and neighbors cost him friendships, after he says they were told "That I was a suspect in a murder and that they should be careful around me."

In April 2006, he says a grand jury was held in Los Angeles, almost a year and half after Annette went missing, and he was requested to provide fingerprints, a full set, "inked prints of my palms, fingers, sides of fingers, fingertips, and sides of my hand." He says he offered to give DNA, they took his DNA, and "informed me that it may be months before I was cleared because the war in Iraq had a higher priority."

A grand jury is held when there are possible charges involving "capital or infamous crimes" under federal jurisdiction, as mandated under the Fifth Amendment to the United States Constitution. It is an opportunity to compel testimony from a person of interest, giving evidence against him/herself, without legal representation, and can prove useful in building up the case they will present at the final trial.

He says he has been cleared after DNA results. It would seem if his prints and/or DNA matched those found near where Annette went missing, after he stated he touched nothing, he would have been arrested by now. According to him, he offered to take a lie detector test, and the FBI refused to issue one, saying " they do not believe in them." Then he adds, "My lawyer later informed me to not take one."

Cruise Bruise wondered what might have given the FBI any idea he had a connection to past murders or crimes in his geographical region. We noted one woman missing for over three years before Annette went missing, who was from his hometown of 65,000 people, and who somewhat fit the description of a woman he was seen photographed with, though clearly not her.

There was also a case of a missing woman in a town he had recently visited, who also fit the same loose description of Annette. She went missing a few months before Annette. All the women were 30 to 40 years old, married, blond, blue eyed, around 5'5" tall and none have been found. Other than these facts and their proximity to places the POI has been, there seems to be no connection between these victims, and the person of interest in the Annette Mizener case.

In addition, in our research, we noted men with his name, in various states, who had been wanted in connection with or arrested for drug related charges, bomb threats, and child support arrears.

Then, perhaps another coincidence, there was the one who is known by fellow spelunkers, as an overly curious risk taker, in a high stakes game of trespassing in a metropolitan area near the hometown of this person of interest. They are known for trespassing on abandoned subway stations and underground tunnels to closed mental hospitals and decommissioned military bunkers. A man with the POI's name, specifically trespassed at Alcatraz prison, and is known for using old topographical maps that sometimes show locations that no longer appear on newer ones, and night-vision goggles, while picking locks, and dodging guards.

There is yet another, who has a blog that is severely critical of the U.S. federal government. He comes right out and calls current U.S president George W Bush a liar, and bares some likeness to our POI. Could it be the FBI drew some connection between one of them, and this man? If they did, is all this enough to give the FBI reason to hound this person of interest, and ruin his reputation in the course of the Annette Mizener investigation?

The account of this tragedy by the person of interest, points to Annette Mizener being murdered, the murderer walking free in another nation, and an innocent passenger being ruined in his community. It is only one possible scenario in this missing passenger case.

It is worthy to note, that he has posted extensively on the web, and those that have passed judgement on him, may not have done so based solely on what the FBI has said, so much as what he himself has said in his writings. His apparent overly curious nature, may have done him more personal harm than it did the case good.

Another cold cruise case that is beginning to show evidence of a crew member possibly involved in an incident is here. We have updated that case on August 2, 2006 to include new evidence.

However, the details, as outlined by this POI, remind us of a secondary victim, Richard Jewel of Georgia. He was another person first on the scene in the case of the Centennial Olympic Park bombing, who suffered humiliation in the public eye, sued, and won at least one $500,000 judgement as a result. Later, Eric Robert Rudolph plead guilty to the bombing, and several other bombings of abortion clinics.