Tammy Grogan
Missing Passenger On Cruise Ship
Carnival Cruise Lines Imagination - September 10, 2006
Tammy Grogan
Date: September 10, 2006
Cruise Bruise: Missing Overboard
Bruise Location: Gulf Of Mexico
Age: 35
Home Town: Ohio
Cruise Line: Carnival Cruise Lines
Ship: Imagination
Details:
Tammy worked for a local Dentist in the West Toledo area of Ohio. She is described as being very nice and very pleasant by those who knew her.
The missing cruise ship passenger, previously unidentified, was named on September 13, 2006. She was traveling with her 14 year old son, sister, and two friends, on a four-day cruise to Key West and Calica, which is the port for Playa del Carmen. The ship's last port of call in Mexico was Playa del Carmen on the Yucatan peninsula. A family member reported Tammy misssing, 32 hours after she was last seen.
Initial reports from the U.S. Coast Guard said that Tammy Grogran was from Minnesota, but second round reports which quote the FBI indicate she was from Ohio.
Carnival Cruise Lines says, on September 11, 2006 a guest approached the Information Desk on board the cruise ship Imagination to report a family member missing.
Robert Grogan, a family member, says they thought Tammy was enjoying herself on the ship, and they only became concerned when she didn't show up for a meeting. Then, when the ship docked and they still hadn't seen her, they notified the ship she was missing.
Tammy was last seen by family aboard the Imagination around 1:30 a.m. on Sunday September 10, 2006, Lt. Cmdr. Chris O'Neil, Coast Guard spokesman, said. But, she was reported missing on Monday morning.
Tammy had been seen by family after the last port of call. So, it is assumed she was lost at sea.
Ms. Grogan's cabin on the ship was searched, and some passengers were interviewed regarding her disappearance, said Judy Orihuela, an FBI spokesman in Miami.
The Coast Guard was alerted about the man overboard report around 9:30 a.m. Monday when the Imagination tied up in Miami, O'Neil said. The area where the woman went missing was in the Gulf Of Mexico.
Coast Guard spokesman Dana Warr said Monday that there were no planes or vessels launched to search for the woman because it had been nearly 36 hours since anyone had last seen her.
"We did notify the Mexican Rescue Coordination Center," Warr said, and sent a radio message to mariners in the area where Imagination sailed Sunday.
The message asked fishing, cargo and other vessels to call the Coast Guard if they see anything unusual. The area is about 400 miles from Miami, Warr said.
The Imagination returned to the Port of Miami Monday morning, September 11, 2006, from a four-day cruise to Key West and Calica. All proper authorities have been notified and a full investigation is underway.
A passenger reported they heard the page for the woman right before they disembarked, and it was stated she was staying in a penthouse suite.
In a strange turn of events, a Toledo Ohio newspaper is reporting that when her son returned home from the cruise, he found things missing from the apartment he shared with his mother. A computer, jewelry, and credit cards were taken, police said. It is unclear if the burglary and the missing person case are related. There was no evidence of a forced entry into the apartment.
Her family was at her one story brick apartment, that Tammy had shared with her son, on September 13 packing boxes and said they had little information about her disappearance. A fellow tenant described Tammy as being the cleanest tenant in the building.
This is the third unfortunate event to affect Tammy Grogan in recent years. A few years ago a fire displaced her from her apartment, now the apartment robbery, and the disappearance.
This is another Cruise Bruise labeled "Bewitching Hour" cruise ship case missing, overboard, or death. There has been a severe increase in the Bewitching Hour cases in 2006. See the others here
UPDATE DECEMBER 12, 2006
A Cruise Bruise visitor has contact us with a link to a news story. The news story posted on the web by a local television station has reported new evidence in this case.
According to the story, Tammy Grogan's son was removed from school on December 11, 2006 by police officials. They say he is a witness and they needed further information from him regarding the disappearance of his mother. There is no indication what new information police were seeking, or what they think he witnessed, when they reinterviewed her son yesterday.
UPDATE MAY 14, 2008
I thank Cruise Bruise visitor KB for giving us the following tip. There are reports than an arrest in the Tammy Grogan missing person case may be near. New information points to Tammy having been murdered either before or as a result of being thrown overboard.
Tammy's mother was on the cruise with her. She says that traveling companions spiked a glass of water they served her the night Tammy went missing, to get her out of the way while they murdered Tammy.
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