FBI: Cruise ship passenger killed wife because 'she would not stop laughing at me'

[mahatmakanejeeves]

Source: Anchorage Daily News

FBI: Cruise ship passenger killed wife because ‘she would not stop laughing at me’
Author: Tegan Hanlon clock Updated: 15 minutes ago calendar Published 3 hours ago

A man accused of killing his wife Tuesday aboard a cruise ship off Southeast Alaska was caught trying to drag her body to the balcony of their blood-splattered cabin, according to an FBI criminal complaint.

Kenneth Manzanares, 39, of Santa Clara, Utah, has been arrested on murder charges in the killing of his 39-year-old wife, Kristy Manzanares, aboard the Emerald Princess, the U.S. Attorney's Alaska office announced Thursday.

The ship was in U.S. territorial waters beyond Alaska's jurisdiction, putting the case in federal hands, the office said.
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Passengers told CBS News that the couple was on the ship with a large group, including their children. The Manzanares' former neighbors said the couple was celebrating an anniversary, according to CBS.
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Check back for updates on this developing story.

Tegan Hanlon covers education and general assignments. She also covered the 2016 and 2017 Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race. Reach her at 907-257-4589 or [e-mail].

Read more: https://www.adn.com/alaska-news/crime-courts/2017/07/27/fbi-cruise-ship-murder-suspect-killed-wife-because-she-would-not-stop-laughing-at-me/

[LisaM]

1. "Men are afraid women will laugh at them. Women are afraid men will kill them".

This has been sourced to Margaret Atwood (though I can't find clear proof that she said it). Actually, it doesn't matter who said it, because it holds a lot of truth.

[WinkyDink]

8. I read it first in "The Gift of Fear."

[winstars]

2. Clearly, this scumbag has never seen Goodfellas....

[Pachamama]

3. Meth? Other Drug?

This sounds like very erratic response to something that only drugs seems to make a response like this...

[janx]

4. Booze could.

No doubt. It could have been anything, but yeah, it sounds as if the guy was impaired to the point of insanity.

[klook]

9. No amount of drugs or alcohol would make me, or any decent person, commit murder --

especially my own wife! Especially in front of the children!!

Holy fuck, what an awful story. I sure feel sorry for those kids.

"My life is over," says the asshole. No, your wife's life is over, and your kids' lives have a shadow hanging over them now that will be there the rest of their lives.

[yardwork]

11. Domestic violence. This is tragically common.

The only reason this is getting publicity is because it happened on a cruise ship.

[geek tragedy]

13. Toxic masculinity nt

[janx]

5. More info:

http://www.cbsnews.com/news/she-would-not-stop-laughing-at-me-affidavit-reveals-new-details-in-cruise-ship-killing/


It is even more sickening since their kids were there when it happened.

[Pachamama]

6. This is really awful....the kids watched their father beat and kill their mother and splatter her

....blood all over the cabin and then try to throw her body off the balcony....

Sick....

[alphafemale]

10. Heartbreaking. Those little ones will carry this burden to their grave.

And sadly may act out/accept domestic violence as the "way things are."

[bucolic_frolic]

7. That poor guy

She thought he was Jeff Sessions and now he's up for murder.

Mistaken identity is a real killer.

[Judi Lynn]

12. Looks as if he showed her, doesn't it?

Disgusting idiot Kenneth and his late wife, Kristy

[tblue37]

14. When he was arrested, he said, "My life is over." No, a* *hole, HER life is over--

because you murdered her!

That he said such a thing after killing his wife, the mother of his 3 daughters, tells you that he is and always has been a self-absorbed pr**k.

He wasn't even thinking of how traumatized his kids must be. He was thinking only of how unfortunate this is all going to be for him.