Woman reported missing from cruise ship from Toledo

JOHN SEEWER

Associated Press

TOLEDO, Ohio - The family of a Toledo woman identified Wednesday as the passenger missing from a cruise ship packed boxes at her house and said they had little information about her disappearance.

Tammy Grogan, 35, was reported missing from a four-day cruise from Miami to Key West and Calica, Mexico, authorities said. She was last seen by relatives early Sunday. Miami-based Carnival Cruise Lines said her relatives did not report her missing until Monday, when the ship Imagination returned to Miami.

Judy Orihuela, an FBI spokeswoman in Miami, released the identification and said the investigation into Grogan's disappearance was ongoing. Orihuela said no foul play was suspected.

Grogan, her 14-year-old son, her sister and two friends were all on the cruise, relatives told WTOL-TV in Toledo.

Her family returned home Tuesday and found items including a computer missing from her apartment. Police also discovered that jewelry and some credit cards were gone, but they found no evidence of a forced entry, according to a police report.

Friends and relatives, who would not give their names, filled boxes and loaded them into a van Wednesday at the one-story brick apartment Grogan shared with her son.

One of Grogan's relatives said they knew very little about the disappearance or the investigation.

Disappearances aboard cruise ships are not entirely uncommon. The International Council of Cruise Lines, an industry lobbying group, reported earlier this year that a review of data from 15 lines showed 24 missing people were reported from 2003 to 2005.

Melissa Sansom, who lived a few doors down from Grogan and once worked at the apartment complex, said Grogan "was the cleanest tenant that lived here