Dark Voyage

An Aspiring Actress Dies Under Mysterious Circumstances

(CBS)  We have no way of verifying if Geoff went in and out of the cabin at the times he said he did or if anyone else might have entered, because on this cruise, on this particular weekend, the key lock, which records all entries to the door of cabin R-149 malfunctioned.

We do know this about that fateful day: as CPR was being performed on his dying girlfriend, Geoff mentions those missing drugs to the doctor and nurse.

"I told them, you know while they were working, I said, 'I have methadone. I have Vicodin. You know give her. If she had taken that, give her something for that do whatever you can,'" Geoff explains.

Is it possible that Ashley, the young woman with the reputation for being so anti-drug, willingly took the methadone herself?

The ship’s incident report from that day offers yet another clue: in a statement attributed to Geoff, Ashley had an abortion three weeks before the cruise and was quote “quite depressed at times.”

"She was upset over having to make that kind of decision. And I won’t deny that. She did not take it lightly," Jamie says. "But it was the appropriate amount of sadness."

"I was with her a day or two before she went on the cruise, she was not depressed. She was talking about getting back next week and her appointment with another agent that she was going to hopefully sign with," John Debney says.

Geoff also told Carnival about an earlier incident when Ashley "had attempted to consume a large quantity of medication – Aspirin – six months ago."

"She had brought up something about something that happened at her house, and that she had taken too much Tylenol, or something, or some kind of over the counter medication. And, but it was okay, because her mother was there, you know it was a stupid idea. But she was just depressed at the time. It wasn’t like she was a suicidal person. She wasn’t," Geoff says.

Jamie denies that her daughter ever took a large amount of Aspirin. "That never happened. I mean that just unequivocally never happened," she stays.

Still, there is another theory offered by Jeanne Ginsburg, Geoff's mom. Jeannie says that Ashley’s had a flair for the dramatic - remember Ashley wanted Geoff to stay with her that night in their room. She didn’t want him to go back to the casino without her and there was a disagreement.

"So in this scenario though she would have taken some to get attention from Geoffrey? Is that what you’re suggesting?" Lagattuta asks Jeanne.

"I thought maybe just to scare him a little bit. Like don’t leave me like that again. Or you know something like that," she says.

But there’s one last possible explanation. Geoff may have set in motion events that would lead to a terrible accident.

He doesn’t deny he was the one who brought the methadone on board the ship. In fact Geoff admits he hid the methadone in a bottle of over the counter cold medicine, like Nyquil or Dayquil in order to smuggle it on.

In Ashley’s home video, Geoff seemed to celebrate when he clears port security. "We’re getting ready to load the boat. And we got past the dogs," he said into the camera.

There is one more small detail in this story that may have triggered absolute disaster. Ashley’s mother says her daughter wasn’t feeling well before the cruise and may have reached for that bottle of cold medication.

"So it’s highly likely that she would have taken some Nyquil," Jamie remarks.

Jamie says Ashley wouldn't have taken something from the bottle, had she known it was filled with methadone.

But Geoff insists Ashley did know. "I was with her and I told her about it. I had put the methadone in the bottle right in front her," he says.

Asked if he thinks Ashley took it by accident, Geoff says, "I don’t know."

"If she took it by accident that would imply that she didn’t remember that you had put methadone in that bottle of Dayquil. It seems pretty far fetched to forget something like that," Lagattuta remarks.

"I don’t know what happened. I have—I’ll never know. And that can—I that’s one thing that I’ve come to understand or accept is that I’ll never know what happened," he replies.