Eric Duane Newman, 55, pleaded guilty on Thursday to murdering his girlfriend while on the Carnival Elation.
Newman and Tamara Tucker, were on the Carnival Elation in January 2018 on a cruise that left Jacksonville to the Bahamas, when Newman tried to strangle Tucker and pushed her over the balcony of their 13th floor cabin, the Department of Justice said in a statement Thursday. Tucker hit the 11th deck after the fall and died from blunt force trauma.
Newman pleaded guilty to one count of murder in the second degree in federal court in Kansas.
An obituary posted in the Kansas City Star reported Tucker died two days after her 50th birthday.
Matt Hochberg
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