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The ship was scuttled following an act of mass murder by the ship's captain, Julian Harvey, on November 12, 1961. Harvey died by suicide on November 17 within hours of receiving news that 11-year-old Terry Jo Duperrault had survived the scuttling.
The man in the dinghy shouted up to an officer on the tanker, identifying himself as Julian Harvey, captain of the ketch Bluebelle. The little girl in the raft, he said, was Terry Jo Duperrault...
The girl was also the sole witness to murder. About the time of her rescue, the only other survivor — Captain Julian Arthur Harvey, 44, the Bluebelle’s skipper — was telling investigators ...
Unbeknownst to Terry Jo Duperrault, by the time she woke up on November 12, Harvey had already drowned his wife and stabbed the rest of Terry Jo’s family to death. He likely killed his wife to collect on her $20,000 double indemnity insurance policy.
Unfortunately, the man he hired to bring his family on the journey was a murderer. Julian Harvey was a former marine and World War II veteran who agreed to bring the family on the trip so that he could bring along his new wife, Mary Dene.
Why hadn’t Julian Harvey shot her, bludgeoned her, or pushed her into the water without a life preserver? He had a perfect opportunity to destroy the last bit of evidence of his murderous acts.
Arthur Duperrault was a well-to-do optometrist from Green Bay, Wis., who took his family on a cruise on a 60-foot ketch, Bluebelle, captained by a genuine war hero, ex-Air Force pilot Julian...
