The State - News from Feb. 24, 1986
U.S. prosecutors relinquished jurisdiction to Canada in the case of Robert Frisbee, 58, accused of killing wealthy society widow Muriel Barnett, 80, by hitting her over the head with a champagne bottle in the $1,600-a-day penthouse cabin aboard the Royal Viking Star while it was in Canadian waters last Aug. 19. Frisbee, who had worked for the woman and her late husband for 20 years and who was her secretary and traveling companion since the husband’s death, has claimed he suffered from blackouts and was drinking the night she was killed.
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