The Family That Went On a Cruise And Whose Mother Disappeared On The Ship Without Leaving a Trace

Based On A True Story
4 min readMar 22, 2024

*Warning: This story was written with the assistance of an AI writing program.

In 2017, Daniel Belling, 46, and Xing Lei, 38, were married and lived in Ireland with their two children of 6 and 4 years old.

On February 9, the four of them boarded the MSC magnificent cruise to take a tour of the Mediterranean.

After set sailing, the ship stopped at the ports of Genoa, Malta, Greece and Cyprus. However, on February 20, when the crew members carried out a passenger count, they noticed that Xing Li was not inside.

Daniel never reported her disappearance to the ship’s crew and at the end of the cruise he went with his children to Rome airport to take a plane back to Ireland, but once there he was arrested by…

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Based On A True Story

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