FBI probes apparent cruise ship slaying

SAN DIEGO, July 16 (UPI) -- The FBI says it is investigating the killing of a California woman aboard a cruise ship that docked in San Diego Thursday.

Agents were dispatched aboard a U.S. Coast Guard cutter to the Carnival Elation Tuesday night after Shirley McGill, 55, Winnetka, Calif., was discovered dead after a domestic dispute was reported in her cabin.

An FBI spokesman told The San Diego Union-Tribune the woman's husband was locked up in the ship's brig by crew members who found the body. The man's name was not released.

Meanwhile, evidence technicians boarded the Carnival Elation when it arrived at the downtown waterfront Thursday at the end of a cruise to the Mexican resort town of Cabo San Lucas.