# How a couple’s dream honeymoon around the world hid a truly ‘grotesque’ crime

- URL: https://talkfuse.com/story/how-a-couples-dream-honeymoon-around-the-world-hid-a-truly-grotesque-crime/
- Published: 2026-11-08T17:40:22+00:00
- Updated: 2026-11-08T18:36:57+00:00
- Original publisher: New York Post (publisher lean: Right)
- Original article: https://nypost.com/2026/11/08/lifestyle/how-a-couples-dream-honeymoon-around-the-world-hid-a-truly-grotesque-crime/
- Topics: Culture, Travel, World

## Key points

- Debbie’s travel emails reassured family during a two-year trip.
- Friends noticed Jamie’s blog seemed to describe a solo journey.
- Conflicting details prompted them to investigate.

## Summary

Debbie Cooper’s emails to her family described an adventurous, open-ended honeymoon with her new husband, Jamie Starbuck, travelling through dozens of countries. But the cheerful updates and Jamie’s travel blog began to raise concerns among friends and relatives, who noticed that his posts appeared to describe a solo trip and did not match Debbie’s account of where she was.

Debbie and Jamie met in 2009, moved in together within three months and married less than a year later. Over the following two years, Debbie sent occasional emails but no promised photographs, while friends noted that Jamie’s posts rarely mentioned her; when they also spotted conflicting location details, they compared notes and began investigating.

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