In the late afternoon or early evening of 13 August 1978, Foxy Lady was seized, off Koh Tang (Tang Island), by a patrol boat of the Democratic Kampuchean navy. Two Americans, Lance McNamara and James Clark, had been seized under similar circumstances in late April, while sailing a yacht named Mary K. off Koh Wai (Wai Island)"For four Americans, a savage end to an Asian caper," by Steve Robinson, Life, March 1980 According to New Zealander Rob Hamill, brother of Stuart's murdered friend, Kerry, Foxy Lady had been blown into Cambodian waters by a storm."Rob's victim testimony to Extraordinary Court Chambers of Cambodia," 17 August 2009. Brother Number One blog, http://bno-documentary.blogspot.com/2009/08/robs-victim-testimony-to-extraordinary.html Other sources suggest the little bedar had ventured here intentionally, on her way to Bangkok, possibly to pick up a load of Thai marijuana.Foxy Lady: Truth, Memory and the Death of Western Yachtsmen in Democratic Kampuchea. By David Kattenburg. The Key Publishing, Toronto. March 2011 Only one account of Foxy Ladys brutal seizure exists—a single paragraph in one of the "confessions" S-21 interrogators would force John Dewhirst to write in early September: Stuart was shot during the seizure, Dewhirst told his Khmer Rouge captors, and either drowned or was abandoned in the water."Canadian believed among victims: 12 'spies' executed in Cambodia", by Jim Laurie. The Vancouver Sun, 4 January 1980, pE20 Dewhirst and Kerry Hamill were dragged off to Democratic Kampuchea's preeminent "security office," in Phnom Penh, known at the time as S-21. S-21 would later be called "Tuol Sleng" by Vietnamese forces that overthrew the Khmer Rouge in January 1979."Voices from S-21: Terror and History in Pol Pot's Secret Prison," by David Chandler, University of California Press, 1999"Facing Death in Cambodia," by Peter Maguire, Columbia University Press, 2005. Like the six other Western yachtsmen imprisoned at S-21 (four Americans and two Australians), Hamill and Dewhirst were forced to confess, presumably under torture, that they were CIA spies. They are believed to have been killed shortly after signing their final "confessions," in mid-October 1978.
