Crime & Safety
Wife Of Boston Globe Reporter Drowns Off Cape Cod
Jenny Phillips, a documentary filmmaker, drowned Monday after jumping from her boat to swim to shore.
NANTUCKET, MA – A documentary filmmaker and wife of a Boston Globe reporter drowned Monday off the coast of Nantucket, according to her husband. Jenny Phillips, 76, died after jumping from her boat to swim to shore.
Her husband, Boston Globe State House bureau chief Frank Phillips, said she was an experienced swimmer and it was not a rare move for her. Her body was found on a beach in Wauwinet around 6:30 or 7 p.m., he told the Globe.
Phillips and her husband were married for over 50 years and have two children and two grandchildren. The couple lived in Concord and had a summer house on Nantucket.
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