GALVESTON, Texas - A man has been charged with murder after investigators say he admitted to beating and choking a woman aboard a cruise ship that returned to Galveston on Monday, according to federal court documents.

Jason Leon Watford is accused of killing the woman Sunday evening aboard the MSC Seascape while the ship was traveling in international waters, according to a criminal complaint filed in the Southern District of Texas.

The FBI began investigating after the woman's body was discovered inside a cabin with multiple facial injuries.