This is an old story.
Seems there always is a flurry of these after good BC topics get started.
FRY his disgusting, perverted BUTT! GUILTY! GUILTY!
I could understand if they had been married 25 years, but on the honeymoon? Damn.
11 days and he’s ready to drown her? That’s practically “annulment territory” so you don’t evenhave to get all bent out of shape about property settlement and such.
I just finished reading the rest of the article. It said possible motive was she had a modest life insurance. I can't imagine anyone killing for a modest insurance, but I guess there are people who kill for even less.
Remember this from shortly after it happened. Glad to see they are charging him.
George Joseph Smith, please call the office!
The article doesn’t give much information and appears that only a now produced photograph is providing circumstantial evidence only.
Based only on information given it is highly plausible and the women did in fact panic and sink while the husband didn’t have enough air to give chase.
The guy sounds like a real piece of work. From another article:
Kneeling before a freshly dug, unmarked grave at Southern Heritage Cemetery in Birmingham, Alabama, is a tall, thickset young man with dark hair and an oval, expressionless face. He is reading the card on a bunch of flowers. He gets up, goes to his car and removes a pair of bolt-cutters. With the efficiency of a seasoned handyman, he cuts through the wire bicycle lock binding the flowers to a stake in the ground. He tosses the flowers away, dumps the severed wire in a rubbish bin, strolls to his car and drives off.
The grave is that of Christina Watson – Tina to her friends and family – who died, aged 26, on her honeymoon. The man destroying the flowers laid there by her father is 31-year old David Gabriel Watson – Gabe – Tina’s husband of 11 days. Until police caught him on a hidden camera, Gabe denied it was he who, for almost a year, had been destroying his dead wife’s flowers.
How could he possibly know she was drowning?
Its not like she could scream or anything - he could hear her if she did.
If you are not physically looking, a war could be going on around and you wouldn’t know it.
An “experienced” diver would have stayed with the victum and signalled for help. Banging a metal object (like his diver’s knife) can be heard from great distances. I notice that he was wearing an octopus regulator. This means he had a spare mouthpiece to share with her if she had run out of air. Also, he had to know she would be fully drowned in the time it would take him to surface and get “help.”
The motive seems a little weak though. They may have been “married” only 11 days, but did they cohabit for a long time before. Was there conflict....another woman....? Questions that would require a stateside investigation. I suspect the man is guilty of murder or just neglient homocide (allowed her to drown when the opportunity arose).
However, I don’t think he should be extradited until Federal and State police do some investigating. If they can come up with a tainted history on the couple, the case against the accused would be better prosecuted in Austriala.
Too bad there isn’t a way to try him here in the states especially in Alabama with its death penalty. I know there is no death penalty in Australia.
Kills his wife on the honeymoon!
Dude didn’t waste any time, did he?