The body of Tina Watson (circled) lies on the sea bed after her husband had swum to the surface Posted on 11/28/2008 4:08:08 PM PST by BGHater
An American scuba diver has been charged with murdering his wife by drowning her during their honeymoon at the Great Barrier Reef.
The move allows authorities to begin the process of extraditing David Gabriel Watson, of Birmingham, Alabama, to face the charges in Australia.
Watson's wife, Christina Watson, drowned on October 22, 2003, while the couple was diving at a shipwreck off Queensland's coast, eleven days after their wedding.
The body of Tina Watson (circled) lies on the sea bed after her husband had swum to the surface
The alleged murder only came to light after a photograph showing Mrs Watson drowning emerged.
The picture was taken by another diver who was photographing a friend in an underwater pose, unaware that a third man was desperately swimming towards the prone figure to try to save her.
By then it was too late to help 26-year-old Tina Watson, whose husband had returned to the surface.
The husband was an experienced diver and had been acting as a so-called dive buddy for his less-experienced spouse on the day she died.
He told police she panicked underwater and then sank away from him.
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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.
My husband of 30 years and I just had a hearty laugh at your comment. Thanks.
Ditto!
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.
I remember the original story, but is the attempt to extradite that old?
Those of us who understand the humor of the remark are in an exclusive club. I get a little sick of people telling me how lucky my husband and I are to have kept our marriage intact. There was some luck, but most of staying together has been because one or both of us had to learn to sit down and shut up. If you want to stay married you can't always get your way, or have the last word. And you need to be able to laugh at yourself.
The story might be old, but the actual murder charge was just handed down. The story back in Alabama was the Aussie’s were not going to press charges.
Drown him. SLOWLY. With a bit of waterboarding [say a day or two].
>This is an old story.
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>Seems there always is a flurry of these after good BC topics get started.
Conspiracy?
A Year Waterboarding sounds even better for the Scumbag Pervert Murderer!
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.
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