The most suspicious thing is that he didn't try to rescue her. If he was a novice diver I could understand. I'm also rescue certified and don't imagine how I could let someone I loved down like this.
I saw this earlier on the news feeds....there was some mention of her increasing her life insurance policy at his request....this murder really disgusted me....hope they throw the book at this guy.
Be careful who you marry.
It certainly doesn’t look good. The photo shows him swimming away and another diver headed in her direction.
I heard his attorney on the news yesterday. He’s trying to establish that the victim’s father hated his client as if that makes him innocent.
I don’t know. The prosecutor will have to prove his acts without any doubt. Stranger things have happened.
Although I sympathize with the family, how did this ever make it into a court room? It doesn’t sound like there’s any evidence that he did it...
“Despite his training, he told police that he decided to go for help rather than attempt to rescue his wife.”
Ah, the ole Ted Kennedy defense.
Rather than trying to save her, he swims to shore to seek help.
I’m sure he thought she would be perfectly fine and healthy as she sank to the bottom.
He should run for Senator of Massachusetts to replace the swimmer when he dies. They both think alike.
Hopefully though justice may at least find the diver creep and stick him in the hole for life w/o parole....or better yet....death w/o parole.
About a month ago they told this story on Dateline or 48 hours or one of those shows. Although he asked her to increase the insurance, apparently her Dad, an insurance agent, told her not to. I don’t know if he knew this. The show was much ado about not so much...the parents were bit bulls and I suspect this is why this is happening now. Not saying he didn’t do it...he did leave her there. And they tried to make him look like a rotten guy, but the woman did marry him. Why do women marry lousy men? Is being alone that horrible that you would rather live with a scumbag than being by yourself? I don’t get it.
He had asked her to increase her life insurance and name him sole beneficiary. She told him she had done so. She hadn’t according to her family. Does Australia have the death penalty?
I dove a few times. The hardest thing is actually putting your face under the water and trusting the equipment with your life. It was a big mental challenge to get over, at least it was for me. I felt kinda stupid because the whole group had to come in early because I was going through my air too fast. I could understand her panic, and you are right, experienced divers know how to deal with us rookies.
I’m also rescue trained and couldn’t imagine doing something like that. I wonder if he turned her air off when she wasn’t looking. Probably pulled her regulater out of her mouth.
Wouldn’t it be great if we started making the punishment fit the crime??
In this case if convicted the perp would be placed in sealed tank and water would be pumped in until it completely filled.
Think about that for a moment. No matter what the guys motive was here or how desperate he may have been. IF HE KNEW, that if convicted this would have been his punishment do you think he would have done this?
Okay so he does it another way. NO PROBLEM. He drugs her and sets the house of fire. If convicted he gets tied to a stake and lit up.
On so on and so on.
Gruesome? Sure. But them so was the wifes death.
Cruel? Who gives a rats ass. The guy is (if convicted) a murdering scumbag.
Life sentences surely do not deter murder. Prisons are oevrflowing with people serving life sentences.
And for those that say the death penalty does not deter muder I say lets try this way for 10 years and then tell me it doesn’t work............
Good proof-reading by the Times/sarc. Who’s Gabriel and who is Daniel? Two different people?
He'll end up being a senator some day!
On the true crimes shows, you can observe countless murder defendants in the annals of crime found guilty on circumstantial evidence alone, even less than in this case.
It all depends on any forensic science and/or how skillfully the prosecutor weaves the case, especially the psychology of the principals, i.e., the alleged perp, the victim.....and even of the marriage itself.
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It wouldn’t be the first time a man killed his wife. They usually wait until after the honeymoon though.
I read a prior account of his incident; I don’t recall the exact location, but it may have been on the FOX website. It mentioned that what first aroused suspicions among Australian investigators was that the groom changed key details in his story. Fwiw.
They don’t actually say much about evidence in the story.
A motive perhaps, but they don’t spell out much more than that.
I can get panicky just thinking about diving. Poor woman.