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Gabriel Watson found guilty of murdering his wife Christina Watson on Great Barrier Reef

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After 5 years they finally found him guilty!


An American tourist was charged with murder yesterday for allegedly drowning his bride of 11 days on a scuba diving trip on the Great Barrier Reef during their honeymoon. Christina Mae Watson, 26, died while diving on a shipwreck near the northeastern Australian city of Townsville while her husband looked on.

Daniel Watson, 31, of Birmingham, Alabama, had claimed during police interviews that his wife had panicked a few minutes into the dive. He said that as she thrashed around in the water, she grabbed hold of his mask and pushed it off his face. He later described seeing her, with her eyes wide and arms stretched out towards him, sink into the deep.

Mr Watson was an experienced diver who had completed a diving rescue course and was acting as a “dive buddy” for his wife, who was a novice. Despite his training, he told police that he decided to go for help rather than attempt to rescue his wife. One of the leaders of the dive trip pulled Mrs Watson to the surface, but attempts to resuscitate her failed.

The incident in October 2003 was captured by another member of the dive party who stopped to photograph his dive buddy with an underwater camera. In the background Mrs Watson can be seen in the murky depths as the dive master swims towards her.

Police believe that Mr Watson turned off the air supply of his wife until she was dead, or nearly dead, then turned it back on and let her sink to the seabed. The murder charge followed several months of inquiry by a Queensland coroner, who finally ruled yesterday that there were suspicious circumstances to the death. Mr Watson was not in court to hear the indictment against him and no plea was entered on his behalf. His lawyer argued that there was no motive for murder.

But Mrs Watson’s father, Tommy Thomas, claimed that his daughter had told him before the wedding that her fiancé had asked her to increase her life insurance and change the policy to make him the sole beneficiary. Mr Thomas told the court that his daughter decided to lie to Mr Watson and pretend that she had made the changes.

Yesterday police began preparing a warrant for Mr Watson’s arrest, the first step in what is expected to be a drawn-out extradition battle. It is not known where Mr Watson is living.

The inquest in Townsville heard that police, who believed initially that the death was an accident, started to become suspicious when Mr Watson changed some details of his story.

A postmortem examination found no medical condition that could have explained the death of Mrs Watson. Tests showed that there was nothing wrong with her diving gear.

In his findings David Glasgow, the Queensland state coroner, said that the exact circumstances may never be known but there was enough evidence of foul play to justify a murder charge against her husband.

“There are only two persons who know what in fact actually occurred,” Mr Glasgow said. “One is Tina, who cannot tell us, and the other is [Mr Watson].”

He indicted Mr Watson formally on a charge of killing his wife. The police said a warrant would be issued for his arrest and that prosecutors would prepare an application for his extradition from the US.

Mr Thomas, his wife, Cindy, and other family members watched as the coroner read out his findings via a live video link to Alabama. “We’re actually relieved to hear the coroner’s findings. It’s something that we have dealt with for quite some time and it validated our beliefs,” Mr Thomas said.
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http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/us_and_americas/article4182003.ece
 
I saw an episode of something or other on that the other week. They were with a bunch of elderly couples, and he was suppossed to be some sort of expert scuba diver, but she lost the line and drifter away in the current and he couldn't save her from what he said.

Is this the same case?
 
hardrock said:
I saw an episode of something or other on that the other week. They were with a bunch of elderly couples, and he was suppossed to be some sort of expert scuba diver, but she lost the line and drifter away in the current and he couldn't save her from what he said.

Is this the same case?
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I'm not sure, I know the group of people accidently took a picture of her dead on the sea floor.

It's very sad, she was a very pretty happy looking young woman.

http://images.google.com/imgres?img...um=1&hl=en&rls=GGIH,GGIH:2007-02,GGIH:en&sa=N
 
Husband murders new wife by turning off her air as they scuba dive

Seriously, what the fuck is wrong with people?

Bridegroom Gabriel Watson charged with wife's scuba-dive murder


An American tourist was charged with murder yesterday for allegedly drowning his bride of 11 days on a scuba diving trip on the Great Barrier Reef during their honeymoon. Christina Mae Watson, 26, died while diving on a shipwreck near the northeastern Australian city of Townsville while her husband looked on.

Daniel Watson, 31, of Birmingham, Alabama, had claimed during police interviews that his wife had panicked a few minutes into the dive. He said that as she thrashed around in the water, she grabbed hold of his mask and pushed it off his face. He later described seeing her, with her eyes wide and arms stretched out towards him, sink into the deep.

Mr Watson was an experienced diver who had completed a diving rescue course and was acting as a “dive buddy” for his wife, who was a novice. Despite his training, he told police that he decided to go for help rather than attempt to rescue his wife. One of the leaders of the dive trip pulled Mrs Watson to the surface, but attempts to resuscitate her failed.

The incident in October 2003 was captured by another member of the dive party who stopped to photograph his dive buddy with an underwater camera. In the background Mrs Watson can be seen in the murky depths as the dive master swims towards her.

Police believe that Mr Watson turned off the air supply of his wife until she was dead, or nearly dead, then turned it back on and let her sink to the seabed. The murder charge followed several months of inquiry by a Queensland coroner, who finally ruled yesterday that there were suspicious circumstances to the death. Mr Watson was not in court to hear the indictment against him and no plea was entered on his behalf. His lawyer argued that there was no motive for murder.

But Mrs Watson’s father, Tommy Thomas, claimed that his daughter had told him before the wedding that her fiancé had asked her to increase her life insurance and change the policy to make him the sole beneficiary. Mr Thomas told the court that his daughter decided to lie to Mr Watson and pretend that she had made the changes.

Yesterday police began preparing a warrant for Mr Watson’s arrest, the first step in what is expected to be a drawn-out extradition battle. It is not known where Mr Watson is living.

The inquest in Townsville heard that police, who believed initially that the death was an accident, started to become suspicious when Mr Watson changed some details of his story.

A postmortem examination found no medical condition that could have explained the death of Mrs Watson. Tests showed that there was nothing wrong with her diving gear.

In his findings David Glasgow, the Queensland state coroner, said that the exact circumstances may never be known but there was enough evidence of foul play to justify a murder charge against her husband.

“There are only two persons who know what in fact actually occurred,” Mr Glasgow said. “One is Tina, who cannot tell us, and the other is [Mr Watson].”

He indicted Mr Watson formally on a charge of killing his wife. The police said a warrant would be issued for his arrest and that prosecutors would prepare an application for his extradition from the US.

Mr Thomas, his wife, Cindy, and other family members watched as the coroner read out his findings via a live video link to Alabama. “We’re actually relieved to hear the coroner’s findings. It’s something that we have dealt with for quite some time and it validated our beliefs,” Mr Thomas said.
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Thats her lying in the background...

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If youre gonna kill your wife, at least have the courtesy to do it in a way that isnt nearly as agonizing.
 
Re: Husband murders new wife by turning off her air as they scuba dive

75th said:
If youre gonna kill your wife, at least have the courtesy to do it in a way that isnt nearly as agonizing.
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Or obvious
 
Re: Husband murders new wife by turning off her air as they scuba dive

5 years to file??? Good luck trying to find and extradite him now.

Didn't the morons connect increasing life insurance and suspicious death together? It's the oldest trick in the book.

And why didn't the others immediately swim to her and try to give her air???

r
 
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superdave said:
Or obvious
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Indeed.

"Yeah, she panicked and instead of following her basic instincts to get out of the water, she just decided to swim deeper. Yeah, thats it."
 
Re: Husband murders new wife by turning off her air as they scuba dive

A woman and a dive instructor did the same thing to a man in Texas! I can't believe people!! You can't get away with nothin these days!!!
 
Re: Husband murders new wife by turning off her air as they scuba dive

75th said:
Fucker. I bet mine will get more views and posts because the title just jumps out at choo.

Who the fuck knew who Gabriel Watson was by name?
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Probably.

It's all good though
 
Re: Husband murders new wife by turning off her air as they scuba dive

velvett said:
Probably.

It's all good though
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Conserving time by not reading multiple threads on the same topic = pwned!
 
that fuckstick should go down just for watching his wife drown while he swam away. i guarantee thats all the jury needed to hear to fry this fucker.
 
Re: Husband murders new wife by turning off her air as they scuba dive

Unreal that he thought he could get away with it. They teach you basic shit about how to deal with your buddy not having an air supply in OPEN WATER - Hi, alternate air source anyone? Rescue diver class teaches dealing with panicked divers and first aid under water. What a massive idiot.
 
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pwned by the only chick that has her shit together
 
that is sick and twisted, I'm posting in this thread cause I like velv better then that other dude who's name I don't even remember at this point.
 
FriendlyCanadian said:
that is sick and twisted, I'm posting in this thread cause I like velv better then that other dude who's name I don't even remember at this point.
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Me too.
 
digger said:
Merged 'em. So there.
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wow that was weird... I was reading the other one when u merged them. I hit to go to the next page and it was GONE!!!


then I read this thread and I saw all the same post..


HAHA you got me!!
 
Razorguns said:
chances of him being found and being extradited - 1%

r
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Probably, but it's got to be some kind of validation for the the girl's parents and being that his insurance money has been cut off he will have to live off the grid the rest of his life so no one can find him.
 
Re: Husband murders new wife by turning off her air as they scuba dive

nefertiti said:
Unreal that he thought he could get away with it. They teach you basic shit about how to deal with your buddy not having an air supply in OPEN WATER - Hi, alternate air source anyone? Rescue diver class teaches dealing with panicked divers and first aid under water. What a massive idiot.
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Not sure he wasn't an idiot, I think he took the class so he would know just how to kill her and then make it look like a tragic accident, because how would a trained person not be able to help her unless it was a really bad situation.

Had he not been caught in so many lies he may have never been found guilty.
 
velvett said:
Probably, but it's got to be some kind of validation for the the girl's parents and being that his insurance money has been cut off he will have to live off the grid the rest of his life so no one can find him.
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i love how the wife OWNED him near the end "yes honey, i changed the ins policy". total ownage!

women pick non-homicidal husbands. thank you.

r
 
hanselthecaretaker said:
Gotta love the court system. Swift justice in action!!
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Which is why I believe in justice of the street. OJ would never have killed one of my family members and gotten away with it. This is one thing those mobsters and gangbangers got right.

r
 
Re: Husband murders new wife by turning off her air as they scuba dive

velvett said:
Not sure he wasn't an idiot, I think he took the class so he would know just how to kill her and then make it look like a tragic accident, because how would a trained person not be able to help her unless it was a really bad situation.

Had he not been caught in so many lies he may have never been found guilty.
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You don't need to take a rescue diver class to know how to cut off someone's air supply. Heck, you learn where all that connects in the first pool session of open water.

That's my point though. He's a fool and frankly so are the people who took five years to figure this out - that's equally stunning to me. MINIMAL amounts of training would have saved her life, and he was all the way up to rescue diver, which you can't take till you've taken a class in open water, advanced open water, and emergency first response.

Just this past dive trip I took, one of the two guys I was diving with, Andy, had some kind of blockage in the second stage of his reg and wasn't getting air. I swam right over with my octopus (it's a second mouthpeice attached to your regulator for exactly these situations) and let him breath off of my air till we figured out what was wrong (even though he could have used his own octopus, but he was a little panicked at that point and not thinking clearly). It was no big deal and once it was fixed we continued the rest of the dive. Her having a legit air problem should have been exactly that kind of blip on the radar with the worst case scenario being the two of them having to surface earlier than they would have otherwise. I've never heard of someone dying from a lack of air unless a) they were diving alone, b) they were diving so deep that nitrogen narcosis became a factor or c) they got tangled in something. Hell, the fact that she didn't swim to the surface in a panic and risk dying of the bends tells me all I need to know. Someone drowning doesn't sit at the bottom of the ocean gulping water.

The more I think about it the more I can't believe it took them five years.
 
Its the same kind of case as the guy up north Entislwle or some name like that ... He shot his baby and his wife and fled to Britian. They just remanned him back to the US to face murder charges..
 
Re: Husband murders new wife by turning off her air as they scuba dive

nefertiti said:
You don't need to take a rescue diver class to know how to cut off someone's air supply. Heck, you learn where all that connects in the first pool session of open water.

That's my point though. He's a fool and frankly so are the people who took five years to figure this out - that's equally stunning to me. MINIMAL amounts of training would have saved her life, and he was all the way up to rescue diver, which you can't take till you've taken a class in open water, advanced open water, and emergency first response.

Sorry, I wasn't clear, I think he took the class to make himself look innocent after that fact, like how could he not be able to save her with his training. Like when you said it would take minimal amounts of training it I believe in his mind he thought it would not make him look guilty of premeditation but of stupidity or panic.

Just this past dive trip I took, one of the two guys I was diving with, Andy, had some kind of blockage in the second stage of his reg and wasn't getting air. I swam right over with my octopus (it's a second mouthpeice attached to your regulator for exactly these situations) and let him breath off of my air till we figured out what was wrong (even though he could have used his own octopus, but he was a little panicked at that point and not thinking clearly). It was no big deal and once it was fixed we continued the rest of the dive. Her having a legit air problem should have been exactly that kind of blip on the radar with the worst case scenario being the two of them having to surface earlier than they would have otherwise. I've never heard of someone dying from a lack of air unless a) they were diving alone, b) they were diving so deep that nitrogen narcosis became a factor or c) they got tangled in something. Hell, the fact that she didn't swim to the surface in a panic and risk dying of the bends tells me all I need to know. Someone drowning doesn't sit at the bottom of the ocean gulping water.

There were many articles about this and everything that you've stated here has been pondered as well. I was hoping you'd see this thread because of your diving experience it would be great to see your reaction.

The more I think about it the more I can't believe it took them five years.
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Ahhh, I see what you meant now, vel...yeah, I can see that, though he'd still be an idiot for it lol.
 
What a fuck up. The motive is obvious, he thought she changed her life insurance policy.

wow. I had never even heard of this, should be interesting to follow.
 
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