Gabe Watson Scuba Diving Murder Trial

[alohagal]

Gabe Watson Faces Murder Charges of Wife Tina Watson In Scuba Death Off the Coast of Australia - ABC News (http://abcnews.go.com/GMA/story?id=7692155&page=1)

Take from it what you will. This thread will be pertinent when the trial begins. In the meantime...all we have now are these latest media reports/analysis/what-have-you's.:D:popcorn:

[alohagal]

Accident or Murder? - FOXNews.com (http://www.foxnews.com/search-results/m/22293776/accident-or-murder.htm)

Brief analysis by Michael Carew-former NYPD Scuba Diver/Defense Attorney Joe Tacopina/
and Trial Attorney and novice scuba diver Andrew Smiley.

Strictly FYI

[alohagal]

Honeymoon Murder? - The Sun - Truveo Video Search (http://uk.truveo.com/honeymoon-murder/id/383764006)
This clip is fairly cheesy. Mentions Dive Instructor will comment ...but it is the father. Pat Brown criminal profiler says his only defense is the "stupidity" defense.

Strictly FYI

[alohagal]

For those who missed it the first time around. Here are TRANSCRIPTS of police interview with Gabe Watson.
Gabe Watson's police interview (http://www.townsvillebulletin.com.au/article/2008/01/23/10038_hpnews.html)

[Missdirected]

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If anyone cares for any "pre-trial" coverage, check this thread: http://www.scubaboard.com/forums/accidents-incidents/234548-diver-indicted-2003-gbr-mishap-58.html

[alohagal]

There is already a thread on this. One of the mods will merge them. :)
That thread was locked!! Unless you are referring to the ISSUES thread! Or a thread I haven't seen yet. Let me know where it is. Thanks.

Anyway...his next court appearance is 5 June 2009. For whatever reason he did not make the 29 May 2009 court appearance.
Australia Wire - Topix (http://www.topix.com/wire/world/australia?q=Gabe+Watson)+

[Missdirected]

That thread was locked!! Unless you are referring to the ISSUES thread! Or a thread I haven't seen yet. Let me know where it is. Thanks.

Anyway...his next court appearance is 5 June 2009. For whatever reason he did not make the 29 May 2009 court appearance.
Australia Wire - Topix (http://www.topix.com/wire/world/australia?q=Gabe+Watson)+

Sorry noticed that when I went to get the link for you :blush: Hence my changing my post. Nice to have a nice, new, clean thread anyway. :)

[alohagal]

Sorry noticed that when I went to get the link for you :blush: Hence my changing my post. Nice to have a nice, new, clean thread anyway. :)

Yes...I think so as well. Also, according to K-Girl she is working on a BLOG about the case that is not part of Scuba Board. I will list the link when it is ready!
Then things can get "heated" again over there!!:popcorn::popcorn::popcorn:

[ItsBruce]

Thanks for creating this thread. The trial promises to be very interesting.

[scubachrisw]

This is in Australia? This stuffs creepy. .
(Drew Petersonesque...) yikes

[Jayde323]

Just saw this on Fox News. Alabama Man Pleads Guilty to Honeymoon Scuba Diving Manslaughter Charge - International News | News of the World | Middle East News | Europe News - FOXNews.com (http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,525170,00.html)

This guy makes me sick...

Alabama Man Pleads Guilty to Honeymoon Scuba Diving Manslaughter Charge
Thursday , June 04, 2009

An American man charged with the murder of his wife who drowned during a honeymoon scuba diving trip has pleaded guilty to the lesser charge of manslaughter.

David Gabriel Watson, 32, from Alabama, entered his plea in Brisbane Supreme Court. The guilty plea means he will not go to trial for killing his wife and will be sentenced immediately, the Australian Associated Press reports.

It is not immediately clear what prison term Watson faces.

Watson was arrested Wednesday after voluntarily returning to Australia from the U.S. to face the charge of murdering his wife Christina known as Tina while the couple were diving at a reef off Townsville, north Queensland, in October 2003.

Watson is accused of killing his wife, Yongala Wreck, 11 days into their honeymoon while scuba diving on their honeymoon on the Great Barrier Reef.

Watson had originally denied any part in TinaÃÔ death, but inconsistencies with his story about what happened the day she died, and a long campaign by her parents in America, led to an inquest in Queensland last year.

Last June, David Glasgow, the Townsville coroner, found that it was likely that Watson killed his 26-year-old wife by holding her underwater, bear-hugging her until she suffocated, and turning off her air supply.

An extraordinary photograph was released by police showing Tina, arms outstretched, lying motionless at the bottom of the ocean, as another diver, unaware of what is happening behind him, poses for the camera.

Watson, a bubble wrap salesman, has since remarried in the U.S., and his lawyers had indicated that they would fight his extradition to Australia.

[mike_s]

looks like a new thread already popped up here on his guilty plea...

fyi all http://www.scubaboard.com/forums/accidents-incidents/288089-gabe-watson-pleads-guilty-diving-wife-death.html

[alohagal]

Mr. Moderator,
Since the trial is not going forward. The perp pleaded guilty to manslaughter today. I give you permission to CLOSE this thread!