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06-20-2008, 06:31 AM
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| Honeymoon Murder? Making Australian (the fattest nation in the world) news this evening...  At right, in the background, is the faint outline of Christina Mae Watson's body. Going to the 'rescue' at left, in the distance, is a diving instructor. In the foreground is an unidentified diver.  Google Image Result for http://www.amateurphotographer.co.uk/imageBank/l/lowresDIVE%20PICTURE.jpg Google Image Result for http://www.cdnn.info/news/safety/cindy_tom_thomas_250243.jpg |
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06-20-2008, 10:12 AM
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| WTF? That's pretty sick, if true. Do they have capital punishment in Australia? |
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06-20-2008, 10:55 AM
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| Senior Member  Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: Adelaide Sth. Aust.
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| Sounds like he did it to me...Pr*ck!
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06-20-2008, 09:40 PM
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and no tim, Australia no longer has capital punishment anymore.
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06-20-2008, 11:53 PM
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 Hmm I guess that's not such a severe punishment anymore.... 
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06-22-2008, 06:43 PM
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| Sick freak. Hanging is still the best way of killing someone. Why waste money on them by keeping them in prison? Kill them and make it easier for everyone else.
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05-13-2009, 08:11 AM
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| Update 13/05/09 Trial to begin soon.  Accused scuba killer returns to face trial - ABC News (Australian Broadcasting Corporation) A US man accused of murdering his wife while on honeymoon in north Queensland nearly six years ago has been arrested in Brisbane. David Gabriel Watson was arrested by police on arrival at the Brisbane International Airport just after 5am AEST. He has returned voluntarily to Queensland to face trial for the murder of his 26-year-old wife Christina 'Tina' Watson. It is alleged he killed Ms Watson while they were scuba diving off Townsville in North Queensland during their honeymoon in October 2003. State prosecutors filed a murder indictment against him late last year. Watson is in police custody and is due to appear in the Brisbane Supreme Court today. Tina Watson's father Tom Thomas says he was surprised when he was contacted by Australian authorities early this morning. "The news came as a total shock to us. I just learned of this in the last couple of hours and we weren't expecting it," he said. "We had no indication that this was going to happen so it's been a total shock at this point." |
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05-13-2009, 08:29 AM
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| Senior Member  Join Date: Apr 2008 Location: Hurst, Texas
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| If he knew he was guilty, why would he go back? Doesn't make sense...
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05-13-2009, 12:14 PM
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| They did a story about this on 20/20 not too long ago. The evidence does not support his story. |
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05-13-2009, 12:25 PM
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| Senior Member  Join Date: Nov 2005 Location: Stafford Springs, Connecticut
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| Christ, if true, that POS better get the maximum sentence. Shame Austrailia doesn't have capital punishment. Any chance of extraditing him to US, since he is a American Citizen?
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05-13-2009, 01:48 PM
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05-13-2009, 10:54 PM
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| Senior Member  Join Date: Jul 2007 Location: Abingdon, VA.
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|  A pair of concrete shoes and the deepest part of the Pacific Ocean. Sound like a good punishment to anyone else? |
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05-13-2009, 11:14 PM
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Also, I would think he would have been extradited from the US pretty easily. | |
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05-15-2009, 12:13 AM
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| Senior Member  Join Date: Jun 2006 Location: oregon
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| buddy breathing is one of the first things you learn in any dive school. His story does not hold wate r. |
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05-15-2009, 05:49 AM
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| Senior Member  Join Date: Apr 2004 Location: Beaupré, Province of Québec, Canada
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1 - Alabama (where the couple is from) still has capital punishment 2 - If a crime "cross a state border" (i.e. a man from New York commit a crime in New-Jersey), the crime is automatically considered as a federal crime. And the US federal gouvernment still has capital punishment. However, what I don't know is if an American who kills an other American in a foreign country can be judged in the USA. If so, may be it was just a "smart move" to escape the electric chair. | |
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