Daniel Gabriel Watson ignored rule #2 in the “So You’re Getting Married - haha SUCKER!” handbook.
Rule #2 reads - Don’t ask your fiance to increase his or her life insurance. It could leave either your fiance or the authorities to believe that you are trying to kill your soon-to-be spouse.
And that’s just what happened to Daniel Gabriel Watson. Mr. Watson, who lost his wife, 26-year-old fashion model Christina Mae Watson, in a tragic scuba-diving accident 11 days after they were married, has been accused of helping along the incident - making it somewhat less accidental than it may have first appeared.
Daniel Gabriel Watson, a certified rescue diver, suggested to his wife that they go scuba diving on their honeymoon. New bride Christina, who according to her father, Tommy Thomas, was asked by Daniel Gabriel Watson to both increase her life insurance payout amount and to change the police to make him the sole beneficiary, thought that diving in Australia was a fantastic idea.
And it is, really. Don’t get me wrong - Australia is a beautiful land, despite having a ton of venomous, carnivorous animals in the air, land and sea that are anxious to eat humans and carry off their babies.
Maybe Christina Watson had some niggling little thought in the back of her head that something was weird about the request by Gabriel, because according to her father she decided to lie to her new husband and pretend that she had made the life insurance policy changes.
Well, the day of the dive came - the 22nd of October, 2003. Everyone was having a good time at the group dive around the picturesque shipwreck, and then this happened. Over there to the left, you’ll see Christina Mae Watson, resting peacefully on the ocean floor.
Whoops!
According to Daniel Gabriel Watson, his wife had some problem with her equipment during the dive and panicked. When he went to help her, she knocked his face mask off and pulled the regulator out of his mouth. Daniel Gabriel Watson told authorities that he had then let go of his wife while trying to put his mask back on but by the time he had recovered, Christina Watson had been swept away in strong currents.
Daniel Gabriel Watson left his wife while she was sinking, and, according to witnesses, took a leisurely swim to the surface to alert the dive staff that something was wrong. Gabriel Watson told the crew that his wife had sunk to the bottom, with her arms stretched out towards him…as if begging him to save her.
A dive leader spotted Christina Watson lying on the sea floor a few minutes after Daniel Gabriel Watson surfaced and swam down to pull her to a supporting boat. By the time the dive leader had reached her, Christina was unconscious. He pulled her to the surface, but the two doctors aboard the support boat were unable to revive her.
Daniel Gabriel Watson tried to explain what happened to the police, which was complicated because Gabriel Watson kept changing his story. Which one was it, Gabriel? Was your wife caught in a strong current? Did she panic and pass out? Did you have ear problems which kept you, a certified rescue diver, from rescuing your new bride? Did she just sink too quickly for you to catch up?
There were a few other problems that the police had with Daniel Gabriel Watson’s story. Mr. Watson said that he “rocketed to the top” to raise the alarm. The dive leaders’ account of Gabriel’s swimming differed slightly, describing Mr. Watson’s ascent to the surface as “pedestrian and controlled”.
An autopsy found there was no obvious medical cause for Christina Watson’s death, and that her dive equipment was not found to be faulty.
In an attempt to get the money that he felt he deserved, Daniel Gabriel Watson went to court against the travel agency that arranged the trip, Getaway of Birmingham, Alabama, and travel insurers Old Republic Insurance Co and Travelex Insurance Services. Daniel Gabriel Watson was looking for a travel insurance payout, along with compensation for “mental anguish.”
The insurers, being in the insurance business, wanted to delay the case as much as they could while police investigations continued, arguing that they were not required to pay policy holders who are suspected of committing a crime to gain a payout.
In court documents, Daniel Gabriel Watson’s lawyers, who aren’t in it for the money at all, stated:
There is absolutely no evidence that the plaintiff is in any way implicated in this ongoing criminal investigation.
This sort of ignored the fact that in 2004, Daniel Gabriel Watson was, in an e-mail from the Helena police department to one of the insurance companies that Daniel Watson was fighting with, officially referred to as being a murder suspect:
Mr. Watson is suspected in the death of his wife while on a diving trip to Australia last year.
In 2007, Australian police took papers and a computer from the Alabama home of Daniel Gabriel Watson, but delayed filing charges against Mr Watson, whom they then described as a witness, not a suspect
On the 20th of June, 2008, Daniel Gabriel Watson was charged with murder after David Glasgow, the Queensland, Australia coroner finally ruled that there were suspicious circumstances to Christina Watson’s death. A warrant was issued for Gabriel Watson’s arrest and prosecutors are preparing an application for his extradition from the United States.
According to witness statements, Daniel Gabriel Watson was seen embracing his wife underwater for a minute or so before they separated and Daniel swam to the surface. The official theory that police believe and that prosecutors will try to prove is that Daniel Gabriel Watson turned off the air supply on his wife’s equipment until Christina was dead, or nearly dead, then turned it back on and let her sink to the seabed.
Kind of a gruesome way to go, really.
Daniel Gabriel Watson and his lawyers are determined to fight extradition from the United States, claiming that Australians cannot be trusted to hold a fair and impartial trial due to the extensive media coverage of the case.
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If he did it, then yes.
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He sounds like a douche. No, not the bag, but the result of the verb tense “to douche”. Yes, he is what women want OUT of their vaginas as most women are happier with someone who WON’T murder them for a life insurance payout.
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Diddle reply on June 21st, 2008:
LOL, Tracy! You’re fantastic! Thats the best.
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GloryBug reply on June 23rd, 2008:
Thank you, Tracy.
As a woman with a vagina, I can testify that yes, this is exactly the sort of ‘thing’ women do not want in their vaginas. Or anywhere else.
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DOES ANYONE KNOW THE FATHER AND GRANDFATHER OF WATSON???
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Dantana2 reply on June 21st, 2008:
No, Please explain. Now I am interested.
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admin reply on June 22nd, 2008:
Yes, indeed. Or is this just another random statement made by an insane person?
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This reminds me of the old Randy Roth case in the 1980s. He pushed his second wife off a cliff and it was ruled an accident and he collected a six-figure insurance payout. He would have gotten away with it except he tried to drown Wife #3 and really drowned Wife #4. I think he’s doing life in Washington state right now.
If Mr. Watson is guilty, certainly he deserves hell. If he’s guilty, I certainly hope the prosecutors can prove it, because of course his defense will go with the diving accident story.
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he’s done way too much to not have done it. If you’ve ever read a mystery novel, you would have figured out the ending to this story just a few pages in and already looked to the end to see you were right. He’s guilty.
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Meaghan reply on June 23rd, 2008:
The problem is that real life is not like mystery novels.
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Why couldn’t he have gotten with some ugly bitch like Klara Mauerova or Barbara Skrlova.or the real ugly bitches Starkeisha Brown & Krystal Matthews?
This would have been a big time win
1. He’s have killed someone that deserved such a death
2. As taxpayers, we’d save money and have a prison slot open
3. There’d be one less ugly bitch in the owrld
Instead he kills someone who looks like she’s quite a nice girl. Why is is that the nice ones seem to end up with scum bags (it works the other way around too!)
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Cass reply on June 24th, 2008:
What about ugly people who are nice? Would they deserve to die?
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This clotpole needs to rot in an Australian jail.
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Fred reply on June 23rd, 2008:
If he wanted to get off wasy, he should have honeymooned in any of the liberal weeny soft on crime states (although the casinos are considered sovereign nations in CT), gotten a little drunk and got her somewhat drunk, hen run her over in he parking lot saying it was an accident - like
1. We were arguing, and I didn’t know she was so close I was just trying to get away
2. I thought she was by the door and I was going to get her…
Judges here seem to have compassion for drunks and accidents lately…
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Fred reply on June 23rd, 2008:
IF you cry or look sorry (did say one must be sorry for what happened, just sorry about something)
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TurtleMania reply on June 24th, 2008:
Sounds good Fred. But I reckon they’d get invol. manslaughter. What do you think?
Lanie reply on June 30th, 2008:
He should have done it in Aruba. Australia doesn’t put up with this crap, much like America.
If he did it, good riddance.. Glad Australia has to pay for his room and board, instead of the US tax payers.
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MY husband and I became certified scuba divers together. The most important! rule you learn or are taught in your dive classes are the ( Buddy System) , which means you always dive and dive, meaning stay beside and with your buddy you are diving with at ALL times! This is for the case of rescue or emergency puposes, you learn in scuba diving classes , it is part of their strict certification rules… how to help your diving partner when they are in distress, having panic. Rule #1. in ALL scube diving training certification is you pair up with one person , which is called the buddy system , just for these reasons…. in case the person you are diving beside has trouble. With the buddy system when you learn to stay within an arm’s distance from your partner. And you always stay with them. So go Figure!! he left her, to leave her to die. He MURDERED her!!!!!
- written by a certified diver who dives by the rules!!!
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TurtleMania reply on June 26th, 2008:
Hey Jayne, I’ve been researching a torture technique called “dry drowning”. I’d love to try that on Danny Boy.
Oh, dry drowning is when a person’s lungs become unable to extract oxygen from the air due primarily to persistence of laryngospasm when immersed in fluid (water).
We’d weigh him down or somehow immobilize him and swim with him underwater shooting him with a nail gun. Of course we’d bring our water-proof video camera!
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Cone on guy you can do better than that.
Lets see, insert a very thin glass tube in to the head of hils dick. then you have it in as far as it’s going to go with out resistance take a club and tap his dick shattering the glass.
Then we have the goold old 7.26 cartridge hammered in the the knee caps.
Take a very sharp but rusty knife. Make an “V” incesion on the back of the neck about 3 inches long. Pull back the now flap of skin. Pack it with rock salt really grinding it in. Slap the flap of skin back over the wound.
When I was in the Army I had to go through an E&E class. We were taught a few things the Russians did just to get a persons attention.
Sweet dreams
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TurtleMania reply on June 26th, 2008:
Yes, but what does that have to do with drowning?
Hmmm. Ok we’d do your set BEFORE the dry drowning. That’ll work, yes.
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FYI, The warrant for Gabe’s arrest will be issued very soon by Australian cops, along with an application for extradition from the US. From what I’ve found out about this living excrement, he’s as guilty as homemade sin. Unfortunately, the sentencing guidelines “downunder” are pretty liberal. With a little luck, he’ll do his time there, then face some kind of charges here after he is paroled. (possibly insurance fraud, since it appears to me this was another one that did it strictly for money. Cold hearted asshole).
From the things Christina’s family has been saying, she may have suspected something was up with Gabe, but was afraid of the guy. I swear I’m going to publish my email on Abused Women discussion boards. I’d be more than happy to use the Intimidation factor I was born with on shitheads like this to make them go away. (Even though I never fought anyone in my life, and never tried to bully anyone, people always tell me that I’m a scary guy.) God knows they’re all cowards at heart anyways…why else would they choose weak women to prey upon.
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TurtleMania reply on June 27th, 2008:
Scary, huh?
I wouldn’t expect a “Max” to be a powder-puff. ha
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Hey, this story is similar to the guys that marry women from abroad, and killing them for cash. Most of the women are naive, and don’t know any better. They’re just happy to be here. They’d never suspect their foreign husband to grave them for cash. But it happens.
Get to know people better. Investigate their family their motives etc. Use some of the links on this web-page.
This quick “I do” is complete bullshit and should be avoided at all cost.
Put your prospective mate in situations were you can learn how they think and react.
Increase the courtship phase. Maybe “move-in” with them to see how they are. Most people put their best foot forward in the beginning. Go beyond that.
This is not to say it will prevent 100% percent of these atrocites, but dammit, it’ll prevent more than most.
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Max The Cat reply on June 28th, 2008:
LoL….The powder-puffiest, I swear.
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Iwish Tina had seen your suggestions Turtle. I saw an interview with Christina Watsons Sister, and it seems that Tine suspected something might have been up with our hero Gabe. He had insisted that she increase her life insurance and change the benificiary from her Dad to him, but she didn’t and lied to Gabe and said she did. She also had 2nd thoughts about the dive trip but told people “her boyfriend would kill her” if she didn’t go through with it. I guarantee if she had done 1 of the things you suggest Christina would still be alive and Gabe would be out on his fat lazy ass. He’s such a putz…
Max
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What a fuck, he should die the same way
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The thing about this story that doesn’t add up: Who in his right mind would kill such a beautiful girl as that?
Did he think he could find another one just as good back in Alabama when he cashed in the big winnings?
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angrier citizen reply on July 24th, 2008:
Only ugly people should be murdered for insurance money.
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Cass reply on July 24th, 2008:
Fuck you. I’m on the “ugly” side and I do not deserve to die at all.
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hey fuck you angrier…Im a farily ugly individual…although i do have a policy on me….Hmmm:(
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Ok, sarcasm is lost on some.
Read PiedPiper’s post: “Who in his right mind would kill such a beautiful girl as that?”
If she had been homely then the whole situation would “add up”?
And thanks for the sexual offer, but fucking me won’t be necessary.
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