00:01Tina Watson, October 22, 2003. The Great Barrier Reef, Queensland, Australia. Crystal clear water, famous shipwreck below.
00:13Tina Watson, 26, is on her honeymoon. She's a novice diver, and her husband Gabe, David Gabriel Watson, 31, is
00:22a trained rescue diver.
00:23So she's in good hands, right? Right.
00:27Within about two minutes of starting the descent at 100 feet, Tina gets into trouble.
00:32She panics in a mild current, signals distress, and in the scramble, knocks Gabe's mask and regulator.
00:39Gabe later says he tried to help, but had to surface because his own gear was disturbed.
00:44So he swims up and leaves her.
00:48Other divers watch Tina slowly sink to the sandy bottom near the wreck.
00:52Quick, motionless, regulator out, buoyancy device inflated but doing nothing.
00:57A tourist's underwater camera captured it.
01:00There's a photograph of Tina's body on the seabed, with Gabe ascending in the background, glancing back over his shoulder.
01:07That photo.
01:08It became the defining image of this case.
01:11And once you've seen it, you don't forget it.
01:14Australian authorities charged Gabe with murder, arguing he deliberately turned off her air and staged the panic.
01:21He ultimately pleaded guilty to manslaughter and served one year in Queensland.
01:25One year.
01:27Tina's family called it outrageously light, fought for further prosecution in Alabama, and never really got the answer they were
01:34looking for.
01:34The rescue diver who didn't rescue his own wife on their honeymoon.
01:38Some things just... sit with you.
01:43Christy Chin Dawson.
01:44July 2022.
01:47Turtle Island Resort.
01:48Fiji.
01:50One of the most exclusive, remote, genuinely stunning honeymoon destinations on Earth.
01:56A private island in the Asawa Archipelago, where a single week costs more than most people's monthly rent.
02:03Christy Chin Dawson, 36, a pharmacist from Denver, had just married Bradley Robert Dawson, 40.
02:11They arrived two days earlier.
02:14Staff described them as affectionate.
02:16Also drinking heavily.
02:19On the night of July 9th, other guests and staff heard a loud argument coming from their burr, their private
02:25cabin.
02:26Crashing sounds.
02:28Breaking glass.
02:29Then silence.
02:30The next morning, the couple skipped breakfast.
02:34Then lunch.
02:35When staff checked the room, they found Christy dead on the bathroom floor in a pool of blood.
02:41Bradley was gone.
02:43He'd taken a kayak and paddled to a nearby island.
02:46He kayaked away.
02:48Across turquoise water.
02:50From a murder scene.
02:52On a private Fijian island.
02:55I genuinely cannot.
02:57The autopsy found multiple blunt force trauma injuries to the head.
03:02The judge noted evidence that her head had been smashed against the ceramic toilet water tank, which had shattered.
03:09Police found Bradley on the neighboring island and arrested him.
03:12He gave shifting accounts.
03:15He was eventually convicted of murder by Fiji's high court and sentenced to life in prison, eligible for parole after
03:2118 years.
03:22The judge rejected defense arguments about intent and specifically highlighted the brutality of the attack.
03:37Will Beiler, 23, and Bailey Ackerman Beiler, 23, have just had what everyone who was there described as a fairy
03:45tale wedding.
03:45Big Texas sky, friends and family, sparklers, the whole thing.
03:51And they're leaving the reception in style, climbing into a Bell 206B helicopter to fly towards San Antonio, where they'll
04:00catch a flight to their actual honeymoon destination.
04:03The send-off is on video.
04:05You can see them ducking into the helicopter, laughing, everyone cheering, fireworks going off.
04:12The helicopter was piloted by a family friend, Gerald Lawrence.
04:16It took off late at night and headed south.
04:19About 5 to 10 minutes into the flight, it crashed into a dark hillside near Chalk Bluff Park, roughly 15
04:26miles from the ranch.
04:27All three on board, Will, Bailey, and Gerald, were killed on impact.
04:34Aviation monitoring services flagged a possible downed aircraft and notified authorities.
04:40Game wardens and first responders reached a wreckage site described as being in a terrible state.
04:45Family members arrived at the crash site by helicopter and reportedly stayed with the bodies until they were removed.
04:52The NTSB launched an investigation.
04:55Night flight, terrain, weather, pilot factors, all examined.
05:01No clean answer ever made it easier.
05:0423 years old.
05:07Both of them.
05:09George Smith, July 4th, 2005.
05:13The Mediterranean Sea, somewhere between Greece and Turkey.
05:17George Alan Smith IV, 26, from Connecticut, is on a Royal Caribbean honeymoon cruise with his wife Jennifer.
05:25They've had a big night.
05:26Casino, bar, casino again.
05:29CCTV shows George being helped back to the cabin by a group of men he'd met that evening because he's
05:35too drunk to walk on his own.
05:37Jennifer, also drunk, passes out in a hallway somewhere on the ship and wakes up hours later in someone else's
05:43cabin with no memory of how she got there.
05:46The next morning, crew and passengers noticed something on the exterior of the ship below George's balcony, a large smear
05:54of blood on the hull.
05:56George is not in the cabin.
05:58George is not anywhere on the ship.
05:59The blood streak on the side of the Royal Caribbean hull, below the balcony, suggesting he hit the structure on
06:06the way down, is the only physical evidence of what happened to him.
06:10His body was never recovered.
06:13Turkish, U.S., and FBI authorities all investigated.
06:17The men last seen with George were questioned but never charged.
06:21The cruise line was accused by George's family of mishandling evidence and being slow to respond when the blood was
06:28first discovered.
06:29No one was ever held accountable for anything.
06:31The case just stayed open.
06:34It became one of those true crime cases that resurfaced every few years as new CCTV details emerged.
06:41The last footage of him at the casino, the timeline of who was where, the unanswered questions about what happened
06:48in that cabin.
06:49His body was never recovered.
06:53The Honduras Zipline.
06:55Early July 2018.
06:57Roatan, Honduras.
06:58A popular Caribbean island destination known for diving, beaches, and adventure tourism.
07:03An Israeli couple on their honeymoon books a zipline excursion through the jungle.
07:08Perfectly normal activity.
07:09Thousands of people do it every week.
07:12The way a zipline works.
07:14First rider goes, reaches the platform, cable clears, second rider goes.
07:19That's it.
07:20That's the whole system.
07:21That's the one rule that keeps the entire thing from becoming a disaster.
07:26The wife went first.
07:28She didn't make it all the way to the platform.
07:30She stalled somewhere in the middle of the cable, hanging there in the jungle air.
07:35Staff, for reasons that remain unclear, sent the husband down anyway.
07:40He accelerated down the line at full speed and slammed into her midair.
07:44Two full bodyweight people colliding on a cable in the middle of a jungle.
07:50Both were severely injured in the impact and rushed to a local hospital.
07:54The wife was stabilized and eventually evacuated to the United States for surgery.
07:59The husband did not survive.
08:01He died from the blunt force trauma of the collision.
08:05Local authorities opened an investigation into the zipline company's operational protocols.
08:11International coverage framed it as freak honeymoon accident, which, sure, technically.
08:16But it wasn't a freak of nature.
08:18It was a cue management failure.
08:21Someone forgot the one rule.
08:30A region of misty hills, living root bridges, and dramatic gorges that gets compared to Scotland
08:37for its green, atmospheric scenery.
08:40Raja Raghuvanchi and his wife Sonam arrive from Indore, Madhya Pradesh, for their honeymoon.
08:47They check into a homestay in Nongriyat and, from all accounts, are doing exactly what honeymooners
08:53do in a place like that, taking it slow, enjoying it.
08:57On May 23rd, they check out of the homestay, climb onto a rented scooter, and head out.
09:03The scooter is found abandoned near the village of Soharim.
09:07The couple is not with it.
09:09Nobody sees them leave.
09:11Nobody reports where they went.
09:14A missing persons investigation begins.
09:17Days pass.
09:18Then, 11 days after they disappeared, search teams find Raja's body at the bottom of a
09:24steep gorge.
09:25Near the body, a dhow, a traditional machete used across northeastern India, and his mobile
09:32phone.
09:33Police confirmed he had been attacked and killed with the machete.
09:37The location in the gorge suggested whoever did it wanted the body to either look like
09:41a fall or not be found at all.
09:44Meghalaya police formed a special investigation team to dig into what the media soon started
09:50calling the honeymoon murder.
09:52Raja's family in Madhya Pradesh pushed for a broader, independent probe, and pointed to
09:57possible lapses in how the case was handled.
10:00The case sparked widespread outrage in India, not just because of the idyllic setting, but
10:06also because his wife Sonam was first listed as missing and later arrested, after police accused
10:12her of orchestrating the murder plot with hired men.
10:16The motive?
10:17Investigators say it centered on an alleged affair and a plan to remove Raja from the
10:22picture, with family members adding darker claims about greed and ritual beliefs that
10:27remain allegations rather than proven facts.
10:30They went to India's Scotland for waterfalls and hiking.
10:34He was hacked with a machete and left in a gorge.
10:37She was missing for days.
10:39Some places look peaceful from the outside and aren't.
10:43Some trips don't come back from.
11:04No doubt, no doubt.
11:06Our world will live this upside down.
11:08The planet done talking, things are turning around.
11:11Against you and me, him and her.
11:12Them of the earth is unleashing the wrath that humanity's worth.
11:16We know what time it is.
11:172020 year of the punishment.
11:19The COVID hit hard and it's tougher than never been.
11:22The years just settling.
11:23I wonder what is coming.
11:24Gotta be honest here.
11:26This shit is...
