Tonight on 20/20 ` Vandal, or just misunderstood? I wrote my tag on everything. You know, school desk, you know, school toilets. Askew is coming in off the street to a gallery near you. But he nearly didn't make it at all. I was paralysed on one side. My speech was slurry. Do you still tag, illegally? And the perfect honeymoon turns to tragedy. She was sinking. Only one came home. How could you leave her? We believe that Gabe Watson murdered our daughter. Honeymoon killer, Gabe Watson... Honeymoon killer, Gabe Watson... Gabe Watson, the man... Honeymoon killer, Gabe Watson... Gabe Watson, the man... Honeymoon killer, Gabe Watson... So for the record, did you kill Tina? www.tvnz.co.nz/access-services Captions were made possible with funding from NZ On Air. Copyright TVNZ Access Services 2012 Kia ora. I'm Sonia Wilson. Graffiti is, for most people, vandalism. It's the defacing of property that's not your own, and it's illegal. But if anyone could change your perspective, it's this next guy. He's known as Askew, and in his own words, he's been there, done that. But that was, he claims, his education. And now this talented artist has taken his work off the streets and on to a more conventional canvas. Well, for the most part. Here's Hannah Ockelford. HUBBUB QUIET URBAN MUSIC It was like` like something in my temple snapping. Like` or popping. A thunderclap headache ` sudden and so severe it brought Elliott O'Donnell to his knees. Someone ran over and asked me if I was drunk, which was funny, like, cos I hadn't drunk for 15 years. Hadn't drunk; hadn't smoked; hadn't taken drugs. I was paralysed on one side, and my speech was slurry. I had an emergency MRI and something came up on the MRI that was consistent with a stroke. So, what was the diagnosis? So, what was the diagnosis? They could only put that down to Call-Fleming syndrome. It's a spasm in the arteries of the brain. The syndrome's an anomaly. So is the guy also known as Askew. In the paper they said that solvents did it to me, but that's` that's not entirely true. On the streets, Askew's famous ` LAIDBACK JAZZY MUSIC ...the country's most recognisable graffiti artist; a prolific writer on public and private spaces. You name it, like, I've been through it. I think I'm actually addicted to stress, cos going out and doing graffiti, like, that's stressful. You know, I'm still always contemplating, like, the consequences of my actions and being ready to escape. PUNK MUSIC He did his first big full-scale painting of a wall at the age of 1. Elliott's mum, Megan. It wasn't the wall in your house, was it? It wasn't the wall in your house, was it? Yes, it was. (LAUGHS) Climbed back up on his bed and then did the whole wall ` just Elliott height ` red. Anarchy came naturally. His young parents were punk rockers. He used to have, like, half-hour catnaps about every fourth hour, and the rest of the time he was just going for it. Has that stopped? Has that stopped? No, I don't think so. (LAUGHS) HIP-HOP MUSIC I didn't necessarily have a lot of the skills that you, kinda, needed to be considered cool, as such. Uh, but graffiti gave you that kinda bad-ass, kind of, edge. Did you want that edge? Did you want that edge? I think every teenager kinda wants that. HIP-HOP MUSIC CONTINUES His art school was without rules and on the streets. We'd walk right across the city and we'd put our names up. Did you ever get caught? Yeah, I got caught quite a lot before I was old enough to be arrested. How did you justify what you were doing? How did you justify what you were doing? Mm, I was just a very good liar. You know` You know` So there is no justification for what you do? > Oh, I` I wasn't going to bother justifying with a police officer. I mean, they're not interested in justification, so why waste your time? You know, sit there and have a political conversation with a cop? Come on. Most of them don't... have any grasp of anything, you know, except for being a dickhead. I dunno. With an attitude like that, trouble was inevitable. 'ONE NEWS' THEME MUSIC ARCHIVE: Police say nine young men from Auckland were caught red-handed. ARCHIVE: Police disturbed the night artists before they could finish work on their wide canvas. It really really upset me, cos I just, kinda, thought, 'Oh my God. Where's he going to go from here? 'How long is this gonna keep happening?' ARCHIVE: This is uh, a planned attack of criminal damage. Anywhere was game. Even Masterton wasn't safe. ARCHIVE: Mongrels. They shouldn't be allowed in the town. Do you feel like you were an irresponsible parent? Do you feel like you were an irresponsible parent? (CLEARS THROAT) No, I don't, actually, because I was constantly reminding him of what I thought was right and wrong. But Elliott had his own set of morals. I didn't steal all the other things other people did, like, I just drew the line at paint ` 10, 12 cans at a time. And then we would do, you know, like, 10, 15 stores in a morning. You know, so you do the maths. Then there was the drink and the drugs. We used to drink a lot of alcohol and anything that we could get our hands on as far as any other substance, and I mean, like, you name it. Like what? I liked psychedelic drugs... when I was a kid. Like, I liked, um... Yeah, I liked LSD. (LAUGHS) I liked acid. Like, I dunno. Just like everything else that he did, he did it to extreme. I used to shit on people's cars and, like, roundhouse kick people's letterboxes. You were a vandal, weren't you? I dunno what I was. I was just, um` I was just young, full of beans, you know, bit stupid. Like, you know, just, kind of, finding myself in the world. In the end, there was just one thing left to rebel against ` himself. If he hadn't given up all that stuff, you know, he could be dead. The last time I drank alcohol was, like, January 1997. And it was the last time I` I messed with drugs. I quit everything. Everything? Well, not quite. I wrote my tag on everything, you know ` bits of paper. Our phone books at home were destroyed. School desk, you know. School toilets. The way he saw it, Elliott the vandal was now Askew the artist. I think they look pretty solid. I'm not a total anarchist. I'm close, but, you know, I'm not a total anarchist. FUNKY MUSIC Clean living, free thinking, but still rebellious. I had a lot more time, all of a sudden ` time to focus on things, you know, that were more creative. He's now etching a living out of a skill set considered criminal. I have one particular skill set that really, really, really feels, like, necessary for me to have an enjoyable existence on this planet. He's running a kind of artists' co-op in an Onehunga warehouse. The now 33-year-old is obsessively neat and painstakingly particular. You get what you project, in life. And when I was much more frustrated and angry, I projected a lot of that. And then I just changed my whole mind-set. And I think the way that people regard me locally has changed since I started to regard myself differently. CHEERING The crowd he hangs with has changed, too. I got put in TMD in 2000. And I take it very seriously. It's a family to me. CHEERING, LAUGHTER TMD, or The Most Dedicated, is a graffiti crew which began in '97. This is like the haka at the World Cup. LAUGHTER Like Elliott, they're now older and wiser. We eat meals together; we celebrate birthdays together; we celebrate Christmas together. It's, like, I don't know, just what any big group of tight friends do, really. Amongst TMD is Elliott's partner of a decade, Livvy. We're just very balanced as a couple, so, you know, where I'm more irrational, um, and just more emotional, she'll be more logical. She's left behind her phD in chemistry, focusing instead on Elliott's crusade. Does it sound corny? We kind of complete each other. TENSE MUSIC Excited, isn't it? They travel regularly, but it's rarely to the world's beauty spots, choosing instead to get their numbers up on the mean streets of Miami, Detroit and Los Angeles. Gangland can be dodgy. He was wearing this floaty white linen suit and a fucking Glock on the other side sticking out of his belt. And he came around the corner, and, uh, he's, like` he's asking what's up. And the little Mexican dude's popping up from behind him going, 'Yeah. He's gonna blast you, homie. 'He's gonna blast you!' The welcome's warmer from graffiti's biggest names internationally, who frequently invite Askew to paint. He's attracting quite a following. Mostly, I find people a lot more open-minded and receptive to me and my friends abroad than they are here. So there is a lot of money for people that, um, have fresh ideas and are good. Do you want to be rich and famous? I-I would be lying if I said, um, that fame wasn't an allure for me, you know. But in saying that, material wealth has never been an ambition. I don't care about cars. I don't care about sneakers. I don't care about hanging out at, like, you know, fancy bars and things. UP-TEMPO MUSIC But sometimes being fancy is part of the deal. Like tonight. He's about to put his art to the test before the toughest crowd of all ` the home crowd. It's a very insular scene. It's a very hard scene to, kind of, penetrate. And it's hard to get particular people to come and view your work or to write about your work or to even seem even remotely enthusiastic about your work. But if the reception for Elliott's exhibition is anything to go by, the who's who of Auckland's art world can't get enough of Askew. Thanks a lot for coming, too. Even Auckland's mayor's here. They haven't always got along. This one, the gift and the curse, that's like a statement about` This one, the gift and the curse, that's like a statement about` That's your talent. ...but it's living here too, you know, cos it is. I mean, I wouldn't really live anywhere else. It's all got Elliott thinking. And this time he's thinking really big ` Auckland city big. Auckland is eclectic, architecturally, but not in a good way. So, yeah, that's a pretty classic example of, like, really bad Auckland architecture. They smashed down everything cool, and they put up horrible, like, prefabricated-looking buildings and shops and things that just have no soul. I wouldn't want to live there, you know. It doesn't really sing out 'international city', to me. It sort of sings out, I dunno, shit. He's proposing a dramatic change to Auckland's look. To paint large, compelling, interesting, intelligent, edgy artwork, because, um, it costs a fraction of what it does to repair the damage that these property developers have done to our city. When I look around the city, what I see is potential canvases. This one's a good example. Awesome spot. Paintings to turn Auckland into a mural city. What's the mayor's response been? What's the mayor's response been? He likes the idea. He's supportive of the idea. I mean, he agrees. Where it needs to go next is really to the people that own property in the city, because it's really in their hands. TRAINS RUMBLE It would be a huge project, and since his thunderclap headache a year ago, Askew's got his health to consider. And you have to wonder, like` I've been exposed to a lot of things, um, in my lifetime. You know, like, I've been exposed, particularly, to a lot of, like, solvents and, uh, dust, and I've hung out, generally, in places where people, you know, don't really hang out. Did you fear you might lose him? Yeah, yeah. I did, actually. I was kind of like, 'Oh God.' You know, 'Is he going to die?' because he's lived his life so fast, and all these amazing things have happened to him. 'Is it going to be like one of those super short ones?' Do you have any long-term effects? For the six months after I got out of hospital, um, every day I, kind of, dealt with something. You know, um, whether it was, like, still tingly feelings in regions of my face, or even days when I couldn't really feel whole parts of my jaw. Or, um, deafness in my ears that was switching from one ear to the other. What is the prognosis? Nothing. It's, like, random. Like they say some people get it multiple times in their life. Some people get it once, and they never get it again. DRAMATIC MUSIC OK, so there's just one final question. Do you still tag, illegally? You might find this funny, but I've never been what people would, like, class as a tagger for well over a decade. I` Pretty much, if I'm going to go out and risk my arse doing something, um, usually I'm going to take at least 20 colours with me. No one will see me doing it. So the short answer to my question is yes. So the short answer to my question is yes. Mm, guess so. If you wanna check out more of Askew's work, have a look at his website. We'll put the link up on our Facebook page. Next up on 20/20 ` the Honeymoon Murder. It was the case that grabbed headlines across the world. This is the honeymoon they had always dreamed of, and then... What was she doing? What was she doing? She was sinking. He was arrested for the murder of his wife, Tina, for the second time. Prosecuted on two continents. Alabama investigated this case. Australia investigated this case. You never think that your daughter will leave for her honeymoon and her husband will kill her. FUNKY MUSIC What I love about Appleton Estate Rum is that you can mix it with absolutely anything ` not just cola. It's completely versatile, and I'm gonna prove that today with the Appleton Estate Golden Delicious. Appleton Estate Rum is the real deal ` hand blended in Jamaica for over 250 years. Its rich, complex flavour works brilliantly with crisp apple and lime. The Golden Delicious is smooth and seriously refreshing. Just fill your glass with ice. 45ml of Appleton Estate VX. Then take Mac's Green Apple and top it up. Squeeze and drop in a wedge of lime. Finish it off with a slice or two of Golden Delicious apple. There you go ` the Appleton Estate Golden Delicious. Cheers. For the recipe... And if you're out of Appleton Estate, check out the store locator on themix.co.nz. Also this month look out for Appleton Estate on The Mix stand and get a free four-pack of Mac's Green Apple with every bottle. themix.co.nz. Check it out. a Welcome back. When American Tina Watson drowned while scuba-diving off the Australian Barrier Reef on her honeymoon, it became a headline-making case that spanned two continents half a world apart. So, what really happened under the water? Tonight, we talk to Tina's family, who believe their daughter was murdered, and her widower, Gabe Watson. He speaks for the first, and only, time to 20/20. GULLS CRY It was bright. It was sunny, a really nice day. We rolled off the boat, and she was the first one headed down. 26-year-old Gabe Watson of Birmingham, Alabama, is following Tina Mae Watson, his new bride of just 11 days into the deep Coral Sea, 50 miles off the coast of Australia. This is the honeymoon they'd always dreamed of, and then... OMINOUS CHORD We were maybe 20, 25ft away from the anchor rope, and she just kinda turned and looked at me. And I realised that this is not a good situation. What was she doing? What was she doing? She was sinking. And reaching out for me to grab her. I gave a few kicks down to see if I could grab her, and she was out of arm's reach. Why did you turn away from her at that moment? I don't know. Since that fateful day in 2003, he has been labelled a murderer. ARCHIVE: He was arrested for the murder of his wife, Tina, for the second time. Prosecuted on two continents. Alabama's investigated this case, and Australia investigated this case. They came to the same conclusion. He had the motive and the opportunity. Because Tina never made it to the surface alive. And what Gabe did or didn't do that day remains the subject of intense speculation. You never think that your daughter will leave for her honeymoon and her husband will kill her. Through it all for almost a decade, Gabe Watson has remained silent about Tina, about what really happened underwater ` five minutes and 50 seconds that changed his life and ended hers. Tonight he breaks his silence and answers his many accusers. The Great Barrier Reef can be fraught with sharks and lots of strong currents. You didn't know any of that before you went on this trip? You didn't know any of that before you went on this trip? No. To understand what happens next you need to know a little bit about scuba gear. Gabe and Tina suit up on the deck, wearing a wetsuit, fins, a dive mask and an air tank. Like all divers, Tina and Gabe also have an item called a buoyancy compensator vest, a BC for short. Its purpose is to help the diver go down or up. With the push of one button, the vest inflates. Another lets the air out and allows the diver to descend. And something else which would prove pivotal later on ` Gabe has a two-part dive computer which allows him to monitor how deep he's going and how much air he's used. But as soon as he enters the water, Gabe says the computer signals something is wrong. It was beeping, and I looked, and it said 'gas alarm'. Gabe and Tina resurface. He realises the battery in the transmitter is backwards, fixes it, and the two return to the water. The couple plans to descend 50ft down a line anchored to the wreck, then drift along with the current, from one end of the ship to the other, ending here at a second line, and then returning to the surface. But soon the reality of that strong current hits Gabe. You know, we were moving quite a bit. You know, we were moving quite a bit. It was pushing you? Yeah, it was pushing us along. Some divers find this very unnerving to be in a strong current. It was definitely not what I was expecting. As soon as they reached the wreck, Gabe says Tina signalled she was uncomfortable. She just kinda turned and looked at me and does that back towards where we came from, and I` Back or up? Cos this is the signal to go up. Back or up? Cos this is the signal to go up. No, like a hitchhiking kinda deal. I stuck out my right hand. She grabbed it, and we both started swimming back the way we came. But we weren't really making any kind of progress. But we weren't really making any kind of progress. So what did you do? I turned to her, grabbed my inflator hose and motioned to her, 'Put some air in your BC, 'and we'll just` we'll start floating up.' But Gabe says that didn't happen. In that moment Gabe says he had only one thought. 'We're in trouble.' So I reached out and I kinda just pulled her in and starting heading back to the anchor rope. But I remember trying to yell, you know, 'Swim. Swim, Tina. Swim.' You were really scared? You were really scared? Yeah, I was scared to death. All of a sudden I just felt this whack across my face, and my mask got, like, turned off to the side of my face. Gabe says he let go of Tina to put his mask back on. And I turned around to look, and Tina was down, down below, I don't know, 10ft or so. What was she doing? She was sinking, and... She was sinking, and... Face up? > She was face up, and she had her arms up. She was reaching out for me to grab a hold of her. Did you try and grab her? I kinda just turned my head and gave a few kicks down to see if I could grab her, and she was still out of arm's reach. Gabe says he quickly swam the 50ft to the surface ` an account that would later be questioned. I got the surface and just started yelling that Tina's gone down and I need help. 'Tina's gone down.' I have to ask you the question so many people have asked ` 'How could you leave her? How could you leave her?' I don't think I was making rational choices at that point. I don't know what I would have done had I stayed with her. Do you think you were panicking too? Do you think you were panicking too? Probably so. Wade Singleton, the dive leader already in the water, spots Tina and races to rescue her. And then this moment ` a haunting image that would define this story. Another diver snaps this photo of his wife and unwittingly captures Tina's body on the ocean floor. When did you know that somebody had found her and brought her to the surface? Some guy came over to me and said, 'She's gonna be OK.' Only Tina wasn't OK. Crew members and fellow passengers try for 40 long minutes to resuscitate her. Gabe is comforted by other divers on a boat nearby. I remember I looked out the front window, and I saw them doing CPR on her. And it, uh... I lost it and-and ran out. At that moment, Gabe didn't try to get to that other boat. The decision to stay where he was would later strike people as odd. And for people who might not understand why you weren't on that boat, you would say...? That's` That's not something I can handle. I don't` I don't ever wanna see one of my loved ones being worked on like that, ever. Then the shocking news from a fellow passenger. He just walked up to us and said, 'I'm sorry, but she didn't make it.' And I just` I just collapsed on to him. I... I was devastated. But two other divers, Ken Snyder and Doug Millsaps, are already suspicious, rejecting Gabe's claim that he was unable to bring Tina to the surface. Do you remember the other divers on your boat saying, 'Gabe, that's BS'? No, I don't remember that. No, I don't remember that. 'You better come up with a different story.' The seemingly distraught young man who left port a newly-wed returns that night a widower. His mother Glenda flies to Australia and is by his side five days later as police question Gabe about the events of that morning. I started kicking down. But as fast as I was kicking down to go get her, she was going down just as fast. It is one of many statements generating questions for the authorities ` like how did a perfectly healthy woman with working scuba gear drown? And did Gabe ascend looking for help as fast as he claimed he had? At what point did the questioning turn to suspicion that Gabe had in fact planned a murder? The first piece of evidence they looked at was the dive computer. I believe that that piece of evidence and what they thought was catching Gabe in a lie put the blinders on their investigation. Coming up ` a tragic diving accident turns into a murder investigation and a media frenzy. Honeymoon killer, Gabe Watson` Honeymoon killer, Gabe Watson` Gabe Watson, the man` Honeymoon killer, Gabe Watson` Gabe Watson, the man` Honeymoon killer, Gabe Watson` That moment when Gabe says he was with Tina trying to save her ` police now believe that's when he was actually killing her. So for the record, did you kill Tina? Tonight on 20/20 ` a Welcome back. The image of Tina Watson lying on the ocean floor haunted her family. Pretty soon, they started asking questions, and so did the police in Australia and America. Was it really an accident, or was it something more sinister? WAVES SLOSH In the years after she drowned while scuba-diving on Australia's Great Barrier Reef it seems no one can let go of Tina Watson. The macabre mystery of the honeymooner's death on the ocean floor, captured in that terrifying photo, deepens with each passing day. Friends and family cannot rest and neither can she. Within two years, her widowed husband, Gabe Watson, has dug up Tina's body and moved her to another part of the cemetery. You had Tina's body exhumed and moved. Why did you do that? Um, it came up first with my grandmother, and she kinda posed the idea of an estate ` a family plot. Did you tell Tina's family you were moving her body? They had long since cut off communication. They had started off down their path of 'I murdered Tina', and so there was no talk between the families. Then the war of the graveside roses. Tina's family complaining someone is shockingly desecrating her grave, taking the flowers and remembrances they left for her. Even securing those arrangements with a bicycle lock doesn't work. MAN: Approximately 8am. So the police set up a sting ` a cemetery stake-out. And right there, armed with bolt cutters, caught in the act, is Tina's own husband, Gabe. Why would you do that? Um, I mean, it definitely weren't my finest hour. Um, I was still going through the grieving process. Gabe said Tina would have preferred the fresh flowers he always brought to the plastic flowers from her family. The might be tacky in your view, but they were left by her family who loved her. Right. Right. Why not respect that? Right. Why not respect that? I'd just been accused of murder. I mean, they were out there telling people that I killed Tina for this massive insurance pay-out. I was still dealing with the death of Tina. It... I wasn't... Like, I wasn't thinking clearly on everything that I did. He doesn't appear to be a grief-stricken husband. So how do you think a grief-stricken husband should be acting? Grief-stricken. Grief-stricken. < Right. That's how I think you should act. Like he's remorseful. What is that? Returning the wedding presents? Um... What is that? Returning the wedding presents? Um... Maybe not desecrating her grave. Filmed desecrating her grave. I don't think a grief-stricken husband would do that. In his anger at Tina's family, Gabe fails to see it is not just them who now suspect the worst. He is now a key suspect in a murder investigation spanning two continents, a case being built so quietly that Gabe has no clue the police are coming for him until 2007 when they're on his doorstep. There's a knock at the door at 6 o'clock, and I open the door, and there's all these armed FBI agents that come in and handcuff me inside my house. That was the first time that I knew something was going on. Both her arms out, you know, reached` stretched up. The FBI searches Gabe's house on behalf of Australian police who conduct an inquest into Tina's death four years after the fact. Police divers go so far as to reconstruct the fatal dive over the Yongala shipwreck. dramatising their theory that Tina died not accidentally, but at the hands of her husband. That moment when Gabe says he was with Tina trying to save her, police now believe that's when he was actually killing her. They say you swam over to her, reached around her and turned her air off, waited until she was dead and then turned it back on. Right. What's your reaction? I mean, that's a pretty horrific thing. I was pretty devastated. Um, it was hard to imagine that there's someone out there that thinks that I did this. So, for the record, did you kill Tina? No. No. Did you turn her air off underwater that day? > No. No. You did nothing to harm her? No. You did nothing to harm her? Nothing intentional. No. Honeymoon killer Gabe Watson. Honeymoon killer Gabe Watson. Gabe Watson. Honeymoon killer Gabe Watson. Honeymoon killer Gabe Watson. Honeymoon from hell. ALL TALK AT ONCE By now the story has the full attention of the media on continents, calling the case 'The Honeymoon Killer'. Then in April 2008, after initially charging Gabe Watson with murder, Australian authorities allow him to avoid a trial by pleading guilty to a far lesser crime ` negligent manslaughter, for abandoning his wife as she struggled under the ocean. He is sentenced to just 18 months in prison. Tina's father can't believe it. We believe that Gabe Watson murdered our daughter. We'll continue to believe that. This is not justice, and this is not over. Gabe's American lawyer is Brett Bloomston. Why would he plead guilty to manslaughter, negligent manslaughter in Australia? If innocent, why plead guilty? Well, the law that Gabe pled guilty to violating is an obscure Australian law, and it basically says that if you undertake a dangerous activity with someone then you have a significantly higher standard or a higher burden to ensure their safety. You pleaded guilty to failing to save Tina. I pled guilty to basically not rendering the proper aid, not saving my dive buddy. In 2010, his prison term ending, Gabe Watson's parents eagerly anticipate his return to the US, but they're not the only ones. Alabama prosecutors are waiting for him too. And they've got a grand jury indictment that could lead to life behind bars. When you got out of prison, did you think, 'OK, nightmare over?' No. I mean, I knew it was nightmare number two. Next up ` after waiting for years, Tina's parents confront Gabe Watson in court. Tina's parents have waited eight years for the trial. it began last month on Valentine's Day. It's a special day for us, but it's an emotional day. This is something that we've fought hard for. As the room crackles with tension, prosecutors lay out their theory ` even as Gabe Watson was feeding his new bride cake at their wedding, he was plotting to kill her and cash in on life insurance money. Tonight on 20/20 ` a With the world's media watching, Gabe Watson is on trial for the murder of his wife while on a honeymoon diving trip. The prosecution outlines its case ` that Gabe is a cold-hearted murderer, who carefully planned the death of his new wife even as they were making their wedding vows. Excuse us. Excuse us. Anything you can say? With the weight of the international media bearing down on a Birmingham courthouse, Gabe Watson arrived for his trial, looking calm and composed, facing life in prison for allegedly killing his new bride Tina Watson. I mean, it's still pretty surreal. I'm still in disbelief that the state of Alabama brought these charges, but they did. Tina's parents have waited eight years for the trial. It began last month on Valentine's Day. It's a special day for us, but it's an emotional day. This is something we've fought hard for. As the room crackles with tension, prosecutors lay out their theory ` even as Gabe Watson was feeding his new bride cake at the their wedding, he was plotting to kill her and cash in on life insurance money. The defendant in this case is charged with capital murder. What was it like to sit in that courtroom? I was, I guess, mentally prepared for the mud-slinging that was about to start. The most damning testimony against Gabe comes from Doug Millsaps and Ken Snyder, those two fellow divers from the Spoilsport. On the stand they describe how suspicious they found Gabe's story that day ` suspicion that first alarmed Tina's father back in 2003. He said, 'I couldn't hold on to her, and I lost my grip on her and she went down.' And I said, 'Gabe, that's <BLEEP>. She's not that` You didn't lose weight of her. 'She's not that heavy.' Later, the dive master of Gabe and Tina's group, Wade Singleton, testifies. Which is now Tina, and this is me over here. That's him in the now famous photo on his way to try and rescue Tina from the ocean floor. He was the man responsible for Tina's safety that day. Her eyes were open. He tells the jury that it was easy for him to bring Tina to the surface, implying that it should have been easy for Gabe to do as well. She wasn't too heavy for you, was she? She wasn't too heavy for you, was she? No. But Gabe's attorney Brett Bloomston turns the tables, ratting off mistake after mistake that Wade Singleton made. Failing to ask Tina about her lack of experience diving. Did you interview Tina about the number of ocean dives that she had? Did you interview Tina about the number of ocean dives that she had? No. Failing to check Tina's equipment and failing to accompany the novice diver in her first dive ever in the ocean. Bloomston tells the jury that Wade's employer, Mike Ball Expeditions, was charged with failing to ensure Tina was safe. The company pled guilty and paid just a $6500 fine. And you are familiar that the code of practice procedures were not followed by you specifically? Correct. Your lawyer made it pretty clear in court that he felt Wade Singleton was responsible for Tina's death. Yeah. Yeah. Do you agree? I think he was just as negligent as I was. With the defence gaining ground, the prosecution was still wrestling with its original problem ` establishing a financial motive for murder. That's certainly not hearsay. That's certainly not hearsay. Yes, it is. And they didn't get much sympathy from an assertive and often hot-tempered judge. (BANGS FIST) It's hearsay. It's not coming in. I won't continue to argue these issues with y'all. The defence punches a huge hole in the theory when Tina's father takes the stand. < Are you aware, sir, that the liabilities of the money that she owed were valued at $24,000? I wouldn't know the exact amount. No, sir. Not only did Watson never collect a dime, he actually inherited Tina's debt. It's about murder and gain. When the prosecution suggested the engagement ring was a motive, the judge angrily dismisses them. He plans a trip halfway round the world that's paid for by him or his family so he can go over there and kill her so he can get the same engagement ring he purchased? Basically, you're telling me that he planned to kill his new bride for $33,000 of life-insurance money. He spent $10,000 on the honeymoon, $3500 on the engagement ring. Where's the financial motive? Where's the financial motive? I've told you what we believed. I'm asking you if this makes sense to you, this theory. Obviously` What am I missing, cos it doesn't seem to add up? Well, obviously it made sense to me or we wouldn't have done it. There's no evidence to suggest that he intended to kill her. I'm gonna grant the defendant's motion for an acquittal. This case is dismissed. UPROAR The judge throws out the case before the defence ever calls its first witness. There just seems to be a lot more protection for the accused than consideration for the victim. ARCHIVE: Watson has been cleared. ALL TALK AT ONCE A sensational end to the infamous honeymoon murder trial. The case is finished. Gabe Watson can never face charges for Tina's death again. None of that changes the mind, however, of Troy King. If you could say anything to Gabe Watson, what would you say to him? I guess I would just congratulate him. Twice. Twice he got away. Twice he didn't have to stand and face the charges that he was charged with. That's quite an accomplishment. Tommy Thomas also remains steadfast in his belief that Gabe Watson got away with murder. I'm a father trying to find out what happened to his daughter. I've gotta know, and I've gotta get peace for her. He still fervently believes you're guilty. He still fervently believes you're guilty. I think he always will. I don't think that'll change. The people that I love and the people that love me... don't think I'm guilty. And there are people who love him ` not just his parents, but a new wife. Jordan. Jordan. Come on, Jordan. In August 2008, before going to prison in Australia for Tina's death, Watson fell in love and remarried. His second wife is Kim Lewis, the vice principal of a middle school. How does it change a person to get married the first time, lose your wife 11 days later, to go back out on that ledge and make that promise to a second person? I think the one way to really describe it is you don't take any second for granted. You know that any day, any second can be your last together, so you just enjoy the hell out of every second you have together. After the break ` 20/20 goes to Hollywood and asks the cast of Criminal Minds just how close to real life their show really is. You're emulating what happens out there. There's nothing we've done so horrific that hasn't already happened. In fact, there are these manuals, um, which are very graphic ` both in terms of photographs and descriptions` We're not doing it for exploitation's sake or` because it really does happen. a Welcome back. The scary stories about brutal and often serial murders that we see on TV are closer to reality than you might think. Well, that's according to Thomas Gibson and Joe Mantegna, who both play senior FBI profilers on Criminal Minds. So, just how accurate do they try and be? Reporter Hannah Ockelford caught up with the stars in Los Angeles. TENSE MUSIC TYRES SCREECH GUNSHOT If a killer was on the loose in your town, trust me, this is the team you'd want jetting in. Yeah, I'm happy. Yeah, I'm happy. Let's go. Led by Aaron Hotchner, the BAU, or Behavioural Analysis Unit, is an elite group of FBI profilers who analyse the minds of society's deranged, twisted and psychopathic. (SCREAMS) Issue a look-out to law enforcement for a physically fit male in his 30s, 40s, possibly a veteran. He appears non-threatening and blends in easily. He's armed and very dangerous. He most likely will kill again. We are emulating what happens out there. There's nothing we've done so horrific that hasn't happened. In fact, there are these manuals, uh, which are very graphic in terms of photographs and descriptions that are so much worse than anything that we could ever show. Um, so I think to hint at it and` and show more than some other television shows do ` I think we're still showing maybe only 10% of` of what's actually happening in these stories. And we're not doing it for exploitation's sake ` you know, because it really does happen. ...burnt tongue. I think it's important that we kinda tell it like it is. The BAU does actually exist, so authenticity's important. Seems impossible to trace. We studied their behaviour. They're not a good breed, but still human. 'It's essential, I think`' 'It's essential, I think`' 'I do too.' ...to tell a story as effectively and` and with a kind of integrity. We take it seriously as actors. We also respect those who do it for real, because we get to go home and leave it behind, and they go home and continue to work on the cases, so we have a great deal of respect for them, and it's, uh, you know, it's nice to hear from them, as we have heard occasionally, that they feel we're doing a good job as well. What happened to you? What happened to you? Guy was huge. Seriously. You should start working out. You should start working out. (LAUGHS) How significant is the training or insight that you do get into that unit? Well, Thomas and I actually both have had that opportunity to go to Quantico and rub shoulders with these people and be actually in the premises where a lot of this work gets done. And it's great. And you can feel it from them ` there's a sense of pride. It goes back to the original concept ` we meet in this round-table room ` sort of symbolic of King Arthur and the Round Table, and we were the last of the knights to fight the dragons. There's a recently retired profiler who has been a technical analyst for` for the writers, for the whole show whenever he's had the time. He's been an invaluable resource and a good friend, um, to the show and to each of us as well. He thinks someone's trying to distort his reality. Hotch's gang includes Dr Spencer Reid ` the truly brilliant geek; You know, he might have Capgras syndrome ` A delusional order where one believes loved ones have been replaced by imposters. Penelope Garcia ` Your friendly neighbourhood genius girl will find out. sort of like the girl next door, but a computer genius; All over it like cat hair on a sofa. BTW, I can usually locate a cellphone within 3m, but there are uncontrollable circumstances, like physical barriers blocking a signal, not being in the satellite's line of sight, which bounces the signal` not being in the satellite's line of sight, which bounces the signal` Tell me you've got something. Oh, sorry. Yes, I have something. and the handsomely butch Derek Morgan. (GRUNTS) The success this team shares catching killers is not shared in their private lives. Jennifer, the only reason you could manage my perceptions is because I trusted you. I came to your house for 10 weeks in a row crying over losing a friend, and not once did you have the decency to tell me the truth. and not once did you have the decency to tell me the truth. I couldn't. You couldn't? Or you wouldn't? There's a lot of talk amongst the BAU team about how difficult it is to have a family life. What about as a hard-working actor? Unlike the` the real agents of the BAU, we get to go home and kind of leave the job behind to some extent, um, whereas they really don't get a chance to do that. Show business and the FBI... (LAUGHS) We're in separate tracks, but probably, interestingly, enough similar kinds of problems. Yeah, enough of the similars` and enough of the similar hours. All right. Let's get started. All right. Let's get started. You are jetting to Durant, Oklahoma, because in the last three days, two women have been found dead after being sexually tortured and then blinded with a sulphuric-acid solution. It's formulaic, but it works. After seven seasons, Criminal Minds is still a popular prime-time choice. There's lots of crime shows out there. How do you guys stand out and keep fresh? I think the fact that we deal with the psychological aspect of crime as opposed to just the nuts and bolts ` in other words, the evidence of the crime itself ` the` the bad guy, the good guys; the bullets; the` the mayhem. I think that makes us enough different that it causes what I feel is part of our international appeal. Everybody can relate. And the question that this show constantly asks, which is, 'What happened in this person's life to make them able to do these terrible things?' And what happened in the lives of each of these investigators to make them dedicate their lives to that? And I think we do sort of revisit that question every week, and` and it's interesting. To me, anyway, and hopefully to our audiences as well. Every story has a beginning. But the part I like best is the end. (SCREAMS) 'CRIMINAL MINDS' THEME MUSIC Gosh, serious blokes they are, aren't they? If you want to see any of tonight's stories again, head to our website... You can also email us at... Or go to our Facebook page. And let us know your thoughts on tonight's show. Thanks for all your feedback over the past week. Keep in touch, and let us know if you've got a story you think needs told.