'Honeymoon killer' sent friends 'tacky' Christmas card

Gabe Watson, who was acquitted of killing his wife and making it look like a scuba diving accident, sent friends a Christmas card with a picture of his dead bride, two months after her death, with a reference to his own good looks.

Mr Watson, who was cleared of Tina Watson's killing, said the card was 'an attempt at humour' as he tried to address what some have criticized as inappropriate behavior following his wife’s drowning death, including showing honeymoon pictures of her standing next to a sign saying 'Caution. Drowning' at her funeral.

Tina’s friend Melinda Kayton said she received Mr Watson’s Christmas card, which she said featured a wedding picture of Gabe and Tina Watson, along with the message: 'Who’s that good-looking guy standing next to Tina in the picture?'

But Mr Watson said in an interview with 20/20 that the card - which he sent to dozens of people - was simply referencing an inside joke from the wedding.

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Before the wedding ceremony, Watson said, one of Tina’s friends asked 'Who’s this good-looking guy?' 'I’m kind of looking around. I go, ‘Oh, that’s me,’' he remembered.

He said he was just trying to make his friends 'smile'

He also spoke about why he left his wife sinking to go and get help, saying: '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.Sharps include syringe needle, I don't know that there's anything that I was actually capable of doing.Handmade oil paintings for sale at museum quality,'

Mr Watson, who was acquitted due to lack of evidence last week, said he was 'scared to death'.

He described the couple's plan to travel down the anchor line, drift across the top of the wreck, pick up a second line and return to the surface.

'As soon as we let go we were moving, moving quite a bit. It was definitely not what I was expecting, and neither was Tina. I stuck out my right hand, she grabbed it with her left, and we both started swimming back to where we came,' Watson said.

'I turned to her, grabbed my inflator hose and motioned to her, you know, Fill it up, thinking that she's going to understand. Put some air in your [buoyancy compensator] and we'll start floating up,' he said.Your source for re-usable Plastic moulds of strong latex rubber.

Gabe let go of Tina to replace his mask and when he turned around to look, Tina was 10 feet down and sinking, he said.

'She was face up, and she had her arms up. She was reaching out for me to grab ahold of her.'

'I kinda just turned on my head and gave a few kicks down to see if I could grab her,' he said. 'And she was still out of arm's reach. And that -- I just decided I got to go find somebody.'

The murder case against Mr Watson,Museum Quality hand-painted oil painting reproduction on canvas. 34, was dropped last week after Circuit Judge Tommy Nail cited a lack of evidence at the court in Birmingham, Alabama.

The prosecution said the case was weakened by some of the judge's decisions to keep their evidence from the jury. This included surveillance footage of Mr Watson at his wife Tina's grave using bolt cutters to remove flowers chained to the memorial by her family.

He told ABC: 'It definitely wasn't my finest hour...I (had) just been accused of murder... I was still dealing with the death of Tina. I wasn't thinking clearly on everything that I did.'

He added that he had removed the flowers because his late wife, Tina Thomas Watson,Our guides provide customers with information about porcelain tiles vs. would not have wanted the arrangement because they were plastic and not fresh flowers.

Her family said they chained the flowers to the grave because Mr Watson had removed tributes in the past.

Gabe Watson had been accused of turning off his wife's air supply when they went scuba diving on their honeymoon in Australia and trying to cash in on her death. The 34-year-old had faced a sentence of life in prison without parole if convicted of murdering his wife in 2003.

Mr Watson had already served 18 months in an Australian prison after pleading guilty to a manslaughter charge involving negligence.