230: Erin Andrews' Stalker & a Honeymoon Mystery

Sportscaster Erin Andrews was living her dream, traveling all over the country to cover college football games. It was tough to be a woman in a male-dominated industry, but she made a name for herself as a sideline reporter. Then one day, her world changed. A friend called to say that there was naked footage of her on the internet. Erin laughed. She told him that couldn’t be true. But he was right. Erin had been filmed without her knowledge, and the footage was going viral.

Then Brandi tells us about Tina and Gabe Watson, whose two-week honeymoon to Australia ended in tragedy. The couple took diving lessons prior to their trip, but Tina had never gone diving in the ocean. Gabe was more experienced, but not by much. On October 22, 2003, the couple dove to view the wrecked SS Yongala. Tina didn’t survive the dive. 

And now for a note about our process. For each episode, Kristin reads a bunch of articles, then spits them back out in her very limited vocabulary. Brandi copies and pastes from the best sources on the web. And sometimes Wikipedia. (No shade, Wikipedia. We love you.) We owe a huge debt of gratitude to the real experts who covered these cases.

In this episode, Kristin pulled from:
“The pain you can’t see,” by Emily Kaplan for Sports Illustrated
“Stalker tells all: How I peeped on Erin Andrews,” Page Six
“Andrews’ stalker gets 2.5 years in prison,” ESPN
“Erin Andrews on life after the nude video,” OWN video on YouTube
“ESPN reporter Erin Andrews on stalker’s sentence,” ABC on YouTube
“Hotel exec watched Erin Andrews naked in restaurant after court,” Inside Edition
“Erin Andrews says hotel could have prevented stalker from filming her,” by Katie Rogers for The New York Times
“Erin Andrews civil trial: Day-by-day updates,” by Stacey Barchenger for The Tennessean
“Dad: Andrews ‘not the girl we used to know’” by Stacey Barchenger for The Tennessean
“Andrews: ESPN made me do TV interview,” by Stacey Barchenger for The Tennessean

In this episode, Brandi pulled from:
“Mystery In The Deep Blue Sea” episode Dateline
“Tina Watson” chillingcrimes.com
“Prosecutor: Gabe Watson had financial motive to drown wife on honeymoon” by Crimesider Staff, CBS News
“Photo of Drowned Newlywed Is Evidence in 'Honeymoon Killer' Trial” by Nikki Battiste, ABC News
“Trial of Alleged 'Honeymoon Killer' Gabe Watson Opens” by Nikki Battiste, ABC News
“Questions remain about whether 'Honeymoon Killer' Gabe Watson was let off the hook over the death of his wife Tina Watson” by Patrick Hatch and Tuck Thompson, Herald Sun
“'Honeymoon killer' may be innocent, says dive expert” by Peter Patrick, Sydney Morning Herald
“Tina Watson Death” michaelmcfadyenscuba.info
“Death of Tina WATSON” wikipedia.org

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