Nov. 11, 2026
UPDATE: New Details After Husband Admits To Murdering Wife 6 Hours Into Caribbean Cruise
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RSS Feed We are learning more disturbing details about the murder on a MSC Seascape cruise this week. Federal authorities have released statements made by 48 year old Jason Leon Watford explaining the timeline of events that led to the strangling death of his 31 year old wife, Susan Watford. Watford has a long and violent criminal history, including a domestic violence conviction against Susan from just two years ago. Meanwhile, police say there was a child inside the cabin at the time of the murder; without detailing age, gender or relation to the couple, officials have only said the child is currently in foster care.
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00:00:02
Speaker 1: Hey there folks, it is Wednesday, November 11th, and we are getting a lot more details about the murder aboard a cruise ship. And police say we're getting those details directly from the suspect. And with that, welcome to this episode of Amy and TJ Robes. This is a rare one where... Suspect's talking. Seems to be talking a lot and giving a lot of details about what happened.
00:00:26
Speaker 2: Yes, and we're learning that there may have actually been a witness to the actual crime as well. We're talking about 48-year-old Jason Leon Watford, and we know that he boarded this cruise with his wife. We knew there was a murder victim. We knew he was the suspect, but we didn't know the relation, and we're learning a lot now about who the victim was.
00:00:49
Speaker 1: We're getting it. It makes sense now. We're hoping you're going to. Cruz, this is a family thing. This is something couples do. When we first heard about the arrest, we just, I mean, you could jump to certain conclusions about who he might have been with, didn't know he was married. But so we're getting her name and age and roles. We said it's a family thing oftentimes, and we'll get into this a little more, but a lot of questions about what connection this kid, how are police saying a kid is involved in in this situation is how they're putting it. We don't exactly know what that means. We don't have the age and whatnot. So this story, but again, Rob, so many of these details are now coming from a guy who was arrested for murder. And according to police, he waived his Miranda rights.
00:01:34
Speaker 2: I guess he knew he was literally caught red handed. And I say that because this all began, or at least folks there on the cruise ship were made aware of this murder because a housekeeper was delivering towels to the couple's cabin and saw blood on the hands of of Jason Watford. That was a dead giveaway. And she also got a glimpse of a woman face down on the cabin floor. We now know that was his wife, 31 year old Susan Watford. Have you seen any of the pictures? There's a, there's a picture of her. It says it's undated, but it shows her on a cruise ship bow, basically, you know, almost like she's doing that thing where the Titanic, where she's on the tip of the bow and smiling and feeling the wind on her. And she's out at sea. And it, I don't know if it was from this cruise.
00:02:30
Speaker 1: That'd be my question. Do we have a date on it?
00:02:32
Speaker 2: It said undated, but it just made, it made my heart sink because she looked so happy. She was in a, a floral vacation dress, and she was on a cruise ship. So it very well could have been. It would have had to have been taken hours before her murder. But it's just sad to see. You think about a couple. perhaps setting out with their child on a cruise, a Caribbean cruise to Mexico.
00:02:55
Speaker 1: This is seven days. This is a significant vacation.
00:02:59
Speaker 2: This is a big deal. And this is a trip of a lifetime for a lot of folks, for most people. So to think how could something have gotten so ugly and turned so violent that you can't even make it six hours. If you're there thinking about this with your child, if that is the case with a family on a cruise, you've got all these expectations, there's excitement and Fine, there might be some tension, but my God.
00:03:23
Speaker 1: To bring it to this. So this, we first started getting word of this a couple of days ago that yes, this particular cruise, MSC, Seascape is the name of it. Maybe an MSC as a cruise line doesn't roll off the tongue for me immediately. I think we see some of those ships pass us on the Hudson.
00:03:39
Speaker 2: We do.
00:03:41
Speaker 1: But yes, this is the cruise line. What was the number of people on board, babe?
00:03:45
Speaker 2: I thought it was like 5,900. This was a very large cruise ship.
00:03:49
Speaker 1: So they leave, but six hours into it, they're told they need to turn around because they report to authorities that they have an incident with a guest on board. So they're told to come back. And sure enough, they make the arrest. And that's all we had at the time, at least. And we had video of him being taken away. We weren't even sure initially who he was, but his name came out. But we didn't know exactly what happened and exactly who the victim was. This is now what we are getting from the criminal complaint. It is detailed now, Robes. And we are going to share what it says because, Robes, it goes point by point. And so much of this detail is provided by him.
00:04:28
Speaker 2: Yes. He, as you pointed out, waved his Miranda rights and just started talking. So yes, according to the federal complaint, and yes, federal agents were waiting for him or went on board to arrest him. They say that Jason Lee Watford entered his room, the cabin room, at approximately 7.40 p.m. on November 8th. That was the day the cruise ship left Galveston, Texas port. So yeah, a couple hours after heading out to sea, It was observed that then the victim, and this of course was his wife Susan Watford, entered the room at approximately 8.11 p.m. on that same night. So that was basically, what is that, 31 minutes later. So he goes into the room and then 31 minutes later she goes into the room. And it's noted no other individuals were observed entering or exiting the room at that point. And then it was at 9.02, so about... less than an hour after she goes into the cabin, a housekeeper knocks on the door to give them some towels. And that's when the housekeeper says she briefly spoke to Jason Watford, to the suspect, and that's when she noticed something was off.
00:05:54
Speaker 1: That's right.
00:05:55
Speaker 2: So she saw that he had She said blood on his hands, blood on his clothing. And she said that she observed a motionless female lying face down on the floor.
00:06:09
Speaker 1: Okay, so then timeline moves forward to 9.15. And the complaint says that the subject was observed exiting the subject room wearing a different shirt and pants than when he had previously answered the door for the housekeeper. After leaving the room, subject was observed sitting on the hallway floor outside the room, scrolling on his smartphone. Security camera footage further showed the MSC employees calling ship security due to observing a motionless female lying face down on the floor. Following review of the security camera footage, FBI personnel conducted an interview with the subject. He was advised of his Miranda rights, waived those rights, and agreed to participate in a post-Miranda interview, which was audio and video recorded. Robes, you don't hear this a lot. He started giving all kinds, this is just part of the complaint here. Robes, he gave all kinds of details.
00:07:02
Speaker 2: He did. He actually gave the lead up to the incident in the cabin. So he told federal authorities that he and his wife had been arguing while eating at a restaurant on board the vessel. He then said that following their disagreement at the restaurant, he returned to their room and his wife returned to the room shortly thereafter. He then stated that he and his wife continued to engage in an escalating verbal dispute that caused him to, quote, snap, and he struck his wife multiple times, causing blood to emit from her mouth and onto his shirt, his pants, and his hands. And then they say that the FBI located his bloodstained clothing on the floor of the room. They go on to say that He tells federal authorities at some point during the altercation, he began to choke his wife with both hands. He stated he also wrapped his right arm around his wife's neck from behind while she was laying down. And then he continued saying he applied pressure to his wife's neck for approximately four to five minutes and released his hold only after becoming exhausted.
00:08:18
Speaker 1: Robes, we don't. We don't hear this. He is describing a murder, his murder, the murder he committed in detail. Rose, these are the stories where people ask the question, well, how did she die? What were the marks on her neck? We go through this stuff in trial with somebody still sitting there saying they're not guilty. He is detailing this in a way we wouldn't have any other way to find out.
00:08:42
Speaker 2: And he's not even trying to say that he was defending himself or that she was out of control, that she was attacking him, that she came after him in any way, shape or form from a physical standpoint. He is not alleging that she did anything violent to him other than piss him off with whatever it was that she said. Um, so I thought that was also interesting. He's not even trying to make a defense or create a defense for himself. Usually if you talk to police, You might admit something, but you'd probably try to defend your actions in some way.
00:09:16
Speaker 1: It was an accident or whatever. We have guys who chop their wives up and still claim she died of sudden illness that I had nothing to do with. Those guys always. He had nothing?
00:09:28
Speaker 2: Yes. And then he goes even further. After he released his grip on his wife. who laid motionless on the floor for approximately 10 minutes before the housekeeper knocked on his door. And then he admits, yep, I didn't contact ship security. I didn't contact medical personnel, despite the fact that my wife was laying motionless on the floor. You know where my mind goes when I hear about this? 10 minutes, 10 minutes. If that housekeeper had delivered towels 15 minutes sooner, would his wife still be alive today? I know that that's a silly thing to do, but my mind goes there. Just 10 minutes difference.
00:10:10
Speaker 1: And my mind, man, I wonder what this says about us. My mind goes the other direction. What if the housekeeper hadn't shown up at all? What would he have had time to do? Would this be a different case? Would he have tried to cover this up? Would this have been a mystery? Would we have been hearing about what?
00:10:29
Speaker 2: Throwing his wife's body overboard around 3 a.m. when nobody was looking or he thought cameras weren't watching.
00:10:34
Speaker 1: There you go. I think that that would have possibly been the story. But yeah, you're thinking the way we should think. Just a few minutes difference.
00:10:43
Speaker 2: Like, Would he have stopped if someone was knocking on the door? I would think yes.
00:10:48
Speaker 1: But 30 minutes, baby, between a fight in the restaurant and going back to the room, that's a lot of time to cool off.
00:10:56
Speaker 2: That's also, unless she came in hot, she had those 30 minutes to think about what she wanted to say next to him to say she was right and he was wrong. Who knows? Which could have reignited the fight. But yes, you would think. if each side has 30 minutes to calm down, take some deep breaths, don't know where this kid was, don't know who had the kid with them, but certainly you'd think that that would all have played into things de-escalating, not getting so violent that yes. And it sounds like he had time to stop. Imagine four to five minutes of applying pressure to somebody where he said it was so hard or difficult, physically taxing that he was exhausted. That's why he stopped. That requires a continued decision to keep applying pressure.
00:11:47
Speaker 1: Rose, if you just stop and count to 20 right now and to think about for that time, having your hands around the neck of the person you're married to, Now, I know some people listening might make some joke right now about their loved one. Yeah, thought about it. I'm saying that is a really long time. 30 seconds is a really long time. One minute is a really long time to do that, baby. Five, four, five minutes of just what in God's name happened. You mentioned the child. Stay here. We'll tell you what we know about this child that was traveling with these two, at least as much as authorities have told us. Also- What we know about the background, yes, the criminal history of the suspect.
00:12:42
Speaker 2: Welcome back everyone to Amy and TJ. We are learning a lot of new details about what happened on that cruise ship just a few hours into their journey. The Watford family, Susan and Jason Watford were on their way to a Caribbean vacation, making stops in Mexico just a few hours in. Yes, a housekeeper sees Susan's lifeless body. She sees blood on Jason's hands, and he has detailed to federal authorities what he says happened in that cabin. But one of the big mysteries that we learned that still has a lot of unanswered questions, the feds have noted that a child was inside the cabin as the attack unfolded. And what we know is that that child was unharmed. The child is currently in foster care, but we don't know any details about the child's gender, the child's age, or yes, the relation to the Watfords. I think you might want to assume that this is their child or one of their children. I mean, that would make the most sense if you're traveling internationally with a child, with a minor, it usually needs to be one of that child's biological parents for that to actually be a legal thing to do, to take a child So it's pretty safe to assume this is one of their kids, if not their child.
00:14:13
Speaker 1: Nobody's going to take somebody else's kid on a cruise.
00:14:15
Speaker 2: No, absolutely not. I know, what would make the cruise perfect? Let's bring a random kid with us. No, obviously, we don't know if it was her child, his child, or their child together. But just to think that anyone else, but certainly a young child, witnessed a murder is just a horrific thing to imagine. But yes, there was a murder.
00:14:35
Speaker 1: And I got no sense anywhere about the age of the kid.
00:14:37
Speaker 2: No, neither did I whatsoever. But we did get a sense of the history of Jason Watford, and he does have a criminal history, a violent criminal history.
00:14:48
Speaker 1: It includes a 10-year prison sentence. That's not a small thing. And Robes attempted first-degree murder. He attempted to do something that, if he was successful, would have gotten him life in prison. Attempted first degree murder, also aggravated battery with a gun, drug violations and assault conviction just in 2024. Oops. There's violence on this record. Yes.
00:15:11
Speaker 2: And specifically to the incident in 2024, it was September of 2024 that Susan Watford. Yes, that is the murder victim reported her husband, Jason Watford to authorities. She said he grabbed her wrist after a dispute about money. And she said she yelled at him, told him to get away. He became agitated and used a stun gun on her. So that is the report coming out of that. And yes, he pleaded guilty to causing bodily injury. He was sentenced in November. Oh, and 30 hours of community service. Look, I think that's remarkable. Somebody who served 10 years for a first-degree attempted murder charge, a few years later commits assault against his wife, and he gets community service and probation? How does that work? I don't know if maybe she was asking authorities to be lenient on him, but it's just so tragic. Two years ago, she reports him to police, and two years later, on a cruise... to mexico he murders.
00:16:24
Speaker 1: Her you know have you noticed uh excuse me i have noticed i wonder what you think about it he seems pretty chill in the video almost nonchalant his uh his uh his booking photo even you don't see a menacing guy he almost has not.
00:16:39
Speaker 2: Even he's kind of a good looking attractive guy looks like yeah but.
00:16:43
Speaker 1: He seems very even kill and measured in his temperament And seeing him, he doesn't, I don't know what's happening there, baby.
00:16:51
Speaker 2: Something scary inside. You know, they always say to be careful of the quiet ones. I mean, that is true. I mean, you always hear about, but it's that pent up whatever. And it came out in the most violent of ways. It appears according to him. I mean, he is saying, uh, yep. I did it. So look, that's a lot of detail to get, but we do want to know about what's going on with that child. And certainly we can't even imagine what that situation must be like. But we'll continue to follow this case as the legal process continues. We always appreciate you listening to us, everyone. I'm Amy Robach alongside TJ Holmes. We'll talk to you soon.
Speaker 1: Hey there folks, it is Wednesday, November 11th, and we are getting a lot more details about the murder aboard a cruise ship. And police say we're getting those details directly from the suspect. And with that, welcome to this episode of Amy and TJ Robes. This is a rare one where... Suspect's talking. Seems to be talking a lot and giving a lot of details about what happened.
00:00:26
Speaker 2: Yes, and we're learning that there may have actually been a witness to the actual crime as well. We're talking about 48-year-old Jason Leon Watford, and we know that he boarded this cruise with his wife. We knew there was a murder victim. We knew he was the suspect, but we didn't know the relation, and we're learning a lot now about who the victim was.
00:00:49
Speaker 1: We're getting it. It makes sense now. We're hoping you're going to. Cruz, this is a family thing. This is something couples do. When we first heard about the arrest, we just, I mean, you could jump to certain conclusions about who he might have been with, didn't know he was married. But so we're getting her name and age and roles. We said it's a family thing oftentimes, and we'll get into this a little more, but a lot of questions about what connection this kid, how are police saying a kid is involved in in this situation is how they're putting it. We don't exactly know what that means. We don't have the age and whatnot. So this story, but again, Rob, so many of these details are now coming from a guy who was arrested for murder. And according to police, he waived his Miranda rights.
00:01:34
Speaker 2: I guess he knew he was literally caught red handed. And I say that because this all began, or at least folks there on the cruise ship were made aware of this murder because a housekeeper was delivering towels to the couple's cabin and saw blood on the hands of of Jason Watford. That was a dead giveaway. And she also got a glimpse of a woman face down on the cabin floor. We now know that was his wife, 31 year old Susan Watford. Have you seen any of the pictures? There's a, there's a picture of her. It says it's undated, but it shows her on a cruise ship bow, basically, you know, almost like she's doing that thing where the Titanic, where she's on the tip of the bow and smiling and feeling the wind on her. And she's out at sea. And it, I don't know if it was from this cruise.
00:02:30
Speaker 1: That'd be my question. Do we have a date on it?
00:02:32
Speaker 2: It said undated, but it just made, it made my heart sink because she looked so happy. She was in a, a floral vacation dress, and she was on a cruise ship. So it very well could have been. It would have had to have been taken hours before her murder. But it's just sad to see. You think about a couple. perhaps setting out with their child on a cruise, a Caribbean cruise to Mexico.
00:02:55
Speaker 1: This is seven days. This is a significant vacation.
00:02:59
Speaker 2: This is a big deal. And this is a trip of a lifetime for a lot of folks, for most people. So to think how could something have gotten so ugly and turned so violent that you can't even make it six hours. If you're there thinking about this with your child, if that is the case with a family on a cruise, you've got all these expectations, there's excitement and Fine, there might be some tension, but my God.
00:03:23
Speaker 1: To bring it to this. So this, we first started getting word of this a couple of days ago that yes, this particular cruise, MSC, Seascape is the name of it. Maybe an MSC as a cruise line doesn't roll off the tongue for me immediately. I think we see some of those ships pass us on the Hudson.
00:03:39
Speaker 2: We do.
00:03:41
Speaker 1: But yes, this is the cruise line. What was the number of people on board, babe?
00:03:45
Speaker 2: I thought it was like 5,900. This was a very large cruise ship.
00:03:49
Speaker 1: So they leave, but six hours into it, they're told they need to turn around because they report to authorities that they have an incident with a guest on board. So they're told to come back. And sure enough, they make the arrest. And that's all we had at the time, at least. And we had video of him being taken away. We weren't even sure initially who he was, but his name came out. But we didn't know exactly what happened and exactly who the victim was. This is now what we are getting from the criminal complaint. It is detailed now, Robes. And we are going to share what it says because, Robes, it goes point by point. And so much of this detail is provided by him.
00:04:28
Speaker 2: Yes. He, as you pointed out, waved his Miranda rights and just started talking. So yes, according to the federal complaint, and yes, federal agents were waiting for him or went on board to arrest him. They say that Jason Lee Watford entered his room, the cabin room, at approximately 7.40 p.m. on November 8th. That was the day the cruise ship left Galveston, Texas port. So yeah, a couple hours after heading out to sea, It was observed that then the victim, and this of course was his wife Susan Watford, entered the room at approximately 8.11 p.m. on that same night. So that was basically, what is that, 31 minutes later. So he goes into the room and then 31 minutes later she goes into the room. And it's noted no other individuals were observed entering or exiting the room at that point. And then it was at 9.02, so about... less than an hour after she goes into the cabin, a housekeeper knocks on the door to give them some towels. And that's when the housekeeper says she briefly spoke to Jason Watford, to the suspect, and that's when she noticed something was off.
00:05:54
Speaker 1: That's right.
00:05:55
Speaker 2: So she saw that he had She said blood on his hands, blood on his clothing. And she said that she observed a motionless female lying face down on the floor.
00:06:09
Speaker 1: Okay, so then timeline moves forward to 9.15. And the complaint says that the subject was observed exiting the subject room wearing a different shirt and pants than when he had previously answered the door for the housekeeper. After leaving the room, subject was observed sitting on the hallway floor outside the room, scrolling on his smartphone. Security camera footage further showed the MSC employees calling ship security due to observing a motionless female lying face down on the floor. Following review of the security camera footage, FBI personnel conducted an interview with the subject. He was advised of his Miranda rights, waived those rights, and agreed to participate in a post-Miranda interview, which was audio and video recorded. Robes, you don't hear this a lot. He started giving all kinds, this is just part of the complaint here. Robes, he gave all kinds of details.
00:07:02
Speaker 2: He did. He actually gave the lead up to the incident in the cabin. So he told federal authorities that he and his wife had been arguing while eating at a restaurant on board the vessel. He then said that following their disagreement at the restaurant, he returned to their room and his wife returned to the room shortly thereafter. He then stated that he and his wife continued to engage in an escalating verbal dispute that caused him to, quote, snap, and he struck his wife multiple times, causing blood to emit from her mouth and onto his shirt, his pants, and his hands. And then they say that the FBI located his bloodstained clothing on the floor of the room. They go on to say that He tells federal authorities at some point during the altercation, he began to choke his wife with both hands. He stated he also wrapped his right arm around his wife's neck from behind while she was laying down. And then he continued saying he applied pressure to his wife's neck for approximately four to five minutes and released his hold only after becoming exhausted.
00:08:18
Speaker 1: Robes, we don't. We don't hear this. He is describing a murder, his murder, the murder he committed in detail. Rose, these are the stories where people ask the question, well, how did she die? What were the marks on her neck? We go through this stuff in trial with somebody still sitting there saying they're not guilty. He is detailing this in a way we wouldn't have any other way to find out.
00:08:42
Speaker 2: And he's not even trying to say that he was defending himself or that she was out of control, that she was attacking him, that she came after him in any way, shape or form from a physical standpoint. He is not alleging that she did anything violent to him other than piss him off with whatever it was that she said. Um, so I thought that was also interesting. He's not even trying to make a defense or create a defense for himself. Usually if you talk to police, You might admit something, but you'd probably try to defend your actions in some way.
00:09:16
Speaker 1: It was an accident or whatever. We have guys who chop their wives up and still claim she died of sudden illness that I had nothing to do with. Those guys always. He had nothing?
00:09:28
Speaker 2: Yes. And then he goes even further. After he released his grip on his wife. who laid motionless on the floor for approximately 10 minutes before the housekeeper knocked on his door. And then he admits, yep, I didn't contact ship security. I didn't contact medical personnel, despite the fact that my wife was laying motionless on the floor. You know where my mind goes when I hear about this? 10 minutes, 10 minutes. If that housekeeper had delivered towels 15 minutes sooner, would his wife still be alive today? I know that that's a silly thing to do, but my mind goes there. Just 10 minutes difference.
00:10:10
Speaker 1: And my mind, man, I wonder what this says about us. My mind goes the other direction. What if the housekeeper hadn't shown up at all? What would he have had time to do? Would this be a different case? Would he have tried to cover this up? Would this have been a mystery? Would we have been hearing about what?
00:10:29
Speaker 2: Throwing his wife's body overboard around 3 a.m. when nobody was looking or he thought cameras weren't watching.
00:10:34
Speaker 1: There you go. I think that that would have possibly been the story. But yeah, you're thinking the way we should think. Just a few minutes difference.
00:10:43
Speaker 2: Like, Would he have stopped if someone was knocking on the door? I would think yes.
00:10:48
Speaker 1: But 30 minutes, baby, between a fight in the restaurant and going back to the room, that's a lot of time to cool off.
00:10:56
Speaker 2: That's also, unless she came in hot, she had those 30 minutes to think about what she wanted to say next to him to say she was right and he was wrong. Who knows? Which could have reignited the fight. But yes, you would think. if each side has 30 minutes to calm down, take some deep breaths, don't know where this kid was, don't know who had the kid with them, but certainly you'd think that that would all have played into things de-escalating, not getting so violent that yes. And it sounds like he had time to stop. Imagine four to five minutes of applying pressure to somebody where he said it was so hard or difficult, physically taxing that he was exhausted. That's why he stopped. That requires a continued decision to keep applying pressure.
00:11:47
Speaker 1: Rose, if you just stop and count to 20 right now and to think about for that time, having your hands around the neck of the person you're married to, Now, I know some people listening might make some joke right now about their loved one. Yeah, thought about it. I'm saying that is a really long time. 30 seconds is a really long time. One minute is a really long time to do that, baby. Five, four, five minutes of just what in God's name happened. You mentioned the child. Stay here. We'll tell you what we know about this child that was traveling with these two, at least as much as authorities have told us. Also- What we know about the background, yes, the criminal history of the suspect.
00:12:42
Speaker 2: Welcome back everyone to Amy and TJ. We are learning a lot of new details about what happened on that cruise ship just a few hours into their journey. The Watford family, Susan and Jason Watford were on their way to a Caribbean vacation, making stops in Mexico just a few hours in. Yes, a housekeeper sees Susan's lifeless body. She sees blood on Jason's hands, and he has detailed to federal authorities what he says happened in that cabin. But one of the big mysteries that we learned that still has a lot of unanswered questions, the feds have noted that a child was inside the cabin as the attack unfolded. And what we know is that that child was unharmed. The child is currently in foster care, but we don't know any details about the child's gender, the child's age, or yes, the relation to the Watfords. I think you might want to assume that this is their child or one of their children. I mean, that would make the most sense if you're traveling internationally with a child, with a minor, it usually needs to be one of that child's biological parents for that to actually be a legal thing to do, to take a child So it's pretty safe to assume this is one of their kids, if not their child.
00:14:13
Speaker 1: Nobody's going to take somebody else's kid on a cruise.
00:14:15
Speaker 2: No, absolutely not. I know, what would make the cruise perfect? Let's bring a random kid with us. No, obviously, we don't know if it was her child, his child, or their child together. But just to think that anyone else, but certainly a young child, witnessed a murder is just a horrific thing to imagine. But yes, there was a murder.
00:14:35
Speaker 1: And I got no sense anywhere about the age of the kid.
00:14:37
Speaker 2: No, neither did I whatsoever. But we did get a sense of the history of Jason Watford, and he does have a criminal history, a violent criminal history.
00:14:48
Speaker 1: It includes a 10-year prison sentence. That's not a small thing. And Robes attempted first-degree murder. He attempted to do something that, if he was successful, would have gotten him life in prison. Attempted first degree murder, also aggravated battery with a gun, drug violations and assault conviction just in 2024. Oops. There's violence on this record. Yes.
00:15:11
Speaker 2: And specifically to the incident in 2024, it was September of 2024 that Susan Watford. Yes, that is the murder victim reported her husband, Jason Watford to authorities. She said he grabbed her wrist after a dispute about money. And she said she yelled at him, told him to get away. He became agitated and used a stun gun on her. So that is the report coming out of that. And yes, he pleaded guilty to causing bodily injury. He was sentenced in November. Oh, and 30 hours of community service. Look, I think that's remarkable. Somebody who served 10 years for a first-degree attempted murder charge, a few years later commits assault against his wife, and he gets community service and probation? How does that work? I don't know if maybe she was asking authorities to be lenient on him, but it's just so tragic. Two years ago, she reports him to police, and two years later, on a cruise... to mexico he murders.
00:16:24
Speaker 1: Her you know have you noticed uh excuse me i have noticed i wonder what you think about it he seems pretty chill in the video almost nonchalant his uh his uh his booking photo even you don't see a menacing guy he almost has not.
00:16:39
Speaker 2: Even he's kind of a good looking attractive guy looks like yeah but.
00:16:43
Speaker 1: He seems very even kill and measured in his temperament And seeing him, he doesn't, I don't know what's happening there, baby.
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Speaker 2: Something scary inside. You know, they always say to be careful of the quiet ones. I mean, that is true. I mean, you always hear about, but it's that pent up whatever. And it came out in the most violent of ways. It appears according to him. I mean, he is saying, uh, yep. I did it. So look, that's a lot of detail to get, but we do want to know about what's going on with that child. And certainly we can't even imagine what that situation must be like. But we'll continue to follow this case as the legal process continues. We always appreciate you listening to us, everyone. I'm Amy Robach alongside TJ Holmes. We'll talk to you soon.