May 12, 2026
Urgent Manhunt In Paradise: American Woman Murdered Celebrating Birthday In Jamaica
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RSS Feed New Yorker Melissa Samnath sent a final text to her family, one hour before her 37th birthday: “Call the cops.” Samnath was celebrating in Jamaica with her new husband, who is now a suspect in her murder, and is on the run in his home country. Police are searching for Dane Watson, after he reportedly beat her and left her in a wheelchair in front of a hospital barely alive. Samnath later died from blunt force trauma to the head, and her family is demanding justice saying there is a dangerous man on the loose.
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00:00:02
Speaker 1: Hey, folks, it is Tuesday, May twelfth, and an urgent manhunt is underway in Paradise for a husband wanted in connection with the death of his American wife. And with that, welcome to this episode of Amy and TJ. Robess I said Rob the top of manhunt in Paradise. Let's say what we're talking about. This is a gorgeous place has known for some crime in the past, and they don't necessarily want to scream and yell about this when robes we're talking about a place a lot of Americans have spent time, that's right.
00:00:33
Speaker 2: And her family is now doing the screaming and yelling because yes, they want justice for their loved one. Thirty six year old Melissa Samnith went to Jamaica, We're talking about beautiful, gorgeous, sunny Jamaica in the Caribbean to celebrate her thirty seventh birthday with her new husband, who happens to be a Jamaican national. So she gets down to Jamaica on April twenty ninth. Her birthday is the following day, but by eleven PM, her family members get an urgent message and that is where we are. This is a frightening story, and they do not know where her husband is, but they do believe he is the man responsible for her murder.
00:01:18
Speaker 1: Okay, and the only lady we're talking about again her thirty seventh birthday. But she lives in queens Is, where her family is, and so she goes down. As we set this up and we're talking about this has been a couple of weeks now Rose when she first went down. Now, they did discover and found out she was dead. We're going to get into the details of how she was killed, they say. But no one was arrested immediately, and they didn't necessarily announce we're looking for a suspect until several days later.
00:01:44
Speaker 2: That's correct. Look and even when people were asking and news outlets were inquiring, because her family was very upset about wanting information and wanting her husband brought to justice. You have a lot of competing interest since certainly the island of Jamaica doesn't want people to be concerned about coming down. Tourism is their biggest industry, obviously, so anytime there's a crime, and certainly a murder of an American, of a US citizen, a New York City resident, Yeah, they'd prefer that does not make the headlines.
00:02:18
Speaker 1: But Robes, let's say it out loud. This is in the Montego Bay area. Again, very popular area. A lot of people will fly into it. Kingston, It's Montego Bay and it's Ojo Rioso, the three places that so Montego Bay is probably the most popular. Yes, oh those is it not?
00:02:34
Speaker 2: Absolutely? I've been to Jamaica once and I flew into Montego Bay.
00:02:39
Speaker 1: So this is the area we're talking about now. She goes down the birthday and this is where Robes, it's kind of amazing that we're only talking about this guy now again April having her April twenty ninth.
00:02:53
Speaker 2: April twenty ninth is the last day she was.
00:02:56
Speaker 1: Alive, and we sit here on May twelfth, just hearing. Don't even wrong. It may have gotten a little bit more attention there, but Rose, they're just now starting to put out statements. And it wasn't that long ago that they said they were looking for him as a person of interest even but ro this is April twenty nine. She goes down by herself, even starting there like yeah that just she.
00:03:20
Speaker 2: Goes down by herself to meet her husband. And look, it's a little unclear. They weren't even quick to acknowledge that this was her husband. It's all been drips and drabs, and it actually took some detective works, some sleuthing on the internet to try and really piece together what authorities know at this point. But we do know they are looking for her husband, and they claim they don't know where he is. But this scene is out of a horror movie because reportedly Dane Watson is her husband's name. Reportedly he beat the hell out of her. Blunt forced trauma to the head is her official cause of death, but put her in a wheelchair and just rolled her up near the front doors and walked away. So when the hospital, when emergency personnel found her, she was still alive, but not for long. She died at the hospital a short while later, and they were puzzled. They just see this American woman bleeding and bruised and beaten and barely alive in a wheelchair in front of their hospital.
00:04:26
Speaker 1: You know what. I've seen some talk about that in criticism of that. I think of the family member was complaining like you couldn't assist her, you couldn't get her into the hospital. At the same time, I thought, why did he take the time if he just beat the hell out of her to take her to the hospital, like there was some gesture of still care and concern for it was bizarre.
00:04:45
Speaker 2: That was bizarre. It's like, I'll try to make sure you don't die, but I'm not that invested if you do.
00:04:51
Speaker 1: I thought that was odd, but broke the whole evening. I guess leading up to that moment is for her family to be getting those messages from her, that had to be terrifying, and the feeling of helplessness. I can't imagine.
00:05:05
Speaker 2: Yes, her sister described getting the last text message they received. It was just before eleven pm on April twenty ninth. It's been described as literally an hour before her birthday, her official birthday. She texted her sister saying, I need you to call the cops. Look at my location. It's a pink house. That was what she was able to text her sister. That was her last correspondence, her last message to her family back at home. Her sister said, she and her sister share locations, so she was desperately trying to get help, but it was too late.
00:05:41
Speaker 1: Can you imagine getting that message?
00:05:43
Speaker 2: No, I would have thought it was a joke. Maybe I would. That's such a scary, unthinkable text to receive from your sister.
00:05:49
Speaker 1: Even eleven o'clock at night. I mean, the sister might not have even been awake to see it, maybe didn't get until the next morning. We don't know that. But she said, what was something was going on that she knew she was in.
00:05:59
Speaker 2: Trouble yep, and she knew she needed help.
00:06:01
Speaker 1: But she's describing the house even how is she able to even do that? What were her circumstances? Those are some details we don't know yet.
00:06:09
Speaker 2: Yes, what we do know is that detectives reportedly did establish that she was in this pink house. They were able to go to it. They found her belongings allegedly alongside pools of blood, and they do have surveillance footage, according to police, following her from her airbnb as her husband was carrying her suitcases behind her. So they do have her last known image, her last text, and they know that Watson is missing.
00:06:38
Speaker 1: I was right, she was at an airbnb, but the blood and her belongings and things were found his house, which is the Pink house.
00:06:44
Speaker 2: Right, correct? Correct? So we understand for whatever reason, it seems a little strange if they're married that she would get an airbnb. But for whatever reason, maybe he was living with relatives or it was crowded there so she wanted her own space. We don't know the circumstances, but there was and there is footage of her with her husband rolling her luggage behind him going into this pink house which they believe is his house, and neighbors were talking. They were talking to the local paper. They were saying that he beat the hell out of her. He beat her on the head. So people are talking, obviously if they're talking to the local reporters or the local press, they're certainly talking to police as well. And you actually have the official police statement. It doesn't give too many details, but they are at least acknowledging in that official police statement that they are looking for Dane Watson, her husband correct personal interest.
00:07:35
Speaker 1: And now they call her in their statement here again, this is officially on the Instagram page of the Jamaica Constall very force. Now they've been quoted plenty and they put out a statement, but Robes they called her a Jamaican national and US citizen residing overseas is how they describe her.
00:07:51
Speaker 2: Do you want to know why. I believe they said that because a lot of these headlines have New York City are American tourists killed in Jamaica, And that's a horrible headline for the country of Jamaica, obviously, And maybe because she married a local, Because she married a Jamaican man, she was automatically granted some sort of Jamaican national status, and so they wanted to put that up there because it seems a little less scary when you put it that way. I mean, it just does for an American who's considering traveling there or who has vacation plans there, that feels a little less scary.
00:08:27
Speaker 1: Have you seen that in the headlines that she's been called a tourist?
00:08:30
Speaker 2: Yes, there have been plenty of headlines that have called her a tourist if you google her name. So that's the last thing Jamaican officials want out there, is that headline for anyone trying to decide where they'd like to vacation for the next year. And this is not the kind of publicity that they would like out there. So that would make sense to me why they called her a Jamaica national.
00:08:50
Speaker 1: You know, that's we were talking about sa Ulita and Portovaarta not too long ago, a place we like to go once a year. Just after we saw that violence. It changes your thinking, like, that's plenty other places I can go that didn't just have that happen.
00:09:03
Speaker 2: The place we stayed at that was gorgeous and beautiful two weeks later was half price. We actually went to go check and see because people canceled their plans. People don't go to places where they feel like their life might be threatened. And you you pointed out Jamaica definitely has had some issues in some trouble, mostly with crime, robbery, that kind of things. Yes, yes, yes, exactly. But when you hear murder New York City, this woman lived in New York City. She lived in Queens. She's the youngest of four and she's a she's an accountant here in the city. So she is an American. She lives in New York City. Yes, she married a Jamaican man, but I'm sure her family would say great issue with her being called a Jamaican national.
00:09:46
Speaker 1: First, you know, she's a you know she's relatable. Right, even if you say New York to New Yorker, you hear Queens, you think Oh yeah, that's the real New Yorker.
00:09:57
Speaker 2: Exast a queen. She's a real New Yorker, make the queens.
00:10:00
Speaker 1: And you hear accountant, Yeah, even right. You hear that like this is you get a sense of her in some way like, Okay, she studies, she is capable, she is dependable, she's good with number. You hear all, you think all these things about her to a point where, wow, that's could have been meal vacation exactly. It's what and a woman going down to Jamaica on her own. Look, Rose, I don't know how her family felt about this, and I'm sure we'll hear more about it, but you're sending her down and putting her in the care of some guy that even the police down there are saying, it's our understanding she married in December.
00:10:36
Speaker 2: Yes, it's a little unclear exactly how that all happened. So there are this is. It is fascinating because we are hearing from her family, We are hearing from her sister, we are hearing from her cousin. When we come back, we're gonna tell you what they have to say about this young woman who It just it's incredibly difficult to get your head around who went down to celebrate her thirty seventh birthday and wound up dead just hours later. The welcome back, everyone to this episode of Amy and TJ where we are following a murder case with a man on the run, and we're talking about a US citizen, a New Yorker. Her name is Melissa Samnith. She went down to Jamaica reportedly to celebrate her thirty seventh birthday with her husband, a recent husband. From what we understand, she married him in December of twenty twenty five and he lives in Jamaica, so she was going down there to celebrate with him, and the last correspondent she had with her family was basically a cry for help, call police. I'm in trouble.
00:11:46
Speaker 1: And that's scary just a number of times. And I don't know where was the kid. Recently, he was out in spring break, ended up dead, found him in the water. He'd been at a bar. I don't think there was.
00:11:56
Speaker 2: That was in Spain, and that was a college spring break. But it's just one of those scary things because he got left alone and you think, oh, he's a tall guy, he's fine, but he obviously got too drunk and he breated and according to the Spanish police, I guess you just have to hope that they investigated it the way we would hear. They believe he just fell into the water off a pier.
00:12:15
Speaker 1: Oh my god, what was damn Rose was the one in Mexico with a drug they say they put the warning out of that.
00:12:21
Speaker 2: That was the flight attendant who basically went out with colleagues in Colombia and had Devil's breath slipped to him, they believe, and he wound up dead. So look, yes, this is scary, and we're talking about when people end up alone. And that's always what I tell my girls and even what I tell myself, that people love to travel alone. I know there's some adventure and excitement to it, and I know it's rare, but this is scary stuff. And her her family is speaking out and her her niece is saying that Dane Watson, the husband's mother, actually called the family and her sister corroborated this as well, and according to her family, his mother said basically that her son told her that his wife was either in the hospital or in the morgue, and that he dropped her off at a wheelchair at the hospital. So according to the family, his own mother has admitted that her own son committed this violent act. So we'll see how much that would hold up in court. But look, her niece said, there was a murderer on the run, and he is clearly in an area with a lot of tourists. He is dangerous. Women need to be careful because you don't know what he is capable of. We cannot understand why he did this to her. She wasn't an evil person. She was the baby of our family. And now we have to bring her body back to Barry.
00:13:42
Speaker 1: You know who was that from?
00:13:43
Speaker 2: That was from her niece. And look, I don't know why she spoke to the local paper. She wanted her name changed. She didn't want to be identified. She was concerned for her own safety, she said. Out of fear for her own safety, she put out that statement, but she didn't want it traced back to her name.
00:14:00
Speaker 1: Part of that was what was the first part.
00:14:02
Speaker 2: Of there is a murderer on the run, next part and he is clearly in an area with a lot of tourists. He is dangerous.
00:14:09
Speaker 1: Okay, look, man, it wasn't there. It's something you read that had of specific warning to women.
00:14:14
Speaker 2: Yes, women need to be careful because you don't know what.
00:14:17
Speaker 1: He is capable of. They don't need that headline, No, they don't. Women need to be careful traveling to Jamaica. All right, girls, let's switch, let's go to another island. Yes, like this stuff is. I know, I don't think worlds at least they suspect he has any other targets necessarily, but there is a guy capable they believe of murder, and who seems to be hell bent on not getting caught.
00:14:41
Speaker 2: Yes he is. He was described as being in hiding, and look, this is his home country. He's got family, he's got friends, he's got probably places where he can hide. And we don't know what the Jamaican authorities, how they investigate these things. How important this is to catch him. I would imagine with a family member living in New York making statements like that, they probably want this to wrap up as quickly as possible. Yeah.
00:15:03
Speaker 1: I wonder who the family member fears, right right.
00:15:07
Speaker 2: They might fear about someone coming to America, or just some sort of retaliation for speaking out against him. But I do believe making a statement like that is sending a shot across the bow to Jamaican authorities find this guy because this isn't good for you, this isn't good for us. And they put out a family statement about Melissa. I think it's like, we talk about the crime and how scary it is, but to just hear who she was. We talked about how she was an accountant, she's the baby of four. They said. Melissa was a strong, loving and unforgettable woman who's warmth touched everyone around her. She loved traveling, she loved new places and spending time with the people she cared foremost. Her loss has left a deep pain in our family that words cannot fully express, and I'm sure that pain is heightened by the fact that they don't have answers, they don't have justice, and the man who they believe killed her is free. That's scary and that's awful. That's troubling, and I do think it's concerning that we haven't heard more about it until now.
00:16:07
Speaker 1: Well, we're gonna keep an eye on this one. Don't know how manhuns go down there, rogues some kind of resources they have, but hopefully they grab him for the sake of the sake of this family, but the sake of that island for the sake of the people in that community. So we just wanted to give you an update on that one that was one that had the headlines that jumped out at us. We always appreciate you spending time with us on behalf of my dear Amy Roboc. I'm TJ. Holmes. We'll talk soon.
Speaker 1: Hey, folks, it is Tuesday, May twelfth, and an urgent manhunt is underway in Paradise for a husband wanted in connection with the death of his American wife. And with that, welcome to this episode of Amy and TJ. Robess I said Rob the top of manhunt in Paradise. Let's say what we're talking about. This is a gorgeous place has known for some crime in the past, and they don't necessarily want to scream and yell about this when robes we're talking about a place a lot of Americans have spent time, that's right.
00:00:33
Speaker 2: And her family is now doing the screaming and yelling because yes, they want justice for their loved one. Thirty six year old Melissa Samnith went to Jamaica, We're talking about beautiful, gorgeous, sunny Jamaica in the Caribbean to celebrate her thirty seventh birthday with her new husband, who happens to be a Jamaican national. So she gets down to Jamaica on April twenty ninth. Her birthday is the following day, but by eleven PM, her family members get an urgent message and that is where we are. This is a frightening story, and they do not know where her husband is, but they do believe he is the man responsible for her murder.
00:01:18
Speaker 1: Okay, and the only lady we're talking about again her thirty seventh birthday. But she lives in queens Is, where her family is, and so she goes down. As we set this up and we're talking about this has been a couple of weeks now Rose when she first went down. Now, they did discover and found out she was dead. We're going to get into the details of how she was killed, they say. But no one was arrested immediately, and they didn't necessarily announce we're looking for a suspect until several days later.
00:01:44
Speaker 2: That's correct. Look and even when people were asking and news outlets were inquiring, because her family was very upset about wanting information and wanting her husband brought to justice. You have a lot of competing interest since certainly the island of Jamaica doesn't want people to be concerned about coming down. Tourism is their biggest industry, obviously, so anytime there's a crime, and certainly a murder of an American, of a US citizen, a New York City resident, Yeah, they'd prefer that does not make the headlines.
00:02:18
Speaker 1: But Robes, let's say it out loud. This is in the Montego Bay area. Again, very popular area. A lot of people will fly into it. Kingston, It's Montego Bay and it's Ojo Rioso, the three places that so Montego Bay is probably the most popular. Yes, oh those is it not?
00:02:34
Speaker 2: Absolutely? I've been to Jamaica once and I flew into Montego Bay.
00:02:39
Speaker 1: So this is the area we're talking about now. She goes down the birthday and this is where Robes, it's kind of amazing that we're only talking about this guy now again April having her April twenty ninth.
00:02:53
Speaker 2: April twenty ninth is the last day she was.
00:02:56
Speaker 1: Alive, and we sit here on May twelfth, just hearing. Don't even wrong. It may have gotten a little bit more attention there, but Rose, they're just now starting to put out statements. And it wasn't that long ago that they said they were looking for him as a person of interest even but ro this is April twenty nine. She goes down by herself, even starting there like yeah that just she.
00:03:20
Speaker 2: Goes down by herself to meet her husband. And look, it's a little unclear. They weren't even quick to acknowledge that this was her husband. It's all been drips and drabs, and it actually took some detective works, some sleuthing on the internet to try and really piece together what authorities know at this point. But we do know they are looking for her husband, and they claim they don't know where he is. But this scene is out of a horror movie because reportedly Dane Watson is her husband's name. Reportedly he beat the hell out of her. Blunt forced trauma to the head is her official cause of death, but put her in a wheelchair and just rolled her up near the front doors and walked away. So when the hospital, when emergency personnel found her, she was still alive, but not for long. She died at the hospital a short while later, and they were puzzled. They just see this American woman bleeding and bruised and beaten and barely alive in a wheelchair in front of their hospital.
00:04:26
Speaker 1: You know what. I've seen some talk about that in criticism of that. I think of the family member was complaining like you couldn't assist her, you couldn't get her into the hospital. At the same time, I thought, why did he take the time if he just beat the hell out of her to take her to the hospital, like there was some gesture of still care and concern for it was bizarre.
00:04:45
Speaker 2: That was bizarre. It's like, I'll try to make sure you don't die, but I'm not that invested if you do.
00:04:51
Speaker 1: I thought that was odd, but broke the whole evening. I guess leading up to that moment is for her family to be getting those messages from her, that had to be terrifying, and the feeling of helplessness. I can't imagine.
00:05:05
Speaker 2: Yes, her sister described getting the last text message they received. It was just before eleven pm on April twenty ninth. It's been described as literally an hour before her birthday, her official birthday. She texted her sister saying, I need you to call the cops. Look at my location. It's a pink house. That was what she was able to text her sister. That was her last correspondence, her last message to her family back at home. Her sister said, she and her sister share locations, so she was desperately trying to get help, but it was too late.
00:05:41
Speaker 1: Can you imagine getting that message?
00:05:43
Speaker 2: No, I would have thought it was a joke. Maybe I would. That's such a scary, unthinkable text to receive from your sister.
00:05:49
Speaker 1: Even eleven o'clock at night. I mean, the sister might not have even been awake to see it, maybe didn't get until the next morning. We don't know that. But she said, what was something was going on that she knew she was in.
00:05:59
Speaker 2: Trouble yep, and she knew she needed help.
00:06:01
Speaker 1: But she's describing the house even how is she able to even do that? What were her circumstances? Those are some details we don't know yet.
00:06:09
Speaker 2: Yes, what we do know is that detectives reportedly did establish that she was in this pink house. They were able to go to it. They found her belongings allegedly alongside pools of blood, and they do have surveillance footage, according to police, following her from her airbnb as her husband was carrying her suitcases behind her. So they do have her last known image, her last text, and they know that Watson is missing.
00:06:38
Speaker 1: I was right, she was at an airbnb, but the blood and her belongings and things were found his house, which is the Pink house.
00:06:44
Speaker 2: Right, correct? Correct? So we understand for whatever reason, it seems a little strange if they're married that she would get an airbnb. But for whatever reason, maybe he was living with relatives or it was crowded there so she wanted her own space. We don't know the circumstances, but there was and there is footage of her with her husband rolling her luggage behind him going into this pink house which they believe is his house, and neighbors were talking. They were talking to the local paper. They were saying that he beat the hell out of her. He beat her on the head. So people are talking, obviously if they're talking to the local reporters or the local press, they're certainly talking to police as well. And you actually have the official police statement. It doesn't give too many details, but they are at least acknowledging in that official police statement that they are looking for Dane Watson, her husband correct personal interest.
00:07:35
Speaker 1: And now they call her in their statement here again, this is officially on the Instagram page of the Jamaica Constall very force. Now they've been quoted plenty and they put out a statement, but Robes they called her a Jamaican national and US citizen residing overseas is how they describe her.
00:07:51
Speaker 2: Do you want to know why. I believe they said that because a lot of these headlines have New York City are American tourists killed in Jamaica, And that's a horrible headline for the country of Jamaica, obviously, And maybe because she married a local, Because she married a Jamaican man, she was automatically granted some sort of Jamaican national status, and so they wanted to put that up there because it seems a little less scary when you put it that way. I mean, it just does for an American who's considering traveling there or who has vacation plans there, that feels a little less scary.
00:08:27
Speaker 1: Have you seen that in the headlines that she's been called a tourist?
00:08:30
Speaker 2: Yes, there have been plenty of headlines that have called her a tourist if you google her name. So that's the last thing Jamaican officials want out there, is that headline for anyone trying to decide where they'd like to vacation for the next year. And this is not the kind of publicity that they would like out there. So that would make sense to me why they called her a Jamaica national.
00:08:50
Speaker 1: You know, that's we were talking about sa Ulita and Portovaarta not too long ago, a place we like to go once a year. Just after we saw that violence. It changes your thinking, like, that's plenty other places I can go that didn't just have that happen.
00:09:03
Speaker 2: The place we stayed at that was gorgeous and beautiful two weeks later was half price. We actually went to go check and see because people canceled their plans. People don't go to places where they feel like their life might be threatened. And you you pointed out Jamaica definitely has had some issues in some trouble, mostly with crime, robbery, that kind of things. Yes, yes, yes, exactly. But when you hear murder New York City, this woman lived in New York City. She lived in Queens. She's the youngest of four and she's a she's an accountant here in the city. So she is an American. She lives in New York City. Yes, she married a Jamaican man, but I'm sure her family would say great issue with her being called a Jamaican national.
00:09:46
Speaker 1: First, you know, she's a you know she's relatable. Right, even if you say New York to New Yorker, you hear Queens, you think Oh yeah, that's the real New Yorker.
00:09:57
Speaker 2: Exast a queen. She's a real New Yorker, make the queens.
00:10:00
Speaker 1: And you hear accountant, Yeah, even right. You hear that like this is you get a sense of her in some way like, Okay, she studies, she is capable, she is dependable, she's good with number. You hear all, you think all these things about her to a point where, wow, that's could have been meal vacation exactly. It's what and a woman going down to Jamaica on her own. Look, Rose, I don't know how her family felt about this, and I'm sure we'll hear more about it, but you're sending her down and putting her in the care of some guy that even the police down there are saying, it's our understanding she married in December.
00:10:36
Speaker 2: Yes, it's a little unclear exactly how that all happened. So there are this is. It is fascinating because we are hearing from her family, We are hearing from her sister, we are hearing from her cousin. When we come back, we're gonna tell you what they have to say about this young woman who It just it's incredibly difficult to get your head around who went down to celebrate her thirty seventh birthday and wound up dead just hours later. The welcome back, everyone to this episode of Amy and TJ where we are following a murder case with a man on the run, and we're talking about a US citizen, a New Yorker. Her name is Melissa Samnith. She went down to Jamaica reportedly to celebrate her thirty seventh birthday with her husband, a recent husband. From what we understand, she married him in December of twenty twenty five and he lives in Jamaica, so she was going down there to celebrate with him, and the last correspondent she had with her family was basically a cry for help, call police. I'm in trouble.
00:11:46
Speaker 1: And that's scary just a number of times. And I don't know where was the kid. Recently, he was out in spring break, ended up dead, found him in the water. He'd been at a bar. I don't think there was.
00:11:56
Speaker 2: That was in Spain, and that was a college spring break. But it's just one of those scary things because he got left alone and you think, oh, he's a tall guy, he's fine, but he obviously got too drunk and he breated and according to the Spanish police, I guess you just have to hope that they investigated it the way we would hear. They believe he just fell into the water off a pier.
00:12:15
Speaker 1: Oh my god, what was damn Rose was the one in Mexico with a drug they say they put the warning out of that.
00:12:21
Speaker 2: That was the flight attendant who basically went out with colleagues in Colombia and had Devil's breath slipped to him, they believe, and he wound up dead. So look, yes, this is scary, and we're talking about when people end up alone. And that's always what I tell my girls and even what I tell myself, that people love to travel alone. I know there's some adventure and excitement to it, and I know it's rare, but this is scary stuff. And her her family is speaking out and her her niece is saying that Dane Watson, the husband's mother, actually called the family and her sister corroborated this as well, and according to her family, his mother said basically that her son told her that his wife was either in the hospital or in the morgue, and that he dropped her off at a wheelchair at the hospital. So according to the family, his own mother has admitted that her own son committed this violent act. So we'll see how much that would hold up in court. But look, her niece said, there was a murderer on the run, and he is clearly in an area with a lot of tourists. He is dangerous. Women need to be careful because you don't know what he is capable of. We cannot understand why he did this to her. She wasn't an evil person. She was the baby of our family. And now we have to bring her body back to Barry.
00:13:42
Speaker 1: You know who was that from?
00:13:43
Speaker 2: That was from her niece. And look, I don't know why she spoke to the local paper. She wanted her name changed. She didn't want to be identified. She was concerned for her own safety, she said. Out of fear for her own safety, she put out that statement, but she didn't want it traced back to her name.
00:14:00
Speaker 1: Part of that was what was the first part.
00:14:02
Speaker 2: Of there is a murderer on the run, next part and he is clearly in an area with a lot of tourists. He is dangerous.
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Speaker 1: Okay, look, man, it wasn't there. It's something you read that had of specific warning to women.
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Speaker 2: Yes, women need to be careful because you don't know what.
00:14:17
Speaker 1: He is capable of. They don't need that headline, No, they don't. Women need to be careful traveling to Jamaica. All right, girls, let's switch, let's go to another island. Yes, like this stuff is. I know, I don't think worlds at least they suspect he has any other targets necessarily, but there is a guy capable they believe of murder, and who seems to be hell bent on not getting caught.
00:14:41
Speaker 2: Yes he is. He was described as being in hiding, and look, this is his home country. He's got family, he's got friends, he's got probably places where he can hide. And we don't know what the Jamaican authorities, how they investigate these things. How important this is to catch him. I would imagine with a family member living in New York making statements like that, they probably want this to wrap up as quickly as possible. Yeah.
00:15:03
Speaker 1: I wonder who the family member fears, right right.
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Speaker 2: They might fear about someone coming to America, or just some sort of retaliation for speaking out against him. But I do believe making a statement like that is sending a shot across the bow to Jamaican authorities find this guy because this isn't good for you, this isn't good for us. And they put out a family statement about Melissa. I think it's like, we talk about the crime and how scary it is, but to just hear who she was. We talked about how she was an accountant, she's the baby of four. They said. Melissa was a strong, loving and unforgettable woman who's warmth touched everyone around her. She loved traveling, she loved new places and spending time with the people she cared foremost. Her loss has left a deep pain in our family that words cannot fully express, and I'm sure that pain is heightened by the fact that they don't have answers, they don't have justice, and the man who they believe killed her is free. That's scary and that's awful. That's troubling, and I do think it's concerning that we haven't heard more about it until now.
00:16:07
Speaker 1: Well, we're gonna keep an eye on this one. Don't know how manhuns go down there, rogues some kind of resources they have, but hopefully they grab him for the sake of the sake of this family, but the sake of that island for the sake of the people in that community. So we just wanted to give you an update on that one that was one that had the headlines that jumped out at us. We always appreciate you spending time with us on behalf of my dear Amy Roboc. I'm TJ. Holmes. We'll talk soon.