tactical wear. they asked me to step out. they reach my gravel driveway. i said, i think you guys have the wrong person. i told him, you re under arrest for the murders of linda watson, raleigh cox and marilyn. now. i told you before. and into this. you know, i told him, i didn t do this stuff. i m innocent. i told you. i said, you guys never think about me. you guys can check me out. you asked me questions. because it didn t think. i don t believe tampa. i m always here. i ve nothing to hide. linda watson s friend saw the news on tv. we arrested david dwayne watson for three counts of first degree murder. all the sudden, i just can t breathe. i said, oh my gosh, this is it. i started trying to call her aunt, patty. she said, this is it. i was like, are you sure? we sure? i just remember screaming and crying. she said, they just arrested
she is an adult, but the backdoor was found unliked. there is a broken cup of the entryway. detective anderson wasn t on the case back then, but remembers it well. there are not that many adult missing persons because, frankly, an adult can go anywhere that they want to. and they don t need permission. or to tell anybody. still, a deputy was dispatched to the house. doesn t see anything that would indicate foul place. nothing s been tossed in the house? no. he doesn t see any blood. any indication of violence, or a struggle. the only thing he notices is the broken coffee cup. and some property that linda has left behind, that maybe a little bit suspicious. linda s bible was on the counter-, her jeep in the driveway. and perhaps most telling, her pager was left behind. remember, this was the year 2000. when she didn t have her daughter, she would keep her pager so that if anything happened with her daughter, that was the way to communicate with her. it was important,
how was linda as a mother? she love that little girl. that baby was her whole world. bobby and pat were linda s aunts. she s very attentive, that little girl. loved her to pieces. with jordan s arrival, dave and linda got another visitor to high. they came out to be the nanny because they both worked. marilyn was linda s mother. was that an sos that went out from linda marilyn? mom come. i need some help here. . yeah. exactly. not an unusual request from a new mother. but maryland s response was unusual. she sold her house, and drove her car, and headed out. she did all that for her girl and her grandkids? she did that for the family. yeah. where would living? dave built a little guesthouse out in the back. for, specifically for maryland. not every young husband likes to have the mother in law, round let s face it. it s funny that all the guys that work said that s a big mistake.
they said it s gonna end up in divorce. what would she like? very pleasant. polite. and as time went on? you live with someone for 24 hours at a time and you get to know more about them. and our relationship got strained. and soon that wasn t the only relationship suffering. linda s friend who was by then married and living in burnaby notice the change when she invited dave in linda of her visit. you are seeing the cracks right before your eyes? absolutely. coming apart was a hard reality for dave to accept. i plan on staying married forever, that was the deal, but it just didn t turn out that way. i was no longer in love but i still love her. she s the mother of my child. in 1998, dave and linda separated, sharing custody of jordan and that same year, dave met someone new. i saw him in his body and i
sometimes detective guys in bagel themselves into an investigation and make themselves part of the scheme. that can surely happen. detectives also have more concrete reasons to suspect jr. there was a domestic incident that they were involved in. shortly prior to this. just two days before linda disappeared, she had called the county sheriff s department. she made a report that jr had come to her house and was banging on the windows. and banging on the doors. jr said that he was trying to pick up some of his belongings. but, it prompted linda to call her attorney the weekend that she disappeared. hey david, it s linda. jr will not leave me alone. he was over here this morning, beating on my windows. calling me. and the tunnel, should i go down and put a restraining order on him? she wasn t the only one. rosemary and dave also had a restraining order against jr. it stems from an incident when