Police in the Bahamas arrest husband of US woman who was aboard boat and vanished

>I wonder why they would feel life jackets are optional under those conditions. A couple things. First the news reporting on the conditions may be embellished. I have done that route in my dinghy before. While the winds were predicted to be 20kts, they were traveling along the lee shore of Elbow Cay. The sea state would have been fairly calm, and the winds blocked by land. Second, the use of/wearing of PFDs in dingies is maybe unfortunately quite rare. I am a live aboard and have circumavigated over the past 15 years. It is an unusual sight to see someone wearing PFDs in a dinghy. Reasons? First one probably shouldn't be out in a dinghy in conditions that require them. Second, they are difficult to store so they don't get stolen while ashore. Third, the non-bulky auto inflatable PFDs are designed to inflate when they get wet. Either by rain or spray dinghies are often a wet ride. I am a bit ashamed to say we don't wear PFDs in our dinghy. We do have a little cubby storage compartment in our bow that we keep a couple of the standard orange non-inflatables in, primarily because that is required by law in most countries. Don't wear them though. Hope this sheds some light on your question.

they were in a dinghy - ive taken life jackets in my dinghy exactly zero times, but its a f****** dinghy so you dont ise it in shit weather - its sus af

The number of times I have seen someone wear a lifejacket when using their dinghy to get to or from their anchored boat is exactly 0.

Because people aren't going to wear life jackets 24/7 in a boat, it's not realistic.

I was even thinking due to all the experience one might get relaxed and slack a little. Resulting in error.  However, the daughter did say they had a very volatile relationship. He was the last one seen with her so he should be investigated at least. 

I sent the last article I saw about this to my spouse yesterday and said "This is going to be a Dateline episode," even before we knew everything in this article. Both her mother and daughter find this suspicious and they had a volatile relationship. Even if he never goes to trial, he'll probably be under suspicious his whole life. It's perfect Dateline fodder. It's very sad she's probably dead, but there's no way around the fact the circumstances make this look very bad for him.

Last time I watched a Dateline on someone they ended with a text wall saying the woman had been found dead in Mexico with her "multiple drug trafficking conviction and cartel-associated" boyfriend that hadn't been mentioned since the first 30 seconds of the episode (who was only mentioned by name, with none of the above context..!). Kind of lost its appeal to me after that.

Kind of fucked up but alright.

Out of all the suspicious things that parts not too suspicious. I've watched too many documentaries on rescues and survival, often the person in the predicament just collapses from exhaustion the moment they find civilization and needs medical attention while they tell someone else what happened. Not sure in this case because I haven't read more than a headline and a comment. I'm out of shape and recently did one of those foot pedal boats on a lake and I almost needed medical attention just from the effort alone.

I don't know if there was a key, but it was definitely an island chain. I apologize in advance.

They have not, and they report it’s still a ‘rescue mission’, although I’m not sure if they immediately say that, based on duration, and wait 48 hours for example even in an immediately evident catastrophic incident with highly likely loss of life before evaluating as ‘recovery mission’. Haven’t thought about her being on the island, but if she did manage to be there and not found, that means she would’ve had to go deeper into the middle of it and not be passed out on the coast out of exhaustion for example. Also I don’t imagine it’s a bunch of thick vegetation, like the commenter said there’s a good amount of organization of places

If that were the case and it happened in the area he claims it did, they would’ve found her by now. It’s extremely shallow with no current, and she would’ve washed up on the beach. I agree he probably killed her in a drunken accident but my bet is it happened on their liveaboard boat and he took her out and dumped her at sea on the ocean side of the island, and then concocted this whole bullshit story over the next several hours and showed up at MH the next morning in the dinghy.

You have it now

He wasn't just arrested. He was investigated!

Probably the most important thing true crime has ever taught me is don’t get in boats with people. Or submarines.

Her daughter started talking and said the marriage was volatile, and things could get rough, especially when they drank. So…

In the area they were boating, the waters are typically very calm... I have family down there, so I have been there many times throughout my life, and the only time the waters are rough is if there is actively a storm happening. Occasionally between islands you can have ocean swells coming in, but those are very limited areas they can come through.

some guys just hike and leave their partner on a cold mountain some just make a boat trip.

>I got a vibe. Like why are you out in a dinghy alone in high seas and winds? Something sounded off That part is not off. For those of us that cruise full time that type of dinghy ride is common. They were coming back from dinner/drinking at a restaurant in White Sound to their boat in Hope Town harbor. That is along the lee shore of Elbow Cay, which means it may have been windy, but a calm sea state. I have done that trip in a dinghy before. What happened during that trip sounded off though.

Was that typo or deadass the mom was killin' her kids for $5,000 ea.??! (Not that any amount is ok lol)

Infinite money glitch

Desert too, unfortunately.

So it wasn't just the implication

Well that was mistake #1

Question from a landlubber: If there was a "strong current" wouldn't the dinghy have been swept along with her, keeping them fairly close together?

Dateline needs to have the 1 hour episodes be the obvious ones and the 2 hour ones be the more mysterious or hard investigated. Love Keith. My wife wants to 3D print a bust

I mean, these are the most common options overall, not just on Dateline.

Coincidence ? You mean like the costa Concordia captain tripping into a lifeboat 😂

If only there was a small device with numbers on that enables one to get in touch with anyone from almost everywhere.

What the chance she found a bale of Columbian gold to cling to?

As someone who has gone to the Bahamas a lot, I understand the no life jackets part of the story. If you’re experienced and in a calm area (which they were minus the supposed current which I don’t buy) then you wouldn’t need them. It is a good idea to have them but I’m not surprised they didn’t

It's not in the article. So OP is just fueling speculation unless they provide a source.

I doubt that greatly. They are investigating and have not charged him as yet. No one in their right mind would not be expected to be looked at very carefully under those circumstances.

It's always the life insurance policy.

Every. Damn. Time.

The ones that get caught (and we hear about) are so outrageously dumb that it's not hard to think you'd do a better job than them

Yeah, no. My husband and I have a place here in the Abacos and spend several weeks/months per year out here. The area he claims she went overboard in a dinghy are flats. It’s a max depth of 20 feet on the leeward side of the island. There are no strong currents in that area, period. He was close to the mainland- he could’ve literally swam to the beach or drug the dinghy onshore to call for help. There are houses and businesses all along the island in that area. Instead he spent 8 hours “rowing” to Marsh Harbour, which is in the polar opposite direction across an entire bay. Why would you do that if your loved one fell overboard near a beach? He’s a moron that killed his wife and didn’t think it through, and apparently can’t get out of his own way and shut his damn mouth. The locals knew he was trying to skip town less than 48h after his wife was “lost.” Guilty people don’t stick around for the search; they already know where their loved one is.

Sure but people behaving or speaking strangely don’t mean they’re lying either. We have no idea how we would feel or act after such a traumatic event. So I don’t think we can learn too much from a statement. The whole story though…definitely is suspicious.

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