Accused Honeymoon Killer May Have Been Embroiled In Bizarre Love Triangle

However, this was far from a union born out of a tragedy or a jail cell romance, as Gabe and Kim had known each since going to the same Birmingham, Alabama high school and are thought to have had a teenage attraction that lasted to adulthood.

A former classmate of Kim’s told Sydney’s Daily Telegraph that Watson showed a keen interest in the high school junior when he was a senior and a star basketball player.

It was while he was awaiting his fate in Australia that Watson and Lewis were wed, in August 2008, two months after he was ordered to face charges in Queensland for Tina's death.

Not only are the deceased and the current Mrs. Watsons, Alabama girls, they also look eerily similar with the same blonde hair, all-American good looks and bright smiles. Their lives remain intrinsically linked as Kim moved into the marital home that ill-fated Tina only spent one night in.

The science teacher at Homewood Middle School has remained by her husband’s side throughout his trial in silent support, but while he was serving time in Queensland she was a lot more vocal about her passionate feelings for him.

In steamy love letters obtained by the Courier-Mail, Kim wrote graphic details about what she wanted to do to him when he got out of prison, including raunchy sexual fantasies and unusual nicknames for parts of the anatomy that are far from the creative writing that you would expect from a middle school teacher.

On Friday, it was another old friend of Watson’s who took the stand to testify when his former dive buddy, Michael Moore, told the Birmingham, Alabama courtroom that they did open water dives in Florida and Mexico together, where they made drift dives in brisk current, dove to a depth of 50 meters and struggled with visibility of less than a meter, reported the Courier Mail.

"We had to go and get a diver sitting on the bottom and inflate their BC (buoyancy vest) to get them. Gabe and I did it to each other."

The testimony casts doubt on Watson’s claim that he wasn’t trained to save Tina when she began to sink to the bottom of the ocean.

Also during the fifth day of the trial, Florida dentist Dr. Doug Milsap, who was the second person to speak to Watson after he exited the water following Tina’s “accident,” testified that the defendant gave two versions of events – and neither of them made sense because they relied on him claiming Tina was too heavy to hold, when in fact divers are almost weightless underwater.

"I got angry -- like I feel now -- and said, that's bulls**t," the doctor said. "I tend not to have much tact, I tell it like it is.”

When asked how much effort it would have taken Gabe to retrieve his new wife, Milsap replied: "One of two kicks for a strong diver. For a weak diver, two to three,” adding that the only divers who sink are, "Dead or unconscious divers.”

The trial continues.

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