dateline. scuba divers, shelby, and her husband david, were captivated by the aqua blue waters of a caribbean island, posting a majestic underwater world. but, for one of them, the breathtaking views came at a deadly cost. the tragic twist, that exposes family secrets as dark as they come. here is dennis murphy with the last dive. for most of us who enjoy spending time in the water, and the occasional swim, in a backyard pool, it will suffice. it was in total immersion, and an open ocean would do. a ticket to paradise. it was incredibly peaceful. it was looking for you, and it was amazing. even the closer you look in, the more you can look at it. all of your senses are getting overloaded. your visual colors are
killed, and all his dreams come true. all his dreams came true. dreams, he would argue, about insurance money. more than $600, 000, and another woman in his life. illegal scheme, executed in an underwater set up. the autopsy has shown no underlying medical reasons for shelley to have drowned. so, the key to what did happen to shell eight, the prosecution said, was her driving year. how it was damaged. her snorkel, missing a mouthpiece. the strap to her mask, broken. the pin that held the strap in place, gone. that kind of damage happens rarely in the word of scuba, experts said. only one great force is applied to the equipment. we have never, ever, seen this stuff broken like this during a dive. never ever! what about shelley tires loan flipper? all by itself, stuck in the, santo first. it seals trap, pulled back? the prosecution said, it could
have ended in that position if shelley s foot was yanked out of it, was forcibly shoved into the sand. the prosecution put forth the same theory that the attorney said advance back in the rhode island civil trial. that shelley scuba gear, in such disarray, mentally one thing. that shelley tire had been attacked underwater. what this shows is a continued struggle with a human being. and the prosecution says, the only human on that dive, with shelley, was her husband, and dive buddy, david swain. but, swain had always insisted, he was nowhere near shelley when he she died. rather, he and shelley had gone their separate ways, after reaching the wreck. i have a vague recollection of circumnavigating the wreck, poking around the wreck, and seeing shelley still interested in looking at something around there. that is the last time that i saw her, as i swam off towards
to the criminal trial i thought, please, god, let someone find a way back to letting people know how wonderful she was. that special light of shelley tire, deeply missed by so many who knew her. was her husband, david swain, responsible for taking it from the world? or, was he an innocent man, whose private ways had made a tragic accident, only look like murder? a jury, in a courtroom, would soon decide. but, not before david himself took the stand, to answer questions from his island attorney. mr. swain, when you went on the dive was surely tire, on that 12th of march, of 1999, did you kill shelley tire? i did not, could not, would not dream of taking the rock of my life out of the world. no, i did not. did you, in any way, through the course of that dive,
it, i don t see here in the vicinity anywhere. i think, she s either someone around the wreck, or gone off somewhere else, so i could head off to the reef looking for better photo things. what is your recollection of the last time you saw shelley? as best as i can recall, it was when we parted ways on the wreck. he says when they parted, after ten minutes into the dive, she appeared fine, but somehow, at some point in what should have been a pleasant little dive before lunch, something went gravely amiss. david swain says he s surfaced alone and spoke to christian. my first question, was is shelley back yet? he said no, i said okay. looks like you are going in? at that moment, is there any alarm but she has not broken the surface? he was not alarmed, i was not alarmed. christian then started his dive. he later gave a statement that between the outer line of the wrecks, he found something off shelley s thin, like this one,