A Tennessee man is charged with murdering his wife during their Fiji honeymoon. The man beat her severely until she passed away and then claimed it to be an accident.
Bradley Robert Dawson, 38, is charged with murdering his pharmacist wife, Christe Chen, 36, whose body was found in an exclusive scenic Fiji resort in the Yasawa Islands on July 9, two days after checking in.
The new bride had been found by a butler in a pool of blood in the Memphis couple’s bungalow, dead from multiple traumatic injuries, including blunt force trauma to the head.
The groom was nowhere to be found until the next day, having kayaked to a remote island more than a mile away in the early hours. He would not cooperate when asked for DNA samples.
One of the locals claimed they saw the newlyweds in a heated argument the day Chen died.
However, Dawson’s attorney, Iqbal Khan, insisted that despite gruesome reports of her death, there is no way he can be convicted of murder.
“On the evidence that they have presented so far, there’s no proof of the charge of murder with intention to kill or premeditation. Nothing of that sort whatsoever,” he insisted of the new husband. “On the face of it, it looks like an accident.”
The attorney said the IT specialist had been too distraught initially to discuss his new wife’s death.
“Something surprising happened … he was really distressed when it happened,” Khan reportedly said.
“Last week he was in a desperate condition but he’s picking up now. It is a horrendous thing to happen on your honeymoon,” he stressed. “All his family and friends are devastated, because he was a nice, quiet fellow. He’s never been involved with the law before and then this happened. This is something new.”
The couple wed in February after a whirlwind romance, friends said.
Dawson remains in custody with a court hearing scheduled for Wednesday.
What a honeymoon. Certainly didn’t think before getting married.
A worlwin romance is the epitome of vanity as an ancient Hebrew gospel declares: “Vanity Oh Vanity, all is Vanity.” No marriage built on vanity can survive, because vanity is a deep pit for the untruth. So be it. Poor lady. She found that vanity and violence are blood brothers. One cannot do without the other. She paid a terrible price because her vanity blocked insight into a dangerous liaison.
GUARDHOUSE LAWYER
This is so sad. Incidences like this happen when short term romances wind up in a marriage that neither knows anything about each other. This has happened through the eons of human relationships. A marriage should be like buying a house ie: have an Inspection done (check out family/background), is anything owed on the home (check out debt/assets), any repairs needed (check out health/medical), In other words do your due diligence, the same as you would do on a home. Attractiveness and great sex only goes so far. There better be a lot of love and caring if it’s gonna work. As the words say, “In sickness and in health”, you want a partner that YOU would take care of to the end, as you would want them to be there for you.
JMHO