Texas man charged with murdering woman aboard MSC cruise ship
Jason Leon Watford faces a felony homicide charge over the death of a woman in a cabin on the MSC Seascape. An FBI affidavit says he told investigators he "snapped" after an argument on the cruise's first day.
A passenger on the MSC Seascape has been charged with murdering a woman in their cabin on Sunday, the first day of the cruise, The Guardian reported. Jason Leon Watford faces one count of felony homicide. He was due to make his first appearance in federal court in Galveston, Texas, on Tuesday afternoon. The ship had left Galveston for a planned seven-day cruise around Mexico and the Caribbean. It returned to port at about 5.30am local time on Monday. The ship's security team detained Watford and handed him over to the FBI. The ship resumed its itinerary later that day. The victim has not been identified. According to a four-page criminal complaint signed by FBI taskforce officer Thomas Plew, Watford admitted that he and the woman argued over dinner in a restaurant on Sunday evening. The ship was in the Gulf of Mexico at the time. The complaint says the argument continued in…
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