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Corpus Delicti

137: Dark Water 2: Karen Roston

Corpus Delicti

CDM Productions

True Crime

4.5608 Ratings

🗓️ 25 August 2020

⏱️ 44 minutes

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Summary

Scott and Karen Roston had a whirlwind romance leading to engagement and marriage. But on the last night of their honeymoon, Karen went overboard and was found dead 10 hours later. Scott gave three different stories for what happened, one of which was almost too extreme to believe...




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Music by:

Kai Engel

"Daemones"

Blooper music by:

Art of Escapism

"Coal Miners"

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Transition Music by:

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Sources:

"No Secret Agent, Israeli Named in Death Case Says" - by Kim Murphy, The Los Angeles Times - March 17, 1989

"Man Found Guilty of Killing Wife on Cruise Ship" - The Miami Herald, March 23, 1989

"Israeli Says He Didn't Throw Woman Overboard" - by Linda Deutsch, The Times-Advocate, March 17, 1989

https://caselaw.findlaw.com/us-9th-circuit/1079084.html

https://law.justia.com/cases/federal/appellate-courts/F3/83/430/586565/

https://www.chicagotribune.com/news/ct-xpm-1988-02-21-8804010093-story.html

https://murderpedia.org/male.R/r/roston-scott-robin.htm

https://www.cruiseshipdeaths.com/1988/02/13/karen-roston-passenger-cruise-ship-death-aboard-honeymoon-murded-stardancer/

https://www.cruisebruise.com/Book_Reviews/Nightmare_in_Israel_By_Scott_Roston.html

https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1988-02-17-me-29244-story.html

https://www.lifedaily.com/story/newly-wedded-husband-claims-bride-fell-overboard-on-cruise-in-stiff-wind/

Transcript

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0:00.0

Hey, everyone, it's Jen.

0:25.3

And this is Lindsay.

0:26.7

And this is Corpus delicti, the podcast.

0:29.1

Welcome back all our delictibles.

0:31.1

We are excited to bring to you another dark water.

0:34.7

Again, reminder that we are kind of doing a bi-weekly thing right now,

0:37.9

which is why we missed that episode last week. And hopefully it won't last too long.

0:44.3

Jen's kids went back to school today. Mine went back last week. So we will see. Also, I'm going

0:49.4

to apologize ahead of time in case my sound is off. This is my first time recording in a new recording space.

0:55.7

We've gone ahead and just made me a permanent space. After three years, we figured it's about

1:00.1

dagum time. And I'm also going to be working from home more. And we're not finished yet. We

1:05.2

don't have everything set up. So I really don't know what to expect out of this. So if it's

1:09.3

terrible, it will be fixed soon.

1:12.2

So this week's story starts when a Dr. Scott Rothston, a chiropractor, had an accident where he

1:19.5

fell down a flight of stairs and injured his back. Now, apparently it was pretty bad and at one

1:24.9

point doctors thought he may not walk again. And his father said this,

1:29.9

but he did. As a part of his physical therapy, he saw a masseuse twice a week named Karen,

1:38.1

Waltz, and the two became very attracted to each other. They shared a love of fitness and Karen had been a ballet dancer,

1:46.9

did Tai Chi, and, of course my favorite, she was a runner. And this was a whirlwind romance. He had

1:54.8

just had this big injury. Don't know if he's going to walk again. His father tells the news, oh, yay, he can.

2:04.5

It's a miracle.

2:06.1

And so they just, they fall in love.

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