Urgent Manhunt In Paradise: American Woman Murdered Celebrating Birthday In Jamaica
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🗓️ 12 May 2026
⏱️ 17 minutes
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New Yorker Melissa Samnath sent a final text to her family, one hour before her 37th birthday: “Call the cops.” Samnath was celebrating in Jamaica with her new husband, who is now a suspect in her murder, and is on the run in his home country. Police are searching for Dane Watson, after he reportedly beat her and left her in a wheelchair in front of a hospital barely alive. Samnath later died from blunt force trauma to the head, and her family is demanding justice saying there is a dangerous man on the loose.
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| 0:00.0 | This is an IHeart podcast. |
| 0:02.5 | Guaranteed Human. |
| 0:06.1 | Hey there, folks. |
| 0:07.0 | It is Tuesday, May 12th, and an urgent manhunt is underway in paradise for a husband wanted in connection with the death of his American wife. |
| 0:20.3 | And with that, welcome to this episode of Amy and T.J. Robs, I said, right up the top, Manhattan in Paradise. Let's say what we're talking about. This is a gorgeous place. Has known for some crime in the past, and they don't necessarily want to scream and yell about this one. But Rose, we're talking about a place a lot of Americans have spent time. That's right. And her family is now doing the screaming and yelling because, yes, they want justice for their loved |
| 0:43.0 | one. 36-year-old Melissa Samneth went to Jamaica. We're talking about beautiful, gorgeous, sunny |
| 0:49.3 | Jamaica in the Caribbean to celebrate her 37th birthday with her new husband, who happens to be a Jamaican |
| 0:58.3 | national. So she gets down to Jamaica on April 29th. Her birthday is the following day, |
| 1:05.9 | but by 11 p.m., her family members get an urgent message, and that is where we are. This is a frightening |
| 1:14.0 | story, and they do not know where her husband is, but they do believe he is the man responsible |
| 1:21.4 | for her murder. Okay, and the young lady we're talking about, again, a 37th birthday, but she |
| 1:26.4 | lives in Queens, is where her family is. |
| 1:29.5 | And so she goes down, and we set this up, we're talking about this has been a couple of weeks now, Rose, when she first went down. |
| 1:35.9 | Now, they did discover and found out she was dead. |
| 1:38.0 | We're going to get into the details of how she was killed, they say. |
| 1:41.1 | But no one was arrested immediately, and they didn't necessarily announce |
| 1:45.0 | we're looking for a suspect until several days later. That's correct. Look, and even when people |
| 1:51.9 | were asking and news outlets were inquiring because her family was very upset about wanting |
| 1:58.1 | information and wanting her husband brought to justice, you have a lot |
| 2:03.2 | of competing interests. And certainly the island of Jamaica doesn't want people to be concerned |
| 2:09.2 | about coming down. Tourism is their biggest industry, obviously. So anytime there's a crime |
| 2:14.0 | and certainly a murder of an American, of a U.S. citizen, a New York City resident. |
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