A man sank his boat to kill his wife during the honeymoon and inherit his properties

Lewis Bennett confessed to having murdered his wife Isabella Hellman, 41, when he was on honeymoon in the Caribbean, after the revelation of the photos that prove his sinking intentionally the ship where they were travelingso that he can inherit his wife's property.

Prosecutors have introduced new evidence in which alleged damage to the hull of the yacht in order to sink it and to make it death of his wife Hellman It looks like a tragic accident.

The photographs used as part of the crime scene showed that the waterline the boat opened and the damage was done from the inside. Bennett would have said that open evacuation hatches and broke the two hulls of the catamaran in which he and Hellman were traveling for their honeymoon, reported CBS12.

Leaving the yacht that sank, Bennett called SOS where he reported that the named boat "Surf in summer" He was sinking and his wife was gone.

In the statement, the husband stated that the boat hit an unknown object while he was inside and when he left he did not see his wife again.

When Bennett was saved by the United States Coast Guard, they found it between Cuba and the Bahamas, on a raft with their luggage, money stolen coins and supplies.

Hellman's body was never found and Bennett said that I had no idea what had happened to him, but I suspected that it had been dragged to the sea when the ship was submerged.

According to the FBI, the doors of the ship, located under the door waterline of the boatthey opened and damaged the ship from the inside.

Upon his return to the United States, Bennett immediately took his daughter Emilia in the United Kingdom where her family lives, refusing to Hellman's family to see the child. He then filed a petition with the Florida courts asking his wife to be declared dead and that the Delray Beach apartment was delivered. A judge rejected the petition.

"The fact that the accused pack all these items in a life raftbut not actively and diligently seeking his wife was one of the reasons why the prosecution requested an eight-year sentence prison for Bennett, "said the authorities.

Bennett was charged at the beginning of the second degree murder. This charge was then converted to manslaughter in a plea agreement a maximum sentence of eight years.

At the end Bennett was found guilty after the researchers determined that intentionally sunk the boat when there are traces of holes intentionally made inside the boat.

Bennett's sentence will be scheduled for next Tuesday in Miami, Florida.

The evidence presented by the police showed that before the incident, the couple was experiencing problems. Hellman, a Colombian citizen, had noticed a change in her husband's behavior after the birth of her daughter Emilia, as evidenced by text messages.

Prosecutors say that the "marital dispute" the couple was a reason for the alleged murder. "The murder of Hellman eliminate all marital conflicts of the accusedwould allow him to live his life as he pleases and he would inherit money from Hellman's badets, "said a prosecutor.