I hope it is OK that I start a thread about this. I thought some people might find it interesting.
Netflix have a documentary about the disappearance of Shanann Watts in Colorado a couple of years ago.
*Spoiler Alert for comments further down the post*.
It has been put together entirely from police footage, social media comments and videos, MSM footage, interviews and messages between Shanann and others prior to her death. It is one of the most chilling things I’ve watched and gives quite an insight into what people can do and how they behave.
Shanann disappeared after returning from a business trip at 2am in the morning. Around lunchtime the next day the friend she had been with on the business trip raised the alarm when she couldn’t get in touch with her (she appears at that point to have been more concerned Shanann might have harmed herself). Police began to investigate and eventually it emerged that her husband, Chris, had been having an affair and murdered her and their two daughters so he could start a new life (what actually happened when they were killed is not fully known because we only have his story and he’s a total liar).
This is the chilling part:
While Shanann was frustrated with her husband’s withdrawal from her (which was due to the affair), there seems to have been little to no indication he was likely to physically harm her. There was no mention of ongoing violence or that anyone thought he was dangerous in advance. All of the information prior to this was that he was a loving husband and father.
The morning after he murdered them he continued sending messages to her phone pretending he was worried about her. He showed no emotion about their disappearance and it was only when police pointed out this was odd that he started to display some pretend emotion. He subsequently concocted a story that Shanann had killed the kids and he’d then killed her in a fit of rage about it, again after police put this possibility to him in an attempt to get him to confess. His eventual confession was that he’d murdered her after a fight and then killed the kids because they were witnesses, but given his history of lying to protect himself and using the suggestions of others to concoct stories, it’s quite possible he murdered them all while they were sleeping.
Total psychopath. A very interesting insight into some killers in my view.
One of the other really interesting things to me was that his neighbour was onto him immediately. The neighbour had security footage that showed part of the street and he instantly noticed that what Chris did with the car that morning (driving it into the garage briefly) was different. He also commented to police that Chris seemed out of character.
Netflix have a documentary about the disappearance of Shanann Watts in Colorado a couple of years ago.
*Spoiler Alert for comments further down the post*.
It has been put together entirely from police footage, social media comments and videos, MSM footage, interviews and messages between Shanann and others prior to her death. It is one of the most chilling things I’ve watched and gives quite an insight into what people can do and how they behave.
Shanann disappeared after returning from a business trip at 2am in the morning. Around lunchtime the next day the friend she had been with on the business trip raised the alarm when she couldn’t get in touch with her (she appears at that point to have been more concerned Shanann might have harmed herself). Police began to investigate and eventually it emerged that her husband, Chris, had been having an affair and murdered her and their two daughters so he could start a new life (what actually happened when they were killed is not fully known because we only have his story and he’s a total liar).
This is the chilling part:
While Shanann was frustrated with her husband’s withdrawal from her (which was due to the affair), there seems to have been little to no indication he was likely to physically harm her. There was no mention of ongoing violence or that anyone thought he was dangerous in advance. All of the information prior to this was that he was a loving husband and father.
The morning after he murdered them he continued sending messages to her phone pretending he was worried about her. He showed no emotion about their disappearance and it was only when police pointed out this was odd that he started to display some pretend emotion. He subsequently concocted a story that Shanann had killed the kids and he’d then killed her in a fit of rage about it, again after police put this possibility to him in an attempt to get him to confess. His eventual confession was that he’d murdered her after a fight and then killed the kids because they were witnesses, but given his history of lying to protect himself and using the suggestions of others to concoct stories, it’s quite possible he murdered them all while they were sleeping.
Total psychopath. A very interesting insight into some killers in my view.
One of the other really interesting things to me was that his neighbour was onto him immediately. The neighbour had security footage that showed part of the street and he instantly noticed that what Chris did with the car that morning (driving it into the garage briefly) was different. He also commented to police that Chris seemed out of character.