Cheryln Cadle’s book Letters From Christopher: The Tragic Confessions of the Watts Family Murders reveals many details about the murders, including Watts’ mental state at the time. What type of justification did he have for murdering his entire family? Here’s everything about it.Ĭhris Watts sent letters from jail that disclose terrible information about his murders of his pregnant wife, Shanann Watts, and their kids that were kept out of the Netflix documentary American Murder: The Family Next Door. The community of Frederick, Colorado, and the rest of the United States were astonished and appalled by the aftermath.
Chris Watts brutally murdered his pregnant wife and two kids in 2018. The Watts family killings are the most well-known example of familicide in recent memory. Isn’t it true that you’re expected to love and trust your family? What kind of person would murder their family like that? Without a second’s hesitation? They’re all equally scary and horrible, from the Amityville killings to the Van Breda murders. Those people who murder their entire family and don’t show any remorse. “This is absolutely the worst possible outcome that any of us could imagine,” said John Camper, director for the Colorado Bureau of Investigation.Family annihilators have a particularly eerie quality to them. It was later reported that their bodies were found in “mostly full” oil and gas tank to hide the smell of decomposing bodies. The bodies were found “in close proximity” to where Shanann Watts was found dead earlier Thursday. On Thursday evening, authorities announced they found the bodies of 4-year-old Bella and 3-year-old Celeste Watts at a property belonging to Anadarko Petroleum, their dad’s now-former employer. We just thought we were doing the right thing by being a good friend,” Nick Thayer added. Now they’re saying they “feel so stupid trusting him to stay the night in the same house as our daughter.”Īmanda Thayer said that their “48-to-72 hours” with Watts “he was his normal self.” The couple took Watts in after his family went missing. Nick and Amanda Thayer were also blindsided by the news that their friend, Watts, was charged with murder. “I kept telling myself, no no he wouldn’t do anything to her giving him the benefit of the doubt,” Bell said. Neighbor and friend Ashley Bell told CBS4 she couldn’t believe the Christopher Watts she knew could have murdered his family and then gone on television to ask for help in finding them. Why do people do this? Why does it come down to this?” “You know, the hardest part about it all is – when you’re closer to the family … is the ‘why?’” he said. Lindstrom had recently hosted the Watts family at a birthday party for his son. Jeremy Lindstrom told Denver7 that the “why” of it all is what he is struggling to understand.
Others close to the Watts family were similarly devastated by the news. He wasn’t being as attentive to the girls as he normally is,” she said. “He wasn’t touching or hugging or doing stuff like that. “I knew he had something to do with it the day I was at his house with him, but I didn’t want to think that.”Ītkinson went on to say that the couple was “having some issues” around three weeks before the murders and said that Watts “wasn’t being the loving Chris that he normally was.” But he couldn’t give us the name of the friend,” Atkinson continued. “He just kept saying that he didn’t know where she was and that she was on a playdate. The father who confessed to killing his wife and two daughters is expected to be formally charged later today - This as the last friend to see the mother alive speaks out for the first time: reports.
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