The Watts Family Murders: What the Netflix Doc Missed Pt. 1
6/9/202628 min
From the outside, the Watts family had everything: a beautiful home in Colorado, two young daughters, and a social media presence full of smiling family photos. Behind those posts, their marriage was quietly falling apart.
In the first of three episodes on the Watts family murders, Katie Ring traces who Shanann Watts really was, how she and Chris built their life together, and the huge secret Chris was keeping from her. This episode contains descriptions of domestic violence, murder, and violence against children. Please listen with care.
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Katie Ring· Host0:39
From the outside, the Watts family looked like they had it all: a beautiful home in Colorado, two adorable daughters, a third baby on the way, and a social media presence that painted the picture of a family living their best life. But behind the filters, the hashtags, and the carefully staged family photos, the Watts' marriage was quietly falling apart. And Chris Watts, the husband and father everyone thought was the nicest guy in the world, was hiding a secret that would destroy everything. What happened inside the Watts home in August of 2018 forced an entire country to confront an unsettling question: how well do you really know the people closest to you? Today, I'm going back to the beginning, to who Shanann Watts really was, how she and Chris built a life together, and the cracks in their marriage that were invisible to almost