Download or read book My Daddy is a Hero How Chris Watts Went from Family Man to Family Killer written by Lena Derhally and published by . This book was released on 2019-12-09 with total page 374 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An in-depth psychological analysis and exploration of the Watts family murders.
Download or read book The Perfect Father written by John Glatt and published by St. Martin's Press. This book was released on 2020-07-21 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In The Perfect Father, New York Times bestselling author John Glatt reveals the tragedy of the Watts family, whose seemingly perfect lives played out on social media—but the truth would lead to a vicious and heartbreaking murder. In the early morning hours of August 13th, 2018, Shanann Watts was dropped off at home by a colleague after returning from a business trip. It was the last time anyone would see her alive. By the next day, Shanann and her two young daughters, Bella and Celeste, had been reported missing, and her husband, Chris Watts, was appearing on the local news, pleading for his family’s safe return. But Chris Watts already knew that he would never see his family again. Less than 24 hours after his desperate plea, Watts made a shocking confession to police: he had strangled his pregnant wife to death and smothered their daughters, dumping their bodies at a nearby oil site. Heartbroken friends and neighbors watched in shock as the movie-star handsome, devoted family man they knew was arrested and charged with first degree murder. The mask Chris had presented to the world in his TV interviews and the family’s Facebook accounts was slipping—and what lay beneath was a horrifying image of instability, infidelity, and boiling rage. In this first major account of the case, bestselling author and journalist John Glatt reveals the truth behind the tragedy and constructs a chilling portrait of one of the most shocking family annihilator cases of the 21st century.
Download or read book Letters from Christopher written by Cheryln Cadle and published by . This book was released on 2019-09-25 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the early morning hours of August 13, 2018, in the small, quiet Colorado town of Frederick, after murdering his family, Chris Watts calculatingly and coldly put his girls in oil battery tanks and buried his pregnant wife in a shallow grave, then returned to work like nothing happened. Chris ultimately pled guilty to the murders, and he is currently serving multiple life sentences. While in prison, Chris receives tons of mail--from family and friends but also fans. Author Cheryln Cadle decided that, after a calling from God, she would write to Chris and ask him if she could write a book about his story. Surprisingly, he wrote back. After a few back-and-forth letters, Chris sent the paperwork to Cheryln to be put on the visitors' list. She then visited him and they talked about her writing a book. After visiting him, he told Cheryln he wanted to tell her his confessions in writing because he felt their conversations were being recorded. He has revealed things to her that no one else knows, not even the FBI. Some of these details will be completely shocking for you to hear. Letters from Christopher is a true crime story with important information to put the pieces of the puzzle together for inquiring minds. Read herein the completely truthful account of what happened to Shanann, Bella, Celeste, and Nico Watts. About the Author New and upcoming author Cheryln Cadle lives in the Midwest with her husband of 47 years, three children and their spouses, and eleven grandchildren. She loves to write, play golf, camp, and travel. Her most favorite pastime is spending time with her grandchildren. She loves true crime stories.
Download or read book The Murders of Christopher Watts written by Cheryln Cadle and published by Cheryln Cadle. This book was released on 2023-03-22 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On August 13, 2018 Christopher Watts murdered his pregnant wife and two toddler daughters. Cheryln Cadle contacted him and started visiting him in prison. Christopher started writing her letters from his prison cell in Wisconsin. These letters had his confessions of things he had never told anyone else. Now she shares the letters and the truth about what happened that fateful night in Frederick Colorado to Shanann, Nico, Bella and Celeste Watts at the hands of their father. Was he just a monster or was it truly his girlfriend that he wanted to start a life with the reason he was willing to kill his family?
Download or read book Two Face written by Nick Van Der Leek and published by . This book was released on 2019-01-27 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The last chapter in particular is grueling and grotesque..."The fifth book in Nick van der Leek's definitive TWO FACE series on Chris Watts does exactly what the title claims: it drills deep through the mountain of Discovery Documents.The fifth narrative not only makes sense of the 1960 pages of discovery, it also integrates the video footage for the first time into a seamless narrative. Missing pieces are found and new insights revealed and contextualized in the most comprehensive assembly of facts and psychological analysis around this puzzling case yet. The main focus of the narrative is on the three hour FBI interview with Chris Watts on Tuesday night, August 14, and the astonishing follow-up interrogation leading to Watts' confession the next day.Drilling Through Discovery does nothing less than uncover Watts' thought process leading up to the murders.
Download or read book His Garden written by Anne K. Howard and published by WildBlue Press. This book was released on 2018-07-10 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A lawyer gets inside the mind of a notorious New England serial killer in this award-winning and “grimly compelling” true crime (Kirkus). For nine months of 2003, William Devin Howell went on a killing spree in and around New Britain, Connecticut. Seven people went missing; all of their bodies eventually discovered in a wooded lot behind a strip mall. But the investigation that led to Howell’s arrest is only part of the story. Attorney and author Anne K. Howard first contacted Howell while he was serving a fifteen-year sentence for one of his murders. He was about to be charged for the remaining six. A unique and disturbing friendship between the two began, comprised of written correspondence, face-to-face prison visits and recorded phone calls. Over the course of years, Howell shared his troubled history with Howard. When his case was finally over, he told her every intimate, grizzly detail of how he became Connecticut’s most prolific serial killer. In His Garden, Howard probes the complicated mind of William Devin Howell. It is a story that explores the eternal question of human evil and its impact on others, including the woman he chose to hear his horrific confession. 2020 Independent Press Award 2018 Literary Excellence Pencraft Award
Download or read book In Cold Blood written by Marcus Brown and published by . This book was released on 2020-08-22 with total page 458 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: I guess it's safe to say most people will have heard of the Watts case. Christopher (Chris) Watts... the dashing, seemingly genteel, affable man who murdered his entire family in a calculated attack that shocked the entire world. Shanann Watts... the pregnant, incredibly beautiful businesswoman whose life was snuffed out because her doting husband decided he wanted a fresh start.Bella and Celeste (CeCe) Watts... adorable sisters who worshipped their father, the very man who suffocated them both in cold blood using their comfort blankets against them. He then went on to stuff their tiny bodies into huge oil tanks filled with toxic crude oil.Nico Watts - Chris and Shanann's unborn son.No doubt, most of you watched the story unfold on the news, open-mouthed, in total shock. What could push a loving father to brutally murder his family? Surely there was some mistake? We all have preconceived ideas of how a monster should look-grotesque, hideously deformed, a crazed madman-not this handsome, mild-mannered, shy, polite gent who was often portrayed as the perfect husband and father. So, what the hell happened? During this series I will look at the facts, the police investigation, the evidence, hear Chris Watts' explanation and his reasoning then I will try to make some sense of what occurred during the early hours of August 13th 2018. I will show you what can happen when the general public take an interest, and how the discovery of the shadows cleared Shanann's good name. I will endeavour to present to you all aspects of the case, from the initial 911 phone call and how the investigation unfolded, to the first and subsequent confessions-all transcribed word for word (where possible) from actual video and audio footage obtained from the Discovery Files. The mere fact there are so many unanswered questions is reason enough to continue my quest for the truth. The general public may NEVER know what really happened, but I promise you, I won't give up until all aspects of this case have been thoroughly investigated.
Download or read book Chris Watts Case written by Carmelia Kade and published by . This book was released on 2021-05-27 with total page 68 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Watts family murders occurred in Frederick, Colorado, during the early morning hours of August 13, 2018. While being interviewed by police, Christopher Lee Watts admitted to murdering his pregnant wife Shanann Cathryn Watts by strangulation. He later admitted to killing their daughters, four-year-old Bella and three-year-old Celeste, by smothering them with a blanket over their heads. On November 6, 2018, he pleaded guilty to multiple counts of first-degree murder. He was sentenced to five life sentences without the possibility of parole, three to be served consecutively. During this book we will look at the facts, the police investigation, the evidence, hear Chris Watts' explanation and his reasoning. We will try to make some sense of what occurred during the early hours of August 13th, 2018. The authors will endeavor to present to you all aspects of the case, right from the initial investigation and how it unfolded, to the first and subsequent confessions all transcribed word for word (where possible) from the actual video and audio footage obtained from the FBI's Discovery Files.
Download or read book No Inclination written by Tania Hagan and published by . This book was released on 2020-01-20 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Inspired by a true crime.Handsome, reliable Charlie Spencer is a loving husband and father. His wife is a beautiful, self-made business woman who's found success in online cosmetic sales.Together, the Spencers are raising two precious little girls, with their first boy on the way.To the rest of the world, Charlie and Cassandra have everything, including a tidy McMansion in Southern California's Inland Empire. And their relationship appears to be perfect...until the day Charlie's wife and children disappear without a trace.As his cover story begins to unravel, local law enforcement, along with the California Bureau of Investigation, turn up the heat on Charlie.Told through the voices of the victims and the killer, this story explores questions, and provides answers, that are truly stranger than fiction.What really happened that fateful night? Did Charlie act alone? And what were the victims thinking as he snuffed out their lives methodically, one-by-one?
Download or read book Blood Marriage written by Kathleen McKenna Hewtson and published by . This book was released on 2021-07-02 with total page 398 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In August of 2018, in a wealthy Denver suburb, a shocked and horrified nation learned that Christopher Lee Watts had murdered his pregnant wife, their two little girls and their unborn son. But shock was soon replaced by puzzlement. Why? And the surprising answer is that a standard Anadarko Petroleum employee policy led, unintentionally of course, to the murders. By early 2018, the Watts family finances were beyond dire again after a recent shattering bankruptcy, then Chris Watts' employer, Anardarko Petroleum, offered him a life insurance policy on the lives of his wife, Shan'ann, and his very young daughters, Bella and CeCe, for a total of $450,000. Wouldn't that get him out of a spot? After that, Shan'ann's days were numbered, preferably via a perceived oxycontin overdose. Well, Chris Watts tried that twice and failed. Then he decided to go for the jackpot. Shan'ann would 'murder' the girls, and would then disappear. Nobody was going to find her body in the Cervi 19 oil storage tanks. He would collect on the girls immediately and then get the rest when Shan'ann was legally declared dead. It was an excellent plan, to be carried out by a complete moron. On the night of Sunday August 12, 2018, two things went catastrophically wrong, leaving Chris Watts to dispose of three bodies, not one, and facing a nail-biting time crunch. Then a friend of Shan'ann's called in the cops on the morning of Monday August 13, and it was game over. But, for some, that's when the party started. (The paperback contains photographs)
Download or read book The Case of Christopher Watts written by Brenda Irish Heintzelman and published by . This book was released on 2019-05-09 with total page 78 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An Essay on the Dangers of Discussing this True Crime Case on Social Media - Since the case of Christopher Watts first hit the news headlines, the attacks against those of us discussing the case on social media have been relentless. It seems there is one narrative that is allowed - that Christopher Watts is the devil himself and his wife is and always was an angel. Never before in the history of true crime discussions on social media have we been attacked for simply discussing the details of the case, including offering our opinions on what may have occurred the night that two innocent little girls were murdered by one of their parents in what should have been the safety of their own home. Why are they attacking us for discussing the case? And why aren't Facebook and YouTube doing anything at all to protect their members from being harassed and bullied and attacked? Is it because Facebook and YouTube care more about "members" and "subs" and making money than they do about the safety of their members?
Download or read book Drastic Measures written by Brenda IRISH HEINTZELMAN and published by . This book was released on 2021-05-28 with total page 233 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a True Crime Case OPINION Book - key word OPINION - ON A HIGH-PROFILE TRUE CRIME CASE WHICH ENTERED ONTO THE PUBLIC STAGE ON AUGUST 13, 2018. Like most books written in the TRUE CRIME genre - this true crime case opinion book includes opinions and theories on sensitive subject matters including but not limited to abuse, violence, and mental illness. Therefore, if you or a loved one has been a victim of violent crime, domestic violence, or child abuse please DO NOT READ THIS BOOK. If you choose to ignore this trigger warning and you experience any signs or symptoms of mental or emotional disturbance, please seek professional help immediately. DRASTIC MEASURES ~ THE CASE OF CHRISTOPHER WATTS is written to share opinions I have formed after extensive research of this case over the last three years, including speaking directly with Christopher Watts' mother - Cindy Watts - multiple times following the tragedy which occurred on August 13, 2018 at the Watts' family home in Frederick, Colorado. While I am supportive of Cindy Watts - and her right to speak - this book is not written at her direction or on her behalf. However, this book is written with EXPRESS PERMISSION from Cindy Watts, who has directly stated her blessings for any book I write - or audiobook/video that I create. This true crime case opinion book is written to explore my OPINIONS on the case itself, primarily to include my thoughts specific to Cindy's relationship with her daughter-in-law Shanann (pronounced "shan-uhn" - Shannon - by her birth family), and the dynamics of her daughter-in-law's relationships with Cindy's son and their two children. I will also explore my opinion on whether it is reasonable to believe that Christopher Watts may have been telling the truth when he insisted that he did not murder his children, Bella and Ce Ce Watts. And I will include my opinion on whether the threshold of the legal standard "BEYOND A REASONABLE DOUBT" would have been crossed by the prosecution had this case proceeded to trial. Over the last three years, since the public was initially told that poor little Bella and Ce Ce were murdered in what should have been the safety of their own home, there has been a narrative promoted on this case portraying Christopher Watts as nothing but an evil monster, while his wife always was and will forever be a saint. People who openly question the narrative in the comment sections on social media are oftentimes harassed, threatened, and intimidated right along with those of us who have been targeted for abuse and harassment from the start, before many of us had ever even heard of this case. The attackers are an organized group of ruthless criminals, in my opinion, who are using multiple fake profiles, and who openly boast they will not stop harassing us, and our families, and our employers, etc. until they succeed in "DESTROYING" our lives. Clearly, their goal is to frighten all of us into silence, including Christopher Watts' mother, Cindy Watts. In my opinion, Christopher Watts is not evil - nor is his mother, who has been unfairly maligned and targeted for abuse and harassment since the day her son's case first hit the headline news. Also, in my opinion, contrary to the narrative being pushed by the attackers, Cindy Watts' daughter-in-law was probably not a saint. Maybe that's my opinion because I know the rest of the story. And, in my opinion, THE REST OF THE STORY deserves to be told. ~
Download or read book The Murders of Christopher Watts written by Cheryln Cadle and published by . This book was released on 2020-12-21 with total page 302 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Sociopath Next Door written by Martha Stout, Ph.D. and published by Harmony. This book was released on 2005-02-08 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Who is the devil you know? Is it your lying, cheating ex-husband? Your sadistic high school gym teacher? Your boss who loves to humiliate people in meetings? The colleague who stole your idea and passed it off as her own? In the pages of The Sociopath Next Door, you will realize that your ex was not just misunderstood. He’s a sociopath. And your boss, teacher, and colleague? They may be sociopaths too. We are accustomed to think of sociopaths as violent criminals, but in The Sociopath Next Door, Harvard psychologist Martha Stout reveals that a shocking 4 percent of ordinary people—one in twenty-five—has an often undetected mental disorder, the chief symptom of which is that that person possesses no conscience. He or she has no ability whatsoever to feel shame, guilt, or remorse. One in twenty-five everyday Americans, therefore, is secretly a sociopath. They could be your colleague, your neighbor, even family. And they can do literally anything at all and feel absolutely no guilt. How do we recognize the remorseless? One of their chief characteristics is a kind of glow or charisma that makes sociopaths more charming or interesting than the other people around them. They’re more spontaneous, more intense, more complex, or even sexier than everyone else, making them tricky to identify and leaving us easily seduced. Fundamentally, sociopaths are different because they cannot love. Sociopaths learn early on to show sham emotion, but underneath they are indifferent to others’ suffering. They live to dominate and thrill to win. The fact is, we all almost certainly know at least one or more sociopaths already. Part of the urgency in reading The Sociopath Next Door is the moment when we suddenly recognize that someone we know—someone we worked for, or were involved with, or voted for—is a sociopath. But what do we do with that knowledge? To arm us against the sociopath, Dr. Stout teaches us to question authority, suspect flattery, and beware the pity play. Above all, she writes, when a sociopath is beckoning, do not join the game. It is the ruthless versus the rest of us, and The Sociopath Next Door will show you how to recognize and defeat the devil you know.
Download or read book A Deal With the Devil written by Marcus Brown and published by . This book was released on 2020-11-21 with total page 428 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Following on from In Cold Blood - Discovering Chris Watts: Book One.To recap... We guess it's safe to say most people will have heard of the Watts case.Christopher Lee (Chris) Watts, the dashing, seemingly genteel, affable man who murdered his entire family in a calculated attack that shocked the entire world.Shanann Watts, his pregnant, incredibly beautiful wife whose life was snuffed out because her doting husband decided he wanted a fresh start.Bella Marie and Celeste Cathryn (CeCe) Watts, adorable sisters who worshipped their father, the very man who suffocated them both in cold blood using their comfort blankets against them. He then went on to dispose of their tiny bodies into huge tanks filled with toxic crude oil.Nico Lee Watts, Chris and Shanann's unborn son.No doubt, most of you watched the story unfold on the news, open-mouthed, in total shock. What could push a loving father to brutally murder his family? Surely there was some mistake? We all have preconceived ideas of how a monster should look-grotesque, hideously deformed, a crazed madman-not this handsome, mild-mannered, shy, polite gent who was often portrayed as the perfect husband and father.So, what happened?During this series we will look at the facts, the police investigation, the evidence, hear Chris Watts' explanation and his reasoning. We will try to make some sense of what occurred during the early hours of August 13th 2018.We will endeavour to present to you all aspects of the case, right from the initial investigation and how it unfolded, to the first and subsequent confessions all transcribed word for word (where possible) from actual video and audio footage obtained from the FBI's Discovery Files.We will continue where we left off. At the end of book one, Chris Watts had finally confessed to murdering them and disposing of their bodies at an oil field. In part two, we will focus on... -... the grim discovery and recovery of the bodies. -... the chilling details of the autopsies.-... the remaining police interviews of Nichol Kessinger.-... the Plea Deal.-... the sentencing.-... Chris Watts Prison Interview.Marcus and Netta have worked together for a few years now, mainly in a publishing capacity, but in 2019 they joined forces and wrote Avaline Saddlebags-the first in a psychological fiction thriller series. Combining their joint obsession with this case, they studied the files together, often into the small hours.We want to stress that if you have already read the discovery files, then this series of books is probably not for you. As seen on the new Netflix documentary - American Murder: The Family Next Door
Download or read book The Case of Chris Watts Find the Truth Behind the Murder Case of Chris Watts written by Aaron Stawicki and published by . This book was released on 2021-06-18 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The murders of the pregnant mother of two Shanann Watts and her daughters, 4-year-old Bella and 3-year-old Celeste, sent shockwaves across the country in 2018. The crimes were heartbreaking and senseless, and their horror was only compounded by the fact that Shanann's husband and the girls' father, Chris Watts, confessed to committing them. The main focus of the narrative is on the three-hour FBI interview with Chris Watts on Tuesday night, August 14, and the astonishing follow-up interrogation leading to Watts' confession the next day.
Download or read book Don t You Save Her written by Brenda Irish Heintzelman and published by . This book was released on 2019-11-09 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: We're asking questions. Because we want answers. Why is there an organized effort to control the narrative on the case of Christopher Watts?What is it the attackers were hired to hide? Is it true that Christopher Watts' wife was Bipolar - as her father-in-law suggested during his interview? Is it true that she was medically abusing their children - as we've been told by people who claim to know that she was caught by the hospital in December of 2016? Is it true that she was a con? Is it true that at the time of her death there was an open CPS case against her? If so, is it true that she was not allowed to be alone with their children? Is it true that Christopher Watts was a battered husband?Be clear, we have the right to discuss true crime cases that are on the public stage - without being attacked.Yet, the attackers have "mass reported" and shut down discussion channels and groups to interfere with our right to discuss true crime cases on social media. The attackers are also flooding my book reviews with fake posts. They don't bother to read my work. They don't bother to discuss the cases. Instead, they post libelous comments accusing me of cheating on my ex? Accusing me of lying about my law degree? Accusing me of lying about having my own real estate company? Also, the attackers claim that I plagiarize my work. Obviously they don't even know the meaning of the word. Clearly, those who are attempting to silence us richly deserve to be arrested and jailed for the bad acts they have committed and continue to commit against us. Because we have the right to speak. We have the right to discuss true crime cases that are on the public stage. We have the right to ask questions and to state our opinions on the case while the people who are attempting to silence us - lose their right to freely speak the second they use free speech to harass and harm us. There are two little girls - Bella and Ce Ce Watts - at the center of this case who deserve for us to continue the discussion. Because Bella and Ce Ce DESERVE FOR THE TRUTH TO BE KNOWN. Is it possible their father was telling the truth in his first police interview when he insisted that HE DID NOT MURDER HIS CHILDREN?Join the discussion.And YOU decide.