Warning: Graphic discussion of family annihilation and toxic masculinity.
After watching American Murder: The Family Next Door more than once, I had questions. A lot of questions. For one thing, I didn’t feel like I was getting the whole story. If you’ve watched the Netflix documentary, you might know what I mean.
Call it women’s intuition, or simply the effects of having survived a few dysfunctional relationships myself, but I noticed several red flags that seemed to get glossed over in the film.
I took my interest in the tragic story over to Facebook, where a couple of friends echoed my concerns. As a result of those conversations, I spent an afternoon going down the rabbit hole of information about the 2018 murders of Shanann Watts and her two young daughters. …
She’s still into her conspiracy theories, but Q is no longer a voice in her head.
There’s a lot that my mother and I don’t agree upon. She thinks Bill Gates wants to kill, well, all of us. When she lived with me and my daughter for nearly a year in 2019, she thought it was terrible that I let my kid watch Sofia the First, because of all the… sorcery.
My Mom also believes that she’s a “targeted individual.” For years, she’s been adamant that a secret government agency — as in an MK Ultra thing — has been gangstalking and torturing her with radiation. Wherever she goes and wherever she lives, my mom is convinced that the government is causing her excruciating pain and slowly killing her through special microwaves or rooftop radiation machines. …
Unpacking some of the evidence before and after the Watts family murders.
In August 2018, Chris Watts killed his pregnant wife and their two daughters, who were three and four. Within mere days, it was revealed that Chris wanted to begin a new life with his girlfriend Nichol Kessinger.
Recently, there’s been a renewed public interest in the case because Netflix released the documentary, American Murder: Family Next Door.
Stories of family annihilation are always shocking, but I think this case in particular really struck a nerve in many of us. …
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