American Murder: Is Chris Watts a Narcissist?
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. People keep asking how a loving father can just throw his family away as if they were garbage, but the answer might be tragically simple.
Chris Watts was not the loving father and husband that others believed him to be. He only appeared that way, and partly because we as a society expect so little from our men.
While American Murder: Family Next Door was a good documentary that helped give a voice to Shanann, there’s a lot I wish they had covered, and I recently wrote about that.
Unsurprisingly, some readers felt that I went “too easy” on the wife. They didn’t like how I said I don’t buy into the suggestion that Shanann somehow pushed her husband over…
