There’s More To Chris Watts’ Murder Of His Family That Netflix Does Not Show

Many pieces of information were left out

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Never has a story gripped more people — including me. Two weeks ago, I wrote a story wondering why we are all so fascinated with murder. In this case, family annihilation — and even more specifically, this family’s story that seemingly made no sense.

After publishing that story, I learned that the Netflix documentary left out key facts, which forced me to take another look. The amount of information available online is immense. There are true crime YouTube videos with analysis from attorneys to people who have been in prison. There are other YouTube videos with recorded interviews, social media, official case discovery, evidence documentation and witness interviews, interviews with law enforcement, law enforcement interviews with Chris Watts, letters between Chris Watts and author Cherlyn Cadle and more.

There is something about this story and its tragedy that makes me feel a profound responsibility to write about it. Perhaps in the hopes of making some sense out of it — or possibly helping another woman pick up a sign or a red flag, she might otherwise not have.

Here is my first article that started this.