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2018: A husband. A father. A killer.
My Daddy is a Hero
Why a Booktrail?
2018: A husband. A father. A killer.
What you need to know before your trail
Chris Watts was a family man. Everybody, including his family, believed that. Yet, on August 13, 2018, he murdered Shanann, his pregnant wife, and two young daughters, burying Shanann and their unborn son in a shallow grave and dumping their daughters’ bodies in separate oil tanks.
As terrible as his story is, it is also a warning because, to this day, living behind bars, Watts is still acting out the character traits that made him kill in the first place.
In this, the first and only psychological exploration of the Watts family murders, psychotherapist Lena Derhally has pieced together the crime, the events leading to it, and most of all, her beliefs about the “why,” including the fact that Chris Watts—now a self-described “man of God”—is not in the least remorseful about killing his family.
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Real life murders of Chris Watts’ family
The Watts family murders occurred on the early morning of August 13, 2018, in Frederick, Colorado, US. Watts admitted to killing his pregnant wife Shan’ann Cathryn Watts by strangulation. Their daughters, four-year-old Bella, and three-year-old Celeste, died by asphyxiation due to smothering. Watts then disposed of his daughters’ bodies in oil tanks and buried his wife in a shallow grave at his work-site.
He pleaded guilty and was sentenced to five life sentences without the possibility of parole, three to be served consecutively and two to be served concurrently.
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Destination/location: Colorado Author/guide: Lena Derhally Departure Time: 2018
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