#278: American Murder: The Family Next Door
Real Crime Profile
Real Crime Profile / Wondery
4.2 • 10.5K Ratings
🗓️ 7 October 2020
⏱️ 54 minutes
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Summary
Laura, Jim and Lisa deconstruct the number one Netflix show 'American Murder: The Family Next Door' about the murders of Shanann, Bella, Celeste and Nico Watts committed by husband and father, Chris Watts.
Warning: this is an extremely distressing watch and our breakdown is a tough listen. Unfortunately that's the utterly horrific reality of familicide - or family wipeouts - and there are many myths and misconceptions about family annihilators, which we will unpick across this series.
In this episode Laura and Jim seek to deconstruct what you are seeing on screen as well as identify the key behaviours and warning signs leading up to this catastrophic family wipe out committed by Chris Watts.
Our thoughts are with Shanann's, Bella and Celeste's family and friends.
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| 0:00.0 | Hey, Prime members, you can listen to Real Crime Profile, |
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| 0:07.0 | I just want you guys to know a little bit of my story. |
| 0:11.0 | I was in a place for a long time where I felt very insecure. |
| 0:15.0 | I was married, went through a really awful divorce, |
| 0:19.0 | and that relationship really took a lot from me. |
| 0:23.0 | It took my confidence. It took everything. |
| 0:26.0 | It literally took everything. |
| 0:29.0 | But I'm not a quitter. |
| 0:32.0 | And my goal was to buy a house. |
| 0:34.0 | My family doesn't come for money. We always worked hard for what we had. |
| 0:38.0 | And so I worked and worked and worked and worked. |
| 0:42.0 | And I was 25 years old when I built my first house. |
| 0:46.0 | And that was the biggest accomplishment I felt I've ever done |
| 0:50.0 | because I did it by myself. I did it by working my tail off. |
| 0:56.0 | Then, 10 years ago, I went from being super energetic, super happy. |
| 1:02.0 | I started losing a lot of my hair. |
| 1:05.0 | I felt like I had to flew all the time. |
| 1:08.0 | I felt miserable. And then I was diagnosed with lupus, |
| 1:13.0 | which is an autoimmune disease. |
| 1:15.0 | I went through one of the darkest times of my life. |
| 1:19.0 | And then I met Chris. And I couldn't have asked God for a better man. |
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