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#279: American Murder: The Family Next Door, Part 2

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True Crime, Society & Culture, Exhibit C, Documentary

4.210.5K Ratings

🗓️ 15 October 2020

⏱️ 53 minutes

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Summary

Laura, Jim and Lisa continue to discuss the #1 Netflix show about ther murders of Shanann, Bella, Celeste and Nico Watts.


Jim and Laura continue to deconstruct Chris Watt's behaviour and break down the police interview and strategy and Watt's confession.


Warning: This is an extremely upsetting watch and case and this series is a tough listen.


Our thoughts are with Shanann's, Bella and Celeste's family and friends.


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Transcript

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0:00.0

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0:07.0

Growing up in high school, if you hurt my feelings, I never told you because I didn't like conflict.

0:12.0

I really wasn't a big conflict person. I always lived for other people until recently. Now I live for me and for my family.

0:20.0

My kids, I live for them.

0:30.0

Police are canvassing a small town with a big mystery.

0:42.0

The disappearance of a pregnant Frederick woman and her two children is captured the nation's attention.

0:47.0

This is a very visible effort on the part of Frederick police to make sure the word is out about Shenan.

0:54.0

Obviously they said we want to leave no stone unturned, we don't want to rule anything out.

0:58.0

Neighbors, I talk to you, say this is scary. They want some answers but right now all we have are a lot of questions.

1:05.0

I'm just concerned and I'm just, if you're hearing this or you're out there, please please let somebody know you're okay.

1:15.0

Hello and welcome to Real Crime Profile. This is Jim Clemente.

1:20.0

We tired FBI profiler former and New York City prosecutor and right producer of CBS's Criminal Minds.

1:25.0

And with me today is Laura Richards Criminal Behavior Analyst, former New Scotland New York and founder of Paladin National Stoking Advocacy Service.

1:33.0

And I'm Lisa Zambetti. I'm the casting director for CBS's Criminal Minds and we're jumping right back into our coverage of Netflix's documentary American Murder,

1:42.0

The Family Next Door by the incredible Jenny Papoel directing and it's really about the murders of Shenan, Bella, Cece and Nico Watts.

1:51.0

And just one thing to say about the documentary style, this is all done in found footage, which is an incredible thing to do.

1:59.0

So there's no voiceover, there's no narration, there are no interviews that the filmmakers do with any of the subjects.

2:07.0

It's all from police footage, security camera footage, real blog, Facebook posts, texts, it's really an amazing primary resource on this case.

2:19.0

And to watch it unfold in real time is just really stunning.

2:23.0

Yeah, and I certainly think the images and videos that we see firsthand because of Facebook, a lot of people don't really think about the power of social media, but we can really get to know someone through social media.

2:36.0

So where we left off in our last episode, we were talking about when Chris actually went to North Carolina, he was meant to be there for a week with the family.

2:46.0

And we hear that there was a beach, or we see that there was a beach trip, we can see that camera footage.

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