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#280: American Murder: The Family Next Door, Part 3

Real Crime Profile

Real Crime Profile / Wondery

True Crime, Society & Culture, Exhibit C, Documentary

4.210.5K Ratings

🗓️ 21 October 2020

⏱️ 32 minutes

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Summary

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



Jim and Laura continue to deconstruct Chris Watt's behaviour and events leading up to the horrific events of August 13 2018.



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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0:00.0

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0:08.0

My daddy is a hero. He holds me grow up strong. He helps me. I'm not going to. He waves me but sees my shoes.

0:26.0

And he's a hero. He's a little bit blue. My daddy is a little blue.

0:37.0

He's a little blue.

0:43.0

He's a little blue.

0:51.0

Did you meet his children? No, they're in wanted life. And he didn't ask me to.

0:59.0

I mean, not that I didn't want to ever. It was just not now. It's like you're not finalized with your separation.

1:06.0

And not only that, we've barely been dating. Like you can't introduce kids to somebody new in a situation like that.

1:14.0

That's something that takes time. I mean, would I have liked to have met them? Of course.

1:20.0

I mean, that would have been a great honor for me to have somebody introduce their children into my life.

1:26.0

But not that. It was something that it was like, okay, well, let's see where I'm six months. Let's see where I'm in a year.

1:32.0

And if we're still doing this and you and me are still happy with where we're at and you think that this is something that is going to be long term and is worth bringing your children into the picture.

1:42.0

Then yes, I would love to meet them, but it's like not right now. You are still in this situation where you're not even completely out of it.

1:49.0

And I'm getting in it. And that's not fair for them. And that was kind of the policy that I had with him.

1:56.0

It was just like, yes, but not yet.

2:00.0

Hello and welcome to Real Grand Profile. This is Jim Clemente, retired FBI profiler former, an NXC prosecutor and writer producer of CBS's Criminal Minds. And with me today is...

2:09.0

Nora Rich is Criminal Behavioral Analyst, former New Scotland Yard and Founder of Canada National Stalking Advocacy Service.

2:15.0

And I'm Lisa Sanbede. I'm the casting director of CBS's Criminal Minds. And we are jumping right back into our deep dive on the Netflix extraordinary documentary called American Murder, the family next door directed by Jenny Poppelwell.

2:27.0

And there are some things that the documentary leaves out. Of course, documentaries can cover every single piece of it.

2:34.0

And Jim and Laura, before I started watching this, I was doing some research. And this is the first time that I had ever had to do this.

2:44.0

Reading the real description of what happened to these victims. I had to run for the bathroom. And I nearly... I had to stop because it is so hard to do.

2:56.0

It was so horrible. What he did and what he... He could have stopped so many times. There were so many avenues that he could have turned back. And he didn't.

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