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Once Upon A Crime

Breaking Down Chris Watts with Lorena

Once Upon A Crime

Esther Ludlow

Truecrime, History, True Crime, Crime, Criminals, Criminology, Society & Culture

4.65K Ratings

🗓️ 20 December 2021

⏱️ 116 minutes

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Summary

On the last episode of the year, Lorena and I break down the case of family annihilator, Chris Watts.   Resources: “Chris Watts: A Complete Timeline of the Murder of His Wife and Daughters” by Rachel Change for Biography.com, Sept 29, 2020. https://www.biography.com/news/chris-watts-wife-daughters-murder-mistress-confession-timeline “New Christopher Watts confession details how he murdered his wife, two daughters” by Elise Schmelzer for The Denver Post, March 7, 2019. https://www.denverpost.com/2019/03/07/christopher-watts-confession-murder-details/ The Perfect Father: The True Story of Chris Watts, John Glatt, St. Martin’s Press, (2021). “The Case of Chris Watts, Parts 1 - 3“, JCS - Criminal Psychology, YouTube; Jan 23, 2019. https://youtu.be/Xfg861hO-Ag American Murder: The Family Next Door, Netflix, (2020). 

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0:00.0

This podcast details true crime cases.

0:03.0

It contains adult themes and may contain descriptions of violence.

0:07.0

It is not intended for children.

0:09.0

Listener discretion is advised. once upon a crime. This month as you guys know what we've been doing is we've been

0:24.2

taking some high profile cases that most people have heard about, know lots of

0:28.7

details about probably, but we're kind of pulling them apart a little bit and maybe going through some of the things that haven't been talked about or

0:37.7

Some myths are things that we want to clarify at least for ourselves as you know true crime people that really want to know all the details.

0:45.2

When this case broke in 2018 I didn't really follow it because when I started hearing about the details of it

0:55.0

I just was like I don't even want to hear about that. First of all, I don't know why this has become such a media thing when unfortunately this is a very common story, at least as far as the type of crime that it is.

1:05.4

And then when the details started coming out and they were so horrible, I was like, I don't even

1:10.2

want to hear those details right now.

1:11.9

I don't want to know. So I really

1:14.2

didn't follow it until much later on. There was a few things as I watched and

1:19.0

started reading about it. I had some questions like why aren't we talking about this so this is why I'm bringing

1:24.7

this one into our December special episodes and this is the case of the family

1:31.0

annihilator Christopher Watts or Chris Watts as a guess is he's more commonly known.

1:36.3

And today to help me discuss this is Lorena. You guys know Lorena. She's our social media person. She's our audio

1:44.8

production person. She kind of helps with everything around here and she's just

1:50.2

been part of our family for a long time right?

1:53.0

Right now almost four years now.

1:55.0

Gosh I can't believe it.

1:56.1

Four years it's crazy like it's just it's insane right the end of the

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