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I'm Suruji. I'm Hannah and welcome to Redhanded.

This is one of the most recent cases that we've ever covered because it happened just last year in August 2018.

And I think unlike some of the other cases that we cover, I think probably most of you will definitely have heard of this because it absolutely dominated the headlines.

And we've also had a lot of requests to cover this case. We were also keen to because we haven't really covered the idea of a family annihilator in too much detail before.

This is our first sort of deep dive into the psychology of a family annihilator. And our subject today is Chris Watts.

A 33-year-old man currently sat in Dodge Correctional Institution, a maximum security prison in Wisconsin serving five life sentences for the murder of his pregnant wife Shenan and his two young daughters Bella and Celeste.

And this guy is a real piece of shit.

The most insidious thing is that he had this for nearer being a perfect family man, so no one saw him coming.

So what makes a man who as far as anyone can tell had no history of violence and if anything seemed like a totally normal husband and father,

what makes him suddenly kill his wife and children then carry on with life like nothing happened? Well, before we get there let's start with what actually happened.

Chris and Shenan Watts met in 2010 on Facebook after Chris's cousin's wife, wow that's a connection, who happened to be Shenan's mate suggested that she connect with him.

I know so many people who've met on Facebook, but I've never managed it myself. It seems like a very... how'd it how?

I think this was maybe like, like this happened in 2010. I don't think two people still meet. I feel like people now meet on Instagram and Snapchat and dating apps. I think in 2010 maybe.

Maybe that's true. Shenan was going through as she described some serious health challenges. She had just been diagnosed with lupus.

For Shenan, this was one of the darkest times of her life. She quit her job of nine years and in her own words lost a lot of friends who couldn't understand her condition.

In a bid to replace the life and the friends she was slipping away from, Shenan spent a lot of time online and made a lot of friends on social media.

But she said that she still felt like no one understood her. Then she got a friend request from Chris and she accepted.

One thing led to another and soon they were in a relationship. Shenan felt like he was there for her and he understood her.

And in her video journals from the time Shenan credited Chris for lifting her out of her despair.

And this is a case where we don't have to wonder too much about who's the source on this or that. There are so many videos on the internet of Shenan talking about her and Chris's life that it's like doing interviews with her.

It's really quite uncanny because more than any other case we've done, I think, during the research for this, it felt like, yeah, like you said, it was almost like you were doing interviews with her.

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