Superdad Psychopath

Red Collar

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True Crime

4.4 • 6.6K Ratings

🗓️ 5 January 2021

⏱️ 37 minutes

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In August 2018, a pregnant Shanann Watts and her two daughters disappeared without a trace from their home in Frederick Colorado. The entire nation watched in horror as her husband, Chris Watts, confessed to strangling her and their daughters to death and dumping their bodies at his work site. Investigators pointed to Chris's affair with a co-worker as the primary motive - but behind the happy social media posts, huge house, and affluent lifestyle, the Watts' finances were falling apart. What role did money, and multi-level marketing, play in the Watts murders? Sources for this episode cannot be listed here due to character limitations. For a full list of sources, please visit

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0:00.0	As a licensed private investigator and true crime journalist, I get asked a lot about
0:07.0	why people kill.
0:08.9	And I often say that there are only three motives for murder.
0:12.4	Money, sex, and money to get more sex.
0:16.0	It's kind of a cocktail party punchline, but I'm making a serious point.
0:20.2	When you work in true crime, you find out fast how closely money and sex are linked.
0:26.0	I'll be following that logic this week when I take a look at a case that you may think
0:29.9	you know everything about.
0:32.1	The horrific murder of Shenan Watts and her two daughters by her husband, Chris Watts.
0:38.5	This case has been covered extensively by everyone from TV news to true crime podcasts.
0:43.8	There's been a lifetime movie and a very popular Netflix series.
0:48.7	Almost everyone focuses on Chris Watts' infidelity.
0:51.7	His passionate affair with a female co-worker is the main motive for the murders.
0:56.7	But behind the scenes, the financial pressure in the Watts household was building to unbearable
1:01.5	levels.
1:03.3	Pressure that could make a red-collar criminal decide that he wanted a simpler life,
1:08.0	a clean slate, and that murdering his entire family was the only way to get it.
1:14.0	We're going to take a deep dive inside the psychology of a family annihilator, and
1:18.7	it's terrifying.
1:20.7	I'm Catherine Townsend.
1:22.4	This is Red Collar.
1:46.3	On August 13, 2018, Nicole Lackinson was worried.
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