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Morbid

The Watts Family Murders (Part 1)

Morbid

Ash Kelley & Alaina Urquhart

Comedy, Paranormal, True Crime, Dark History

4.4 • 100.6K Ratings

🗓️ 7 May 2026

⏱️ 111 minutes

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Summary

When thirty-four-year-old Shanann Watts missed a doctor’s appointment on August 13, 2018, her friends reported her missing to the Frederick, Colorado Police. When officers searched the home, they found Shanann’s car parked in the garage and her belongings—including her wallet, cell phone, and medication—were found in various spots around the house, but there was no sign of Shanann or the couple’s two children anywhere. The next day, the FBI opened an investigation into the disappearance of Shanann, Bella and Celeste and Chris took to local television to give one of the most infamous and suspicious interviews of all time. He asked anyone with information about their whereabouts to come forward. The very next day however, Chris failed a polygraph exam and eventually confessed to murdering his wife, but he initially denied killing their children.

Transcript

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0:00.0

Hey, weirdos, I'm Ash. And I'm Elena. And this is morbid.

0:04.7

This is morbid.

0:25.3

Elena has been sifting through discovery documents for the last six hours.

1:12.5

Yeah. Yeah. I did it all night last night too. Yeah. I had weird dreams because of it. I didn't even sift through discovery documents. I just knew that we were doing this case. So I was kind of like watching, obviously, you know, this is the Chris Watts case because you've clicked on it. Yeah, part one of the Chris Watts case. Part one. We watched some of the paranormal stuff that goes along with this case. Yes. And there was one thing in that video that I couldn't stop thinking about last night. Yeah. I woke up like multiple times throughout the night last night. Yeah. See, and I've been, so we, I went through it a little bit. We'll talk about it in part two, the paranormal aspects of it. Yeah. Because there is some strange ones. But I was like more going into like the interviews like before he admitted to what he did. And that shit will fuck you up. Oh, yeah. And just looking at those discovery documents, which we'll link in the show notes,

1:14.2

you can all look at them.

1:18.1

You can all look at every goddamn text that was sent between him and Shanan,

1:21.0

between him and his mistress, Nicole.

1:22.5

I mean, it's... There's a lot to be seen.

1:23.3

There's a lot to be seen.

1:24.6

And a lot of just complete lack of humanity on his part, which is really upsetting to see.

1:33.0

I always swore I wasn't going to do this case because the details are very upsetting.

1:38.2

But I know you guys really want this case.

1:41.1

This is one of our most highly requested cases.

1:48.7

And I'm, you know, I'm doing this for you.

1:54.3

I also knew this was going to be one of those cases that just ate me up, like that I could not stop getting deeper and deeper into, and that has happened. Yeah. So I'm going to look forward to

2:00.2

disconnect. This is like the Moore's murders case for me where it's like I'm going to look forward to disconnect.

2:04.5

This is like the Moore's murders case for me where it's like I'm really looking forward to the end of it where I can say bye.

2:07.4

Yeah.

2:08.2

Because oh my goodness.

2:10.9

But yeah, so that's what we'll be doing today.

2:13.1

But before we get to that, before we get to all the horror and terrible shit, if you haven't gotten your tickets to the live show in June, June 27th, New York City, Honey, Radio City Music Hall. We're going to be there. It's going to be big. It's going to be huge. And there's only so many tickets left. We're getting to that end point. I want you guys to come and have fun because it's one

2:35.1

night only. We got a cool theme in mind. We have cool fucking merch. We just had a whole meeting

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