Juveniles

‘Your mommy doesn’t know what she is talking about’: Shannan Watts told friend that in-laws repeatedly tried to feed daughter nuts despite severe allergy
Family Crime

A concerned friend contacted law enforcement after learning of the murders of Shanann Watts and her two young daughter, relaying an unsettling anecdote Shanann had shared with her just weeks before she was killed. The discovery documents released by the Weld County District Attorney’s office last week related to the murder investigation include an anecdote …

‘He would cry, please don’t take me’: Relatives regret missing signs after mother, boyfriend allegedly kill little boy [Report]
Child Abuse
November 27, 2018

‘He would cry, please don’t take me’: Relatives regret missing signs after mother, boyfriend allegedly kill little boy [Report]

A California mother and her boyfriend were recently charged for her 4-year-old son’s death—leading relatives to allege there were signs of abuse that were missed before the child’s slaying. Per the Merced Sun-Star, Chanish Conrady, 22, and her boyfriend Steven Perez Jr., 27, were arrested weeks after emergency crews arrived at their home following reports …

Family Crime
November 27, 2018

Shanann Watts family files wrongful death suit against Chris Watts

The parents of a woman murdered with her two young daughters filed a wrongful death suit against her husband the day he was sentenced to prison for the murders. The Coloradoan reports that the parents of Shanann Watts filed a wrongful death suit against Chris Watts last week after he was sentenced to three life …

Family Crime
November 25, 2018

Chris Watts mistress searched online for wedding dresses; confessed killer tried to claim wife’s pregnancy was not his baby: Documents

Discovery documents released by the Weld County District Attorney’s office have revealed more about the relationship between Chris Watts and his pregnant wife Shanann, along with the phone communication and online search activities of both the confessed family-killer and his new girlfriend, who he started seeing less than two months before he murdered his wife …

Family Crime
November 24, 2018

New docs show Chris Watts lies, contradictions in polygraph test: Family-killer claimed to be at a baseball game when he was on a date with his mistress; tried to paint his murdered wife as ‘unstable’

The transcript of a polygraph test along with a conversation Chris Watts had with his father shows how the confessed family-killer changed his story about the events leading up the murder of his pregnant wife and two young daughters. The Weld County District Attorney’s Office released nearly 2,000 pages of discovery documents in the Chris …

Family Crime
November 23, 2018

‘Make sure there isn’t some other b*** I have to kill’: Friend of Shanann Watts suspected Chris Watts was cheating after he suddenly became cold and distant

As Shanann Watts confided in her friends about the sudden problems in her marriage to Chris Watts, at least one of them suggested Chris may have been seeing someone else. Fox 31 Denver obtained documents released by the Weld County District Attorney’s office this week, detailing the final days and weeks of Shanann’s life, before …

Family Crime
November 22, 2018

New documents in Chris Watts murder case reveal bizarre search histories of confessed family-killer and his new girlfriend

New documents released by the Weld County District attorney have provided more details about the relationship between Shannan Watts and Chris Watts, and revealed the unsettling search histories of the confessed killer and his mistress. CBS News Denver has obtained thousands of pages of documents from the Weld County District Attorney’s office, revealing Shannan Watts’s …

Family Crime
November 20, 2018

Before her murder, Shannan Watts strongly suspected killer husband Chris Watts was cheating

The Colorado woman murdered by her cheating husband strongly suspected he was having an affair in the weeks before she and her young daughters were killed — and she was right. On Monday, Chris Watts was sentenced to three lifetime prison terms without the possibility of parole after he pleaded guilty to killing his pregnant …