Year=2020 synopsis=In 2018, 38-year-old Shanann Watts and her two youngest daughters disappeared in Colorado. With the heartbreaking details emerging, the family's story made headlines around the world 5961 Votes country=USA

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USA American Murder: The Family Next Door

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This is certainly a weird story. The guy seems like a loving husband until he goes bonkers. He gets himself in shape, finds a dumb floozy and then kills his wife and two kids.
The thing is, the wife was a complete head case and drove him to doing it. (Bear with me, I'll come back around to this)
She's a needy shrew like you've never seen or heard before who wants to control his every move and nothing he does is ever right with her. As if that's not enough she constantly tells her girlfriends her most personal things and humiliates her husband left and right. The woman was not a likeable person.
She was shrew like no other. She absolutely drove him to killing her.
BUT. here's what never gets answered. why didnt he just divorce her? The film tried to suggest it was premeditated but I'm not so sure. It seems more likely that she came home drunk at 2am that morning and started another fight with him and he snapped. On the other hand, if that was the case, why was there no marks on him? The woman's father thinks he did it when she was asleep. Hmmm.
And then there's the kids. How on earth does a loving father (and there is plenty of video evidence the crazy mother took to prove this) kill two small children unless he's a monster?
It's a psychologically unsatisfying ending. Yes, it's good he got caught, and we can see the motivation but once again, why not divorce unless it was just int eh heat of the moment.
It wasnt until after he killed her that he started making plans t cover it up. And he didnt have a lot of time to do that since the wife had an equally crazy girlfriend who kept calling her ever 10 minutes 6 hours after she dropped her off from the night out and than called the police a few hours later.
It's a sad disturbing story that leaves some important questions unanswered.
Too bad teh producers didnt bother to interview the killer. He's in prison for life. Why didnt they reach out to him. Maybe he would shed some real light on the situation.

I am stunned by this horrific murder documentary. How can a man murder his own beautiful family. This is not an act of a man. He's a monster.

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