Husband admits to murder of his wife & children.

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Yet another family slaughter by the spouse / parent. Chris Watts of Fredrick,Colo...confessed to the killing of his wife Shanann Watts & their two small children, just three & four years old.

What the hell is wrong with these people, when they make a decision to do such a horrible thing?

May Mom & her children rest in peace...& I hope he...suffers the full weight of our judicial system.
 

And, his wife was pregnant when he killed her....so sad. What happened to the days of divorce? If he was that miserable he could have just left. When I heard the husband on the TV saying how he wanted them back again and he missed them, I wasn't even looking at him. I told my husband that guy with the missing wife and daughters sounds like he's lying, he has something to do with it. Then I heard what they found, not the first time these horrible things have happened in families, and unfortunately won't be the last. :( May the mother and children rest peacefully.
 
That's the thing. People just don't 'disappear' they're 'missing' for a very specific reason. Especially with the jilted. I just don't get murdering the children unless they think they are truely doing them a favor. I think most family killers just kill the children to help work themselves up to to suicide.
 
Talk is going around about mental health problems that is causing some of these murders. Don't know about what he did, but society is insisting on more money to tackle the problem. People are saying "not nearly enough is being done".
 
SeaBreeze said:
And, his wife was pregnant when he killed her....so sad. What happened to the days of divorce? If he was that miserable he could have just left. When I heard the husband on the TV saying how he wanted them back again and he missed them, I wasn't even looking at him. I told my husband that guy with the missing wife and daughters sounds like he's lying, he has something to do with it. Then I heard what they found, not the first time these horrible things have happened in families, and unfortunately won't be the last. :( May the mother and children rest peacefully.
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As per a news report last night, no surprise, but his suspicious behavior/reaction is exactly what made the police take a closer look at him.

This case reminds me of the Lacy/Scott Peterson case.
 
ClassicRockr said:
Talk is going around about mental health problems that is causing some of these murders. Don't know about what he did, but society is insisting on more money to tackle the problem. People are saying "not nearly enough is being done".
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How is more money going to end this? Money too where?.....I say BS on that point.

If a person is that messed up in their mind, first they have do something alarming, before there can be 'forced' psychiatric intervention . As they are not very likely to volunteer for such intervention. By then the damage is done.

Here's how we end it, or at the very least take steps toward ending it. Giving the next whack-job something to think about.

We take Mr Watts , put him on the six'o clock news & hang him......on TV for all to see, including the one watching that might be contemplating such a thing.

Problem is....America doesn't have the stomach for it. And of course there is no money & or fame in it for the attorneys .

And let's not forget, the [profit prisons] want to house him for decades.
 
I remember the John List case in New Jersey back in the early '70's. He was a devout Lutheran, (not that that has anything to do with it), and he used Bible phrases to run his house. They actually lived in a very large and beautiful home in an upper income section. The house had very little furniture in it and they usually ate TV dinners. He was a bookkeeper, I think and he lost his job, which is what put him over the deep end. He goes home, kills his wife, who was an alcoholic, then his three kids and finally his Mom, who lived upstairs.

Then, there was the case of the man that served on Joyce Meyer's security team. I believe that he had a girlfriend, not completely sure about that, but he killed his two boys and his wife to get out of his marriage, avoid paying child support and/or having to look after two kids.

I don't have any answers as to why people do these things. We can say or think that they are plain nuts or think irrationally, or whatever, but in my book, they just make really bad choices.
 
hollydolly said:
Here in a Video... a little insight into the wife and the type of man she though her husband is/was....

Scroll down in this article... past the heart-rending video of the little girl singing a song to her ''hero'' daddy ... to the video of Shannon watts praising her husband


http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...olorado-woman-praising-wonderful-husband.html
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Damn....seeing the family all in the mouse-ears photo...makes this tragedy seem all the more unbelievable.....
 
rgp said:
Damn....seeing the family all in the mouse-ears photo...makes this tragedy seem all the more unbelievable.....
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couldn't agree more....and how the wife is praising the husband for sticking by her when she was rejecting him, and through her illnesses, and how delighted he was to learn she was pregnant again.. .. and how that little tot was singing to her dad that he was her hero.... none of it makes sense of these murders...
 
I'm not following this story but it pops up on my news feed and it was discussed on CNN. There are people who are not what they seem.
 
911 said:
I remember the John List case in New Jersey back in the early '70's. He was a devout Lutheran, (not that that has anything to do with it), and he used Bible phrases to run his house. They actually lived in a very large and beautiful home in an upper income section. The house had very little furniture in it and they usually ate TV dinners. He was a bookkeeper, I think and he lost his job, which is what put him over the deep end. He goes home, kills his wife, who was an alcoholic, then his three kids and finally his Mom, who lived upstairs.

Then, there was the case of the man that served on Joyce Meyer's security team. I believe that he had a girlfriend, not completely sure about that, but he killed his two boys and his wife to get out of his marriage, avoid paying child support and/or having to look after two kids.

I don't have any answers as to why people do these things. We can say or think that they are plain nuts or think irrationally, or whatever, but in my book, they just make really bad choices.
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I remember John List also. That was 1970/71 I think. He was religious and deeply disturbed. he disappeared after the murders. Eventually, He started a new life with a new woman and went back to accounting. A profiler helped police to catch him by having a head bust age enhanced of what he would look like now and what kind of work he would be doing. He was caught, tried for his crimes and found guilty. What an incredible case. How sad for everyone involved. Such loss,
 
Remember the List case as well,he was using the surname of Clark...
My inlaws lived fairly close to that town that house burned to the ground,not sure if it was arson or not.
 
This is heart breaking , killing anyone is horrible but a pregnant woman and 2 children by her own husband and father of the children is the worse murder. I can't see a punishment harsh enough for him. I would like to see them chop him a little at a time,while giving him blood transfusions as they are slicing him up so he continues to endure a lot of pain before dying.
 
hollydolly said:
couldn't agree more....and how the wife is praising the husband for sticking by her when she was rejecting him, and through her illnesses, and how delighted he was to learn she was pregnant again.. .. and how that little tot was singing to her dad that he was her hero.... none of it makes sense of these murders...
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It is possible that he just “snapped.” Already having children with another on the way and mounting debt can sometimes cause some people to just lose it and do things that they would not normally do. No matter why, it is heartbreaking.

A beautiful family for sure. Killing children is probably about as low as anyone can go. How can you defend your actions for killing a child? An innocent child that cannot defend them self. It’s despicable.

I read that he did confess, so does he still get a trial? We have a few states here in the U.S. that even though a person would confess to a murder, they must still be tried. There is a reason for this, but because of the amount of space it would take to explain it, I’ll save that for another day.

Hopefully, if the article is all true and the defendant is found guilty, the judge will lock him up and lose the key.
 
Such a sad story. My gut tells me those girls didn't have a happy life long before their passing; they deserved better. I wonder if we'll ever know what really sparked this grotesque murder.
 
911 said:
It is possible that he just “snapped.” Already having children with another on the way and mounting debt can sometimes cause some people to just lose it and do things that they would not normally do. No matter why, it is heartbreaking.

A beautiful family for sure. Killing children is probably about as low as anyone can go. How can you defend your actions for killing a child? An innocent child that cannot defend them self. It’s despicable.

I read that he did confess, so does he still get a trial? We have a few states here in the U.S. that even though a person would confess to a murder, they must still be tried. There is a reason for this, but because of the amount of space it would take to explain it, I’ll save that for another day.

Hopefully, if the article is all true and the defendant is found guilty, the judge will lock him up and lose the key.
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he's still getting a trial... but he lives in a State that doesn't support the Death penalty, and apparently according to the news , arguments will be put forward before his trial, to determine as to whether he should face a death sentence...
 
rgp said:
Yet another family slaughter by the spouse / parent. Chris Watts of Fredrick,Colo...confessed to the killing of his wife Shanann Watts & their two small children, just three & four years old.

What the hell is wrong with these people, when they make a decision to do such a horrible thing?

May Mom & her children rest in peace...& I hope he...suffers the full weight of our judicial system.
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The only true justice is God's Biblical Justice... life for life = death penalty.
Instead, the most modern humanistic court systems will give him is "life"
and some of them will even allow murderers to go free. It's no wonder
evil abounds... because evildoers are coddled and not justly punished.

This meme says it all...

"No Justice = No Peace"

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Snapping is one thing, taking all those innocent lives makes no sense, what kind of demons were in his head? I mean seriously how could one go that far without some type of warning signs? Something was sure as hell wrong with him.
 
Every time one of these horrible stories pop up I wonder why if life is so bad why those that murder don't commit suicide? Mentally competent to plan and carry out the murders yet somehow mentally unfit. Gimme a break!
 
Knight said:
Every time one of these horrible stories pop up I wonder why if life is so bad why those that murder don't commit suicide? Mentally competent to plan and carry out the murders yet somehow mentally unfit. Gimme a break!
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I agree, if these killers are so miserable then they should just commit suicide or get a divorce.....let the spouse and the poor children live their lives at least.
 
911 said:
It is possible that he just “snapped.” Already having children with another on the way and mounting debt can sometimes cause some people to just lose it and do things that they would not normally do. No matter why, it is heartbreaking.

A beautiful family for sure. Killing children is probably about as low as anyone can go. How can you defend your actions for killing a child? An innocent child that cannot defend them self. It’s despicable.

I read that he did confess, so does he still get a trial? We have a few states here in the U.S. that even though a person would confess to a murder, they must still be tried. There is a reason for this, but because of the amount of space it would take to explain it, I’ll save that for another day.

Hopefully, if the article is all true and the defendant is found guilty, the judge will lock him up and lose the key.
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He sounded like another Scott Peterson to me.
 

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