A pregnant Shanann Watts vowed to do whatever it took to save her marriage with Chris Watts, days before he killed her and their daughters Bella and Celeste.
“(It was) the most horrific thing I’ve ever encountered in police work—in my life,” Knox County Sheriff’s Office Det. Jeremy McCord said of the grisly scene allegedly left by Joel Guy Jr.
Text messages included in “American Murder: The Family Next Door" show Shanann Watts' anxiety over her relationship with Chris Watts and her suspicions that he was cheating on her.
The decision to give Aaron C.M. Schwartz, 22, and Petie C.M. Schwartz, 18, probation after they admitted to sexually assaulting their underage sister sparked outrage. Now a prosecutor wants that probation revoked.
After Steven Mark Bratton was arrested for the fatal shooting of Katie Elliott, neighbors told local media they were in shock as the couple was “always laughing and joking, like normal people, like family."