13: The Original Chris Watts?? The Disturbing Case of The Coleman Family Murders

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🗓️ 4 August 2022

⏱️ 41 minutes

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Hey guys, today we're going to be covering the case of Chris Coleman, who is often referred to as the original Chris Watts. And yes unfortunately he is just as terrible and wow this case really does make my blood boil!

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0:00.0	Hi everyone, I hope you're all doing so well and welcome back to the Criminal Makeup Podcast.
0:15.2	Each episode we dive into the minds of some of the worst criminals in history and today
0:20.1	we're going to be talking about the case of the Coleman family murders.
0:23.8	So this case, where do I begin? So we're going to be talking about Chris Coleman today
0:29.0	and this case took place back in 2009 and I'm not going to say too much about what happens
0:34.6	right now, but all I will say is that Chris Coleman was the Chris Watts before Chris Watts.
0:41.2	And it's not just their first name that they have in common. So Chris Coleman was a happily
0:46.6	married man. He had two beautiful young children and he also had a very successful career
0:52.2	working as a bodyguard to a famous Christian televangelist named Joyce Myers.
0:57.8	Everything was going great for Chris. He had this stereotypical perfect life. But then all of
1:03.6	a sudden he started to get all of these mysterious death threats. And these death threats were
1:09.6	saying terrible things. They were threatening to kill Chris. They were threatening to kill his
1:14.4	whole family. They were threatening very serious harm to him and everyone he loved. And then not
1:20.8	long after Chris started receiving these messages, things went horribly wrong. And I mean horribly
1:27.5	wrong. So I'm not going to give anything else away. We're going to be getting into all of that
1:31.6	today. So this is the case of Chris Coleman, who is known as the original Chris Watts. And if you
1:37.8	know what Chris Watts did, you possibly know what we're in for today. So let's just dive right in.
1:43.7	So Chris Coleman was born on the 20th of March 1977 making him a Pisces. He grew in Chester,
1:57.8	Illinois with his parents Ron and Connie and his two brothers Brad and Keith. It said that when
2:04.4	Chris was growing up, he was a very well-managed child. But he was quite quiet. He was quite reserved.
2:10.2	He was the quietest and most reserved out of all three brothers. And he grew up in a very very
2:16.4	religious household. His parents were both co-pastors at a local church. And religion was a huge
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