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The Watts Family Murders - August 13 2020 - Daily True Crime

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Society & Culture, History, Documentary, True Crime

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🗓️ 13 August 2020

⏱️ 7 minutes

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Summary

August 13th: Watts Family Murders (2018) There’s the saying that goes “don’t speak ill of the dead”. On August 13th 2018 a woman and her 2 children were found dead in Aberdeen, North Carolina. And, her grieving husband, the only surviving member of the Watts family, had a sick story to tell that cast a horrible shadow over his dead wife. Become a supporter of this podcast on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/morningcupofmurder Follow Morning Cup of Murder on Twitter: https://twitter.com/cupofmurder @cupofmurder Follow MCOM on Instagram: @morningcupofmurder Have a Murder or strange true crime story you want to share, email the show here: [email protected] Morning Cup of Murder is researched, written and performed by Korina Biemesderfer. Follow Korina on Instagram: @kbiemesderfer Information for this episode collected from: Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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There were two more murders, 15 miles away in the silver-racement-upon-

0:03.9

We have a weird...

0:06.0

...described by one investigator as reminiscent of a weird religion.

0:09.0

There's a saying that goes, don't speak ill of the dead.

0:15.0

On August 13, 2018, a woman and her two children were found dead in Colorado.

0:21.6

And her grieving husband, the only surviving family member of the Watts family, had a sick

0:27.6

story to tell that cast a horrible shadow over his dead wife.

0:31.6

So, if you like your coffee hot, but your bones chilled, sit back and start your day with

0:36.6

a morning cup of murder.

0:41.6

Christopher Lee Watts and his wife Shannon met in 2010 and were married two years later in

0:47.3

their home state of North Carolina. By 2015, the Watts had two daughters, Bella and Celeste,

0:56.4

and were living in a five-bedroom home in Frederick, Colorado. Christopher was working for a petroleum company, while Shannon was an

1:01.7

independent representative of an MLM company. Things seemed to be going well for the couple,

1:07.2

and by 2018, Shannon was in the beginning stages of pregnancy

1:11.7

with their third child.

1:13.8

Of course, there were some problems,

1:16.3

the main of which being money.

1:18.4

They filed for bankruptcy in 2015,

1:21.3

but they had a growing family

1:23.1

and were on the right track.

1:25.0

At least, that's what Shannon thought.

1:29.6

On August 13, 2018,

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