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This episode includes discussions of violence, child abuse, child death, and murder.

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Officer Scott Kunrod circled the perimeter of the Watts family home.

He'd been called to do a wellness check on Chanan Watts, who wasn't answering any calls or

texts.

Her car was in the garage, but nobody was coming to the door.

Shanan and her two children, four-year-old Bella, and three-year-old C.C.

had apparently disappeared. But when her husband, Chris, parked in front of the house and trotted up the driveway,

Officer Coonrod only felt more uneasy.

The man had just learned that his pregnant wife and two young kids were missing, but instead of racing into the house to look for them, he stopped to exchange pleasantries with the officer.

Once inside, Chris seemed distracted.

He kept looking at his phone.

He didn't seem particularly invested in finding Shanan and the children. The man who lived next door offered to let the

investigator look at the footage from the security camera in his driveway. The

video showed Chris's truck leaving for work around 5.30 that morning.

But there was no sign of Shenan leaving the house or of anybody else arriving.

The video itself wasn't remarkable, but Chris's reaction was.

He kept looking at his phone or up at the ceiling.

He was sweating.

He seemed on the verge of panic.

Once the video stopped, Chris hurried out of the neighbor's house. The neighbor

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