Much of it focuses on the increasingly poor sex life between Chris and Shanann, which led her to believe he was cheating (he was), but IвЂ™m not sure what is gained by seeing personal text messages from Shanann about her lack of intimacy with her husband. вЂњAmerican MurderвЂќ cuts back and forth between August 13 th and the investigation of the next few days with footage from Facebook and text messages about what might have led Chris to that point. If my wife and kids were gone, I'd be in full-blown panic, and the cops must have been instantly suspicious at his lack of emotion.) ItвЂ™s a great example of the dead-eyed manner in which sociopaths can move through this world. Mere hours earlier, this man watched the life come out of his wifeвЂ™s eyes and brutally killed his daughters, and heвЂ™s there pretending to be concerned about where his family might be, caught on camera talking to cops. He was an absolute monster, and the theory is that he basically wanted to wipe away one family life so he could start another one with his mistress.Д®arly body cam footage of Chris speaking to police officers in his home about where Shanann and the girls might be is arguably the most unsettling in the film. Her husband Chris strangled his pregnant wife to death, burying her body near one of his work sites, and then dumped his two other children, who he had smothered to death,В in an oil vat at the same scene. On August 13 th, 2018, Shanann Watts came home from a work trip. ItвЂ™s not one of those mysteries that people dissect on message boards or obsess about on podcasts. The facts of this case arenвЂ™t really in question. The counter to that would be that вЂњAmerican MurderвЂќ reveals how much an online persona can hide an unsettled life. And IвЂ™m not sure this film always justifies its invasion of privacy. IвЂ™m sure ShanannвЂ™s family approved, but thereвЂ™s always that question of how much stories like these should belong to the loved ones of the people involved and how much they should be exposed to the world. Yes, Shanann agreed to post her life online, but that doesnвЂ™t mean she expected it to be dissected and analyzed after her tragic death, and the question of who gave approval for her text messages to become part of a film pushes the experience into something that feels exploitative at times. ItвЂ™s a film that canвЂ™t help but feel a little like an invasion of privacy. The result is a film that feels deeply personal, and not always in a good way. ThereвЂ™s not a single talking-head interview or recreated event in this doc-every single image was either uploaded to the internet, taken by investigators, or text messaged from players involved.

Realizing how much of WattsвЂ™ personality was right there online must have been the spark for the filmmakers of NetflixвЂ™s вЂњAmerican Murder: The Family Next DoorвЂќ to devise their true crime documentary in a truly original way. She posted videos of her beautiful family online with such regularity that one can get a sense of who she was asВ a person through the footage thatвЂ™s publicly available through social media services.

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