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This documentary got me hooked within minutes. Stepping into this family's private life with only original police footage and personal homevideo's gave the most realistic image to start a horrific story. The mystery surrounding it made me feel instantly anxious of the outcome. The tension rises to unbearable levels until the climax hits. I wouldn't recommend this to young parents or anyone who likes to sleep right after watching this, because I won't for some hours... that's for sure.

A very intoxicating detective story. But what makes it really spooky is, if you've seen fiction films like CACHE and DOSSIER 51, this uses real surveillance footage and text message and voicemail evidence as most of the film's content. It's a technological marvel -- but in a scary, Big Brother/Stasi way.

A better Netflix crime story. Why? Because it's only the real footage or news stories that's used in the film. It's not filled with people being interviewed talking about the event from the past which just pads the runtime. It works better and keeps you invested with body cams and real police interviews. Nothing is staged. It's all real.

A concise documentary covering the disappearance of shannan watts and her two children, and the subsequent investigation. The timeline was well established and well presented. The first hand footage was quite extensive.

I can only say that I maybe the only one who was not aware of this terrible crime committed. Using Police body cam , Personal home movies. Facebook and text messages this had me gripped from start to finish. I was absolutely glued. I was left emotional and drained.

Other than stitching up vignettes in a chronological order, this documentary offers barely any new insight to the Watts familicide. It has been nearly two years since his incarceration and there are no recent interviews with the killer or family members.

The story plays like an episode of Air Crash Investigation (minus the investigation) - multiple failures must occur to precipitate the ultimate catastrophe. Chris stalks Shanann on Facebook. Shanann agrees to meet but would repeatedly rebuff Chris' advances. But why? Best guess would be her feelings of inadequacy about herself and her lupus. She finally succumbs to his charm and agrees to marry him. But Chris' family fails to attend his wedding because Cindy, his mother, does not approve of Shanann and does not want to lose her son to her. What does this say of Cindy? It would take a deeply narcissistic person to make her son's wedding about her and sabotage her son's happiness.

According to the neighbours, Chris Watts is a subdued man. In his text messages to his wife, we see a man whose words do not reflect his actions. This is a man so accustomed to putting on a performance that he probably does not have a coherent sense of self because he has dedicated his life to appeasing everyone around him, not least his mother. According to Shanann's friends, she is "bossy"; in other words, she is a control freak. This is consistent with her anxious and validation-seeking personality. She massively over-reacts while at her in-laws despite an already tenuous relationship with Cindy. Her text messages to her friends and husband also do not paint a portrait of someone with healthy emotional regulation. Despite all of her protestations via text messages and hand-written letters to her husband detailing her anguish, she seems incapable of having face-to-face discussions with him without flying off the handle. This was a couple in dire need of relationship counselling and the basics of effective interpersonal communication.

Nothing can bring back Shanann and the kids. Just as the lessons of air crashes have made air travel safer and prevented more lives lost unnecessarily to air crashes, these tragedies hopefully serve as cautionary tales to couples in toxic or unfulfilling relationships. Get help as soon as issues arise. Most of all, do not flog a dead horse. Sometimes the best thing to do is simply to walk away calmly with dignity.

I have been on a bit of a Netflix documentary binge as of late and the only one I have got round to reviewing is this one, that's not to say it's the best, merely the freshest in my memory. The watts family seem to be living the American dream,outwardly happy and healthy, dad has a good job and mum dotes on their two adorable children whilst maintaining a healthy Facebook presence and a well ordered home in a respectable neighbourhood. So why then does a routine health check on the family home by a policeman one sunny weekday morning lead to revelations so dark, they shook an entire nation.

I remember the watts family case at the time it was initially reported and it's no overstatement to say it was big news, what this documentary sets out to do its to fill in the details behind the lurid headlines regarding this case and in terms of access to information, few documentary makers can claim to have had more. We start with footage straight from a cop's body cam and over the next 70 minutes are shown hand written letters, facebook entries and private text conversations. You really do feel like you are an intrusive voyeur viewing the minutiae of someone else's life, it's that revelatory So why only a six rating? Well it's simple , whilst certain aspects of the case are revealed and expanded upon with explicit candidness, others are neglected. For example Chris watts's life is not explored in any great detail, all the viewer.can glean from the scant mentions of his back story is that he was once fat and now isnt. No insight into his character is given either, he remains just as enigmatic to me as he did before I watched this documentary. This oversight on the makers part is glaring, surely they had just as much access to his correspondences and private info as they did to others. Also for such a complex and enthralling case, an 70 odd minute running time is far too brief to do the story justice. A good documentary that had great potential.

Even though I had previously watched crime shows on this tragic story, I felt this was done from a perspective in which focused on highlighting events that I either knew little or nothing about, which made for a sad but informative watch.

It's a fairly basic true crime mystery...but my God, the personal access, shocking details and masterful editing make it one of the most well-told of the over-crowded sub-genre.

This case will stay with me forever. I don't know exactly what makes it so compelling, but maybe it's Shanann's social media presence that makes us feel like we know her as a neighbor and friend. It is just so unfathomable how this guy could actually go through wiping out not ONLY his wife, but his own two daughters in the space of hours, and act like nothing was out of the ordinary. There was another case same year,- Kelsey Berreth in Woodland Park, CO. Her "fiance" Patrick Frazee, bludgeoned her to death in her condo with their infant daughter in back bedroom. He had been trying to get another girlfriend to do the job for him. I compare him to Chris Watts.. I've been reading how an ex-girlfriend described him, of the "mind games" he would play with her, and how he was thought of as so charming, laid back, nice guy. Very eerily similar to Chris Watts. It seems these psychopaths are all about control. They see their children as "property" that they are entitled to, that belongs soley to them. Patrick Frazee was upset that Kelsey wanted full custody of their daughter, and wanted to move away from him, closer to Pueblo where she worked as a pilot instructor. He plotted to kill her, then finally did it himself. I think that's what set Chris off the night he killed Shanann. He knew she would take the kids away from him, and to him that was giving her control over him, his life, his "property". Psychopaths can't have that. They would rather kill than give up their control over their "property". True, he could have just divorced. But, Shanann would take the kids, which meant the "ultimate failure" to him. It's strange, but to them it makes sense. I think that's the main reason he did what he did.