This one actually felt very exploitative to me. If you're looking for something to put the events of this case in a timeline - I guess, this documentary does a decent job. But that's all it does. It takes existing footage and arranges it in a specific order. It doesn't attempt to explore the reasoning. It doesn't attempt to uncover something you can't already learn from a simple Google search. It doesn't give it any kind of perspective. All it does is puts the a timeline together, puts the word "murder" in the title, and waits for the true crime crowd to tune in as it puts a family tragedy out on display.

This format of documentary - where they only use real recordings and footages -  is incredibly enjoyable to watch.

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imagine using Facebook so often that people could almost make an entire documentary just from your posts

kind of obsessed with the unnamed friend shannan is pouring her heart out to about the possible infidelity and she's just like "no girl dont say that"

Apart from being a terrible tragedy, I also was shocked by the obsessive taping of the children and social media posting.

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i can’t stress this enough FUCK THAT GUY

this story never gets any less fucked up, my heart aches for those girls

being a woman is absolutely terrifying. chris watts rot in hell.

Honestly scarier then any horror movie

I watched a 3+ hour video essay on this case a few years ago so I felt obligated to watch this

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As exploitative as this is, watching body cam footage of Chris Watts lie his way through the initial disappearance is surreal and horrifying.

Knowing the story beforehand from a few true crime podcast, it was interesting to give faces to the names and situations. What I was not prepared was for how different it is to visualize and to actually see the whole situation play out. While I wasn't surprised by the outcome because I knew the case beforehand, the death of the daughters by their own father made tears well up in my eyes. A gruesome case that and a compelling documentary that offered not from what i knew before but definitely tells one how strange and stupidly extreme the human behaviours can be when confronted with situations.

i wwish i coudl review this but im full body sthaking

idk why i thougth watching this would be a good idea

Seriously what the fuck

This is terrifying & heartbreaking

After hearing this case on Crime Junkie, I finally decided to watch this. I think what makes this case stand out is the fact that their lives were so documented on Facebook and Social Media, that it made you feel like you knew them personally. I thought that the documentary was very well edited and put together.

Jesus fucking Christ

damn rip fr girl fuck this man

Thank you for not using recreations and interviews, like every other true crime documentary.

Fuck that guy

I've been into a lot of true crime stuff lately, so when I opened up Netflix to finally watch something on it again, this is what I started. Once I realized who this was about about 5 minutes in, my chest sunk. It's horrible watching while knowing how it turns out.

I do like this documentary, it gives a lot of access into the case and it has more stuff I didn't know about it before I watched it. That being said, I feel like the videos by JCS on YouTube do a better job of framing and telling this story. Considering that I like the JCS version more, here's a link to the first part (of three) of the videos on Chris Watts, the man in this documentary: The Case of Chris Watts - pt. 1