The Watts family was apparently the typical American perfect family. Young, handsome, successful, with two lovely daughters and a third son on the way. They lived in a suburb of Frederik, Colorado. But everything would change on August 13, 2018, when Shanann Watts and the two girls, Bella and Celeste, mysteriously disappeared.

A friend of Shanann's, who is trying to locate her, is the first person to worry, as they are very close and Shanann does not answer her calls. She is the one who calls the police, having to wait for Chris Watts to authorize her to enter the house.

Chris Watts , the perfect husband, the man who loves his wife and adores his daughters, shows some concern about this strange disappearance of his wife and daughters. He is cooperating and in the next few days will be making statements to the media, asking his wife or those who have her, to please come home.

The community of Frederick was concerned about this terrible disappearance. But the worst was yet to come. The truth would soon come out, exposing a horrible crime and its perpetrator.

The documentary is directed by filmmaker Jenny Popplewell, of whom I have not found any previous work as a director, although she has industry experience in the area of production.

To make the documentary about this horrible crime, the director uses all the archive material. There is no need to resort to interviews or statements from people on camera. Everything we see in the documentary was built with personal footage from the Watts, surveillance cameras, police cameras, interrogation and trial videos.

The events took place in 2018, at the height of the social networking era, and Shanonn Watts was very active on facebook, where she had her personal life documented, with photos and videos that show that great happiness, a perfect life with the ideal man, two beautiful daughters and now happier because she was pregnant.

Seeing her life through social networks is another strong evidence of how human beings use those social tools to create a lie and show the world a state of perfection that does not exist, because internally the marriage was going through a difficult situation and the happiness they had at the beginning of their marriage, no longer existed.

A part of the documentary uses the resource of reproducing the text messages between those involved. I have seen other recent documentaries that use this narrative resource, but in this case it has tired me out. There is an excess of messages, which perhaps serve to fill the length of the documentary.

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There are many questions I asked myself when I finished watching the documentary. But the main one is why the hell did the killer do it?

This monster was a normal person, a man who instilled confidence, love with his wife and daughters. He did not come from a dysfunctional family, his parents are still alive and had a good relationship with him. He was not an abused child like other killers. He had a good job, a house, he earned enough money to live comfortably. His wife was beautiful and the girls were lovely. What the hell happened?

Even madness has no place in this horrendous crime. Apparently, the killer is in his right mind. He is not crazy or a religious fanatic.

The only explanation the documentary suggests is that he was bored with his marriage, no longer loved his wife and had begun an affair with a younger girl, a co-worker at the company where he worked. In his interrogations of the girl, he makes it clear that Chris lied to her all along and she never asked him to leave his wife.

Was this affair the trigger? Is it enough reason to kill the whole family? There are things that seem to have no logical explanation, Chris Watts had to separate from his wife, that's why there's a damn divorce and go on with his life. In a fit of anger a person can kill their partner, it has happened and it continues to happen. But what is unforgivable to me is that he would end the lives of his own children, innocent souls who were just beginning to live.

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