That was depressing. I'll never understand why people don't just get divorced and move on with their lives. What, was he trying to save $1500/mo child support?

Said it before and I'll say it again: I'm glad my ex-wife just left.

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That was depressing. I'll never understand why people don't just get divorced and move on with their lives. What, was he trying to save $1500/mo child support?

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Yeah, I still don't really understand the logic. I'd always pictured it as being some sort of rage-event, but it was fully premeditated. Just sick.

This was very well done in how they used 100% body cams, interview room video, and texts, and absolutely zero interviews. Also, it was refreshing to see an entire story effectively told in less than 90 minutes vs dragging it out into an 8 episode documentary

And this crime was flat-out sick and nuts. How he ever thought he would get away with it was insane. Especially the use of his job site. Something was sure to eventually be found there and he's toast as soon as that happens. Then LOL at how the cop basically feeds him a cover story and then that's what he almost immediately latches onto as his explanation. I'd be curious what this guy's IQ is.

DannyDuberstein said:

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And this crime was flat-out sick and nuts. How he ever thought he would get away with it was insane. Especially the use of his job site. Something was sure to eventually be found there and he's toast as soon as that happens. Then LOL at how the cop basically feeds him a cover story and then that's what he almost immediately latches onto as his explanation. I'd be curious what this guy's IQ is.

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He has to have a really low IQ, like you said what was he thinking putting them at his job site, then when he's cheating he's taking pictures with the other girl and using their joint checking account. I've never had an affair but that just seems like common sense on stuff you don't do.

possibly a spoiler but I about lost it, crying wise, when he started saying his girls were alive in the backseat when he was taking them to the job site with mom right under his feet. A 45min to hr drive, all that time to literally spare your little innocent girls lives. Wtf is wrong with that dude. And then he put them in the tank alive? I had to stop watching it and just fast forward to the end to get it off my line up. Probably one of the most upsetting things I've seen and wish I didn't watch the end.

that guy deserves to burn.... slowly.

didn't they say he called the school to unenroll the kids the morning it happened? How does that go with his cover story that his wife took the kids. He's an evil idiot.

The eeriest part to me(having followed the story) was right at the beginning when he parks the truck and walks up to let the cop in. Knowing he had committed the murder just a few hours earlier and was walking up as if nothing had happened was evil.

Agree with what you all were saying about how well done this was and I also couldn't believe how dumb this guy was. I thought it was interesting when the neighbor pulled the cop aside on day 1 about how strange he was acting -- pretty good instincts.

"If you had anything to do with this, it would be incredibly stupid for you to take this test" [/detective]

"Its ok. Lets do it"[/idiotic psychopath]

He smothered the kids before putting them in the tank...not that that's any better, just correcting the facts.

I read a bit more about the story after watching the doc. They mention in the doc that Bella, the older girl, said "Daddy, no!" right before he killed her...one story I read said that he killed CeCe (the youngest) while she was in the car next to Bella, then Bella watched him dump her body in the tank. When he came back to the truck, she asked him "Is what happened to CeCe gonna happen to me too?".

I hope gets dealt prison justice. Life in prison is too good for him.

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Also, legal question. Should an attorney not have been present throughout all the questioning?

Not saying I wanted him to get away with it of course, just legitimately curious if anything was done wrong by the police or if this guy is just incredibly stupid.

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If he requests one.

As mentioned earlier, he ain't the most chip filled cookie on the sheet.

It's always incredible to me watching shows like this how many idiots talk to the cops without a lawyer and agree to a polygraph. Even if you're innocent as all get out NEVER do either of those things.

This show was very well done, but as the father of a six year old girl it really messed me up. I just can not possibly imagine how someone could do that to their child. I watched it right before bed last night and then had a terrible dream where my wife, daughter and step daughter were all killed by a serial killer and my mother had been killed by a different serial killer the year before. Man it was amazing to wake up and realize it wasn't real.

Marriage sounds really hard...this isn't sarcasm, or a joke...as a single person like to be single always, it seems like such a complicated endeavor.

Too old here for it to matter, but best wishes to you young couples out there!

I might smile if he got shanked


"Daddy, no"


**** him.

West Point Aggie said:

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Marriage sounds really hard...this isn't sarcasm, or a joke...as a single person like to be single always, it seems like such a complicated endeavor.

Too old here for it to matter, but best wishes to you young couples out there!

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Find the right partner and it isn't. Not to excuse this guy at all, but this gal did seem self-admittedly very controlling with a lot of expectations on how everything should be done. And many of her texts involve her confiding in friends about their problems - including intimate stuff, which IMO is just not healthy. Some folks need to vent, but when you are venting on marriage details and ****-talking your spouse to others behind their back, I think you are on fast-track to that marriage ending. Again, absolutely zero excuse to do what he did. Abhorrent and psychotic. Get a damned divorce, don't become a psychopathic killer.

I'm hard to shake. But I literally looked at my wife when they were describing him driving the girls out to the oil patch and said, "why in the **** am I watching this?"

It sounds like this doc is a real pick-me-up.

I think I might pass.

it was well-done, but a hard watch. We already knew the story from news, dateline, etc, but damn...the details about driving out to the job site with the daughters. **** him.

Forgot to mention....LOVED the neighbor with the security footage holding back the responding cop and basically saying Watts was FOS. He knew from the get go.

The doc was really well done, I couldn't believe how much of her/their life the wife put on Facebook for the world to see. And just once, can one of these end up with the husband not killing the wife and kids.

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The doc was really well done, I couldn't believe how much of her/their life the wife put on Facebook for the world to see.

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Seems like most people who are trying to work Thrive do the same thing. I wonder if they are told to do so, or if she just really liked posting her life online.

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It is. It is work. Every married guy dreams of bailing at some point. You either do that or you shake that off and get back to work. You don't kill your wife and baby girls. Sickening.

Geriatric Punk said:

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Bob Loblaws Law Blog said:

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The doc was really well done, I couldn't believe how much of her/their life the wife put on Facebook for the world to see.

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Seems like most people who are trying to work Thrive do the same thing. I wonder if they are told to do so, or if she just really liked posting her life online.

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It is. It is work. Every married guy dreams of bailing at some point. You either do that or you shake that off and get back to work. You don't kill your wife and baby girls. Sickening.

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Or your ***** of an (ex) wife tells you she doesn't wanna be married anymore, takes your kids for most of the month and gets 20% of your paycheck.

Don't get married.