

“Literally hundreds of cars have come by. In an article on The Denver Channel, an unnamed neighbor said that people are coming by to see the house for themselves, especially with the release of Netflix’s American Murder: The Family Next Door. It’s unsurprising that the house where Watts murdered his family would be difficult to sell. The more widely publicized the story? The harder it is to sell the house. Think of the people who own the Amityville Horror house, they had to get the address changed to prevent looky-loos from coming by. You can understand a home buyer’s reluctance to own a house with a reputation behind it. This includes the two-story family home at 2825 Saratoga Trail, which has been in the strange legal limbo since. There are many assets left behind in the wake of this tragedy. This has yet to be paid out to Shannan’s parents. In a civil suit against Watts, Shannan Watts’s parents were awarded $6 million USD for the deaths of their family. Rather than face the death penalty, Watts pleaded guilty to multiple counts of first-degree murder. His young daughters’ bodies were in oil drums while Shannan, pregnant with the couple’s first son, was found in a shallow grave nearby.

Shannan and her daughters were dead, buried on the property of Watts’ former employer. It wasn’t until Watts confessed that investigators knew the horrible truth. For days, he pretended like they were still alive but missing. For those of you who haven’t heard of this horrific and heart-wrenching case, Chris Watts murdered his pregnant wife, Shannan, and his two young daughters. There’s some new news in the twisty saga of the Watts family murders. By: Bec Heim For sale: The home Chris Watts murdered his pregnant wife in
