Ellen Killoran

Ellen is a seasoned journalist and former media & entertainment reporter with a taste for true crime. Formerly a senior editor at IBTimes, her work has appeared in Forbes, Rolling Stone, Maxim, NYMag, Indiewire, and more. She co-produced the HBO documentary "Youth Knows No Pain" and appeared in a documentary series that aired alongside the Lifetime movie "Manson's Lost Girls." Tips: ekilloran@crimeonline.com

SEE IT: Video of Chris Watts finding police at his home on day family went missing; killer dad makes jokes as friend of Shanann Watts eyes him with suspicion
Family Crime

The Weld County District Attorney’s office has released bodycam video of Chris Watts meeting police at his home on the August day that his wife Shannan Watts and daughters Bella, 4, and Celeste, 3, went missing. The video obtained by the Daily Mail shows Chris Watts interacting with police officers in his Frederick, Colorado, home …

Family Crime
December 3, 2018

BREAKING: NEW arrest video shows killer dad Chris Watts handcuffed on day he’s booked for murdering his pregnant wife and young daughters

Newly released bodycam footage taken the day Chris Watts was arrested for killing his wife and daughters show the confessed murderer being handcuffed in the same interrogation room where he admitted to murdering his pregnant wife Shanann Watts. The video obtained by RadarOnline shows the arresting Frederick Police officers instructing Watts to face a wall …

Family Crime
December 3, 2018

NEW VIDEO shows panicked Chris Watts discover neighbor has surveillance video of his driveway from day he murdered pregnant wife and young daughters

A new video taken the day before Chris Watts was arrested for murdering his family shows him appearing extremely nervous as his neighbor plays surveillance video from Chris’s driveway for police investigating the disappearance of Shanann Watts and her daughters Bella and Celeste. RadarOnline obtained bodycam video from the Frederick Police department taken at the …

Juveniles
November 30, 2018

LISTEN: Chris Watts girlfriend Nichol Kessinger sobs in police interview over murder of his daughters; resists giving police contact information of friend who could confirm her whereabouts on day of murders

The Weld County District Attorney’s Office has released hours of audio and video footage related to the murder investigation of Shanann Watts and her daughters Bella and Celeste, including the interrogation of Chris Watts and his eventual confession to killing to pregnant wife. Among the documents is an audio file of a 2-hour interview, obtained …

Family Crime
November 29, 2018

‘Your mommy doesn’t know what she is talking about’: Shannan Watts told friend that in-laws repeatedly tried to feed daughter nuts despite severe allergy

A concerned friend contacted law enforcement after learning of the murders of Shanann Watts and her two young daughter, relaying an unsettling anecdote Shanann had shared with her just weeks before she was killed. The discovery documents released by the Weld County District Attorney’s office last week related to the murder investigation include an anecdote …

Family Crime
November 28, 2018

[UPDATED] Chris Watts girlfriend searched for Shanann Watts online nearly a year before the murders and long before her affair with Chris Watts began: Report

UPDATED December 6, 5:11 p.m. E.T. The records supervisor at the Frederick Police Department told CrimeOnline on Thursday that the entry in the discovery report showing that Nichol Kessinger performed a Google search for Shanann Watts on September 1, 2017 is a typo. CrimeOnline reached records supervisor Amanda Purcell on Thursday after repeated inquiries made …