A coroner has completed the autopsy reports for Shannan Watts and her daughters Bella and Celeste, who were found dead last month on the property of a petroleum company where Shanann’s husband Chris Watts worked. Watts has been charged with numerous felony counts, including three counts of first-degree murder. The Denver Channel obtained a court notice …
“She was a very insecure young lady,” Shanann Watts’s former teacher said
A North Carolina woman who was charged Tuesday with felony concealment of death reportedly told authorities that she kept her own mother’s body hidden for months so she could “see the stages of death.” Donna Sue Hudgins, 69, of Enfield, was arrested and charged for concealing the death of her 93-year-old mother, Nellie Mae Hudgins, …
A Tennessee father was arrested Thursday after authorities say he intentionally set his adult daughter’s wheelchair on fire — while she was still in it. Timothy Shane Medley, 41, of Pulaski, allegedly set the woman’s wheelchair ablaze using an accelerant in May, the New York Post reports. According to a Tennessee Bureau of Investigation (TBI) …
Before Chris Watts confessed to police that he killed his pregnant wife Shanann Watts, he had a one-on-one conversation with his father. The arrest affidavit obtained by CrimeOnline last month shows that Chris Watts asked to speak to his father just before he gave a detailed confession to police. But as People magazine notes, a …
Two teenagers were fatally shot by their own father before he took his own life in what police say is a devastating double-murder suicide in rural Indiana, the IndyStar reports. The children’s mother called police Friday morning after she was informed her kids weren’t at school and no one answered the door at her ex-husband’s …
Authorities in Florida believe a 21-year-old woman was acting out in an attempt to get an ex-boyfriend’s attention when she intentionally caused a traffic accident with her 2-month-old daughter in the backseat. According to the New York Post, Breanna Bechtol was driving in Dade City on Tuesday night when her vehicle left the roadway and …
The Tennessee Bureau of Investigation is investigating a fatal shooting after a boy allegedly killed his father on Saturday, during a domestic altercation. NBC10 reports that a 12-year-old boy shot his father, Kevron Thomas ‘Tommy’ Durham, 56, in the chest after the child intervened during a domestic violence dispute. According to TBI, the incident occurred in a home …
Prosecutors in the Chris Watts murder case are seeking the suspect’s footprints, reportedly for comparison to evidence found at the crime scene. Watts was arrested last month and charged with the murder his pregnant wife Shanann Watts and their daughters Bella, 4, and Celeste, 3. The bodies of all three victims were found on the …
Prosecutors in the Chris Watts family murder case have asked a judge to seal the autopsy reports for his pregnant wife and two young daughters who were found dead last month in a sensational case that has captured national and international media attention. KUSA reports that prosecutors filed a motion in the 19th Judicial District …
Reality is sinking in for family murder suspect Chris Watts as he remains on suicide watch in a Colorado jail. Watts was arrested last month and charged with the murder of his pregnant wife Shanann Watts and their young daughters Bella and Celeste. According to an arrest affidavit, Chris Watts admitted to killing his wife …
Authorities in Australia say a man murdered his wife, three young children, and mother-in-law before reporting to work earlier this week as a landscaper. According to the New York Post, Anthony Harvey is accused of killing Mara Harvey, 41, Beverley Quinn, 73, and three children 3 years old or younger — Charlotte and twins Alice …
