It has been revealed that a notorious killer, Chris Watts, who murdered his partner and two young daughters, has been receiving a huge number of love-letters from women across the country. His shocking actions were recently the focus of the Netflix documentary "American Murder: The Family Next Door".
While it is not particularly unusual for notorious criminals and serial-killers to receive love-letters prison, staff say they are shocked by just how many letters he has been receiving. Particularly as his crimes involved the murder of his partner and his own two children.
Chris Watts, who was 33 at the time of his conviction, brutally killed his pregnant wife, 34-year-old Shanann Watts by strangling her to death. He then suffocated to death his 4-year-old daughter Bella and his 3-year-old daughter Celeste. Watts then drove to an outdoor work-site and disposed of his wife's body while his children were still alive. Once he killed the children, he is believed to have disposed of their bodies in oil-barrels.
He carried out the killings in order to start a new life with a woman he worked with and with whom he had been having an affair. In order to escape the death-penalty, he pleaded guilty and is now serving five life-sentences.
Sources from the prison, commenting on the love-letters, said:
"He got a lot of letters at first. Many of them are from women who thought he was handsome and felt compassion for him. He had nothing better to do, so he wrote them back. And he started having pen-pals. A couple of them stood out, and they've kept in contact."
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— chrissy paradis (@chrissyparadis) December 21, 2018
The letters are said to contain an outpouring of sympathy and compassion for the killer, and from some who say that they believe he is innocent, despite him pleading guilty. Others are said to be sexual in nature, and some women have sent him pictures wearing nothing but bikinis and lingerie.
One letter read:
"In my heart I know you are a great guy. If you do write me back I'd be the happiest girl alive that's for sure."
Dr. Judy Ho, a psychologist who spoke to Inside Edition, discussed why some women have an attraction towards dangerous men. She believes much of it is to do with personal fantasy and lack of self-esteem. She said:
"These women have created a fantasy life for themselves especially with their pretend relationship with these men behind bars. It is oftentimes what we talk about when women seem to be attracted by bad boys. It is because they want to be the special person that can turn this life around and be able to attribute that to their own self-esteem."
Before admitting the crime, Watts had claimed that his wife had murdered their children and that he had then murdered her in revenge.
Watts also stated that he had told Shanann that he had been having an affair on the day he carried out the murder and that he snapped when she said, "well you are never going to see your kids again".
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