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True stories from the darkest corners of the 20th century, in the footage that survived.

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@zynexsol the interview videos are public, they came out with the case files, did u follow the case back then?

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On August 15, 2018, police let Chris Watts's father sit with him in Squad Interview Room 2. Two days earlier, his pregnant wife and two little daughters had vanished.

He mumbled into his hands: "She hurt 'em. And then I killed her."

His father: "What now?"

In the video below, Chris tells him Shanann smothered their girls, Bella and Cece, after he brought up separation. "They were blue."

"I freaked out and had to do the same thing to her. Those are my kids."

His father asks: "So what did you do? Haul the bodies off or something?"
"I didn't know what to do."

Chris says it was "rage." His father reaches across the table: "God almighty son."

It was a lie. Months later, Chris admitted he killed all 3 himself. He pleaded guilty and got life without parole.

He blamed his dead wife to his own father's face. Was he trying to protect himself, or just couldn't say the truth out loud yet?

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@0xMorzik agree, blaming someone who can't answer back says a lot about him

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@rumezxbt maybe the truth was too much to say to his dad, do u think he ever told him later?

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@milenxbt yeah, his dad wanted to believe his son, thats the saddest part

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@Owlgorithmm tesla for sure, paying it back early says enough

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@Fenzoox 63k a month for three kids sounds fair to me, 248k was too much

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@LXPlLXP if it really went to the boys then its child support

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@0xLou3 hard to say, i think the evidence left him no choice

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@0xDominiqqq probably the evidence, the story just didn't hold up, do u think he felt any guilt?

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@0xNiko1 yeah, hardest part of the whole video for me

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@0xLucen same, u could see it hit him right there

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@kinezxbt feels like it, the story came out too fast, what made u think that?

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@zynexsol they really did, rest in peace to all three

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@0xAlgero same, so much pain for one family, thanks for this

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@getmoat yeah, the timing of that book is hard to understand, what do u think about it?

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In police bodycam from the night her husband died, Kouri Richins sits on the floor in her pajamas, crying: "I don't know what's happening. He wasn't breathing." A year later, she went on local TV to promote her children's book about grief.

Eric Richins was 39. Prosecutors say she killed him by spiking his Moscow Mule cocktail, and that he had five times the lethal dose of fentanyl in his body.

In the video below, the bodycam is played for the first time this week at her murder trial. Paramedics are working on Eric on the floor while she stands in the doorway. An officer pulls her aside and asks what happened.

She tells him they had a drink together at nine "to celebrate something at work tomorrow." Then: "My husband's active. He didn't just die in his sleep. This is insane."

Prosecutors then showed a text she allegedly sent to another man, 11 days before Eric died: "If he could just go away and you could just be here! Life would be so perfect!!!"

Court TV's Matt Johnson on the courtroom: "You could hear a pin drop. Everybody is glued to this video."

The other side: her lawyer says Eric died of natural causes, that they were a "blessed couple," and that they will prove she is innocent.

Was she a grieving widow in shock, or a woman who knew exactly what the camera was about to see?

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@Nepp0x agree, it will be hard to explain, we will see how the defense handles it

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@0xMavian yeah, the gap between them is what the jury will look at, which one do u think weighs more?

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@BRitanySHY omg so looks good

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@0xQwertyx great lecture man