'Most infamous murder house ever': Internet compares Chris Watt's house to murderous Amityville property
FREDERICK, COLORADO: Internet users are starting to compare Chris Watt's house where he killed his wife and kids to the murderous Amityville property. In 2018, Chris Watts savagely murdered his pregnant wife in their Colorado home. The killings of Shanann Watts, a mother of two who was also pregnant, and her daughters Bella, 4, and Celeste, 3, shocked the nation. The five-bedroom, four-bath house in Frederick was sold for $600,000, according to New York Post.
Talking about the recent sale, one Reddit user wrote, “I understand the Miller family that purchased the house is not only defending the realtor but continuing all the online drama. She (Mrs. Miller) called out people for driving by the house, taking pictures, making threats to have people arrested if they try, ……generally keeping that pot stirring. Who buys probably the most infamous murder house ever and thinks all the curiosity will just all dissipate instantly? It’s human nature folks.”
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“Okay, probably a better way to put it is 'arguably' the most infamous murder house ever. The interest in this case never seems to die down. Just in my opinion, how many people died there has little to do with it. It’s more about the wickedness and depravity of it all,” another added. Someone argued, “I wouldn’t say 'ever.' Watts house is no Amityville. Only one person died there and it’s a pretty straightforward murder.” “Also, the Amityville house, had a fake haunting to make it even more notorious.....” yet another user remarked.
On August 13, 2018, at around two in the morning, Shanann Watts's friend Nickole Atkinson let her off at her Frederick, Colorado home after a vacation they had taken for business. A few hours later, Nickole attempted to contact Shanann but was unsuccessful. After Shanann missed an appointment with her ob-gyn, Nickole became concerned. Nickole made the choice to phone Shanann's husband Chris when he was at work. She also made a police call.
Even though there were no indications of criminal activity when the police searched the Watts' residence that afternoon, they did discover Shanann's car and all of her personal items. As a result, Shanann and the daughters were reported missing the following day, and the Colorado Bureau of Investigation (CBI) issued alerts for their safety. Chris's narrative underwent a significant change in the days that followed. When Shanann, Bella, and Celeste went missing, he originally informed authorities that he had no idea where they might be. He also started making media appearances to ask for the public's assistance in locating his family.
While this was going on, Chris's phone records were being examined by investigators from the neighborhood police department, the CBI, and the FBI, who discovered that he had been having an affair with an Anadarko Petroleum coworker. After Chris failed a polygraph test on August 15, two days after his wife and daughters vanished, everything changed. That afternoon, Chris vowed to speak to his father first before telling the police the truth.
Investigators decided to take a chance and let him do it, and it paid off — Chris told his father that he had killed his wife. Soon after, the bodies of Shanann, Bella, and Celeste were discovered exactly where Chris claimed they were — at an Anadarko Petroleum facility, with Bella's body in an oil tank and Shanann's body in a shallow grave. On August 21, 2018, Chris was accused of killing his family. Over the years, he has tried to change his narrative saying it was due to some ‘religious beliefs’, and also that he killed his family as some kind of "dark magic" captured him on that day.
Gruesome 'family murders' have always made a mark on the American psyche and the Amityville haunting is a modern folk story based on the true crimes of Ronald DeFeo Jr. According to New York Times, on November 13, 1974, in the middle of the night, Ronald DeFeo Jr., then age 23, shot and killed six members of his family with a .35-caliber rifle while they slept, including his parents Louise and Ronald DeFeo Sr., as well as his siblings Dawn, 18, Allison, 12, Marc, and John Matthew, nine. Despite having admitted to his crimes, DeFeo's defense subsequently attempted to avoid prison. DeFeo asserted he was controlled by evil voices in his head and was unable to control his actions. They pitched the idea that 112 Ocean Avenue, Amityville, on the south shore of Long Island, was haunted and that the DeFeo family as a whole was a victim of the house.