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5 Disturbing Similarities Between Chris Watts and Scott Peterson
The cold-blooded killers who craved a new life
“I finished putting the girls to bed, I walked away and said, “That’s the last time I’m going to be tucking my babies in.” I knew what was going to happen the day before and I did nothing to stop it!”
These are the chilling words of Chris Watts about what was on his mind when he murdered his two little girls.
Researchers have come up with 4 types of family annihilators — self-righteous, disappointed, anomic, and paranoid killers.
But Chris Watts does not directly fall into any of these categories. And neither does Scott Peterson, who was convicted for a very similar, equally horrifying crime 14 years before Watts.
This piece highlights the terrifying similarities between these two criminals who were hoping to get a fresh start, through the worst possible endings.
1. They killed their families
Both Chris Watts and Scott Peterson murdered their pregnant wives and in Chris Watts’s case, he went even further and murdered his…