Popcorn Zombies

  By Michael Momper In the early morning hours of August 13, 2018, Colorado resident Chris Watts murdered his pregnant wife Shanann, drove her body to his work site in an oil field, and murdered his four-year old daughter Bella and three-year old daughter Celeste subsequently. These grisly murders were immediately the subject of national attention, as the case was one of the few family annihilation cases in the era of social media where the victims' lives were so publicly documented for the world to see. It is a harrowing story, one that garners even more emotional attachment than most simply because there are so many pictures and videos available of the victims via social media- for two years people have dug into their past with sadness and curiosity, often feeling like they personally know the victims because of the available footage. In Jenny Popplewell's latest documentary, American Murder: The Family Next Door , we get an incredibly detailed, almost privacy-free look into ...