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The Perfect Father
- The True Story of Chris Watts, His All-American Family, and a Shocking Murder
- Narrated by: Shaun Grindell
- Length: 7 hrs and 47 mins
- Categories: Biographies & Memoirs, True Crime
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Publisher's Summary
In the early morning hours of August 13, 2018, Shanann Watts was dropped off at her Frederick, Colorado, home by a colleague after returning from a business trip. It was the last time anyone would see her alive. By the next day, Shanann and her two young daughters, Bella and Celeste, had been reported missing, and her husband, Chris Watts, was appearing on the local news, pleading for his family's safe return.
But Chris Watts already knew that he would never see his family again. Less than 24 hours after his desperate plea, Watts made a shocking confession to police: He had strangled his pregnant wife to death and smothered their daughters, dumping their bodies at a nearby oil site. Heartbroken friends and neighbors watched in shock as the movie-star handsome, devoted family man they knew was arrested and charged with first degree murder.
The perfect mask Chris had presented to the world in his TV interviews and the family's Facebook accounts was slipping - and what lay beneath was a horrifying image of instability, infidelity, sexual ambivalence, and boiling rage.
In this first major account of the case, best-selling author and journalist John Glatt reveals the truth behind the tragedy and constructs a chilling portrait of one of the most shocking family annihilator cases of the 21st century.
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- Michelle
- 2020-12-29
Great Book
Overall I give this book a 4/5 and would have given it a 5/5 but there were a few bits of info that were inaccurate!!
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- sd
- 2020-07-27
Interesting if you are unfamiliar with story
Distracting narration in English accent doesn't connect with the narrative. Not very engaging as plot divulged in the introduction .I kept rewinding as I would drift off. Flat and boring with an abrupt ending.
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- jill greeson
- 2020-07-23
Disappointing
If you want to hear the same old facts and learn absolutely nothing new being read to you in the most irritating voice ever, then get this book . If not, pass this one by.
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- Terri Thomas
- 2020-07-27
Horrible narrative!! I can’t understand him
You can’t understand the narrator! His accent is way to strong ! It makes it really hard to get into story
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- Amazon Customer
- 2020-07-22
Crikey!
Why is an Aussie narrating this? I don't have anything against Aussies, but it just seems off-kilter to my American ears.
The gist of the story is: she was a domineering workaholic, and he was this meek little subservient trophy husband. I know this because the story repeats this again and again and again and again and AGAIN.
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- Amazon Customer
- 2020-12-21
Victim shaming is a thing now?
This book is disgusting. I have followed this story and if you’re new to it, it totally tries to lead the reader/listener to believe that Chris was the shy, nice, quiet guy and shanann this bossy woman who was dominate and took control of the relationship and came between him and his family? when in reality, Chris’s mother and sister and every female he gravitated towards WAS the one in control, he didn’t know how to think for himself. Chris killed his pregnant wife and daughters for a woman he met 6 weeks prior, is it impossible to think he’d cut his family off if they got in the way of him and Shanann? Truth is she was a bossy b#%<h while Chris was just a B^%#h. If you want to get a honest and real insight into this story then you should read “My daddy is a hero.” Really gives you a better insight into Chris, mental illness, and gives you a lot more to think about than this crap. Hey audible, can I get a refund? You can have this garbage.
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- Jeanette
- 2020-07-24
just a chronological order of the Chris Watts case
if you are unfamiliar with the Chris Watts case, this is an excellent book for you. It presents all the happenings in order. What is in the book is all public knowledge and obtainable from the discovery documents. The book is well written but I personally did not care for the “reader” of this book, way too strong of an accent for an American murder story. Would I suggest this book for purchase? yes if you are unfamiliar with the case and no if you are like me already know all the details, there is nothing new to learn in this book.
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- Ashlyn Taylor
- 2020-10-28
Many facts I didn't know
If you want to know a lot of facts missing from all the youtube channels this is the book for you. It fills in a lot of the gaps. A must read
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- Anonymous User
- 2021-01-26
Excellent
Well written book. Love the matter-of-fact way the narrator narrates the book.
I can recommend.
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- Gail Stanley
- 2020-10-26
Dull
Puts me to sleep! The narrator sounds like he’s reading the newspaper out loud, over tea and crumpets.
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- Candie
- 2020-09-09
Absolutely heartbreaking
I could not stop listening. Even though I knew how this would end I wanted it to not be real. So many different emotions. Very well written just wish it was fiction.
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- Jackie Hagge
- 2021-03-22
not a total waste of credit
I learned some new info about the case. Hearing the same info I already knew would have been fine if the narrator had some energy in his voice. It wasn't the Australian accent; he sounded bored.