American Murder: The Family Next Door is a movie starring Nickole Atkinson, Mark Jamieson, and Frank Rzucek. In 2018, 38-year-old Shanann Watts and her two youngest daughters disappeared in Colorado. With the heartbreaking details

Director - Jenny Popplewell

Genre - Crime

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I would like to offer a different perspective. I work in the social services, where one of my specialization is domestic violence. I have also done academic research in the field of domestic violence (or rather intimate partner violence. Most people are surprised - perhaps because of what we're told by the media - to learn that intimate partner violence is gender balanced, on the victim side as well as on the perpetrator side. Very often it is also reciprocal.

There is not a handful or a dozen academic studies about this. There are literally hundreds of peer reviewed studies (see for example Fiebert 2013 for a summary) showing this. The real question is why we in the social services - as well as other public institutions like the police - are so bad at identifying male victims and female perpetrators.

The portrayal of Shanann in this documentary is a textbook example of a perpetrator of intimate partner violence. Obsessed, controlling, and seeking to distance her partner from his own family. Textbook. As a former victim of intimate partner violence I recognized this dynamic clearly in this documentary. And I have to say that I reacted in a similar way to Chris. No, I didn't murder my ex, but I recognize the shutting down of emotions and retreating from intimacy.

This of course does not excuse him murdering his wife, and especially not his children. But if the roles had been reversed there are a surprising amount of studies which would have described her as asserting herself. No, that is not a joke (see for example Dixon & Graham-Kevan 2011 for a discussion.

That said, the documentary was pretty flat.

I watched the whole documentary, start to finish, and I still couldn't you why he did what he did. He never actually admits to killing the kids. I mean if I watched the documentary I should know but this is 90 mins of the victim texting her friends and not really about the crime.

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