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Struggling to find your next favourite TV series? If Shanann and her daughter’s devastating death can teach us anything, its that social media is not to be trusted.

Eventually we even convince ourselves that this online life is synonymous with real life, clouding our judgement and changing our priorities. If you heard about the circumstances of Shanann’s, Belle’s and Celeste’s murders having only glimpsed their lives through Facebook – and there are likely a few that did – then their deaths are beyond comprehension.įacebook, Instagram, Twitter and other sites push their users to strive to have the perfect body, the perfect house, the perfect clothes and the perfect family. But that doesn’t apply to the people we think we know – the videos of a baby’s first steps or a picture of your friend’s new puppy aren’t subjected to the same level of scrutiny. From the rise of ‘fake news’ to the ‘ Instagram vs reality’ trend, we’ve been taught to be wary of what we see on the internet, whether it’s a picture of an influencer in a bikini or a tweet from the President of the United States. We all know that social media doesn’t tell the truth. Law enforcement knows that three women are killed by their current or ex-partner every day in America, but it still took investigators over a week to turn their attention to Shanann’s partner. “I couldn’t have asked God for a better man,” she says. To the outside world, Chris was a doting father and the loving husband Shanann credited for helping her through “one of the darkest times of life” when she was diagnosed with lupus. Netflix’s The Social Dilemma wants me to delete social media. Videos of the perfect family life flooded the proud mother’s Facebook feed: Bella and Celeste sitting and screaming on their dad’s back as he did push-ups Shanann baking in the kitchen while Chris, Celeste on his hip, tidied up after her the couple encouraging their kids to cheer for the Pittsburgh Steelers. Shanann’s social media – she was a prolific user – tells an entirely different and much happier story. He denied anyone and told me not now.” An expert liar, Chris was having an affair with a woman he met at work.

Just went and room woke his sorry ass up and asked him who’s he’s sleeping with. “Well… he rejected me,” she wrote back the same night, “I just balled for an hour. One particularly intimate moment comes when Shanann prepares herself for a night of passion with her husband after five weeks apart only to be ignored in favour of sleep.

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Text messages between her and close friends paint a picture of a deeply unhappy marriage, full of rejection and cold silences mixed with heated arguments. A story of a strained relationship with her in-laws and of Shanann’s apparently overbearing nature. Watts’ lies unravel through tapes of police interviews and the recorded suspicions of Shanann’s friends who secretly accuse him of “not acting right”. Shanann’s Facebook page painted the picture of a perfect family life (Photo: Shanann Watts/Netflix) He was sentenced to five life sentences (three to be served consecutively and two at the same time) and was only saved from the death penalty at the request of Shanann’s parents, who wanted no further life lost.

He was brought in for further questioning and after failing a polygraph test eventually admitted he had killed his wife and their young daughters, confirmed by his leading police to their bodies – Shanann in a shallow grave near his workplace and Bella and Celeste in an oil tank. After a rigorous missing persons investigation turned up no leads, police attention turned to the girls’ father and Shanann’s husband, Chris Watts.
