#courttrial

The New York Times, an extremely credible source, has several articles about the Chris Watts cases and even court video footage of Watts’ conviction. The New York Times is known to lean to the left with their political articles, but there is no biased information in their articles about Chris Watts and what he did to his family. The article, Chris Watts Gets Life in Prison for Killing Daughters and Pregnant Wife, was written the day that Chris Watts was sentenced to prison, November 19, 2018, so the author released all of the information right after the trial.  The author, Sandra E. Garcia, is a reputable author that writes about a wide span of different topics. I have found that The New York Times has a wide variety of articles about the Watts case, while other databases such as, The Wall Street Journal, has little to no information about the recent case. 

The article by Sandra E, Garcia does a great job of explaining what Chris Watts did to his family and what occurred during the court sessions. For example, Judge Marcelo A. Kopcow said, “This is perhaps the most inhumane and vicious crime I have handled out of the thousands of cases that I have seen.” before sentencing Chris Watts to forty-eight years for the unlawful termination of Shannon Watts pregnancy and thirty six years for the disposal of the victim’s bodies. The author also used other New York Times resources such as, Chris Watts from Colorado Pleads Guilty for Murdering his pregnant wife and 2 Daughters,  which explains in more detail about the trial and what Watts did before confessing. According to this New York Times article by Sarah Mervosh, Chris Watts blamed his wife for murdering his two kids, so he used that as an excuse for killing his pregnant wife. This detail adds to the horror of this case because Watts blamed his innocent, dead wife, knowing that she could not tell her side of the story. It is insane to me that Watt’s could easily put the blame of the murders of his children on his wife, after brutally committing murder to his entire family.