Get a box of tissues, and your strongest emotional armor, because today we’re getting a broader understanding of one the darkest kinds of killer- the family annihilator. Often pretending to be the perfect dad, the perfect spouse until they lose control and everyone pays the price.

Chris Watts, Josh Powell, John List & the more recent horrifying crimes that continue.

Why does this happen? How are there more annihilators than school shooters? And how do we change a system that blames women and children for their own deaths?

CW: child abuse, child death, sexual assault, domestic violence, suicide

Sources:

Men Who Murder Their Families: What the Research Tells Us
https://www.ojp.gov/pdffiles1/nij/230412.pdf
Familicide: When Domestic Abusers Kill Their Families and Sometimes, Themselves
https://www.domesticshelters.org/articles/identifying-abuse/familicide-when-domestic-abusers-kill-their-families-and-sometimes-themselves
The Scandalous Truth about Nichol Kessinger
https://youtu.be/QiJFUHELNCk?si=5zQgrfnRL2F2Wc0A
Annie Elise, 10 to Life
Chris & Shannan Watts appeared to be in love https://youtu.be/QiJFUHELNCk?si=5zQgrfnRL2F2Wc0A
ABC News
What are family annihilators
https://youtu.be/kHhL0tUeojk?si=-vL1BJaxNMWuX0rF
Netflix
The Watts Family Tragedy
https://youtu.be/dSI_5IuhsHI?si=3xYofOuqbNsHoN6e
LMN


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