The Unforgivables

The Unforgivables

A true crime podcast that doesn't bullsh**. The facts and the motives explained—in depth. Prison interviews, first hand accounts and reliable sources. It's what makes true crime worth listening to.

Episodes

January 23, 2020 3 mins

It was a crime that shocked the nation. A mother and 2 daughters, missing — without a trace. Although Christopher Watts would ultimately confess to the murder of his pregnant wife and two daughters There were still more questions than answers. 

Join me, as I deconstruct the events from that summer in Frederick, Colorado, that left a family annihilated and a community wondering how this could have ever happened. 

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Since Chris Watts was convicted of killing his pregnant wife, Shanann Watts, and Two Daughters, Bella, and Celeste in August, 2018. There has been A lot of information that has come to the surface. 

With recent developments, we will look into parts of this case which still remain unsolved. And people that remain unpunished. 



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February 21, 2020 22 mins

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In the second chapter of this story, we will look into how Nichol Kessinger met Chris Watts, and how their relationship quickly developed from coworkers, to lovers. 

The statements Nichol provided t...

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February 29, 2020 24 mins

The third chapter of The Watts Tapes reviews the weekend leading up to the disappearance of Shanann Watts and her two daughters, Bella & Celeste. 

The weekend of August 10th, 2018 would provide subtle clues that could shed light into the motive behind this crime, and the trail of breadcrumbs would lead back to one person.— At least thats what we've been told. 




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March 6, 2020 27 mins

On August 13, 2018 Nichole Atkinson would call Police and tell them she was concerned about her friend Shanann Watts, who was not responding to her calls — and appeared to be missing. 

Little did Nichole know that this call to Police would set in motion a series of events that would leave an entire nation in disbelief — and leave more questions than answers.

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March 13, 2020 22 mins

The Questions surrounding the early morning hours of august 13, 2018 still haunts the small town of Frederick, Colorado — as well as the rest of the nation. 

A family vanished, but the how and the why still remain a mystery.

In this episode we will take a closer look into the days following the disappearance of Chris Watts' family. The Police body cam footage provides an insight into this crime that would mak...

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March 20, 2020 24 mins

On August 14, 2018 The entire town of Frederick, Colorado was on high alert and searching for Shanann Watts and her two daughters, Bella and Celeste. 

Chris Watts gave multiple news interviews following the disappearance of his family. He stood in front of cameras and played the part, or at least he tried to. 

On the evening of August 14th Chris would visit the Frederick Police Department and sit down with Special Agent Graham Coder,...

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April 3, 2020 25 mins

When Chris Watts arrived at the Frederick Police Department on August 15th, 2018 to take his polygraph test — just two days after his families disappearance — he did all he could to keep it together, but it wasn't enough.  

Chris Watts was hiding a dark secret, and the details of this crime would leave everybody involved scarred forever. 

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After a brief hiatus due to recent developments, production is back underway. In the 8th chapter of The Watts Tapes we review the FBI interrogation breakthrough that lead to Chris Watts' first confession — But not the last. 

Using the police interrogation audio from Wednesday, August 15th 2018 we breakdown each key moment in the interrogation and discuss the tactics investigators used to get the 'confession'...

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September 24, 2020 29 mins

In this final episode of the The Watts Tapes we look into the events following Chris Watts arrest for the murder of his two daughters four-year-old Bella and three-year-old Celeste, as well as his pregnant wife Shan'ann — and unborn son Niko. 




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January 27, 2021 20 mins

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“Keep him talking, don’t interrupt him and, no matter what, don’t ask why he killed his victims.”

Dozens of homicide detectives around the country were given those instructions when they got their moment with...

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February 3, 2021 19 mins

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In the conclusion of the Samuel little saga, Little ultimately came forward with chilling confessions, claiming he killed 93 women in all between 1970 and 2005 and recounted the details with incredible clari...

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February 10, 2021 23 mins

To satisfy the deviancy that fuelled his sexual fantasies, the deeply visceral urge to troll, stalk and brutally victimize lasted for three decades, leaving 10 dead and the citizens of the largest city in Kansas afraid of what could be waiting inside their own homes in the light of day – or of what may be lurking outside of them at night….

This is the story of Dennis Rader, otherwise known as BTK.

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February 17, 2021 27 mins

It was the year of 1974 and Dennis Rader was living a double life. And While the family man was hanging porch swings, building treehouses, watching his daughter crawl up her favorite climbing tree and planting flowers along the driveway, BTK was having, what he called, ‘motel parties.’ 

But - his own personal motel parties weren’t enough. With the memory of the Otero murders still fresh in his mind, Rader’s desires grew, a...

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February 24, 2021 23 mins

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After brutally murdering the Otero’s, BTK waited only a few months before he would ‘put down’ Kathryn Bright - but then waited three years until 1977 before striking again when he murdered both Shirley Vian ...

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March 16, 2021 7 mins

The untold story of the Doodler is a new documentary podcast series from Ugly Duckling Films.  The show unravels the case and dives into the archive of the San Francisco Chronicle and San Francisco Police Dept. 

The Doodler, known for drawing portraits of his victims, is a serial killer who committed violent targeted attacks against the LGBTQ community in the San Francisco area between 1974 and 1975.   


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Perpetrators of murders don’t usually call 911 on themselves, neither do they
beg to be caught. Paul Michael Stefani, the Weepy voiced Killer, however, did
just that. And then he would do it over and over again.

In the early 1980’s Minnesota law enforcement would be plagued by a series of
bizarre and anonymous 911 calls – confessions of murder given by the high
pitched, panicked voice of a man who was vicio...

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July 16, 2021 27 mins

In this episode we discuss the early years of Charles Manson. From his time in juvenile centres during the early 50’s to his transformative years spent behind bars in the early 60’s — as the outside world was quickly changing and the revolution was slowly beginning..

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July 23, 2021 23 mins

In March of 1967 Charles Manson was released from Terminal Island prison in Los Angeles, and before long finds himself in San Francisco and the centre of the hippie movement — and begins collecting a group of young followers...

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August 11, 2021 20 mins

In many minds the fact that your own government would be spying and conducting tests on its own citizens was just too hard to comprehend — and thats exactly why the cities commission to investigate the FBi was created..Charles Manson continues to bounce around San Francisco slowly assembling his family — and comes across a friendly traveller..

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