Shanann, Bella, Celeste, and Niko Watts: They didn't deserve to die, and your weird aunts are making it worse - a podcast by Molly Kendrick

On August 13, 2018, Shanann Watts missed a doctor’s appointment, followed by a meeting. Concerned, her friend Nickole went to her house to find the pregnant 34-year-old mother missing, along with her two daughters, Bella,  4, and Celeste, 3. Shanann’s husband, Chris Watts, appeared in a televised interview on August 14, telling the public how he missed his wife and daughters. Just two days later, the police discovered Shanann and the two girls’ bodies on the property of Chris’s former employer.

A YouTube channel called Plunder has curated a series of Facebook Live videos that Shanann made as part of her promotions of Level, a multi-level marketing company. The uploader has titled the videos with quotes from Shanann, seeming to to insinuate that she was a pushy, domineering head of the household. The comments largely echo these sentiments, many suggesting that it was only a matter of time before Chris “snapped.” We discuss internalized misogyny, as well as the dark business of multi-level marketing, a business model that always leaves someone screwed — although not in the way Shanann’s many posthumous critics seem to think.

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