I should share my newfound expertise of so many ways women are killed in true crime stories

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52. Wife and two Daughters and unborn child killed by husband/father that wanted to start afresh with no family.

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Michael J. Rourke, the Weld County district attorney, laid out the gruesome details of the murders.

“The man seated to my right smothered his daughters,” Mr. Rourke said in the courtroom. “Bella fought back for her life,” he added, explaining that her frenulum was lacerated because she bit her tongue multiple times before she died.
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A photo of Shanann Watts and her daughters, Bella, 4, left, and Celeste, 3, at a memorial in Frederick, Colo.Credit...David Zalubowski/Associated Press

Mr. Rourke said that Mr. Watts squeezed his daughters’ bodies through an 8-inch opening as he hid them in an oil tank.

“A tuft of blonde hair was found in the entrance of the tank,” Mr. Rourke said. One of the girls had scratches on her buttocks from being squeezed into the tank, Mr. Rourke added, as Mr. Watts, seated behind him in an orange jumpsuit, cried.

“I trusted you to take care of them, not kill them, and they also trusted you,” said Ms. Watts’s father, Frank Rzucek Sr. “You disgust me.”

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/11/19/us/chris-watts-sentencing-colorado.html