Chris Watts is serving five life sentences and will spend the rest of his life behind bars for the murder of his wife and two daughters – An American Murder: The Family Next Door on Netflix tells the harrowing story

Chris Watts is serving five life sentences for the brutal murder of his pregnant wife and his two young daughters.

The twisted father brutally killed his wife, Shan’ann, shortly after she had returned home from a business trip.

Watts then went on to smother his two daughters, Celeste, three, and four-year-old Bella to death before dumping Shan’ann’s body in a shallow grave and his children in oil tankers.

He then calmly returned home, where he contacted police and reported his whole family missing.

But officers – and eventhe family’s own neighbours – quickly saw through his act and he was arrested, charged and finally pleaded guilty to killing Shan’ann, Bella and Celeste.