American Murder: The Family Next Door, streaming now on Netflix, tells the harrowing true story of how Chris Watts murdered his wife, Shan’ann, and their two daughters, Bella and Celest

Nichol Kessinger had no idea the man she had started a relationship with would become a vicious killer who murdered his own wife and children.

In fact, Chris Watts had told Nichol he was going through a divorce from his wife, Shan’ann when they first met.

Nichol was working as a field engineer for Tasman Geosciences in 2018, which had a contract with Anadarko Petroleum Co and where she first met twisted Watts.

The pair became friends and then two months before he murdered Shan’ann and his two daughters, Bella and Celeste, their relationship became romantic.

In reality, Watts was still playing the happily married father at home and his wife was expecting their third child, a little boy then had planned to call Nico.