What Alaina Urquhart has said about Watts family murders

7 quotes · 1 episode · May 7, 2026

Alaina Urquhart, Co-host of Morbid, autopsy technician and author of the Butcher novels, has been quoted on Watts family murders 7 times in 1 episode of Morbid, most recently on May 7, 2026. Each quote below is verbatim and links to the moment it was said.

In their words

  • Urquhart said that after researching Chris Watts she considers him one of the worst people she has ever studied.

    “I think is one of the biggest pieces of shit I have ever come across in my entire existence of research”

    Morbid: The Watts Family Murders (Part 1) (May 7, 2026) · Listen from 6:18

  • Urquhart argued that divorce, however difficult, is vastly preferable to family annihilation.

    “hell of a lot better than murdering your pregnant wife and your two children, I would say”

    Morbid: The Watts Family Murders (Part 1) (May 7, 2026) · Listen from 12:23

  • Urquhart characterized Chris Watts as passive and hollow, going along with others until something stopped working for him and then exploding.

    “It looks that Chris Watts is an empty, again, I say husk, that will just take anything and just roll with it until it doesn't work for him anymore”

    Morbid: The Watts Family Murders (Part 1) (May 7, 2026) · Listen from 27:41

  • Urquhart interpreted Chris paying for a dinner with Kessinger by credit card on August 11 as a sign he no longer expected Shanann to be a problem.

    “I take it as a clear indication that he didn't plan for it to be a problem anymore”

    Morbid: The Watts Family Murders (Part 1) (May 7, 2026) · Listen from 1:11:47

  • Urquhart rejected claims about Shanann's personality as irrelevant, saying nothing justified her murder.

    “no matter what, I don't give a shit. She didn't deserve to be murdered. No. I don't care if she was domineering”

    Morbid: The Watts Family Murders (Part 1) (May 7, 2026) · Listen from 1:14:25

  • Urquhart argued that Shanann's friends immediately suspecting Chris was itself telling about him.

    “If I went missing, I tell you right now, I know for a fact that none of my friends first reaction would be John did it”

    Morbid: The Watts Family Murders (Part 1) (May 7, 2026) · Listen from 1:19:05

  • Urquhart said pressure from Shanann's friends and neighbors meant Chris had to answer for the killings within hours, leaving no time to build a cover story.

    “within like six hours of him killing his entire family he was having to answer for it already”

    Morbid: The Watts Family Murders (Part 1) (May 7, 2026) · Listen from 1:31:49

Episodes

  • The Watts Family Murders (Part 1)

    Morbid · May 7, 2026 · 1 h 51 min

    Morbid hosts Alaina Urquhart and Ash Kelley recount the backgrounds, marriage, affair and disappearance leading up to the 2018 Watts family murders.

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