Netflix · 30 September 2020 · Documentary film · 1h 22m
American Murder: The Family Next Door
Using social-media posts, home videos, recorded interviews, law-enforcement material and other archival footage, the film reconstructs the disappearance of Shanann Watts and her children in Colorado. The found-footage account centers Shanann’s own recorded voice and the digital material documenting the family and investigation.[Wikipedia] [Entertainment Weekly]
Interviewees
19 publicly named · coverage checked 8 November 2026
Showing 19 of 19
- Chris WattsArchival figure
- Shanann WattsArchival figure
- Celeste 'CC' WattsArchival figure
- Bella WattsArchival figure
- Nickole AtkinsonArchival figure
- Frank RzucekArchival figure
- Sandi RzucekArchival figure
- Frankie RzucekArchival figure
- Cindy WattsArchival figure
- Ronnie WattsArchival figure
- Nichol KessingerArchival figure
- Luke EppleArchival figure
- Mark JamiesonArchival figure
- Marcelo KopcowArchival figure
- Michael RourkeArchival figure
- Jim BenemannArchival figure
- Karen LeighArchival figure
- Theresa MarchettaArchival figure
- Tom MustinArchival figure
The film is assembled from archival and found footage, rather than conventional on-camera documentary interviews; family and friends were interviewed off-camera during production. The named individuals below appear as archival figures, or in the film’s archive-based narrative, not necessarily as newly filmed interviewees.[Entertainment Weekly] [Wikipedia] [The Movie Database]
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Timeline
2020-09-30
American Murder: The Family Next Door released on Netflix[Wikipedia] [Entertainment Weekly]
Episodes
Feature documentary; not an episodic series.
Credits
- Director
- Jenny Popplewell[Wikipedia]
- Producer
- James Marsh[Wikipedia]
- Editor
- Simon Barker[Wikipedia]
- Music
- Nainita Desai[Wikipedia]
Related documentaries
Sources
- American Murder: The Family Next Door — Wikipedia, published 2020-09-30. Accessed 2026-11-08.Reference workMedium reliability
- How true crime doc American Murder gives Shanann Watts a voice — Entertainment Weekly, published 2020-09-30. Accessed 2026-11-08.News organisationMedium reliability
- American Murder: The Family Next Door (2020) - Cast & Crew — The Movie Database, publication date not recorded. Accessed 2026-11-08.Reference workLow reliability
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