Crime & Safety

Watts Family Murders: Rzucek Family Haunted By Conspiracy Theories Years After Crimes

"It is terrible what we have to go through with social media...threatening us," said Frank Rzucek, Shanann Watts's father.

By Dillon Thomas, CBS Denver:


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(CBS4) – Nearly four years after Chris Watts brutally murdered his pregnant wife and two young daughters, Shanann Watts’s parents tell CBS4 they continue to be relentlessly targeted by conspiracy theorists on popular websites like YouTube. Frank and Sandy Rzucek, and their son Franky, tell CBS4 they have been physically, emotionally and financially exhausted by unfounded claims by conspiracy theorists who believe they played roles in their family’s murders in Colorado.

“We’ve been still very sad and upset,” said Frank Rzucek, Shanann Watts’s father. “It is terrible what we have to go through with social medias threatening us.”

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