I most certainly am.
Objectively: in a way that is not influenced by personal feelings or opinions.
I see a lot of comments based off of personal feelings or opinions. Every bit of speculation of what happened in that 45 minute drive is all based off of personal feelings or opinions (whether it's the "experts" doing it or someone who isn't an "expert"). CW gave his testimony to what happened and in it he said he was angry. To the point "he's never felt that kind of anger before" and "that wasn't like him it was like someone else was controlling him". He and those girls were the only one's alive in the truck from point A to point B. No one is taking his word for it that he was angry.
So I'm not really measuring a person's actions based solely on my experiences here I am basing them off of his own testimony as to what happened as opposed to thinking the majority is right in this case. I use my own experience with the emotion of anger to draw off what Chris, himself, has said. We only have our own experiences and our own thoughts to place in this situation if we take the testimony of Chris Watts out. So to say others are looking at the case "objectively" is a bit obtuse.
No one has bothered to factor in that anger that CW said he had into the equation of his thoughts into that truck. When someone does indeed do that then it would be looked at as being objective.
Now if you claimed it's objective reasoning then that would be a different story. Objective Reasoning means reasoning according to a set of logical and objective standards, while subjective thinking refers to reasoning without objective standards.
But remember too NOTHING about this case, or any MURDER CASE, goes along the standards that there any sets of LOGIC behind any of his actions. None.
There is huge reason, at this point, to impute all the emotion to him that I do describe because his own testimony makes such a claim. To me you all are still trying to prove he's lying. He already has proven that he is very capable of lying. However, at this point, objectively looking at it, what does this man have to gain by lying?
I believe Chris Watts carried a lot of anger and resentment around with him his whole life. He just did not have the ability to recognize it or the tools to express it appropriately.
His coach said he never even showed any anger on the football field. Everyone who knew him claimed they never saw him angry, including his family and his wife.
I think much of his resentment stems from a dysfunctional childhood, and an overbearing mother. He left home after high school and never returned. He never got to fix what was broken.
Shanann could have helped him, if she only knew! He could have gotten help in so many ways.
But he was so good at learning how to mimic normal behavior he never removed his mask. He enjoyed being adored by his wife and children. He liked being the "good guy" to all his work buddies. His father was his hero, just like his children saw him as their hero.
By the time Shannann and the kids left for North Carolina, he may have already felt that he was no longer adored by his wife and kids. Then along comes someone new and exciting, who makes him feel like he never felt before.
He goes to join his family for the last week in NC, and everything falls apart. He desperately wants things to be okay between Shanann and his parents, but he doesn't know how.
It is around this time Shanann realizes CW is unhappy with the marriage. He finally gets around to telling her he wished he could just hang up a picture on the wall.
She knows her marriage is in danger, and makes all the necessary steps to fix it. I believe that if he had never met Nickol, Shanann and the kids would still be alive today. But he had already made up his mind. He was alienated by his parents and his family, and the only solution in his mind was to start fresh with a whole new person who loved him. By this time he has already distanced himself from his family. Even now he says, "Was I ever a dad at all?"
I do think the murder was his final, and possibly only act of rage in his entire life. But it wasn't a sudden unexpected rage that came out of nowhere, from some sudden "trigger." It was a simmering rage that began in childhood, and finally came to a boiling point.
And it was his detachment from his emotions, and his inability to feel empathy that made it easy for him to eliminate his family. He had no use for them anymore. Imo