Nick Van Der Leek

In the early hours of August 13, a Ring doorbell camera records 34-year-old Shan'ann Watts arriving home in Frederick, Colorado from a business trip at 01:48. The pregnant mother enters her home on Saratoga Trail and is never seen alive again. Shan'ann's 33-year-old husband Chris Watts is seen on his neighbor's doorbell camera from 05:27 onward. The camera records Watts backing his truck into the driveway, then heading back into the house and out to the truck several times. Although no bodies can be seen on the camera, during one of the trips to his truck he appears to be walking backwards, dragging something.Exactly what happened in the 3 hours 39 minutes between those two camera recordings remains unclear and uncertain.RAPE OF CASSANDRA undoes the distortions, untangles the web that exists on both sides of the crime, and probes deep inside the fabric and psychology of the crime scene to find the signal buried in the noise. During the sentencing hearing on November 19, 2018, Weld County District Attorney Michael Rourke said investigators don't know the exact sequence of events. Because of the gruesome manner the bodies of his two children, Bella 4] and Celeste 3] were disposed of, investigators haven't been able to establish time of death either. Were the children killed before or after their mother?RAPE OF CASSANDRA investigates the exact sequence of events, from the time of the first death in the Watts home, to the disposal at the Cervi site, to how and why a "normal" family man wreaked a holocaust against his own family, and ultimately, himself.The Discovery Documents reveal how Watts' story of the crime comes about. Eventually Watts is prompted: "Did Shan'ann do something?" But even Watts' confession isn't reliable.In the moment that Chris Watts steps forward out of his quiet, introverted self and rises as the hero in his "confession", Shan'ann falls as the villain, a convenient, symbolic and of course cowardly distortion of the truth.So what is the truth?Watts was undoubtedly devoted but weak during his marriage, inspired but duplicitous during his affair, and the murders themselves were the ultimate manifestation of his quintessential cowardice. But his resolve to murder didn't arise in a vacuum. It germinated in a troubled paradise; that aspect has to be acknowledged as well. That aspect is RAPE OF CASSANDRA's terrifying terra firma.

The biggest revelation from the Second Confession is Chris Watts' story about taking his girls to CERVI 319 while they were still alive. Watts said it, the Rzucek lawyers repeated it on Dr. Phil along with the Rzuceks themselves. The Weld County District Attorney assigned to the Watts case has also signed off on this version. The media have since reported on this version as fact. Finally, social media has recycled this version as if it's fact. Even a few credible YouTubers have commented on this aspect as if it's reliable. The popular mythology surrounding this case - as it stands now - is that Watts killed the girls early on Monday morning at the Anadarko site. We know this because the source - Chris Watts - told us.ANNIHILATION reveals a terrifying counter narrative. Not only is the popular mythology wrong, but the truth is far worse, far more horrible and far stranger than we have dared contemplate.

What truth is there in the Second Confession?In ANNIHILATION it was firmly established and reinforced that the scenario of the crime Chris Watts gave his interrogators during the Second Confession was a lie. The Watts children weren't killed after Shan'ann, and they weren't murdered at the well site. The murder was more calculated and cunning than Watts' has let on. It was premeditated. If it's clear Watts was lying yet again what remains to sift through in the Second Confession? What's left to unravel? Just these three questions: What truth IS there in the Second Confession?Where does this truth take us?When did the premeditation start, and what precisely started it?In OBLIVION Nick van der Leek does the difficult job of untying the knots and strands of veracity tied and tangled into all the lies. They're there, it's just a question of finding them, separating them, and figuring out what patterns they weave, and what the patterns mean.With each successive book in the TWO FACE series, the analysis goes deeper and darker, the insights become sharper and more finely tuned. OBLIVION is a more complex, challenging and complicated analysis than ANNIHILATION, and all the preceding narratives in the series. "It really is the most earth-shattering of the eight narratives, because what OBLIVION does is it finally completes the circle; the full circle means what is grasped is the full scale - the sheer dimensions - of the devastation of this tragedy.

The 6th narrative in the definitive TWO FACE series examines Nichol Kessinger's five interviews to law enforcement, while simultaneously interrogating the substantiveness of Chris Watts' confession. Hidden in the deception and lies are clues, leaks and psychological slips that reveal the true machinery of a monster's mind.

"The last chapter in particular is grueling and grotesque..."The fifth book in Nick van der Leek's definitive TWO FACE series on Chris Watts does exactly what the title claims: it drills deep through the mountain of Discovery Documents.The fifth narrative not only makes sense of the 1960 pages of discovery, it also integrates the video footage for the first time into a seamless narrative. Missing pieces are found and new insights revealed and contextualized in the most comprehensive assembly of facts and psychological analysis around this puzzling case yet. The main focus of the narrative is on the three hour FBI interview with Chris Watts on Tuesday night, August 14, and the astonishing follow-up interrogation leading to Watts' confession the next day.Drilling Through Discovery does nothing less than uncover Watts' thought process leading up to the murders.

RESURRECTION saved the most vital clues - on MOTIVE - for last. REVELATIONS, the 4th in this series, does exactly the same. The last chapter, The Method and the Madness, is horrific, and terrifying. It is the author's attempt, together with Juror13, to provide a plausible scenario for what actually took place at 256 Bushwillow Crescent on Valentine's Day. This final part of the narrative has been assembled by contextualising all the evidence, testimonies and timelines. The author painstakingly provides over 50 references for each carefully considered set of variables. Together with America's Juror13, both writers build a very compelling scenario. But the REVELATIONS go even further than the final chapter. If the other chapter titles are anything to go by ('14 Unanswered Questions', 'Glass Houses', 'Sex Kitten', 'Sultans of Swing', ...) the 4th eBook ventures boldly where angels - and many South African journalists - fear to tread. And possibly for good reason. During the process of writing and researching REVELATIONS the author experienced strange computer instability and crashes. He believes his computer was consistently targeted and attacked over several weeks. The hacker (or hackers) deleted 5 folders of sensitive information before the author sent an email to a possible source of the hacking] warning that further attacks, and every subsequent deleted folder, would result in massive coverage across his social media networks. This email was not acknowledged, nor responded to, except the attacks and hacking ceased immediately after this email. Is there something the public isn't supposed to see? Is the media hiding something? Is there massive multi-level collusion in play? And who is the mysterious Juror13? Van der Leek digs deeper in REVELATIONS than ever...but, to what end? The author states that "Book four has been timed for release just prior to the State's presentation of final argument on August 7. '14 Questions' of vital importance have emerged, via my research. If we acknowledge their importance, but the state prosecutor, or the court, does not, we must ask, why not? Is it because the answers can't be found or can't be proven, or does it lie outside the courts jurisdiction, or is it because by asking these questions it puts counsel (and possibly even the court itself) in a bad light?" "As society we have an interest in this case" Van der Leek writes "and we need to be satisfied that the standards of the law and the standards of justice meet *our* standards. The law in fact is based in part on the modern or contemporary consensus of society; on what is socially acceptable, on our norms for behaviour, and on activating these when fine lines are crossed." "We're paying attention to this case because we want to understand why this terrible incident took place, and how this can - and does - happen, all too often. We live in a dangerous society. Just how dangerous is one of the key REVELATIONS in this narrative." "Just as the three chapters on motive were added at the last moment to complete RESURRECTION (following Peet Van Zyl's groundbreaking testimony), so too was REVELATIONS fast-tracked to become the fourth narrative in this series, rather than the fifth, as originally planned." "I want to make clear from the outset," Van der Leek writes, "that while RECIDIVIST ACTS and RESURRECTION both dealt exhaustively with all things Oscar, some of the chapters in REVELATIONS are not all about Oscar. And besides calibrating the merits of the case the reader will notice plenty of new REVELATIONS emerging. Many unsettling mysteries remain in our society, clinging and cloying to the fabric of society like burrs. They persist stubbornly alongside the unknowns of the Oscar trial narrative. The question - if we live in a just and equitable society - is why?" Van der Leek concludes that in the process of writing REVELATIONS "...some of the shockers I uncovered...shook me to the core."