沃茨家族谋杀案（第一部分）

是的

Yep.

我知道这很难。

I know it's tough.

我会坚持下去，但是

I will stand But

也没那么难。

it's not that tough.

我会坚定地站稳脚跟。

Will stand 12 toes down

从这一点来说。

from Yeah.

总比杀人强。

That it's better than murder.

总比灭门惨案强。

It's better than family annihilation.

是的。

Yep.

我觉得如果你连这个都不同意，那就有问题了。

And I think if you can't agree on that, it's a problem.

是的。

Yep.

在他没能得到理想的工作，加上第一段认真感情以混乱的方式结束之后，他感到很沮丧，根本不想再约会了。他觉得：我都陪她熬过了离婚，结果她却跟别人走了。

But between his failure to land the job of his dreams and the messy end to his first real relationship, he was feeling discouraged and he wasn't really like psyched to go date again because he was like, I got her through this divorce, and then she just kinda went off with someone else.

她不是一辆车。

And she's not a car.

她不是一辆车。

She's not a car.

但他的表妹辛迪——不是他妈妈那个辛迪——成功劝克里斯给一位女同事发了好友请求，这位女同事叫珊南。

But his cousin Cindy, not to be confused with his mama Cindy, was able to convince Chris to send a Facebook friend request to one of his her coworkers, named Shanann.

她的姓氏，我记得应该是祖彻。

And her maiden name, I believe it's pronounced ZUTCHER.

好的。

Okay.

我查过很多次了。

I looked it up many, many times.

但接下来的大部分故事里，她都叫莎南·沃茨。

But obviously, for the rest, most of the story, she go unfortunately goes by Shanann Watts.

好的。

Okay.

和克里斯一样，莎南也刚结束一段糟糕的恋情，辛迪觉得他们俩可能挺合得来。

Like Chris, Shanann was also just coming off of a bad breakup, and Cindy thought the two of them might hit it off.

他们在这方面挺像的。

They have something in common there.

是的。

Yeah.

现在回头看，她觉得他们能合得来其实有点奇怪，因为两人明显是完全不一样的类型。

In retrospect, it is a little weird that she thought that they were gonna get along because they were kind of like very obvious opposites.

好吧。

Okay.

显然这种情况是可能的。

And obviously that can work.

对。

Yeah.

所以也许她就是这么想的。

So maybe that's what she was thinking.

有可能。

Maybe.

克里斯一向安静、内向、拘谨，我们之前也说过。

Chris was very quiet, shy, reserved, withdrawn, like we've said.

珊南则很随和。

Shanann was friendly.

她特别外向。

She was gregarious.

她性格外向。

She was outgoing.

她简直就是个充满活力的人。

Like, she was just she was pizzazz.

你懂的。

You know?

对。

Yeah.

珊南在新泽西长大，但九十年代末她父亲失业后，就搬到了北卡罗来纳。

Shanann had grown up in New Jersey, but moved to North Carolina, in the late nineteen nineties when her father was out of work.

我特别喜欢新泽西女孩。

Love one thing I love is a Jersey girl.

新泽西的跨性别者。

A Jersey trans person.

我特别喜欢新泽西女孩。

Love a Jersey girl.

是的

Yeah.

我们特别喜欢

We love it.

这次搬家让珊南换了新学校，她开始就读派恩克雷斯特高中

And the move meant a new school for Shanann, and she started attending Pinecrest High School.

这是一所注重艺术教育的开放型学校

This was a progressive school with a focus on the arts.

明白了

Okay.

不错

Cool.

在这样支持性强、合作氛围浓的环境里，她逐渐成长起来，找到了真正的自己

In that supportive and collaborative environment, she kind of thrived and really came into her own.

她结交了一大群朋友

She developed a large circle of friends.

她在社交方面表现得非常出色。

She excelled socially.

她在学业上也表现得非常出色。

She excelled academically.

和克里斯不一样，他简直就是个无足轻重的人，没人会记得他。

Unlike Chris, who was just a literal nothing and no one would probably remember him

没错。

Yep.

珊农简直太棒了。

Shanann was like just killing it.

她过得特别好。

She was thriving.

真好。

Love that.

她一直保持着紧密的女性朋友圈，贯穿了她的一生。

And she maintained big close groups of girlfriends, especially her entire life.

这其实说明不了什么

Which says so much about It doesn't say a lot

但关于她，我知道一些细节，比如她的朋友们有多支持她

about her.

但确实，她的朋友们对她特别仗义

But like, I know, like, some of the details about the way that her friends just rode for her

这真的太能说明她这个人了

and that says so much about her.

她的朋友们有多支持她，怎么强调都不为过

It cannot be stressed enough how much her friends fucking rode for her.

而且特别爱她

And loved her.

她的朋友们，我们待会儿细说

Like, her friends, like, we're gonna get into it.

她们都是真心待她的女孩

They are girl.

我觉得她和邻居内特都是这场事件里的英雄。

Them and Nate, her neighbor, heroes of this whole situation, in my opinion.

我也是这么想的。

Same.

好吧。

Okay.

我觉得她的朋友们都特别给力。

So like, I think her friends were on it.

所以，她后来结识了一大群朋友。

So again, she developed this huge circle of friends.

她过得特别好。

She was really thriving.

她的朋友科尔比说，她是那种你见过最温柔的女孩。

Her friend Colby said she was one of the sweetest girls you could ever encounter.

真暖心。

Aw.

她高三那年，开始和另一位pinecrest的学生伦纳德·金交往。

In her senior year, she started dating Leonard King, another Pinecrest student.

这段关系发展得特别快，快得谁都没想到。

And the relationship moved pretty fast, like faster than anyone expected.

还没到学年结束，两人就订婚了。

Before the end of the school year, they were engaged.

天啊，真没想到。

Oh, wow.

他们已经开始规划未来了。

And they were discussing, like, future plans.

科比说，她特别坚定地想早点成家，过上自己的生活。

Colby said she was adamant about starting her life and having a family.

毕业几个月后，他们就结婚了。

And a few months after graduation, they got married.

真不可思议。

Wow.

婚姻刚开始还不错，但很快，高中刚毕业就结婚的现实问题就开始浮现了。

Now the marriage started out great, but soon, the realities of getting married right outside of high school started creeping in.

是的。

Yeah.

这种模式当然对有些人管用，但我毫不怀疑，这种情况下会带来很多额外的压力，毕竟你们还没站稳脚跟。

Which obviously this works for some people, but I don't doubt that there's a ton of extra stressors that come from that because you're not exactly established yet.

没错。

Right.

如果你们本来就不合适，这种压力只会让关系暴露问题。

So if you're not meant to be, I don't think it's gonna It's gonna be the thing that kind of pressure tests your relationship.

毕业后，珊农上了大学，伦纳德则参了军。

After graduation, Shanann started college and Leonard joined the army.

但当生活开销增加，单靠一份收入撑不下去时，珊农就退学了，去卖手机。

But when their cost of living went up and they couldn't afford life on one single income, Shanann dropped out of school and got a job selling cell phones.

虽然这并不是她当时想要的人生，但她在这行干得非常出色。

Although it wasn't what she wanted for herself at the time, she excelled in sales.

明白了。

Okay.

因为她就是这样的性格。

Because of her personality.

对。

Right.

几年内就当上了店长，真厉害。

And within a few years, was managing the store Wow.

还负责所有行政事务。

And handling all the administrative duties.

她真不错。

Good for her.

这简直是我的噩梦。

It's my nightmare.

我绝对做不到。

Could never.

她在手机店的成功，让店主聘她去新公司工作。

Her success at the cell phone store led to the store's owner to hire her for his new company.

真的吗。

Wow.

这家公司叫‘Dirty South’。

This company was called the Dirty South.

简直太有代表性了。

Absolutely iconic.

这是一家专门给高端客户改装汽车的公司。

It was an automobile customization company that catered to high end clientele.

给他们的车做改装。

For their cars.

给他们的车做改装。

For their cars.

如果要说伦纳德和莎南婚姻开始出问题的转折点，大概就是她接下那份工作的时候。那时候她一边管着手机店，一边打理新公司，经常一天之内往返130英里，来回奔波。

If it was possible to identify the point where Leonard and Shanann's marriage kinda started to fall apart, it was probably when she took that job at the At the time, she was managing the cell phone store and the new business, often traveling the 130 miles between the two in the same day.

哦，天哪。

Oh, wow.

这也太多了吧。

That's a lot.

所以他们俩其实很少见面。

So they were not really seeing a lot of each other.

实在撑不下去了。

It just wasn't working.

他们试过婚姻咨询，也用了其他各种办法想挽救这段婚姻。

They tried couples counseling and various other ways to save their marriage.

他们确实努力过，你知道的，该做的都做了。

They did give it a go, you know, like they did what they could.

但到了2007年，伤害已经太深，最终还是离婚了。

But in by 2007, too much damage had been done and they divorced.

后来，Shanann 对朋友说：我经历了一段特别糟糕的离婚，那段关系把我掏空了。

Shanann later told a friend, I went through a real awful divorce, and that relationship took a lot from me.

它真的耗尽了我所有的一切。

It literally took everything.

我不得不从零开始重新打拼财务。

I had to start financially all over.

这太残酷了。

That's brutal.

但珊南拒绝让这段经历击垮她。

But Shanann refused to let the experience drag her down.

她依然努力工作。

She continued working hard at her job.

她报名参加了女王大学的夜间课程，还开始在夏洛特物色房产，打算盖属于自己的理想家园。

She enrolled in some night classes at Queen's University, and she started looking for property in Charlotte where she could start building her own dream home.

真不错。

Nice.

她赚到了钱。

She was making money.

走吧。

Let's go.

因为她特别擅长销售。

Because she was real good at sales.

我们喜欢独立的女性。

We love an independent lady.

她一直在拼命打拼。

And she's she was hustling.

几年后，她签下了所有房贷文件，开始建造一栋占地四千平方英尺、十二个房间、四卧四卫的家。

A few years later, she signed off on all the mortgage paperwork and started construction on what would be a 4,000 square foot 12 room home with four bedrooms and four bathrooms.

天哪。

Wow.

她做得太出色了。

She was doing incredible.

这太不可思议了。

That's crazy.

是的

Yeah.

但这份兴奋——成为房主、开启新生活——很快就被长期的疲惫和身体不适所抵消。

So the excitement of all this, becoming a homeowner, starting a new life, it was soon offset by long periods where she was feeling really exhausted and kind of unwell.

哦。

Oh.

她自己也开始察觉到了。

And she was starting to notice it.

2010年，她终于去看医生，结果被诊断出患有红斑狼疮。

In 2010, she finally went to see a doctor and she was diagnosed with lupus.

天哪。

Oh, fuck.

这是一种自身免疫性疾病，身体的免疫系统会攻击自己的器官和组织。

It's an autoimmune disease where the body's immune system attacks its own organs and tissues.

是的

Yeah.

狼疮可不是闹着玩的。

Lupus is no joke.

狼疮真是够呛。

Lupus sucks.

她后来说，确诊狼疮的时候，她完全懵了。

She later said when they diagnosed me with lupus, I was lost.

哎呀。

Aw.

她根本不知道这是什么病，也不知道接下来会发生什么。

She didn't know what it was or what to expect.

所以，她自然做了我们每个人都会做的事。

So of course, she did what any of us would do.

她上网搜索，结果一看到那些内容就吓坏了。

She went to the Internet and tried And to search it she was immediately terrified by what she found online.

但就在那段时间，珊南收到了克里斯·沃茨的好友请求。

But it was during this period that Shanann received the friend request from Chris Watts.

她刚结束一段糟糕的婚姻，又长期受健康问题困扰，这时候根本没心思认识任何人，哪怕同事辛迪觉得他们俩特别般配。

Having recently come out of a bad marriage, followed by chronic health problems, she wasn't exactly interested in getting to know anyone at this point, regardless of how well her coworker Cindy thought they would get along.

所以她就当没看见。

So she kind of just ignored it.

她心想：算了吧。

She was like, no.

结果呢，天哪。

And it's like, oh, gosh.

我真希望她一直别理他。

I just wish she had forever ignored it.

是啊。

I know.

但几个月后，当克里斯的第二条消息出现在她邮箱里时，她想，不如就给他个机会吧。

But a few months later, when a second message from Chris appeared in her inbox, she figured she might as well give him a chance.

几周后，他们第一次见面，地点是夏洛特市中心一家高档餐厅兼娱乐场所——中心点。

And a few weeks later, they met for their first date at the epicenter, which is an upscale dining and entertainment place in Downtown Charlotte.

好吧。

Okay.

和辛迪说的完全不一样，他们俩根本没什么共同点，第一次约会时连一点火花都没有。

Contrary to what Cindy had told them both, they had very little in common and they had a complete lack of chemistry on this first date.

我的意思是，从你描述的他们俩的情况来看。

I mean, from everything you've described about each of them.

对。

Yeah.

我真的看不出来哪儿有戏。

Like, I don't see it.

就我对他那点了解，我觉得一块湿抹布都比他有性格。

Personally, anything I've seen of him, I'm like, a wet rag has a bigger personality than he does.

你想想，她心里肯定在想：这到底是什么情况？我完全能理解。

Like, you're I don't I don't blame her for being like, what the fuck is this?

对。

Yeah.

尽管那个晚上很失望，但克里斯还是成功地继续追求她。

Despite the disappointing evening though, Chris did manage he pursued.

明白了。

Okay.

他设法让珊南同意再给他一次机会。

He managed to convince Shanann to give him another chance.

几天后，他们一起去听了场音乐会。

And a few days later, they attended a concert together.

明白了。

Okay.

他后来说，我一直很坚持，努力追求她。

He later said, I was persistent trying to pursue her.

真没想到。

Wow.

这后来成了一个常态。

Which does become A theme.

这对他来说是个执念。

A thing for him.

他对女人着了魔。

He becomes obsessed with women.

他眼里只剩下女人。

He becomes focused solely on women.

我们会在他的情人妮可身上看到这一点。

We'll see it with his mistress Nicole.

我们也会在珊南身上看到。

We'll see it with Shanann.

我们之后还会看到。

We'll see it with, later.

当他开始对监狱里的人感兴趣时，他就变得特别偏执，真的。

When he becomes interested in in prison, he becomes very obsessive Yeah.

因为对某个人如此执着，他就是个失败者。

With somebody because he's a fucking loser.

大概吧。

Probably.

尽管上次约会失败了，他还是深深被珊南吸引，决心要让她相信他们俩很般配。

But despite the failure of the previous date, he found himself really drawn to Shanann and was determined to convince her that they were a good match.

如果你得说服别人你们很配，那我只能说……

If you have to convince somebody that you're a good match, I'm sorry.

你们根本不配。

You're not.

是的。

Yeah.

花了一些时间，但他最终还是打动了她。

It took some time, but eventually he did win her over.

几个月后，她对他非常满意，甚至称他是自己梦中的男人。

And with a in a few months, she was very happy with him and she was calling him the man of her dreams.

天啊。

Wow.

所以他确实这么做了。

So he Yeah.

听起来他努力去

It sounds like he tried to

成为她理想中的样子。

become what she wanted.

是的。

Yeah.

他试着去迎合，也许他本身有点……

Like he tried to Maybe he's gay and little bit.

研究她的喜好，还上网搜怎么表现才对。

Qualities and did some Google searches of how to act.

是的。

Yeah.

因为等会儿你会看到，他真的去搜过：当你对一个人说我爱你，对方会有什么感受？

Because as we'll see later, he literally has to Google, what does someone feel when they tell when you tell them you love them?

是的。

Yeah.

因为他真的不懂。

Because he literally doesn't know.

对。

Yeah.

因为他根本不是正常人。

Because he's not a human being.

他就像个外星生物。

Like, he's a lizard person.

这说不通，我敢打赌他一直在搜，男生对女生该说什么话。

That doesn't it doesn't make any I'm sure he was googling, what does human boy say to girl?

他根本就不是真实的人。

Like, he is not a real thing.

他就像在看爱情喜剧，然后逐字记笔记。

He's like watching, like, rom coms and taking notes.

他可怕得要命。

He's scary as hell.

我敢肯定他能做到，因为这种可怕的人其实就是空壳，只会拼命模仿别人的情感表达。

And I'm sure that he was able to because one thing about these scary as hell fucking They people who are just empty husks that just look to fill themselves with other people's ideas of emotions.

他们能完美伪装。

They can blend.

他们也很擅长操控。

They can manipulate too.

他们会变成你想要或需要的样子，因为这才是他们接近你的手段。

And they become for you what you need or want because that's how they want to get you.

对。

Mhmm.

但骨子里，他们根本不是那样的人。

But deep down, they are not that.

所以他们没法长期维持那个虚构出来的假象。

So then they can't live up to that that fake thing that they've created for can't continue on like

就是这样。

that.

然后这就变得危险了。

And then it becomes dangerous.

对。

Yeah.

她根本无从知晓，不可能知道。

So she had no way of knowing No.

这个男人根本就是个空洞的垃圾，迟早会崩塌。

Of that this man is just this empty husk of bullshit that is gonna crumble.

随着时间推移，他们之间那些契合的地方慢慢显现出来，这让人们更容易产生一种想法：也许我们真是天生一对。

Now over time, the various ways that they were compatible started to show themselves, which made it a little easier to, like, go down this path of like, maybe we are meant for each other.

是的。

Yeah.

照顾她的狼疮需要依赖大量药物，还要频繁看医生，尤其是专科门诊。

Because managing her lupus meant relying on a lot of medications and attending a lot of doctors appointments and like specialist appointments.

是的。

Yeah.

珊南不是那种人，她有很多优点，但从来不是个有条理的人。

And Shanann was not she was a lot of things, but she was never a very well organized person.

我们每个人都有自己的特点。

We all have our

我也不是，姐妹。

I'm not either, sister.

克里斯一生都特别爱整理，这确实没错。

And Chris's lifelong compulsive hyperorganization, which yeah.

这在当时派上了用场，因为没过多久，他就开始帮她管理药物。

It it did come in handy here because before long, he would manage her medications for her.

他还帮她安排医生的预约，提醒她吃药，或者告诉她该去哪个医生那里，乍一看，你可能会觉得，哇，这人真体贴，真关心她。

He would kinda keep her doctor schedule under control, remind her, you gotta take your meds or like, you gotta go to this doctor's appointment, which at first glance, you would look at and say, wow, that's really kind and like thoughtful and that's somebody who cares about you.

他居然帮她管医生的预约，这简直太离谱了。

It's actually insane that he used to manage her doctor's appointments.

我们会到那一步的。

We'll get there.

我们会到那一步的。

We'll get there.

与此同时，莎南弥补了克里斯在社交方面的不足，他这方面的问题可不少。

So Shanann, meanwhile, made up for Chris's social struggles and deficiencies, of which he had plenty.

对。

Mhmm.

她带他认识自己的朋友，让他参与所有活动，相当于给他搭起了一个朋友圈，没错。

She introduced him to her friends and, like, included him in all their activities, kinda, like, gave him a friend group Right.

差不多就是这么回事。

Essentially.

没过多久，克里斯就搬进了莎南的家，大家也都渐渐觉得，这段关系或许真能成。

And before long, Chris moved into Shanann's house and everything everyone kinda started to feel pretty confident that like, this might work out.

他们俩看起来确实是在好好相处。

Like, think they're actually working together.

随着克里斯慢慢但坚定地融入了珊南的生活，有些人——尤其是克里斯的家人——并不完全认同这段关系。

And as Chris was slowly but surely becoming integrated into Shanann's life, some people, especially Chris's family, were were not entirely on board with this.

他们觉得两个人并不合适。

They did not feel like they were a good fit for each other.

是立刻就看出来了吗？

Just like immediately?

是的。

Yeah.

没错。

Okay.

另外，我想提醒一下，这两个人都是成年人。

Also, I wanna remind you, these are two grown adults.

你觉不觉得他们合适，根本没人在乎。

So no one gives a flying fuck if you think that they're fit for each other.

他们自己得弄清楚。

They gotta figure that out.

对。

Yep.

我只是想提醒一下，别觉得他们俩在一起有什么不对。

Just putting that out there for anybody who thinks that this is this makes sense.

克里斯的妹妹杰米说，我们见面后其实也没把握。

Chris' sister Jamie said, we met and we weren't sure.

这真不是你能说了算的。

It's really not up to you.

好吧。

Okay.

因为你根本没在那段关系里。

Because you're not in the relationship.

没错。

Right.

好吧。

Okay.

两家第一次见面时，克里斯的父母立刻对珊农的生活方式产生了怀疑。

When the families got together for the first time, Chris's parents were immediately suspicious of Shanann's lifestyle.

什么？

What?

他们说，这么年轻的人不可能买得起这么豪华的房子。

They said it didn't seem possible that someone so young could afford such a lavish home.

好吧。

Okay.

她可是拼命工作才赚到的。

Well, she works her ass off.

关键是，

Here's the thing.

就算你儿子是个废物，

Just because your son is a fucking loser

对。

Right.

并不意味着所有人都这样。

Does not mean everyone is.

Shanann 工作非常拼命。

Shanann worked her ass off.

是的。

Yeah.

你说她该去干点什么，你觉得呢？

And it's like, what do you think Some people she should do

有些人拼命工作。

work their asses off.

有些人则不然。

Others don't.

所以她以为他们觉得她花钱大手大脚。

So she assumed they assumed that she was reckless with money.

她凭空建起了你梦想中的家，一无所有，全靠自己，这哪是随便能猜到的。

That's quite the assumption to make She built you her know dream with nothing no about more power.

她有两份工作，但花钱大手大脚。

Two jobs, but she was reckless.

每天还要来回奔波130英里。

And traveling a 130 miles back and forth per day.

但她确实乱花钱。

But she was reckless with money.

是的。

Yeah.

当然了。

For sure.

还有，她二十多岁就离过一次婚。

Then there was the fact that she had already been married and divorced by her mid twenties.

谁在乎啊？

Who gives a fuck?

人人都这样，你倒一副大惊小怪的样子。

Everybody's well, you clutch the pearls.

冷静点。

Get a grip.

但最大的问题，至少在克里斯妈妈看来，是珊农的妈妈桑迪。

But the biggest problem, at least as far as Chris's mother was concerned, was Shanann's mother, Sandy.

哦。

Oh.

这两个女人一见面就合不来。

The two women clashed immediately.

真的吗？

Really?

桑迪离开那次会面时，根本没觉得这事能成。

And Sandy did not walk away from that meeting feeling good about potential for success here.

桑迪后来说，我得指出，桑迪这次完全说对了。

Sandy later said, and, I'd like to point out that Sandy was 100% correct here.

叫她先知吧。

Call her Nostradamus.

她说，她早就知道这人会成为婚姻里的刺。

She said, I knew she was gonna be a thorn in the marriage.

结果还真是。

And she was.

当妈的？

A mama?

典型的那种。

Most mamas.

是的。

Yeah.

不是。

No.

不是。

No.

我觉得她心里想的是：哦，你这人麻烦大了。

And I think she was like, oh, you're gonna be a problem.

天哪，不行。

Oh, no.

到了2011年，珊南当时最要好的两个朋友，吉娜和查理·迪茨，搬到了科罗拉多州的布卢姆菲尔德。

Now in 2011, Shanann's close two closest friends at the time, Gina and Charlie Dietz, moved to Broomfield, Colorado.

几周之内，他们就对珊南说：你得搬过来。

And within weeks, they were saying, Shanann, you have to move here.

他们说，这清新的山地空气对你的狼疮简直太有好处了。

They said this fresh mountain air will be fucking awesome for your lupus.

我觉得这对你有帮助。

I think it's gonna help you.

那地方特别美。

It's a beautiful area.

而就在前几个月，她刚经历了一次严重的病情发作。

Like, there and she had just experienced a really bad flare up of the illness in the previous months.

明白了。

Okay.

所以从这个角度看，搬过去确实挺有吸引力的。

So the idea of moving was appealing in that sense.

但她刚建好自己的理想之家，你知道的。

But she had just finished building her dream house Right.

而且她和克里斯的关系也挺顺利的。

And things were going well with Chris.

所以她就说，我不确定。

So she's like, I don't know.

这

That's

我可不想说走就走，扔下这一切。

a know big that I wanna just, like, up and leave.

对吧？

Right?

是的。

Yeah.

那年八月，克里斯和莎南在北卡罗来纳州的海洋岛海滩租了一栋房子，还邀请家人一起去海边度假。

That August, Chris and Shanann rented a house in Ocean Isle Beach, North Carolina and invited family to spend some time at the beach with them.

度假开始几天后的一个下午，克里斯找到莎南的父亲弗兰克，告诉他打算向莎南求婚。

One afternoon, a few days into the vacation, Chris approached Frank, who is, Shanann's father, and told him he wanted to ask Shanann to marry him.

对。

Okay.

不过前提是得先得到弗兰克的同意。

But only if Frank gave his permission.

不是的。

Uh-uh.

弗兰克可不是那种会阻拦女儿幸福的人，他马上就同意了。

Not, you know, one to stand in the way of his daughter's happiness, Frank immediately gave his blessing.

没过多久，克里斯就在海滩上向香南求婚，她答应了。

And a short time later, Chris proposed to Shanann on the beach and she said yes.

真好。

Nice.

那时候。

At the time.

是的。

Yeah.

几个月后，克里斯和珊农飞往科罗拉多州去看望吉娜和查理。

Now a few months later, Chris and Shanann flew to Colorado to visit Gina and Charlie.

这是珊农的朋友第一次见到她的未婚夫。

And it was the first time Shanann's friends had met her now fiance.

大家都很高兴，经过那段糟糕的感情后，她终于找到了一个人，据所有人说，他对她非常专一。

And they were pleased that after such a disastrous relationship, the marriage, she had found someone who seemed, by all accounts, everyone said he seemed very devoted to her.

明白。

Okay.

吉娜回忆说，他非常体贴、细心、善良，但有点害羞和内向。

Gina recalled he was very doting, attentive, kind, but shy, and introverted.

大家都这么说。

They all say this.

他母亲说起这事时语气里满是愤怒，说他对莎南特别体贴。

His mother says this with much ire in her voice that he was very doting on Shanann.

但你可能会觉得，你应该为此感到骄傲。

But you would think that you'd be proud

儿子能当个体贴的丈夫，你该高兴才对。

of your son for being a doting husband.

这是我的看法。

I That's my opinion.

我也会这么想。

That's what I would think.

要是我儿子是个体贴的丈夫，我肯定得说，太棒了。

Like, I had a son and he was a doting husband, I'd be like, hell yeah.

这孩子教得真好。

Raised him right.

对。

Yeah.

当然了。

Like, hell yeah.

好好对待你的伴侣。

Treat treat your Treat

对待你的另一半，就得像对待女王或国王一样，你知道的吧？

your partner like a fucking queen or king or whatever, you know?

但就是在这次旅行中，搬去科罗拉多的事又被提了出来。

But it was during that trip that the question of moving to Colorado came up again.

吉娜坚信这对珊农的健康有好处，而克里斯对此没什么态度，既不支持也不反对，因为

Gina was convinced it would be better for Shanann's health, and Chris didn't seem to have an opinion one way or another because

他根本没反应。

He tracks.

他就像个空壳子。

He's an empty husk.

大家都觉得，这事儿迟早得提出来。

Everybody like, this the idea is gonna come up here.

他妈妈总喜欢这么说，你看看任何关于他的采访，她说自己特别强势。

And, like, you know, his mom likes to say it and stuff that, look at any interview with him, that, she said she was domineering.

就是珊南·沃茨。

That Shanann Watts.

或者说她就是那种人，你知道的，太强势了。

Or that she was too, like, you know, that kind of person.

这不只是我的看法。

I don't this is just my opinion.

她看起来并不像特别强势的人。

It's not that it looks like she's very domineering.

相反，我觉得克里斯·沃茨就是个空壳，我再说一遍，他什么都接受。

It looks that Chris Watts is an empty, again, I say husk that will just take anything Yeah.

只要还行，他就随波逐流，直到实在受不了了。

And just roll with it until it doesn't work for him anymore.

然后他就爆发了。

And then he explodes.

而且他好像对女人特别着迷。

It also seems that he becomes obsessed with women.

这是我的看法。

That's my opinion.

所以如果他着迷的那女人想搬去科罗拉多，

So if the woman that he's obsessed with wants to move to Colorado, of

那肯定就跟着去了。

course, gonna go with it.

他到底有什么打算？

Well, he just What does he have going on?

没错。

Right.

他根本不在乎。

He doesn't care.

当然了。

Sure.

我们走吧，那儿

Let's go There's to

到处都是车。

cars everywhere.

到处都是。

Everywhere.

那边就是科罗拉多。

There's Colorado.

是的。

Yeah.

科罗拉多也有很多车吗？

Is there cars in Colorado?

咱们去科罗拉多吧。

Let's go to Colorado.

看起来确实如此。

That's how it seems to be.

是的。

Yeah.

你懂的。

You know?

所以他当时说，嗯，根本不在乎。

So he was like, yeah, don't really give a shit.

所以度假期间，这对夫妇请了一位房产中介带他们四处看看，挑了几处房产。

So during the vacation, the couple hire hired a realtor to take them around the area and look at some properties.

等他们准备启程回北卡罗来纳时，已经决定尽快搬去科罗拉多。

And by the time they were leaving to go back to North Carolina, they'd made the decision to move to Colorado as soon as possible.

好吧。

Okay.

事实上，他们还没到家，就已经想好了计划。

In fact, before they'd even gotten home, they'd already come up with a plan.

克里斯会先搬去科罗拉多，住进吉娜和查理家，而珊南则留在北卡罗来纳，处理卖房和收拾东海岸的其他事务。

Chris would move to Colorado first and stay with Gina and Charlie, while Shanann remained in North Carolina to sell the house and kind of wrap up all the affairs on the East Coast.

明白了。

Okay.

因为这时候他们还没孩子。

Because again, they don't have kids at this point.

这样简单多了。

It's much easier.

是的。

Yeah.

现在，克里斯和莎南搬去科罗拉多的计划，又成了他们和双方家庭之间新的矛盾点。

Now Chris and Shanann's plan to move to Colorado became yet another point of contention with the families.

妈妈不希望她走。

Mama doesn't want her right

不对。

No.

解脱了。

Relief.

虽然珊农的家人很支持她，帮她准备搬家和即将举行的婚礼，但克里斯的母亲却很难接受这件事。

While Shanann's family was supportive and helped her prepare for the move and the upcoming wedding, Chris's mom struggled to accept this.

我能想象。

I bet.

她说搬去科罗拉多是珊农的主意。

She said Colorado was Shanann's idea.

你怎么会知道？

How do you know that?

因为你没在饭桌上。

Because you're not at the dinner table

那些对话你根本没参与。

You're not in those conversations are happening.

就像你根本不在场一样。

Like you're Yeah.

抱歉。

Sorry.

滚吧。

Fuck off.

对。

Yeah.

其实我也不是他们关系中的一员。

Like, I'm not in the relationship either.

所以我说不定她真有这个想法。

So I'm not saying it wasn't her idea.

但你不清楚，我们都不清楚。

But you don't know We don't know.

你真的不清楚。

You don't

知道吗？

know that.

我们都一样，谁都不清楚。

We all share the common thing that we don't know.

你知道吗？

And you know what?

他其实也配合了。

He was going along with it.

对啊。

Mhmm.

那问题出在哪？

So what's the problem?

没错。

Right.

他明明同意了，而且

It's like he agreed to it and

他们在那里住了多久？

they lived there for how long?

显然，那段时间过得还行。

Like, obviously, was fine for a little bit.

还有不少成年人。

There were also, grown adults.

是的。

Yeah.

所以她说，她为什么非要带他去科罗拉多？

So, she said, why did she want to leave and take him all the way to Colorado?

带他走。

Take him.

他都成年了。

He's a grown adult.

他不是小孩子。

He's not a child.

你根本没资格带他到处跑。

You should can't take him anywhere.

我刚才在这儿写着呢，天哪。

And I literally just wrote here, Jesus.

虽然克里斯其他家人的支持比他妈妈多一些，但还是能感觉到他们心存不满

And while the rest of Chris' family was a little more supportive than his mom was, they still seem to harbor resentment

对啊

Mhmm.

就是因为这事

For this.

筹备订婚派对时，珊南请贾米——他妹妹——帮忙操办，特别交代她负责订餐

As they prepared for the engagement party, Shanann asked Jamie, his sister, to help in planning, specifically asking her to order the food.

她明明让贾米订无麸质的食物，结果贾米没办，导致珊南在自己的订婚派对上一口饭都吃不上

And she had told Jamie to order gluten free food, and she failed to do so, which resulted in Shanann not being able to eat anything at the at the engagement party for her.

天哪

Wow.

是啊

Yeah.

真不错

Cool.

Jamie说这只是一个误会。

Jamie maintains that it was a mistake.

这纯粹是沟通出了问题。

It was a it was a like miscommunication.

这种事确实难免。

That can happen.

没错。

For sure.

这种事情是有可能发生的。

It can happen.

是的。

Yeah.

你看啊，

Looking at, you know

咱们得从双方的角度来看。

Looking at both sides here.

但桑迪，珊农的妈妈觉得，这可能是出于一种微妙的报复心理，因为沃茨一家觉得珊农把克里斯从他们身边夺走了。

But Sandy, Shanann's mom suspects it was maybe could have been just in her opinion, a subtle attempt to punish her for what the Watts family did perceive as stealing Chris from them.

是的。

Yeah.

因为他们很明显地表现出，觉得是珊农把克里斯从他们身边带走了。

Because they made it pretty obvious that they felt like she had taken him away.

于是，两家之间的紧张关系在几个月后终于爆发了。

So the tension between the families finally came to a head several months later.

他们认为珊农控制欲强、专横霸道，还操纵克里斯，让他在关系中的各种决定上顺从她。

They believed Shanann was controlling and overbearing and that she'd manipulated Chris to get her way when it came to all the decisions in the relationship.

他们就是这么看她的。

That's just how they saw her.

明白了。

Okay.

当一切最终爆发时，克里斯和家人因此闹翻了。

When it all finally boiled over, Chris had a falling out with his family over it.

多年后，他说，我跟家里彻底闹翻了，甚至说我不再需要他们任何人，因为我有Shanann。

Years later, he said, I blew up at my family to the point where I said I didn't need any of them anymore because I have Shanann.

那你猜接下来发生了什么？

And then are you ready for it?

听到这儿，你肯定觉得，天哪。

So you hear that and you're like, woah.

就是这种感觉。

Like that.

你真的站队了？

You actually took a stance?

没有。

No.

他说，我不确定是Shanann怂恿我这么做的，还是我头一回被怒火彻底吞噬了。

He said, I don't know if Shanann coached me to do it or if it was just rage like I'd never seen before.

你也不确定？

You don't know?

他真是个窝囊废。

He is such a pussy ass wet rag.

我真的不知道该怎么道歉。

Like, I'm can't sorry.

如果你是被她教唆的，你心里肯定清楚。

Like, you would know if she coached you to do that.

她肯定会跟你说，去跟家人发脾气吧。

There would be instances where she would say, hey, freak out on your family.

你偏偏选在Shanann没法反驳的时候说这种话，真是方便。

Hey, So your family convenient of you to say that when Shanann cannot dispute that.

是的。

Yeah.

你也该成熟一点了。

And also, grow the fuck up.

是的。

Yeah.

你居然还替她说话。

You got so you stood up for her.

我不确定她有没有教过我。

I don't know if she coached me.

我真的不知道。

I don't know.

你也不知道？

You don't know?

我也不清楚。

I do not know.

你真是个混蛋。

You fucking idiot.

你也不知道？

You don't know?

我做不到。

I can't.

他真让人反感。

He's so gross.

确实如此。

He is.

他就是特别让人反感。

Like, he's so gross.

他就是个懦夫。

He's just a wimp.

他啊，真是烦人。

He is ugh.

他一说‘比利·卢米斯’，我就想到《惊声尖叫》里的兰迪，简直是个泳装里的窝囊废。

It just makes me think of Randy and Scream when he says, Billy Loomis, what a pussy ass wet rag in the swimsuit.

他给我的感觉就是这样的。

That's literally what he feels like to me.

她确实指导过。

She coached.

你给我清醒点，你这个没用的废物。

You get a fucking grip, you fucking useless moose knuckle.

到2012年4月，他早就不是什么废物了。

So by April 2012 Not a moose knuckle.

是的。

Yeah.

一个废物。

A moose knuckle.

胆小鬼。

Little pussy.

是的。

Yeah.

是的。

Yeah.

我说了算。

I said it.

我坚持我的说法。

I stand I stand by it.

到2012年4月，克里斯已经辞职，搬去和吉娜和查理一起住。

By April 2012, Chris had quit his job and moved in with Gina and Charlie.

但他每天都和莎南保持联系，莎南留下来处理卖房的事。

But he stayed in daily contact with Shanann, who stayed behind to sell the house.

结果房子卖得比他们预想的要慢一些。

And it turned out that the house took a little longer to sell than they thought.

但到了八月，她终于找到了买家，还小赚了一笔，毕竟她是个销售出身。

But by August, she finally found a buyer and even made a little bit of a profit on the sale because she's a sales girl.

没错。

Hell yeah.

房子卖出去后，她就去科罗拉多和克里斯会合了。

With the house sold, she joined Chris in Colorado.

他们一开始住在迪茨家地下室的小房间里，直到2013年10月，才在科罗拉多的弗雷德里克买了自己的房子。

And they first shared a small bedroom in the Dietz's basement until October 2013 when they bought the house in Frederick, Colorado Okay.