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A Texas mother shot her two daughters on her husbands birthday | Sheats Family

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Christy shot Madison in the neck with her grandfather's gun, then aimed at Taylor running away.
This episode details the tragic case of Christy Sheats, a Texas mother who murdered her two daughters on her husband's birthday after he announced his intention to divorce her. The narrative explores Christy's descent into depression following the deaths of her grandfather and mother, her struggle with alcoholism and medication, and the shocking violence that destroyed her family.

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A grim, orderly reconstruction of a family collapse that hides private ruin behind public normalcy.

Cold Case Thrillers centers the episode on a family collapse that looks orderly from the outside before it turns brutally plain. Christy’s public image, her marriage, and the night she picked up a .38 caliber gun and turned it on her husband and daughters are laid out with…

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