Despite being locked up for the horrific murders of his pregnant wife and two young daughters, it hasn't stopped Chris Watts from gaining an army of warped admirers.
The 38-year-old killer is currently serving five life sentences at the Dodge Correctional Institution in Waupun, Wisconsin, after being convicted of taking the lives of his pregnant wife Shanann, 34, and their children Bella, four, and Celeste, three.
In August 2018, he strangled the mother of his children to death before smothering the two little girls in a bid to escape his family in favour of starting a new life with his mistress Nichol Kessinger.
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The dad then drove the three bodies to the site of an oil and gas company - the Anadarko Petroleum Corporation - where he had worked, which was situated around 40 miles away from their family home in Frederick, Colorado.
After arriving, Watts buried Shanann and their unborn child in a shallow grave before dumping his daughters in crude oil barrels close by.
Although he had tried to cover his tracks - and even gave TV interviews begging for his family's return - the dad later pleaded guilty to the three murders and was sentenced to life in prison, without the possibility of parole.
The chilling case was covered in the hit Netflix documentary American Murder: The Family Next Door, while Watts even penned handwritten letters which included horrific details about his crimes.
But despite all of this being public knowledge, Watts was somehow still winning women over from behind bars.
While imprisoned, the murderer began to receive loads of letters from a number of female admirers who had fallen for him, while they were seemingly undeterred by his terrifying track record.
Saucy correspondence - and bikini snaps - were sent to the convict from ladies who reckon he is a 'great guy'.
Prosecutors from the Weld County District Attorney previously revealed he had been sent 'dozens' of bizarre letters,
which Crime Online described as 'racy', while disclosing some of the strange messages people wrote to him.
According to ABC7, one woman wrote: "In my heart, I know you are a great guy.
"If you do write me back I'd be the happiest girl alive, that's for sure #teamchris #chrisisinnocent #lovehim #socute."
Another wrote: "I've found myself thinking a lot about you," alongside a photo of herself wearing a bikini.
A third woman then told Watts she was 'hoping to brighten his days'.
The killer, who reportedly works as a prison custodian at at the maximum-security facility where he is held, is said to have started replying to the women hoping to build a romantic connection shortly after the Netflix doc aired.
A source told PEOPLE that Chris has been writing back to people who sent him 'fan mail'.
"Some of the letters are angry. A lot of them are from people of faith who want to pray for him," they said.
"But then he gets letters from women who want to connect with him, you know, romantically. He responds because he doesn't have anything better to do."
Although the whole thing sounds completely sick and unbelievable, don't forget that Ted Bundy and Charles Manson also had groupies swooning over them.
The psychological term for falling in love with a cold-blooded killer is hybristophilia, which describes a sexual attraction to people who've committed gruesome crimes.
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Olivia Burke