Chris Watts is considering matrimony once more.

Having been convicted of the shocking murders of his pregnant wife and their two young daughters, Watts is serving multiple life sentences. Yet, he reportedly has a new romantic connection with a woman named Lizzie Henderson.

According to a report by People, Watts struck up a relationship with this woman while behind bars. He has a penchant for engaging with female pen pals during his incarceration.

Authorities determined that Watts committed the murders on Aug. 13, 2018, motivated by an extramarital affair he was involved in at the time.

He was sentenced later that year to life without parole for the murders of his wife, Shanann Watts, 34, and their daughters, Bella, 4, and Celeste, 3.

The husband and father pleaded guilty to all charges in exchange for prosecutors not pursuing the death penalty.

Henderson is reportedly from Cleveland, Ohio and recently moved to Wisconsin — where Watts is serving time at Dodge Correctional Institution, a maximum-security prison in Waupun.

People reported that Watts and Henderson both applied to marry within the prison system.

News Media confirmed Racine County, Wisconsin court records indicate in 2025 a woman named Lizzie Henderson applied for a legal name change that was listed as “confidential.”

Speaking about her intended husband’s murders, Henderson told the Daily Mail that “He knows how I feel. I don’t know all the people involved but I would want to respect them.”

She also called called the Watts’ murders, “something harsh for anyone to experience.”

Henderson was previously listed as a real estate agent at a Milwaukee-area Keller Williams Realty office. When reached for comment, the office confirmed that she is not a current employee and declined to comment on her past employment status.

News Media has reached out to the Wisconsin Department of Corrections.

In a tragic incident in Connecticut early Sunday, gunfire claimed the life of one individual and left four others injured, with one person in critical condition.

The Hartford police responded to a shooting report at approximately 1:40 a.m., arriving at the scene to find a gathering of about 100 people and one person lying unresponsive, according to local station WTNH.

Sadly, the victim was declared dead at the scene and identity confirmation is still pending.

Among the injured, a man in his 30s is critically injured but stable. Meanwhile, two other men, in their 20s and 30s, and an adult woman are reported to be in stable condition.

Police currently suspect that the shooting involved a single firearm.

Hartford Police Major Crimes and Crime Scene divisions were investigating.

In a clash that has stirred emotions in a typically serene enclave, a Hamptons town finds itself at odds with a local entrepreneur over a provocative work of art. The bone of contention is an eye-catching sculpture made from shipping containers that has split the opinions of this upscale community.

The controversy took root in June when Matt Johnson erected his sculpture, Mediating Figure, on a property in Montauk known as The Ranch, owned by Max Levai.

Crafted from an array of retired shipping containers, these elements were intricately welded to resemble a figure deep in meditation. The installation finds its perch on Levai’s land, a site formerly marked as protected farmland.

Local residents were quick to express their discontent with the Los Angeles artist’s bold creation, with a sizable segment advocating for its removal and destruction.

East Hampton, under whose jurisdiction Montauk falls, has now taken legal action against Levai and The Ranch. The lawsuit alleges the ‘unlawful construction and maintenance of an unpermitted structure on real property,’ intensifying the showdown between artistic expression and regulatory compliance.

Despite the land being privately owned, the town argued that an August 1983 agreement stated that the land could only be developed as agricultural production. 

This isn’t the first time Levai has shown artwork on The Ranch, which he has owned since 2021. However, it is the first time the town has brought a lawsuit against him for it. 

The town said Levai failed to apply for a permit with the town to allow the structure to be on the land. 

East Hampton is now demanding the structure be ‘dismantled or demolished immediately.’ 

Johnson told Vanity Fair that it made sense for him to install the artwork in Montauk, as the tiny town was once known as an artist’s colony. It is also the furthest point of Long Island. 

‘I think a lot of times, artists – and I certainly feel this way about living where I live – it’s nice to sort of just get yourself a distance away from all the stuff that’s going on,’ he told the magazine. 

Levai has been displaying a vast collection of artwork on his property for the past five years, garnering many positive reactions from local museums and art collectors, he told the outlet.

‘Whether it’s these great local museums that are all really supportive, or other people doing similar things to what I am in a non-traditional way – and obviously an incredible amount of affluent collectors are out here, looking to see art in a different context,’ he said. 

Levai likes that Mediating Figure is pushing boundaries and allowing people to think, he said. 

‘And that sculpture, certainly, I think kind of defines that, right?’ he added.

Residents do not need a permit to install artwork on their property, but the town argues the sculpture is, by definition, a structure – meaning it requires one.

‘Any and all structures in New York State require a building permit,’ Patrick Derenze, the town’s public information officer, told the Daily Mail. 

‘If an art sculpture qualifies as a structure under New York State building code, then it will need to go through the applicable building permit application process to ensure that it meets any and all building codes.’

‘They’re welding big pieces of metal together,’ Town Attorney, Jake Turner, told the Vanity Fair. ‘It needs to go through the building department for applicable safety standard checks.’ 

Derenze also told the Daily Mail: ‘The Town can confirm that four charges have been brought against The Ranch: violation of a conservation easement, failure to obtain a building permit, failure to obtain Architectural Review Board approval and failure to obtain a certificate of occupancy.

‘We secured a stay prohibiting them from undertaking any further construction or demolition on the property. We will return at a later date as the case proceeds.’ 

The uproar over the artwork caused it to come up in the East Hampton Town Board Work Session on July 7, where they voted 4-1 to explore legal action against Levai and The Ranch. 

Weeks later, it filed a complaint in Suffolk County Supreme Court against Levai, his business, and Johnson. The artist has since been dropped as a defendant last week. 

The Daily Mail has reached out to Johnson and the attorneys for the town, The Ranch, and Levai for comment.  

A man from Florida, who was on probation, is now facing first-degree murder charges for allegedly stalking, killing, and dismembering his 71-year-old stepfather.

Authorities began to suspect Jose Proano following a horrific find of three suitcases shortly before midnight on August 4.

These suitcases, discovered by the roadside in Orlando, were not far from the residence of Proano’s mother and stepfather.

Nearly 23 hours before the gruesome discovery, Jorge Vazquez-Escutia’s family had reached out to authorities for assistance.

They’d found his phone, wallet and keys at his home and what looked like blood on the fence outside, according to an affidavit filed in Florida’s Ninth Judicial Circuit Court.

His cars were in his driveway with the doors unlocked, which was unusual, a family member told authorities. They hadn’t seen him in three days, they told deputies with the Orange County Sheriff’s Office.

And friends of his stepson had reached out to the family with a shocking claim – that Jose Proano had told them he’d killed his stepfather, court records show.

The sheriff’s office quickly took to social media asking for the public’s help finding Vazquez-Escutia because of “concerns for Jorge’s wellbeing, as he suffers from memory loss.”

Then footage from a neighbor’s security camera showed a disturbing series of events.

On the morning of Aug. 2, the day after the missing man was last seen, the security video showed a man wearing a black shirt jumping over the back wall of Vazquez-Escutia’s home.

Later, the same man appears at the back of the house “bringing out suitcases … and ultimately placing what appeared to be a human arm, into the suitcase,” court records show.

And at about 4:28 p.m., the video shows the man in black walking down the driveway, carrying three pieces of luggage.

The suitcases “appeared heavy, as the male’s left tricep muscle was clearly flexed as he was pulling them,” detectives reported.

Investigators called Proano, 44, and asked to meet with them. They’d reviewed his phone records, which showed it had been in the area about the same time the man in black was seen on security video.

Slowly, they pieced together a timeline.

Days earlier, Proano traveled to the area from Northport, about 150 miles away. Proano’s ex-wife told authorities he’d been “acting erratic, making threats towards her,” court records show.

Proano agreed to meet with investigators, court records show.

He told them he had a “negative relationship” with his stepfather, and believed Vazquez-Escutia had “restricted his ability to see his mother.” He also told investigators about his schizophrenia, which causes voices in his head that lead “him to worry about members of his family.”

Records showed he’d made numerous calls to 911 asking for someone to check on his mother. He believed “bad things were happening,” records with the Orange County Sheriff’s Office show. Deputies checked, found all was well at the home, and reported back to reassure him, records show.

But something bad had, indeed, happened.

And about 23 hours after Vazquez-Escutia was reported missing, investigators made the terrible discovery.

Just before midnight on Aug. 4, deputies searched the area surrounding Vazquez-Escutia’s home. They suspected the three suitcases could hold important clues.

Then they happened upon one with an ominous odor lying behind a nearby brick wall. And when a crime scene investigator flipped it open, she found a human head. It belonged to Vazquez-Escutia, records show.

Two more pieces of luggage were found about 400 feet away along a roadway. Dangling from them were luggage tags with Proano’s mother’s name.

Unzipping them and flipping them open, the technician found tarps and more body parts of the missing man.

Proano was “adamant” that the person in the video wasn’t him, investigators noted. But he later admitted that “it was in fact his cell phone and that it was in fact on scene,” a report shows.

Investigators found “defensive style injuries” on Proano’s body, including scratches on his hands, arms, and large scratch along the right side of his cheek.

In 2022, Proano was charged with a slew of crimes related to an armed burglary he committed. After a plea bargain greatly reduced his sentencing from what could have been as long as 20 years, he was out on probation until 2027. His most recent charges violated the conditions of his probation, causing that case to be reopened.

He is being held without bond in Orange County. His public defender declined to comment about the case to News Media, saying “our client has not given us permission to discuss his case.”

A GoFundMe has been set up to raise money for Vazquez-Escutia’s family to pay for funeral expenses. The page for the fundraiser describes him as “a kind-hearted, gentle, and generous man who was always ready to lend a helping hand to neighbors, friends, and family alike.”

In a shocking overnight heist, four masterpieces by iconic 15th-century artist Antonello da Messina were whisked away from the Museo Regionale di Messina. The museum’s leadership, as reported by Italian media, has confirmed the art theft, leaving a cultural void in the artist’s homeland.

This brazen theft erases from Messina the only existing collection of the renowned Renaissance painter’s works still housed in his birthplace, along with a diminutive artwork acquired by Sicily two decades prior.

When contacted by Reuters, a museum representative was unavailable to share any additional details regarding the incident.

Reports indicate that these art burglars exploited the national holiday on August 15 to carry out their plan. This date coincides with the summer’s peak activity in Italy, providing advantageous cover for the crime.

The culprits made off with three of the five remaining pieces from the famed Polittico di San Gregorio altarpiece.

Originally comprising six panels and destined for a local monastery known as Monastero San Gregorio, which was destroyed by Messina’s 1908 earthquake, the altarpiece was the only work by the Sicilian painter to have never left his hometown.

The thieves took a fourth artwork from a secure display case: a small two-sided painting depicting the Virgin with Child and a Franciscan monk on one side and the Christ on the other.

The work was part of the Wilhelm Soldan collection and was sold by Christie’s to the Sicilian Region in 2003, the year it was attributed to Antonello da Messina.

The theft took place after Italian police on Friday recovered three paintings by French masters Paul Cezanne, Pierre-Auguste Renoir and Henri Matisse that were stolen from a museum near the northern city of Parma in March.

Born around 1430, Antonello da Messina trained in Naples where he studied the works of Provençal and Flemish artists, whose influence is apparent in his works.

He returned to Messina in 1457, where he worked until 1474.

CBS News’ lead reporter finds his turbulent broadcasting past under scrutiny once more, following allegations of sexual harassment from a former colleague recently surfacing against him.

Matt Gutman, at 48 years old, garnered accolades for his “fearlessness, energy, and relentlessness” when Bari Weiss introduced him to the network back in December, marking one of Weiss’s initial decisions as the new editor-in-chief.

This role transition concluded Gutman’s 17-year tenure at ABC News, during which he spent seven years as the chief national correspondent.

According to various insiders speaking to the Daily Mail at the time, Gutman had a reputation within the industry for being prone to errors.

Notably, in 2020, he issued a public apology after incorrectly reporting that all of Kobe Bryant’s children were involved in the tragic helicopter crash in Calabasas, when in reality, only Bryant’s daughter was among the victims.

Gutman’s first ABC News suspension followed, for one month.

An ABC spokesperson said at the time: ‘Reporting the facts accurately is the cornerstone of our journalism… Matt Gutman’s initial reporting was not accurate and failed to meet our editorial standards.’

Gutman publicly apologized on-air and later said the error occurred during a panic attack, a struggle he detailed in his 2023 book about anxiety. 

‘Today I inaccurately reported it was believed that four of Kobe Bryant’s children were on board that flight. That is incorrect. I apologize to Kobe’s family, friends and our viewers,’ he wrote on X as well. 

Gutman’s second suspension came when he found himself in hot water in February 2021 for flouting Disney’s COVID-19 policies by visiting a Los Angeles hospital without ABC News execs’ permission to vet a story.

The exact duration of the suspension was never disclosed. ABC News did not issue a statement.  

More recently, before he left for CBS, he faced criticism for describing text messages between alleged Charlie Kirk assassin Tyler Robinson and his transgender roommate as ‘very touching in a way we did not expect.’

After a furious social-media reaction, Gutman apologized, writing on X: ‘I deeply regret that my words did not make that clear.’

He was hired by CBS News within three months, though sources told the Mail ABC let him go without much of a fight at the time.

‘Matt’s contract was already up,’ they said, explaining that executives at ABC were fully aware of an offer made to Gutman but did not try to counter it.

The revelation came in marked contrast to reports of Weiss relentlessly pursuing top talent from other networks for her still-ongoing CBS News revamp.

The right-leaning Free Press founder was appointed by then-new Paramount CEO David Ellison in October, following an $8 billion acquisition the summer before. 

The effort, instead of yielding a big name like Bret Baier or Anderson Cooper, ended up showing Weiss’s inexperience, another insider told the Daily Mail at the time. 

‘Bari seems to be scraping the depths of her rolodex with her recent hire of Gutman, whom ABC exiled after his despicable comments in the wake of the assassination of Charlie Kirk and who erroneously reported misinformation on Kobe Bryant’s children during a tragedy. That’s what he’s best known for,’ the source said. 

Weiss also ended up promoting Tony Dokoupil from CBS Mornings to CBS Evening News, when an effort to hire externally failed, Status first reported.

Gutman recently stood in for a struggling Dokoupil while the latter took two weeks off for the summer. The show enjoyed a brief ratings spike.

Last Friday, Gutman was named as a defendant in a wrongful termination suit filed on Friday in Los Angeles Superior Court by former ABC News field producer Samira Said. Disney, ABC’s parent company, and the network are also listed as defendants.

Said claimed she was placed on a male-only team that included Gutman during an assignment, where Gutman ‘initiated a discussion rating a female correspondent’s appearance.’

He proceeded to ‘reduce her professional standing to a numerical score based on her physical attributes’ as other male members of the crew joined in, Said said.

The men allegedly ‘attempted’ to involve Said in the conversation, to which she declined on the basis that it was ‘inappropriate,’ according to the suit.

Gutman is also accused of making a ‘sexualized insinuation’ towards her on a separate occasion, where he asked her if she had an ‘after-hours date’ when she wanted to leave a movie press event.

Said said that Gutman made the remark ‘audibly to others’ and ‘demeaned’ her and ‘reduced her professional judgement to a sexualized stereotype.’ 

The suit also claimed that when Said returned from a medical leave, which lasted from August 2022 to January 2023, ABC denied her reasonable accommodation requests.

ABC News’ LA bureau chief, David Herndon, also ‘made it clear that unless she returned without restrictions and with full-week availability, she would not be permitted to resume her role,’ according to the lawsuit. 

Said was subsequently ‘demoted’ to weekend desk shifts in March 2023 and was fired in March 2025 after she ‘sustained a workplace injury when heavy equipment struck her foot, resulting in a bone contusion’ while covering ‘hazardous weather-related events.’

Said is seeking monetary damages and alleging discrimination based on ‘gender/sex; ancestry; and/or disability,’ hostile work environment harassment, retaliation for engaging in a protected activity, and failure to provide reasonable accommodation.

The Daily Mail approached ABC News for comment. 

An Alaskan jogger was hospitalized following an alarming encounter with a bear in Anchorage this week.

While running alone on the Wolverine Bowl trail near Prospect Heights, the woman managed to escape a brown bear attack by deploying her bear spray, as reported by Alaska’s Department of Fish and Game.

She received medical attention at a nearby hospital.

Biologists who later surveyed the scene gathered samples, but no bears were located.

The department advises that any sightings of aggressive or peculiar behavior in wildlife should be promptly reported.

Warning signs have been posted at the Prospect Heights trailhead, the department said, adding that hikers should stay off closed trails.

“Thick, dense summer foliage can block sightlines, making surprise encounters more likely,” the department said. “Choose hiking routes with good visibility and away from known attractants, like salmon-bearing streams.”

When hiking in bear country, people should carry a deterrent such as bear spray or a firearm, stay in groups, make noise to avoid surprising a bear, stay alert for signs of bears, don’t approach bears and keep pets on a leash.

“If you surprise a bear, especially one with cubs or on a food cache, it may react in a threatened or defensive manner,” the department said. “The bear may be agitated and may huff, stomp, make a popping sound with its teeth, salivate or lay its ears back against its head and charge.”

They urged staying calm, standing your ground, readying deterrent, staying in a group and talking calmly. Never run.

“If the bear is stationary, move away slowly while keeping your eyes on the bear,” the department said.

“If the bear starts to move toward you or charges, stop and stand your ground. Let the bear know you are not a threat. Behaving calmly, moving slowly, and speaking in a low calm voice will help de-escalate the situation. If the bear continues to approach, use your deterrent when the bear is within range.”

The attack comes less than a month after another woman was mauled by a bear in Anchorage.

The July victim was walking with a friend and her three dogs in the Bear Valley residential neighborhood, adjacent to Chugach State Park in south Anchorage, when the bear approached.

Officials said the hikers were on an unofficial, user-made trail that climbs a steep hillside in a zigzag pattern. The area was heavily overgrown with dense vegetation, which created poor visibility and increased the risk of surprising wildlife, the department said.

“The bear came out of the dense alders, made brief contact with one of the hikers, and left the scene,” the department added.

The woman suffered non-life-threatening injuries and was expected to recover.