Colorado Family

        Kill for Hire: Colorado Family Recalls Living in Fear 

For the final 24 months, parts of a Colorado family shook by a grim homicide have existed in alarm for their lives. The man who planned their friends and family' killings is irrevocably in the slammer for great, yet that didn't avoid him from requesting the first ever killings. 

On the night of Feb. 23, 2011, a man dressed like a ninja dropped in the Castle Rock, Colo., home of Robert and Tammy Rafferty, going ahead a lethal frenzy --slaughtering Robert Rafferty, 49, and his sister-in-law, Amara Wells, 39, as Amara Wells' 6-year-old girl viewed with sickening dread. 

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Police turned their regard for Amara Wells' spouse, Christopher Wells. She had documented various limiting requests against him, and he had disregarded those requests more than four times. In any case, in Colorado, regardless of how frequently somebody maltreats a controlling request, with the assumption that they have the trusts they can continue safeguarding themselves out of prison with no repercussions. 

"He might get captured, he might run in with cash and he might bond out," stated Tammy Rafferty. "He just felt he was above the law since the law was not keeping him in prison." 

In the hours after Amara Wells and Robert Rafferty were discovered dead, investigators recognized Christopher Wells as their prime suspect. The main issue with their hypothesis? He was in correctional facility when his family was executed. 

"Evidently [Wells] was heading off to be our first suspect," stated Weaver. "To study that he was in correctional facility ceased us frosty." 

The Early Years 

At the time she was 27, Amara Walter was acting as a flight specialist, living an energizing life flying around the globe and unvaryingly gathering new individuals. 

Her life was eternity altered when she met one of the aforementioned individuals, the dashing Christopher Wells, on a flight to Washington, D.C. The great looking man dependably had odd occupations, some of them less than exquisite. At one time he filled in as a Chippendales dance lover. 

"She had barely gotten a flight chaperon for United," stated Amara Wells' sister, Melissa Brown. "I suppose she was on the bounce back, and he stated every bit of the right things to her that she had needed to listen to." 

It was a whirlwind dating, and in less than a year, Christopher and Amara Wells were wedded. They marry distant from everyone else, without even their families, in Niagara Falls. Melissa Brown stated she and whatever is left of her family weren't permitted to revisit the wedding, that it was just setting off to be Amara and Christopher Wells and a witness. 

"It simply happened so quick," stated Brown. "It was an exceptionally short dating." 

At the end of the day, the love birds moved closer to their families in the town of Castle Rock, Colo., a developing group a hour south of Denver. 

Amara Wells was currently topographically closer to her sister and her sister's spouse, Jack Brown. 

The same was accurate for Chris Wells, now closer to his sister, Tammy Rafferty, and her spouse, Bob Rafferty. 

The families stated that, throughout the early years of Chris and Amara Wells' marriage, the couples developed exceptionally enamored with one another, to the focus where Tammy Rafferty felt like Amara Wells was more than only a sister-in-law. 

"It wasn't prefer it was my in-law," Rafferty stated. "She was my sister, you know, my heart." 

Chris Wells Changes 

Anyhow notwithstanding Amara Wells apparently drawing three families as one as one, relatives stated, Chris Wells infrequently appeared to be to be around. Tammy Rafferty might hold Sunday suppers at her house each other week. Any time Chris Wells might appear, she stated, he might be far off and might disconnect himself.