Instead he told the police everything with his body language and didn't lawyer up and shut up as his right. Kessinger toldThe Denver Postthat she was only with Watts for two months and that he was not honest with her. We are no longer accepting comments on this article. Watts was having an affair, and rather than face a messy divorce he killed his wife and slaughtered his children. she typed into an internet search, invoking the name of the woman who was having an affair with infamous killer Scott Peterson, who murdered his wife, Laci, and their unborn child in 2002. Watts's wife Shanann was discovered in a "foetal position" in a shallow grave after being murdered by her husband in Colorado, US. In July 2019, Chris Watts claimed in a chilling jailhouse letter to his mother that he was a changed man with a newfound relationship with God. Netflix's documentary American Murder: The Family Next Door delves deep into the harrowing true story. Some skin was also lost while the body was being moved to the oil pool. "This case shows that domestic violence can happen anywhere," Lee said. Plus he knew she had a big social media presence and friends. And because he choose to back the ass end of his truck into the garage it makes me think he put the bodies in the back where we couldnt see him, or the neighbours couldnt see him. Chris Watts reminds me of a guy I knew in college who tried out for our nationally ranked division I baseball team, even though he had never played high school baseball. In Watts first confession he lied. Press question mark to learn the rest of the keyboard shortcuts. Letters written while serving his time revealed disturbing details of his horrific crimes. Back in 2018, a triple murder shocked America as the harrowing details of the case began to unfold. "Oh, how [Shanann] was so excited to be able to have another child because of her battle with Lupus," her family wrote. She said they never discussed long-term plans. Watts, 35, reportedly detailed the gruesome slaying of Shanann Watts in one of his prison letters and he also revealed that he'd been thinking about killing her for "weeks." During the show, she read the letter she received from her son. WebThe Morning Chris Watts loaded the bodies.Was Someone there with him? Before coming forward, Kessinger appeared to worry about the public shaming that she might face. He believed that he was a good liar, probably for good reason since he had been lying to people for years. Nothing he doesn't say can't be used against him in a court of law. We exited the tank and walked over to the field south of the tanks. He went back to the vehicle. ", After the couple moved to Colorado, they started a family. Hit the road. Disable the GPS and go camping for a week. Watts had told police and his wife Shanann's friends and family that she and daughters Bella and Celeste had run off that day while he was at work, but footage proved that was not the case. They also found part of a broken rake that Watts confessed to using to clear the brush where he buried Shanann. For anyone who does not play baseball, the Fungo bat is a non-regulation bat that is light and skinny that the coach uses to hit pop flies to the outfielders. At this point, Trooper Reeder was able to secure her left arm and left leg. WebVideo, photos show oil site where bodies of Chris Watts' wife and daughters were found. Chris Watts was having an affair with Nichol Kessinger at the time of the murders. After the release of the widely viewed Netflix documentary, Shanann Watts' brother thanked the filmmakers on social media for giving a "voice" to the victims. OR, if we're doing the "he should have" thing : He should have just packed his things and left, figuring out selling the house, divorce and custody later without killing anybody. "Upon the completion of emptying the east tank, a juvenile female victim believed to be Celeste Watts, was found buried in crude oil sludge at the bottom of the east tank," it states. Do you think if they hadnt caught him in the lie detector that he would have still confessed? WebThese unseen confession tapes show the moment Chris Watts explains why he put the bodies of his family in oil tanks. On August 15, Watts failed a polygraph test and confessed to murdering his pregnant wife. 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WebPublished on March 6, 2019 11:59 AM After he strangled his pregnant wife, Chris Watts wrapped her body in a sheet and drove 45 minutes to an oil field with his two daughters in WebHarrowing autopsy report details as Chris Watts suffocated family before hiding bodies Meanwhile, the CBI and FBI went through Watts phone, and found he had been having an "I'm still a Dad! Bella was in the west oil tank and Celeste was inside the east tank. The chilling last photos of Shanann, Bella and Celeste, taken just hours before they were murdered, were included in the release. WebChristopher Watts, the Colorado man who is serving a life sentence for killing his pregnant wife and two daughters, drove the girls along with their dead mother's body on a 45 Former West End dancer Jobyna Watts faces a legal row with her son, Carlton WebChristopher Watts killed his wife, Shanann and their two daughters, Bella and Celeste in August. Chris Wattskilled wife Shanann Watts and daughters Bella and Celeste in Frederick,Colorado. There's also his account of NK wanting to "give him his first son". "We believe that Chris killed them all.". He made me believe that he was doing all of the things that a rational man and good father would do, she told the newspaper. Shanann Watts was pregnant at the time. It took the Police 14 hours to retrieve the two tiny bodies. Then, he takes her body, takes it out of the vehicle. Like would they have found the girls in the tanks without him admitting it. Shanann was dressed in a "T-shirt, bra and panties". Chris Watts is a narcissistic murderer. That skin was retreived and given to a member of law enforcement on the scene. He walks over, takes CeCes [Celestes] favorite blanket, and smothers her, Lambert told Dr. Phil McGraw. An absolute moron imo. After dumping Celeste's body in an old field, he returned to smother Bella, who begged for her life. The report says Bella was wearing a "onesie" and underwear - while her younger sister was dressed in a nappy, underwear and a T-shirt. WebInvestigators Reveal How They Learned Chris Watts Was Lying and that He Killed Pregnant Wife, 2 Daughters "Once his family was found, he confessed to everything," Coder said. We believe that every person's story is important as it provides our community with an opportunity to feel a sense of belonging, share their hopes and dreams. He then told police that he wrapped Shanaan in a sheet and put her in their car, according to his confession posted on Law and Crime. 'There was also some skin on the plywood where her back made contact,' reads the report. He is serving a life sentence at a prison in Wisconsin. But he's an idiot. Picture: Frederick Police Department I dont know if this was a spiritual visit, but I had a dream Cece was dancing next to the chair in my cell, he wrote in a letter shared with The Daily Mail. So he decided to act as an innocent man, giving those incredible tv interviews and speaking to LE for hours. On November 19, Watts - who also admitted unlawfully terminating a pregnancy - was locked up for life without the possibility of parole in a plea deal that saw him avoid a possible death sentence. "I always worried about her and the girls being so far because I couldn't protect them," Shanann's brother, Frankie Rzucek, wrote in her eulogy. It's hard to tell with Chris because hes either not very bright or he was very arrogant in that he thought he wouldn't get caught. Watts was sentenced to five life sentences without the possibility of parole. Chris Watts gave a series of stilted television interviews after their disappearance, pleading for their Investigators also found the garbage bags Watts said he put over Shanaans head and feet when he drove his family to the site so the girls wouldnt have to see her, along with a sheet that matched one police previously found in the garbage at their house. He just moves on quickly from murdering his wife and two little girls with no remorse but panic of being caught instead. "I highly recommend watching this," Frankie Rzucek wrote on Facebook. Even if he didnt actually kill the kids for example, which he did, dropping your kids in oil barrels and tossing his wife in a shallow grave like he did is animalistic, evil and he does deserve to die, today. According to Thomas Grant, another lawyer representing Shananns family, Watts confessed new details to investigators after finding religious faith. All he had to do was pretend to give a shit. The 34-year-old had been 15 weeks pregnant with a son, and had her knees pulled up to her chest . Their bodies were found three days later. Since Shanann's body wouldn't fit through the 8 inch opening on the oil tank, Watts had wrapped her in a sheet and buried her. "After the recovery of the victim from the east tank, the west tank was drained under the same procedural guidelines," the report states. Kessinger told authorities that she believed that Watts was going through an amicable divorce. "It affects so many families and sometimes, the results can be deadly. one count of unlawful termination of pregnancy and three counts of tampering with a dead body. He wishes he had handled things differently.". Because of the level of oil sludge and toxic fumes, the men could only remain in the tank for a matter of minutes, making the process that much more complicated and difficult. Not long after, police found all three bodies exactly where Watts said they were and it was a harrowing sight. 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He is currently serving five life sentences without the possibility of parole. I think he's a narcissist, but is he also a psychopath? I am torn. I had literally taken my kids to a birthday party, played with water balloons, had an amazing time, sang songs all the way home, gave them bath a shower, ate dinner, read bedtime stories and sang bedtime songs, and still nothing registered!! ", In a bombshell turn of events, on Nov. 6, 2018, Watts pleaded guilty to the slayings of his pregnant wife and their young children in exchange for being spared a possible death sentence. A 2020 Netflix documentary, titled American Murder: The Family Next Door, revealed the final text messages Shanann sent her husband. WebThe author does a remarkable job of bringing to life the cold dark horror that is Chris Watts throughout the narrative but especially on the morning in the aftermath of the murders. Bye bye, alibi:Chris Watts watched surveillance footage that showed him loading bodies into his truck just hours after he murdered his family(above), No go:The footage showed that no one left the home on August 13 except for Watts, and when he realizes this he throws his hands behind his head in disbelief, Guilty:Watts then begins to sweat and offer up explanations as to why he had to back his truck up to the garage that morning, which his neighbor said was not normal. WebWatts, a 33-year-old Colorado oil worker, killed his wife, Shanann, who was 15 weeks pregnant, along with his two daughters aged three and four on August 13, 2018. Or maybe he could've just put the bodies in the car inside the garage and just shut his mouth when he got home from work. "The defendant coldly and deliberately ended four lives," prosecutors said of Shanann, her girls, and her unborn child. Leaving Shannan while she was pregnant would have interfered with all those desires, everyone would have thought he was scum and he would have been facing a financial nightmare as they were already in debt. He just kept blabbing his mouth. ', Chris Watts Has Photos of Slain Wife and 2 Daughters in Prison Cell: 'Talks to Them' Every Day, Chris Watts Says Pregnant Wife 'May Have Been' Praying as He Strangled Her to Death, 'Daddy, No! According to the report by a crime scene analyst, all of the victims' bodies were in an "advanced state of decomposition". Daughters Bella and Celeste were located later that day in oil tanks near Shanann's body. Going camping with zero attention would be unbearable for him it seems. He then took Celeste to the east well and dropped her in feet first, he told police. Before burying Shanann in a shallow grave, Watts said he smothered Celeste in the backseat. Christopher Watts is in court for his arraignment hearing at the Weld County Courthouse on August 21, 2018 in Greeley, Colorado. Watts admitted to killing his wife but claimed that he had done so after she had killed the couple's two tiny daughters, Bella, 4, and Celeste, 3. Want to keep up with the latest crime coverage? He claims she threatened to leave him and take the children. "When Shanann had to be somewhere, I always enjoyed taking the girls places or playing outside because it was our opportunity to bond, and still the night before I couldn't stop myself from what I knew would occur the next morning.". Watts, 35, cried in court as he pleaded guilty to five counts of murder in the first degree, three counts of tampering with a deceased human body, and one count of unlawful termination of a pregnancy. "I was in a really, really, really bad place, and I got a friend request from Chris on Facebook," she said in an online video about four months before her death. Or just a complete moron. He told investigators that he killed his wife, Shanann, because she killed their daughters. In 2018, Shanann became pregnant again with a baby boy she planned to name Niko. Create an account to follow your favorite communities and start taking part in conversations. As always you can unsubscribe at any time. The process of removing the bodies began at 5am on the morning of August 16 and would go on for almost 14 hours, with the report noting that at 6:45pm that evening members of the Colorado State Patrol cleared the scene. ", Less than two years later, in July 2015, Celeste was born. Shanann Watts (center) and her daughters. "Just knowing that the documentary is out there has sent Chris to some dark places," a source tells People. Once there, he buried the womans body before smothering their children to death. According to the report, the bodies were all in an advanced state of decomposition. 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