", The Most Bizarre Things About The Chris Watts Case. Things hadbecome so bad that they had to file for bankruptcy a couple of years earlier. They are used to being lied to. When she realized her marriage was crumbling before her, she tried everything she could to save it. While law enforcement did their bit scouring through each and every conversation between Chris and Shanann, mainstream publications chose to gloss over most of the investigative reports, probably fearing it would make the narrative fuzzy and confusing for their viewership. ", After Chris Watts pleaded guilty to first degree murder in November 2018, his parents gave an interview to ABC11 defending their son. eventAction: 'load' He knows hes starting to get pinned, Flater said. That's why the cause of death was smothering. ", On Feb. 18, 2019, Chris Watts sat down for a five-hour interview with the Frederick Police Department, the Colorado Bureau of Investigation, and the FBI the audio of which was released to the public. A lawyer from the Office of the Colorado State Public Defender which represented Mr. Watts when he pleaded guilty to murder in November 2018 declined to comment on the documentary, which touched off a new wave of fascination with the grisly murders. By all accounts, Chris had spent a pretty regular weekend with his two daughters, and there seemed to be indication that he had planned to murder them and their mother just hours later. He later faced nine criminal counts, including murder, the unlawful termination of a pregnancy and tampering with dead bodies. A few months into their affair, Chris was telling Nichole that he loved her and that he was looking to move out of his wifes house and start fresh with her. December 25th, 2006. Available in the Wondery App. He deserves a life sentence for each and every act on top of one another, Mr. Rourke said. Three days later, the authorities announced that Ms. Wattss body and the bodies of her daughters, Bella, 4, and Celeste, 3, had been found on the property of the Anadarko Petroleum Corporation, the oil company that had employed Mr. Watts. ", After failing the test, Chris confessed to a version of the truth, which included him alleging that he'd only murdered his wife, Shanann Watts, after she supposedly smothered their two daughters. Watts's chilling aloofness has kept the lurid murders in the public eye for years now. However, he admitted in the letter that he had been plotting the murders for some time. As Insider reported in December 2018, Shanann's mother, Sandra Rzucek, told 20/20 that Watts didn't seem worried in the slightest when his wife and kids were first reported missing. According to theDaily Mail, "Footage from a police officer's body camera has been getting attention because it appears to show a little girl playing inside the Watts' home after Chris' wife and daughters were reported missing." In hindsight, this normalcy appeared to be extremely chilling. Listen and Subscribe to The Generation Why Podcast! They argued that he was trying to use his dead wife as a scapegoat for the murders of his children because she was not there to defend herself and there was no evidence to back up his claims. He was unhappy about her pregnancy, and she worried that he wouldnt be able to handle a third child. This season, host Dave Cawley, digs into the lives of these two men, the details of the case and examines the intersections between domestic abuse and sexual violence. Instead, this is a love story like no other. "He has changed. It would seem that Chris' behavior toward Shanann became noticeably different, as she told her friend via text, "l told him last [night], I don't feel safe with him after what he said about the baby. That is, until Watts finally confessed. In an interview (posted on YouTube) with the Denver ABC affiliatetwo days after the murder, Watts said, "I hope that she's somewhere safe right now and with the kids." WebChris Watts was in an abusive marriage with Shanann who often humiliated him, claims Chris Watts: Confessions of a Killer. If you know anything about Chris Watts, you might be scrambling for an explanation. window.googletag.pubads().addEventListener('slotRenderEnded', function(event) { },false) gads_event = event; However, it was later revealed that Chris killed Shanann first, and didn't murder their daughters, Celeste and Bella, until he'd driven to the oil site where their bodies were found. It was a very hard relationship (with Shanann) as far as I'm concerned. According to Film Daily, the Watts family murders have been the subject of quite a few true crime documentaries, television shows, podcasts, YouTube specials, and more. They found Ryan injured but alive, and his girlfriend Heather dead from a gunshot wound to the head. Regardless of his accusations Mr. Watts has been charged with 5 counts of murder, tampering with evidence/a body and the unlawful termination of pregnancy. Christopher Watts during his arraignment hearing at the Weld County Courthouse in Greeley, Colo., on Aug. 21, 2018. RJ Sangosti/The Denver Post via Associated Press. ", Chris' parents also suggested that it was his marriage to Shanann that changed him. When asked about her relationship with Chris Watts, his girlfriend, Nichol Kessinger, told interviewers that she believed the couples financial problems was one of the main stresses in the relationship and most likely the reason that Mr. Watts wanted a divorce. Yeah, Ill have pizza. As reported by theDaily Mail, in one letter he sent to Cadle, Chris reportedly admitted that his first attempt to kill his young daughters, Bella, 4, and Celeste ("Cece"), 3, was unsuccessful. window.googletag.pubads().addEventListener('impressionViewable', function(event) { According toiNews, "He claimed that she had killed their two girls in response to his request [for a divorce], and said he had killed her in anger after she did this. In a disturbing prison letter obtained by The Daily Mail, Chris went into more detail about how and why he committed this heinous crime. As she said in the Denver Post interview, "We had just met. Sergeant Jill Evans is a small town cop in Wales with an impressive record in her job, and a less than impressive record in her love life. He just explained how he stuffed his children into a tank of oil and water at their burial place. Suspiciously, Shanann had neglected to take important everyday items with her, including her cellphone, wallet and medicine. Theres not one person you can talk to that will say anything bad about this kid. When Greg and a friend went to collect this evidence they were shot at by a man hiding in the bushes. WebThese unseen confession tapes show the moment Chris Watts explains why he put the bodies of his family in oil tanks. Who was Christopher Lee Watts in the moments leading up to and after he suffocated his wife and kids? I recommend the book :) its powerful. She planned to explain that she knew heneeded space, as did she, but wanted to ask what they could do to mend their marriage. Her daughters were also missing and she had neglected to take any important items with her such as her purse, cellphone and medication. That made the act that much worse knowing I went to their rooms first and knowing I still took their lives at the location of the batteries.". However, in an interview with police, Kessinger said that she didn't believe the affair was the catalyst for the murders, but it may have "accelerated the process," per The Daily Mail. The answer is yes. According to documents released by the Weld County District Attorney's Office, Shanann had grown suspicious of her husband. In addition to his coldness, another mysterious element in the story keeps people wanting to know why Watts did it. She had organized for a babysitter to take care of the children while the two were away on the romantic weekend, but Chris Watts had no intention of working things out. Per the discovery documents released by the Weld County District Attorney's Office, "Watts had a 'secret calculator' application uploaded to his personal phone. Ashleys main point is that Chris Watts was a seething, passive-aggressive narcissist. Available in the Wondery App. She told a coworker she was headed to meet her estranged husband, Charles Warren, at a car dealership. Wish I could have known her if only to thank her for her contagious enthusiasm. Its how they have helped police get to the truth for more than two decades now. Anyone can read what you share. Yeah, I mean the paranoia just kind of grows like, 'I cant trust anybody.'. He then did the same to Bella. The documentary was made using social media posts, recordings from law enforcement personnel, text messages and home videos, according to Netflix. Copyright 2023 Distractify. Nichol Kessinger Is Part of 'Chris Watts: Confessions of a Killer', but She Didnt Want the Spotlight, The Incredible True Story of Kidnapping Victim Mary Stauffer Is Being Made Into a Lifetime Movie. Chris Watts had spent the weekend with their daughters, Celeste and Bella, and according to him, they'd had a rather normal time together at home. She sold and distributed freeze dried health food for the company, and although she mostly worked from home, she would occasionally go on business trips both domestically and internationally. A makeshift memorial to Shanann, Bella and Celeste Watts in Frederick, Colo., in 2018. RJ Sangosti/The Denver Post, via Associated Press. So yes, theyve helped me with my victim shame. Once he had murdered his entire familyand disposed of them, he set the wheels in motion for what he believed would be his new life, his fresh start. Instead, they were made by a deceitful, cowardly, angry but also perhaps also humiliated husband. pg.acq.push(function() { And they will tell you the lies that Chris Watts told for more than two months about the disappearance of his family were as easy to read as a childrens book. ga('ads.send', { It made me feel nasty. Chris Wattss behavior around his missing and pregnant wife raised red flags for those following the case instantly along with local law enforcement. eventCategory: event.slot.getSlotElementId(), On Aug. 13, 2018, Mr. Wattss wife, Shanann Watts, 34, who was 15 weeks pregnant, and the couples young daughters were reported missing. Police were sure it was the 34 year old mother and later tests proved it indeed was. Chris' seemingly calm demeanor while picking up a snack now seems particularly haunting as he'd only recently murdered and buried his family, having initially left his home around 5:30 a.m. that same day. Netflix's new true crime documentary, American Murder, reveals a crumbling marriage and an affair. Thank you guys, for bringing me back into my love for true crime! KILLER dad Chris Watts revealed his guilt with four gestures including a look of pleasure while he urged his wife and daughters to return, experts claim. The COLD team seeks to answer the question: what really happened to Sheree Warren?Hey Prime Members, you can binge all 10 episodes of COLD: The Search for Sheree ad-free on Amazon Music. As Kessinger later told The Denver Post, "I just wanted to help With a pregnant woman and two children missing, I was going to do anything that I could. As a subscriber, you have 10 gift articles to give each month. Many people have watched the Netflix documentary,American Murder: The Family Next Door, which pieces together the events leading up to the murders of Shanann Watts, her two daughters, and unborn son. Instead, Chris reportedly loaded wife Shanann Watts' body into his truck after strangling her, and then drove his daughters, who were still very much alive at that point, to what would become their final resting place. On August 14, 2018, Chris Watts paced his neighbor Nathaniel Trinastich's living room in agitation. Tanned and fit, he looked into the camera apparently in anguish and begged for his family to come home. He was normal, he didn't have a temper, he was just easy-going like his Dad. #ChrisWatts #ShannanWatts #PsychicMedium, A post shared by Shavonda Tate (@shavondaspsychicreadings) on Dec 27, 2019 at 1:25pm PST. She planned to ask him what he wanted to do. Shetried hard to communicate with her husband, asking what they would change and improve on. "It's not hard texting love you and miss you. THIS IS TOTAL LEFT FIELD.". It took a couple of days for the truth to be revealed about Chris involvement in his familys disappearance and why he, in fact, did kill his family. Join Wondery+ for exclusives, binges, early access, and ad free listening. No sense in both of us going out there lol. I need to see everybody., We cant see the whole body but it looks like hes holding his arms together," Nicoletti said. 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