Chris Watts: The Biggest Lies the Killer Dad Told to Get Away With Murdering His Pregnant Wife, 2 Daughters
Chris Watts is known as the man who murdered his pregnant wife, Shanann Watts, and their two young daughters, Bella Marie and Celeste Cathryn, in 2018.
The Watts family in Colorado has been posting much of their lives on Facebook and Instagram. According to E! Online, Chris and Shanann first met in their home state of North Carolina in 2010. The two got married in November 2012 and eventually moved to Colorado.
The couple welcomed their first child, Bella, in December 2013. Two years later, their second daughter, Celeste, was born. Shanann was also pregnant with their third child, a boy they were going to name Nico, when Chris killed his family.
In August 2018, the then 33-year-old killer dad strangled his pregnant wife, who was 34 at the time and smothered Bella, 4, and Celeste, 3. Chris Watts said none of it would have happened if he was thinking.
Chris Watts Biggest Lies
While Chris Watts said he had not planned to kill his family, he told some devious lies to get away with murdering his pregnant wife and two daughters.
On August 14, 2018 or the day his wife and kids were reported missing, the killer dad made a plea to police and reporters outside his house, asking for his family back.
Chris initially told the police that he texted his wife a few times but was not getting any reply, which he chalked up to her being busy. Shanann's friend, Nickole Atkinson, showed up at the house and said Shanann was not returning her messages either.
Chris said he went home after Atkinson called her and then walked into the house, and no one was there. He earlier told Denver 7 that he hoped his family was safe.
"I was hoping that I would just get just ran over by the kids running in the door and just like barrel-rushing me, but it didn't happen and it was just a traumatic night trying to be here," he told the outlet.
Chris said his kids were his life, and he missed telling them they had to eat their dinner and seeing them "cuddled up" on their Disney-themed couches.
The killer dad also told Denver 7 that if his wife and kids were safe, "they're coming back, but if not... this has got to stop... somebody has to come forward."
When another news outlet interviewed him, Chris said the last thing that Shanann told him was that she was going to her friend's house with the kids, and "that was it... it was very vague."
Chris failed a polygraph test and was arrested the following night, or on August 15, 2018. Chris had asked to see his dad after his arrest. Authorities eventually let his father, Ronnie Watts, into the interview room, where Chris told his dad that he had strangled Shanann after she killed the girls.
Chris later admitted to investigators that he had strangled Shanann in a rage on August 13, 2018, and disposed of all three bodies.
In an arrest affidavit, Chris maintained that his wife killed their daughters. He claimed that Bella was already dead when he saw on the baby monitor screen Shanann choking Celeste upstairs. But investigators were not buying this version of events.
The killer dad eventually admitted to authorities that he was having an affair with co-worker Nichol Kessinger, who called the police on the morning of August 15, 2018, and told them that she was having an affair with the missing woman's husband.
Police then linked her with the FBI, and hours later, Chris was in handcuffs. According to Nichol, Chris told her that his wife and the kids went to a play date and never came home.
Nichol said Chris appeared unemotional about the whole thing, and his communications after that "seemed off." She noted that after he was telling her so many lies, she got to a point she told him that she did not want to speak to him again until his family was found.
Nichol said Chris has lied to her about his real civil status and the state of his family. Nichol noted that she did not doubt that Chris killed his wife and two kids.
She said the killer dad was a liar and lied about everything. In an interview with investigators in February 2019, the killer dad noted that his mistress knew he was married but "lied" and pretended she did not.
He also denied having gay experiences in the past after a Wyoming guy came forward and claimed he met Chris on WhatsApp and had an affair with him. Just recently, a former fellow inmate of Chris said the killer dad is trying to pin the blame for his two young daughters' death on his mistress.
David Carter, who said he spent two spells with the Colorado man in Dodge Correctional Facility, Wisconsin, told The Sun that Chris said Nichol had "smothered the girls with their blankets, and they suffocated."
Carter said Chris claimed that his mistress helped him get the girls into the oil tanks and dig the grave for his pregnant wife. The former inmate noted that Chris wanted to start a new life with his mistress, but Shanann was in the way.
Carter said Chris told him that it made him feel sad that her two daughters were killed, but "one of them woke up and saw that Shanann was dead and would be a witness."
The former inmate noted that the killer dad was unable to stomach killing his own children and told him, "that's why Nichol killed them."
Chris Watts Murder Case
Chris Watts pleaded guilty to the crimes in November 2018. He said he took his wife and their kids' bodies to an oil site and buried them after killing them. The killer dad is currently serving a total of five life sentences in prison as Shannan's family did not seek the death penalty in the case.
Chris has admitted to investigators that Shanann had confronted him about being unfaithful on the morning he killed his family. He denied it, but Shanann told him that he'd never see the kids again.
After hearing that, the killer dad said he strangled his wife in their bed, but Bella walked into the room and asked him if her mom was okay, and he said Shanann was not feeling well.
Chris continued to say that he wrapped Shanann's body in a sheet and put her in the backseat of his truck on the floor, while Bella was crying as he dragged her lifeless mother down the stairs. He said he also put her two daughters in the backseat and then drove them to the oil site, where he smothered Bella and Celeste.
The killer dad was reportedly in a relationship with Nichol Kessinger before committing the hideous crime. The pair met at their job at the Anadarko Petroleum Corporation in Colorado in June 2018.
Chris allegedly lied to Nichol when they met. He told her that he was in divorce proceedings with his wife at the time. He also refrained from telling Nichol that his wife was pregnant with their third child.
After Chris Watts made the guilty plea, Nichol Kessinger was not able to speak with the media, and her whereabouts remain unknown. Nichol earlier said she had left Colorado and started a new job.
However, she noted that it would be hard for her to go out in public "for years" due to abuse and slander. Some reports said authorities placed her in a witness protection program and gave her a new name and identity.
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Written by: Mary Webber
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