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Christopher Lee Watts murdered his family in Frederick Colorado United States. He killed his pregnant wife Shannon Cathryn Watts and their kids, 4 year old Bella and 3 year old Celeste. The reason behind the killing is that he had an affair with another woman and he wanted to leave his family. The woman Chris was having an affair with was his coworker Nichole Kessinger. She claimed that Chris told her that he was

in a process of divorcing his wife and that they were seperated.

The killing process

Chris had told his wife Shannon that their marriage was over and her response to that was something like ‘Well, you’re not gonna see the kids again’ and that led Chris to strangle his wife to death in her bed on the 13th

of August 2018. According to him she

did not fight back. He had rolled Shannon’s body in their bed sheets and

put it on the floor of the backseat of his truck, he then placed his two daughters, Bella and Celeste, in the backseat. He also revealed that his 4 year old daughter Bella saw Chris preparing to move Shannon’s body. He told Bella that ‘mommy does not feel good’.

He confessed that he did not plan to kill his two daughters but still drove out to his work site around 40 miles away from their home.

He then proceeded to suffocate both of his daughters before dropping their bodies in separate oil tanks on the same date as their mother was killed. He then proceeded to bury his wife’s body in the ground nearby the tanks that he later confessed in prison.

The discovery of the bodies

Nicole Atkinson was a very good friend to Shannon and was the first person to get concerned about Shannon. Later that day Atkinson becomes worried that she had not heard from Shannon. She says “I called her and texted her several times”. “I knew she had an doctor’s appointment that morning because she is pregnant. She didn’t show up for it…and I was even more concerned”. Shannon Watts was reported missing around 1:40 p.m.

Atkinson then calls the police who does a welfare check. Shannon’s belongings were found at the house such as keys, phone and purse. According to the news stations Chris had told them that “She said she was going to a friend's house with the kids and that’s the last thing I heard, and that was it. It was very vague”.

When the Colorado Bureau of Investigation issues an Endangered Missing Alert, Chris talks to Denver’s ABC affiliate and pleads for their return: “Shannon, Bella, Celeste, if you’re out there, just come back, like if somebody has her, just please bring her back, I need to see everybody, I need to see everybody,again, this house is not complete without anybody here. Please bring them back”.

On the 15th of August 2018 Chris fails a polygraph test and admits to his father Ronnie, to killing his wife, falsely claiming that the reason he killed her was because she suffocated both their daughters.

Shannon’s, Bella’s and Celeste’s bodies were found on the 16th of August 2018.

On August 21 2018 Chris was charged with three counts of first-degree charges for victims being 12 or younger. He also faces another count for the unlawful termination of a pregnancy, plus three counts of tampering with a body. A total of nine charges.

On November 6th 2018 Chris appeared in court, pleading guilty to all nine criminal counts. Shannon’s family requests that the death penalty to to be sought.

Sources:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Watts_family_murders

https://www.the-sun.com/news/1564571/chris-watts-murderer-shannan-watts-two-daughters/

https://www.distractify.com/p/how-did-chris-watts-kill-his-wife

We do not know much of what Ronnie and Cindy are up to now, residing in North Carolina still, but some reports do claim that Cindy is currently working on a book about the events that transpired in 2018. The Watts’ said they were struggling to comprehend what happened, believing that Chris loved his children, but they were glad that he was accepting the consequences of his actions. Ronnie and Cindy also thanked the prosecutors for the opportunity to speak their minds and even thanked Shanann’s parents for not pursuing the death penalty against their child. They forgave him and told him that they would always love him. They implied that they wouldn’t ever ask for leniency in his sentence or condone his crimes, but that they would also never abandon their son. Where Are Chris Watts’ Parents Today? Image Credit: Netflixĭuring Chris Watts’ sentence hearing, both Ronnie and Cindy gave impact statements – together and separately via a representative – during which they said that they were horrified by what he had done. They could never see eye to eye, and even after Shanann passed, it seemed to remain that way. That food item became the topic of a full-blown fight between the two women, and Cindy ended up kicking Shanann out. While Shanann and the kids were in North Carolina, visiting, Cindy gave her granddaughters ice cream, which, unfortunately, had ingredients that the younger one, Celeste, was allergic to. And, just weeks before Chris killed his wife and daughters, she had had another argument with them. In fact, Shanann’s relationship with her in-laws was so bad that they didn’t even attend their wedding. But, that was not at all the case.Ĭindy never really liked Shanann or her relationship with her son, thinking that she was changing him too much and was the reason that the couple moved from North Carolina to Colorado and away from her. In fact, Cindy even believed that her son had falsely confessed so as to not drag on the legal process. They couldn’t comprehend that their son could do something like this. Then, when November arrived and he revealed that he was also the one who killed his daughters, his parents confessed that they were devastated by the news. During that, he admitted that he killed his wife. On August 15, 2018, two days after Shanann and her daughters “disappeared,” Chris failed a polygraph test and asked to speak with his father. Ronnie Watts played a key role in getting Chris to confess in the first place, so his view point matters a lot. Who Are Chris Watts’ Parents? Image Credit: NetflixĬindy and Ronnie Watts have spoken to the media about their son a few times since his arrest and conviction and have made their feelings about the situation perfectly clear.

I'm not sure how they woke back up, but they did. 'After Shanann had passed, Bella and Cece woke back up. After I left Cece's room, then I climbed back in bed with Shanann and our argument ensued. That's why the cause of death was smothering. I went to Bella's room, then Cece's room and used a pillow from their bed (to kill them). In the letter, Watts writes: 'August 13th, morning of, I went to the girls' room first, before Shanann and I had our argument. The letters, and her one-on-one conversations with Watts in prison, form the basis of her explosive new book, Letters From Christopher that will be published on October 7. The letter was sent to Cheryln Cadle who struck up a correspondence with Watts after he was jailed. Watts, 34, did not share the revelation during his multiple interviews with police and FBI agents following the murders in August 2018. Watts' letter, below in its entirety, lays out in grim detail how he attempted to smother his daughters, Bella, 4, and Celeste, 3, before strangling his pregnant wife Shanann at their home in Frederick, Colorado.īut following the murder attempt, the girls woke up, bruised and traumatized. Published: 19:21 BST, 2 October 2019 | Updated: 19:26 BST, 4 October 2019įamily annihilator Chris Watts has made a chilling new confession that he 'murdered his daughters twice', in a disturbing prison letter obtained exclusively by DailyMailTV. Watts will spend life in prison after taking a plea deal and is currently being housed at Dodge Correctional Institution, Wisconsinīy Louise Boyle In New York For.He also confessed that he had slipped the potent painkiller Oxycodone to his wife in the hope of inducing a miscarriage and making it easier to leave her.The father admitted in his letter that he had been plotting the murders for some time so he could be with his mistress Nichol Kessinger.He then describes driving to the oil field where he methodically killed both of his daughters for the second and final time.But shockingly his daughters 'woke back up' bruised and traumatized after he had strangled Shanann to death in their bed in Frederick, Colorado.Watts, 34, described smothering the little girls in their beds with a pillow on August 13, 2018, before going back to bed with his pregnant wife Shanann Watts.The letters and Cadle's one-on-one conversations with Watts in prison form the basis of her upcoming book, Letters From Christopher.Chris Watts confessed he 'murdered' daughters Bella, 4, and Celeste, 3, TWICE, in a letter to author Cheryln Cadle, DailyMailTV can exclusively reveal.EXCLUSIVE 'I remember her face getting all black with mascara.' Chris Watts confesses by letter how he squeezed wife's jugular and had to smother his little girls TWICE after they woke to see mom's blood-filled eyes