Chris Watts, a Colorado resident, murdered his own family in 2018. This year was his then-wife’s and his children’ sixth anniversary of their deaths.
Christopher Watts, the “Killer dad,” is missing the plot. The 39-year-old man who is charged with killing his wife and two kids in August 2018 with great brutality has now placed the burden for the tragedy on the shoulders of his late partner and lover, who was also her former coworker. He called the former a “control freak,” but referred to the latter as a “harlot” in letters that were just made public, even though he had previously claimed to have “chemistry” with her.
Watts, who is presently serving a life term at Wisconsin’s Dodge Correctional Institution, is said to have killed his mistress, “Nichol Kessinger,” because she was “everything my wife wasn’t like with me.”
Why is Colorado man Chris Watts in the news again for his 2018 murders?
at newly revealed handwritten notes obtained by the New York Post, Watts admitted to strangling his 34-year-old pregnant wife on August 13, 2018, at their Colorado home. After that, he disposed of her body at an oil company job site in a shallow grave.
Additionally, he murdered his two daughters, Celeste, age three, and Bella, age four. He smothered the little girls in his truck as they pleaded for his forgiveness. Their remains were then disposed of by him in oil barrels.
The handwritten letters also disclosed Watts’s friendship and thought-sharing relationship with fellow prisoner Dylan Tallman. Tallman had reportedly promised to write a prayer book with Watts after sharing a cell with him for almost a year. But after Watts broke his word, the other man published a trilogy of books called “The Cell Next Door.”
It appears from the seized document that the 39-year-old killer informed Tallman everything about his marriage to Shanann, his ex-wife, as well. He told him how miserable they were in their relationship.
Watts went on to disparage Shanann, saying that he met Nichol after he started working out and dropped weight in 2017. His wife “wasn’t like with” him, he said, calling her “just everything.” She was “just nice, and not a control freak.” Together, we could decide things.
Records show that in the months preceding Shanann and his two little kids’ deaths, Chris Watts and Nichol Kessinger had an affair.
Despite having known one other for a while, Watts proudly asserted that they “didn’t start messing around until 6 weeks before.”
Claiming that he was “not thinking” about the affair, he crudely objectified Nichol, a coworker, calling her “the forbidden fruit.” “We had chemistry, and I gave in to temptation,” Watts stated.
He went on to say that he was frequently the one taking care of their girls, but Shanann was “really busy with her job and everything it required,” according to his prisonmate from Wisconsin.
He also refers to Nichol as a “harlot” and a “jezebel” in a subsequent letter, accusing her of being the cause of his demise.He confesses in a letter dated March 2020 that “the words of a harlot have brought me low.” “Her charming speech was like drops of honey that pierced my heart and soul,” he said. I had no idea that every one of her visitors was in the chamber of death.
At the time, Nichol told authorities she thought Chris and Shanann were divorcing amicably.
More background into the infamous murders of Shanann Watts and her two daughters
The deaths of Shanann Watts and her two children, Celeste and Bella, took place six years ago on August 13. There was going to be a third kid.
Watts first connected with his ex-wife on Facebook by sending her a friend request. He first denied knowing his family’s whereabouts after missing notices were posted. He eventually admitted to the murders.
The killings of Shanann, Bella, and Celeste are well-known as they were the subject of the Netflix documentary “American Murder: The Family Next Door.”On September 30, 2020, it was up for streaming. A source then informed People Magazine that Watts was “triggered” since it “makes him feel a lot of shame.”
The Netflix documentary includes emails and texts exchanged between Watts and his spouse. “He can’t see it, and he’ll probably never see it,” stated the source, who appeared to communicate with Watts on a daily basis while he was incarcerated.
They also mentioned Watts’ dislike of his communications being easily accessible to the general public, despite his curiosity about their substance. “It reminds him of terrible times in 2018,” the insider continued.
While Watts did confess to killing his wife in his first police confession, he made a false accusation that Shanann killed his daughters by suffocating them after he informed her he wanted to get a divorce. But the authorities didn’t think he was telling the truth and thought he had killed all three. Ultimately, he admitted to killing his wife and daughters in a November plea deal. He will probably be behind bars without the possibility of release for the rest of his life.
At the time, an insider told the site that Watts “had no choice, considering the evidence,” citing “overwhelming evidence.” Though it took some time, he eventually recovered.
Nine accusations were found against him; five were related to first-degree murder, one included the wrongful termination of a pregnancy and three counts of tampering with a deceased human body.
“Beyond the Headlines: The Watts Family Tragedy,” “Buried With Love: The Watts Family Murders,” and an episode of Oxygen’s “Criminal Confessions” are a few other films that highlight the Watts family killings. In 2020, the Lifetime film “Chris Watts: Confessions of a Killer” was also released; however, Shanann’s family strongly objected to it, claiming they had not been consulted.
