

“I couldn’t believe how easily it was to just let her drop through the hole and let her go. “I dumped Shanann on the ground, then I walked back to the truck and with the blanket that Celeste was holding, I put it over her head and smothered her.” Later on, he described how he disposed of his wife and kid’s bodies: In describing how he felt during all of this, he wrote he was “so mad they were still alive.” Shannan Watts

Bella started to cry and when she did Celeste started whimpering. “The girls were just kind of running around the house, and watching me with scared looks on their faces. He talks about his daughters watching him murder their mother:
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When she started to get drowsy, I somehow knew how to squeeze the jugular veins until it cut off the blood flow to her brain, and she passed out…” “All the weeks of me thinking about killing her, and now I was faced with it. “Isn’t it weird how I look back and what I remember so much is her face getting all black with streaks of mascara?” He talks flippantly about murdering his wife: “August 12th when I finished putting the girls to bed, I walked away and said ‘That’s the last time I’m going to be tucking my babies in.’ I knew what was going to happen the day before and I did nothing to stop it.” He talks about knowing he was going to commit the murders: 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.” In Memory of Shannan, Bella, Celeste, and Nico Bella’s eyes were bruised and both girls looked like they had been through trauma. I’m not sure how they woke back up, but they did. After I left Cece’s room, then I climbed back in bed with Shanann and our argument ensued.Īfter Shanann had passed, Bella and Cece woke back up. 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). Now a woman who struck up correspondence with him in prison, Cheryln Cadle, as released a letter in which he explained exactly how he murdered his family.Īugust 13th, morning of, I went to the girls’ room first, before Shanann and I had our argument. He then ‘buried’ his daughters in oil drums and his wife and unborn son in a shallow grave on some property where he worked in the oil field.Ĭhris Watts accepted a plea deal in November 2018 and was sentenced to prison for five consecutive life sentences. He smothered his daughters, Bella, 4, and Celeste, 3, with pillows from their own beds.

He strangled his wife, Shan’ann Cathryn Watts, killing her and their unborn son, Niko. In August 2018 Chris Watts murdered his entire family in their Frederick, Colorado home. By Emily Madriga Updated January 16, 2021
