Evil family killer Chris Watts shares gory details of murders of wife and daughters in letters from
Evil family killer Chris Watts has shared gory details of the murders of his wife and young daughters in horrifying letters sent from prison. The 38-year-old took the lives of Shannan, 34, Bella, four, and Cece, three, in August 2018.
The brute then buried Shannan, who was pregnant at the time, in a shallow grave at a work site around 40 miles from his home in Frederick, Colorado, US, before dumping his daughters' bodies in crude oil tanks, The Mirror reports.
Watts' sickening crimes shocked locals and soon became national and international news, before gaining further notoriety when they were featured in a Netflix documentary, American Murder: The Family Next Door, which was released in 2020.
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Now, the murderer has described the deaths of his family in grim detail in letters sent from behind bars to author Cheryln Cadle from the Dodge Correctional Institution, Wisconsin. As reported by The Mail, he described how he had been "thinking about killing" Shannan for several weeks - and that he failed in his initial attempt to smother his daughters, who followed him around the house while he dealt with his wife's body.
Watts revealed that he knew he was going to commit the evil crimes the day beforehand. One letter read: "August 12. 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."
Speaking of the murders, he told how Shannan's "eyes filled with blood" and he remembered her face "getting all black with streaks of mascara". In another letter, he wrote: "August 13, morning of, I went to the girls' room first, before Shanann and I had our argument.
"I went to Bella's room, then Cece's room and used a pillow from their bed [to kill them]. That's why the cause of death was smothering. After I left Cece's room, then I climbed back in bed with Shanann and our argument ensued."
But the evil father had failed to kill his daughters, who then woke up and came to see him as he attempted to move Shannan's body out the home. Watts said: "After Shannan had passed, Bella and Cece woke back up. I'm not sure how they woke back up, but they did. Bella's eyes were bruised and both girls looked like they had been through trauma."
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He eventually killed his daughters at the site where he dumped his pregnant wife's body. He revealed that "Bella [was] the only one that put up a fight" as "she knew I was killing her".
The murderer, who planned to run away with his secret lover, Nicole Kessinger, said he noticed that Shannan had posthumously given birth when he dumped her in the grave. He said: "When I dug the hole, it seemed a lot deeper than it was. As I pulled on the sheet she rolled out and into the hole.
"I think she had given birth. She landed face down, I remember being so angry with her that I was not going to change how she landed."
Watts originally tried to cover up his wicked crimes but cops quickly saw through his act and he was arrested just two days later on August 15, 2018, after confessing to Shannan's murder. He later admitted killing his two daughters.
In November 2018, he pleaded guilty to multiple counts of first-degree murder as part of a plea deal when the death penalty was removed from sentencing. He was sentenced to five life sentences, three to be served consecutively. He has no possibility of parole.
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