The Watts family murders occurred in the early morning hours of August 13, 2018, in Frederick, Colorado. While being interviewed by police, Christopher Lee Watts admitted to murdering his pregnant wife Shanann Cathryn Watts by strangulation. He later admitted to killing their daughters, four-year-old Bella and Celeste, by strangling them with a blanket over their heads. At the time of her death, she was 15 weeks pregnant with a son whom they had named Nico Lee Watts.
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The Watts family murders occurred in the early morning hours of August 13, 2018, in Frederick, Colorado. While being interviewed by police, Christopher Lee Watts admitted to murdering his pregnant wife Shanann Cathryn Watts by strangulation. He later admitted to killing their daughters, four-year-old Bella and Celeste, by strangling them with a blanket over their heads. At the time of her death, she was 15 weeks pregnant with a son whom they had named Nico Lee Watts. Chris initially told police he had no idea where Shanann, Bella, or Celeste might be and had not seen his wife since 5: 15 a.m. on the 13th. The authorities located the bodies of the Watts family on the property of his former employer, Anadarko Petroleum, on August 16. The girls’ bodies were found hidden in oil tanks. Shanann and Nico were buried in a shallow grave nearby.
On August 21, Watts was charged with five counts of first-degree murder, including three counts of tampering with a human body. He was sentenced to five life sentences without the possibility of parole, three to be served consecutively and two to be serving concurrently. The case has been connected in the media to the case of family annihilation. In an interview on Dr. Phil, Watts’s lawyer claimed that he confessed to the crime because he contemplated suicide after the murders, an action that he claimed to have contemplated out of guilt for his actions. In the interview, he claimed she had strangled the girls in response to his request for separation and in a fit of rage, he strangled her and then transported the bodies to a remote oil-storage site.
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