chris watts who reported his wife
shanann and his daughters bella and
celeste missing is now being charged
with their murders this is the most
inhumane vicious crime that i have
handled months after claiming that he
was innocent he finds himself in prison
take this defendant into custody and
have him serve the rest of his life in
the department of corrections he will
never come out of prison alive even
though chris pled guilty to all charges
he never officially confessed to killing
his children and it haunted the
investigators that they never knew what
happened if you're not being truthful
about
who took their lives
we thought we would never hear from him
again but it was actually only just
beginning
this is my flesh and blood this is like
what
i wanted all my life
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chris watts reveals the gruesome details
of the murders of his wife and daughters
the convicted killer speaks with
investigators from inside his wisconsin
prison cell after being since chris was
taken to prison to whop in wisconsin
where he's now at the dodge correctional
facility
investigators from frederick police
department and cbi flew to wisconsin and
tried to extract another confession from
him
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but we never really got to talk about
that night that's what happened because
you know
she got home like at two o'clock
i fell for you at the bed and i kind of
feel her kind of stirring around a
little bit
she i i just had a feeling that she knew
like
i don't even want to say it feel like i
had to i just felt like there was
already something in my mind that wasn't
planning that i was going to do it and i
woke up that morning it was going to
happen and i had no control not over
and i was like everyone just gotta just
gotta talk okay i'm just like told her
i don't feel compatible i don't feel
like this is gonna work chris wants to
tell her he wants a divorce and he's
having an affair that's the first time
that he ever admits to shanann that
there is another woman in the picture is
moments after she got home
that's when chris gets on top of his
pregnant wife and starts to strangle her
strangulation is a very personal form of
murdering somebody chris says shanann
didn't say anything he claims she didn't
fight back why do you think she wasn't
fighting
maybe she was praying from the scripture
and says don't uh
uh forgive these people they do not know
what they do
maybe she was saying that i don't know
what she was saying in her head did i
know i was going to do that before i got
out
kind of like i just saw my life
just disappearing from my eyes but just
like i couldn't let go it was like
somebody else like
like if you picture somebody else around
you holding your hands holding you keep
your feet
not i'll let you
i'm supposed to get on i was just like i
didn't know what what was going on
no shaking i didn't know what happened
shortly after he killed shanann
he was pulling her off the bed with a
bed sheet and that's when his oldest
daughter bella walked in the room and
saw what was going on
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what she said
he wrapped up shanann's body he took her
downstairs to the garage attempted to
attempted to pick her up and take her
down but
after a little while
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did bella see you do that what was bella
saying she started
crying a little bit she said what's
wrong mommy
and what'd you say that time
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she's a smart girl
bella watched him as he
dragged
his wife's body down the staircase to
his truck he loads shanann's body into
the back of his truck and then his two
daughters alive and honestly like i try
to picture that that whole ride like
it's like 45 minutes to an hour ride out
there
and it's just like
couldn't i have like
saved my girl's life couldn't i have
done something why did i do i don't know
right like this is my flesh and blood
this is like what
i wanted all my life was to be a dad
just to have you know kids and they love
me you know all that and there's just
nothing nothing made sense
he admits to taking them out to zurby
319. he
proceeded to
dig a shallow grave for shanann and
cover her back up he then returns to his
vehicle with his two daughters
and then he grabs
he grabs cece's favorite blanket
and smothers her
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says that the same thing will happen to
me as you see
bella was fully aware of what just
happened
i don't say if i just said yes like a
horrible person for if i just
put this put that blanket over her too
and did the same thing like every time i
closed my eyes i started to see her
saying daddy no and that was it
you hear that every day
she fought for her life then he took the
children one at a time and he put them
into the oil tanks
those are my kids
okay every time i see pictures
being a dad was the best part of my life
i took the whole way the details were so
intricate and
involved so much
reality in them that i don't think he
could make that up because chris first
blamed shanann for these murders there
are people who still think that he's
sitting in prison as an innocent man
yeah
i mean i never i never thought i'd be in
prison the rest of my life like i
didn't want like
anybody at the trash remember
like i wanted like them to know like she
was you know she was loving life she's
beautiful she always helped everybody
else all her friends really just ran
everywhere
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i just wanted i
didn't want anybody to take away
what she did i couldn't imagine a
more beautiful most amazing person for
that to happen to i really believe that
she did think she had the perfect life
and she really was happy
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you go through the denial and you
go through the why and the how and
like
nothing makes sense how do you have
closure
when you don't understand it we really
need to get better as a society about
honing our relational skills and
learning how
to deal with conflict to deal with
stress to not brush problems under the
rug where they get so big
and so overwhelming that you can't come
back from them
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i did go to the funeral and it was very
hard i wasn't expecting it to hit me
like it did when they brought out
three caskets and i couldn't believe it
happened you're not supposed to bury
your children and certainly not your
grandchildren i believe the watts family
as well as the rusek family are not
together morning but they're certainly
mourning equally everybody
buried their issues with one another
it's going to be incredibly difficult
for the rusek family and the watts
family to fully heal from this or move
on from it
ronnie
and cindy watts
they were not ready for the impact that
it was going to have upon them this
feels like it just happens
every day and i do think that we're all
five seconds away from choices that are
going to lead us down and have to make
us or break us chris watts was your
all-american dad with everything any man
would ever want now he's sitting in a
cell convicted of the murders of
everything he once loved shanann was
buried as shanann rusek they're all
together finally in north carolina
there's a lot of trauma that went
through this case there's a lot of tears
that were shed this case is a good
example of how the process
is designed to heal but in order for
that opportunity to exist you have to
respect the process
as far as shana anne's family i just
hope they they're able to focus on the
time that they did have shanann was such
an empathetic person i think we could
change the world with people like
shanahan if we were
willing to learn from her legacy this
small town of frederick colorado wants
to remember shanann bella and cece and
baby nico while also trying to make sure
that this town can heal from the wounds
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