>>>
>>> IT
>>> IT IS
>>> IT IS A HORRIFIC STORY THAT EVERYBODY IS TALKING ABOUT WITH
NEW INFORMATION EVERY SINGLE
DAY SOMEHOW MAKING IT WORSE
THAN THE DAY BEFORE.
>>> EVEN THOUGH IT DID NOT
HAPPEN HERE IN MINNESOTA ALL OF
YOU HAVE TOLD US YOU WANT TO
KNOW MORE ABOUT WHAT HAPPENED
IN THE STATE OF COLORADO.
WHAT HAPPENED IN A FAMILY THAT
LEFT A PREGNANT MOTHER MURDERED
ALONGSIDE HER TWO YOUNG
DAUGHTERS AT THE HANDS OF THEIR
FATHER, OF THAT WOMAN'S
HUSBAND.
HUSBAND.
HUSBAND. WHAT IN THE HECK HAPPENED?
I SPOKE TO THE REPORTER
COVERING THAT STORY DAILY AND
ASKED THAT QUESTION.
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[MUSIC] >> Reporter: THE STORY OF HOW
CHRIS WATTS WOUND UP IN
SHACKLES AND HIS PREGNANT WIFE
AND TWO DAUGHTERS FOUND
MURDERED BEGAN 8 DAYS AGO.
ON AUGUST 13th, SHANANN WATTS,
CHRIS'S WIFE, CAME HOME FROM A
BUSINESS TRIP, HOURS LATER, AT
5:00 THAT MORNING, CHRIS LEFT
THEIR HOME FOR WORK.
HOURS AFTER THAT, WHEN SHANANN
AND THE KIDS CAN NOT BE FOUND
OR HEARD FROM THEY ARE REPORTED
MISSING.
MISSING.
MISSING. TUESDAY AUGUST 14th, A SEARCH
BEGINS.
BEGINS.
BEGINS. >> WE ARE MISSING SOME PEOPLE
OUT OF THE NEIGHBORHOOD.
A MOTHER AND HER SMALL
CHILDREN.
CHILDREN.
CHILDREN. >> Reporter: ON THAT SAME DAY,
CHRIS WATTS BEGS COLORADO, ON
TELEVISION, TO FIND HIS FAMILY.
>> IT JUST SEEMS LIKE I AM
LIVING IN A NIGHTMARE AND I
CAN'T GET OUT OF IT.
I JUST WANT THEM HOME SO BAD.
I HAVE NO IDEA WHERE THEY WENT.
AND IT DOESN'T -- IT IS EARTH-
SHATTERING.
SHATTERING. I DON'T FEEL LIKE THIS IS REAL
RIGHT NOW.
RIGHT NOW. >> Reporter: 24 HOURS AFTER
THAT, CHRIS WATTS IS AT THE
POLICE STATION, INVESTIGATORS
ARE PRESSING HIM.
WE GO TO REPORTER TO EXPLAIN
WHAT HAPPENS NEXT.
>> I GET THE SENSE, READING THE
AFFIDAVIT THEY WERE PREPPING,
PUSHING HIM, WHAT HAPPENED
HERE, WHAT HAPPENED HERE, WHAT
HAPPENED HERE.
HAPPENED HERE. HIS FATHER WAS THERE.
IN THE AFFIDAVIT HE SAYS LET ME
TALK TO MY DAD AND I WILL TELL
YOU WHAT REALLY HAPPENED.
THE WAY THE AFFIDAVIT PLAYS OUT
AFTER HE SPOKE TO HIS DAD HE
CAME BACK AND HE TOLD THE
POLICE IN SUMMARY, YEAH, I
STRANGLED HER BUT I STRANGLED
HER BECAUSE I WAS ENRAGED
BECAUSE SHE STRANGLED OUR
DAUGHTERS AFTER I ASKED FOR A
SEPARATION.
SEPARATION. >> Reporter: THAT IS HOW WATTS
WINDS UP ARRESTED.
AND IN COURT TODAY FACING FIVE
COUNTS OF MURDER.
THAT STORY HE IS TELLING, THAT
HIS WIFE WAS THE MONSTER AND HE
JUST REACTED?
JUST REACTED? IT IS NOT BEING BELIEVED BY
MANY PEOPLE IN COLORADO.
>> NOBODY BELIEVES THIS GUY.
HIS CREDIBILITY IS SHOT, AT
LEAST WITHIN THE PUBLIC'S EYES.
>> Reporter: IT IS HARD TO
IMAGINE HOW COLORADANS OR
ANYONE COULD, AFTER, AGAIN,
CHRIS WATTS SPOKE FREELY A WEEK
AGO ASKING FOR HELP TO FIND HIS
FAMILY.
FAMILY.
FAMILY. KNOWING WHEN HE WAS TALKING
THAT HE KILLED AT LEAST ONE OF
THEM IF NOT ALL OF THEM AND
BURIED THEIR BODIES.
>> I JUST WANT PEOPLE TO KNOW I
WANT MY FAMILY BACK.
I WANT THEM SAFE.
I WANT THEM HERE.
>> HE WILL TELLING EVERYBODY, I
DON'T KNOW WHERE SHE WENT.
THIS IS MY WORST NIGHTMARE.
WHEN YOU WATCH HIM IN THE
INTERVIEWS HE WAS JUST SO --
CAVALIER ABOUT IT.
>> Reporter: IN ADDITION TO
THAT HE IS ACCUSED OF HAVING AN
AFFAIR, ONE HE DENIED TO LAW
ENFORCEMENT BUT ONE LAW
ENFORCEMENT SAYS THEY HAVE
PROOF OF.
PROOF OF.
PROOF OF. WHAT YOU HAVE, MAN CHEATING ON
ITS WIFE, LYING ABOUT HER
MISSING.
MISSING.
MISSING. >> IT IS HORRIFIC.
THE KIND OF STORY THAT SHOULD
NEVER BE TOLD OBVIOUSLY.
IT SHOULD BE IN A HORROR MOVIE.
YOU SHOULD UNDERSTAND CHRIS
WATTS WAS IN COURT TODAY.
HE WAS THERE TO HAVE HIS RIGHTS
READ TO HIM AND HAVE HIS
CHARGES READ TO HIM.
PROCEDURE.
PROCEDURE. HE NODDED AND UNDER STOOD THE
CHARGES.
CHARGES.
CHARGES. I GOT TO TELL YOU IF YOU COULD
SEE SHANANN'S FAMILY.
HER FATHER, WEEPING,
UNCONTROLLABLY, SHAKING,
UNCONTROLLABLY, SHAKING, WONDERING WHAT HE COULD HAVE
BEEN.
BEEN.
BEEN. >>
BEEN. >> IT DOES NOT RESINATE WITH
ME.
ME.
ME. HE
ME. HE SAYS HE KILLS HIS WIFE
BECAUSE SHE WAS COMMITTING A
MURDER WHY WOULD YOU PUT YOUR
OWN TWO CHILDREN, YOU JUST
SAVED INTO AN OIL VAT?
>> THERE IS NO RATIONAL TO IT.
YOU CALL THE POLICE IF THAT