Family murdererChris Wattsspeaks every day to photos he keeps in his prison cell of his slain pregnant wife and two daughters, according to his February confession from inside a Wisconsin prison.
Watts, 33, also told investigators from the Colorado Bureau of Investigation he reads a book to his daughters every night, and also reads the Bible.
The newly released Feb. 18 audio confession laid out chilling details of the murders of his 34-year-old wife Shanann and the couple’s daughters, Bella, 4, and Celeste, 3. His voice trembling at times between sniffles, Watts confessed to strangling Shanann and then loading her body into the bed of his truck before driving it to a remote oil field, where he used one of his girls’ own blankets to smother both of them.
Chris Watts in a recent photo.CBI
He told authorities he has “pictures of his wife and daughters in his prison cell and he talks to them every morning and every night.”
Watts said during his confession he and Shanann had sex after she returned from a business trip to Arizona. Hours later, on Aug. 13, 2018, he jumped on Shanann, who was on her back in their bed, after a fight in which he told her he didn’t love her, and she threatened him with leaving him and taking the children.
Watts said he “snapped” and lost control. “Right now,” Watts said, “I’d have a 5-year-old, a 3-year-old, and more than likely, a one-month old son and a beautiful wife, and right now it’s just me.”
Last November,Watts pleaded guilty to all three killings. He is currently serving five life sentences without the possibility of parole.
According to the confession, Watts drove 45 minutes to a remote oil field, with Shanann’s corpse in the bed of the truck and his still-living girls in the backseat.
“During the ride, the girls were dozing on and off, held each other, and laid in each other’s laps,” the CBI report reads.
“Bella asked him in her soft voice, ‘Is the same thing gonna happen to me as Cece?'” reads the report. “He is not sure if he told Bella ‘yes’ like a horrible person.”
Watts also opened up about what he claims are his newfound religious beliefs, and what his life has been like behind bars.
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He said he prayed to be transferred to a different facility, and when he was, it “felt like God moved him to [the prison] for a reason.”
Watts told police he “tries to keep a ‘low profile’ in the prison.”
source: people.com
