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Every time Chris Watts closes his eyes, he hears his daughter’s tragic final words.<\/p>\n
The family killer is serving five life sentences without parole for the murders of his 15-week pregnant wife, Shanann, and their two daughters on 13 August 2018.<\/p>\n
Following an argument, Watts said he murdered his pregnant wife by strangulation in their home in Frederick, Colorado, and later their daughters, Bella, four, and Celeste, three, by suffocation.<\/p>\n
He took the pair in his work truck to an oil site in rural Colorado and admitted to killing the children there before disposing the bodies in oil tanks.<\/p>\n
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Shanann\u2019s body was buried in a shallow grave nearby.<\/p>\n
According to Watts\u2019 2019 prison confession to investigators, after arriving at the site in his work truck, Bella saw what had happened to her younger sister, ‘CeCe’ and said: “Daddy, no!” and asked if ‘the same thing gonna happen to me as CeCe?’.<\/p>\n
While Watts wasn’t sure if he told Bella ‘yes’, he said he went on to suffocate the girl with a blanket as the child fought for her life.<\/p>\n
He said he threw the older girl’s body into a separate oil tank before burying his wife’s body.<\/p>\n
Watts told investigators that every time he closes his eyes, he hears Bella’s last words.<\/p>\n
“Right now I’d have a 5-year-old … a 3-year-old … and more than likely, a one-month old son\u2026and a beautiful wife\u2026and right now it’s just me,” he told investigators.<\/p>\n
Following Watts’ guilty plea, a co-worker named Nichol Kessinger came forward and revealed that she had been having an affair with him in the months prior.<\/p>\n
She claimed that Watts told her that he was going through an amicable divorce when they were together.<\/p>\n
Watts was convicted in Colorado and was sent to a prison in Wisconsin in December 2018.<\/p>\n
He is currently incarcerated at the maximum-security Dodge Correctional Institution in Waupun, according to People.<\/p>\n
The Daily Mail reports that Watts is housed in cell 14 of a special unit for high profile and dangerous case.<\/p>\n
People also reported in 2019 that the inmate kept photos of Shanann, and their two murdered children, in his cell.<\/p>\n
Despite a petition to remove the pictures, the Department of Corrections said it ‘has no legal basis for removing the photographs from Christopher Watts’.<\/p>\n
“Incarcerated inmates are permitted to possess certain identified items of property, including photographs,” a statement read.<\/p>\n
“Some photographs are not allowed, such as those depicting gang signs, colours, or insignias or photographs that include nudity.”<\/p>\n
Topics: Crime, True Crime, US News<\/p>\n
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