crimesandcuriosities:The Father Who Killed His FamilyOn 13th August 2018, Chris Watts murdered his p
crimesandcuriosities:The Father Who Killed His FamilyOn 13th August 2018, Chris Watts murdered his pregnant wife Shanann (34) and his two daughters, Bella (4) and Celeste (3). It emerged that Watts had been having an affair with a colleague, and Shanann had allegedly retaliated by saying their marriage was over and Watts would not see his children.After it was noticed that the family were nowhere to be found, Watts initially claimed that he had returned home to find his wife’s wedding ring on the kitchen counter alongside a note to say she had left him. After this version of events was discounted, Watts claimed that his wife had murdered their two children in a vengeful rage after finding out he was having an affair, and he had murdered her in relation. However, this story was also not sustainable. In an interview with Watts after he was arrested and charged, he spoke of how his wife did not put up a struggle as he strangled her to death, and believes she was praying during her last moments. After she was dead, Watts put his wife’s body into a truck and drove with his two young daughters to a secluded area near to his workplace. Once there, he dragged Shanann’s body into a shallow grave and then returned to the car to smother Celeste to death. After Bella watched her younger sister die, she asked her father if the same thing was going to happen to her. Watts then turned on her also, as she screamed and pleaded “Daddy, no!” When reflecting on the murders during the interview, Chris Watts claims he is haunted by his eldest daughter’s cries every day. The bodies of the young girls were pushed inside a small hatch in an oil tank and concealed there, until investigators found a tuft of blonde hair snagged on the hatch opening. Chris Watts was convicted and received multiple life sentences in November 2018, including for the lost life of his unborn child. He is allegedly confined to his cell for 23 hours every day, and has little access to anything but a bible. Despite the isolation, Watts apparently receives a lot of mail from female admirers due to his looks. One woman even wrote that she “doesn’t mind” that he killed his entire family. -- source link