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now Nicole Kissinger Chris's mistress only confirmed to police what they already suspected that Chris Watts was a
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liar a cheater and likely disposed of his family to get rid of the inconvenience of being a husband and
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father Chris agreed to take a polygraph test the results of the exam stated deception indicated Chris Watts was
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lying the detectives in the room decided to go For Broke they told Chris that he
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failed they knew he was lying and it was time to come clean then they pulled out
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a photo of his family this is when Chris confessed but not to murder he told investigators that he was being
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untruthful and he hurt shenan emotionally mhm he told them he was having an affair for five or six weeks
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he told them he never felt about anyone the way he felt about quote her he didn't want to tell the cops his lover's
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name right he wanted to keep her name out of it of course the cops had already talked to Nicole at length Chris went on
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to say that his and shanann's life was totally focused on the kids and he didn't feel as though he could be
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himself self or the person that he really was or who his wife needed him to be because he walked on eggshells around
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her the investigators kept pushing Chris and they kept hoping that somewhere he has a conscience well they keep telling
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him hey dummy you you failed the test right MH we we asked you three questions and those three questions Chris did we
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ask you about an affair did we ask you about your girlfriend no so you failed the test and
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for whatever reason Chris is like trying to get them to convince well it was because I was holding that back mhm that
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that's why I I didn't pass the test but trust me yes did I hurt her emotionally yes but I did not I did not hurt her
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physically but he also states that at some point maybe that his wife that he told his wife about the affair and that
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that's why she ran off or some crazy nonsense like that well when he doesn't cave what the interrogators do they try
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a new tactic and one of them asked Chris whether maybe shenan had quote done something to the girls right one of the
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detectives even tells Chris that he worked a case where the mother smothered her two kids because she didn't want her
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husband to be able to take them away from her mhm and after first denying it it seems likely that this
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concept gives Chris an idea because Chris asked to take a break and to talk to his father who was waiting outside
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now his father Ronnie comes in and the detectives remind Chris that whatever they say will be recorded and then they
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leave and Chris says to his dad in a quiet Broken Voice that he doesn't want to protect shenan he tells Ronnie that
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after he left their conversation about separating and went downstairs he he came back up to the master bedroom for
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something and saw on the baby monitor that Bella was SP played out on her bed the monitor flipped to Cece's room and
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Chris says he saw shenan sitting on top of CeCe strangling her he ran into the room and attacked shenan and quote did
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the same thing to her he says it was over fast he had a lot of rage and shanan wasn't able to fight back right
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he guessed that shanan must have just lost it he put Shan's body back on the master bed and covered her up because he
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said he couldn't look at her and he felt horrible for what he did then he said he
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looked at his kids and saw what she did now Ronnie is a gast at this news obviously he says my godson and puts his
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hand on Chris's arm right Chris says he could tell the girls were dead because they were both blue he did not attempt
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CPR he did not call 911 instead he put the bodies behind the driver's seat this is in the second row of his truck and
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disposed of them so Chris puts the blame on shanan for killing the girls he says
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quote emotionally he must have drove her to do something stupid he claims that she hadn't had a temper and would fly
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off the handle he implies that she was unstable now we know captain that the police already knew where the bodies
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were in fact they were on site when one of them received a call that Chris confessed mhm of course this is at the
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site that we already discussed site number 319 where Chris went on August 13th what is incredible is how little
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time he actually had there and how risky his dumping of the bodies was we know that he arrived on site at 6:53 a.m.
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other employees reported arriving before 7:30 Chris had been texting them and calling them starting at 6:29 a.m. to
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find out what time they would arrive it was broad daylight this gives Chris maybe 30 minutes to hide three corpses
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so how did he do it the answer is very quickly and very sloppy now the two 400 barrel tanks on the site contained crude
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oil this is a toxic chemical that exudes strong fumes Chris was an operator and was intimately familiar with these
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storage tanks and how they worked the two tanks were next to each other and accessible from the top by climbing a
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narrow metal staircase up the side of the tanks each tank had one 8 inch wide Thief hatch that's what they called them
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on top and it was into these two tanks that Chris dumped the bodies of his baby girls he shoved three-year-old CCE still
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wearing her pink nighty and pullup diaper into the hatch of one of the tanks leaving a clump of hair on the
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hatch he shoved four-year-old Bella and her unicorn night gown into the other Bella's body had scratches on it from
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the hatch Chris said he could tell how much oil was in the tanks by the sound of the splashes The girls bodies made
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when investigators asked whether there was any way that the girls were still alive when they hit the oil he said no
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no no no God no mhm now Chris knew he couldn't fit Shan's body into this little opening on the tank right so he
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dug a hole in the ground near the tanks and he shoved his dead wife's body into a fetal position into about 27 in deep
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into a hole and covered her up with just 3 in of dirt meanwhile investigators at the site used
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a drone to do a fly over to get the lay of the land and the drone camera showed them what appeared to be a sheet in the
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brush and a freshly Disturbed patch of dirt there they found a broken rake two black trash bags and the fitted sheet
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matching the missing one from the Watts bedroom right the sheet had clearly been
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used to drag a body as it was covered with dirty drag marks and then dumped into the brush in haste coroners were
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called in and sure enough shanan was Unearthed from the shallow grave we know that law enforcement knew the site the
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location and then at some point they actually hold up a picture of the location of cuz they say hey we've been
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there earlier MH we here's some Drone footage and by the way here's a overview where is your wife's body right and he
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and he points them out to them but you have to know that the law enforcement that the the agent that said hey I once
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worked a case where the the mother smothered the children and then that's the excuse he's using mhm you you know
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that the agents going this is just [ __ ] yeah well and I mean he's placed under arrest for the murder of
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his wife on that night right and this is after what we should refer to as his partial confession right and there is
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probably absolutely no doubt in any of the investigators Minds at this point that Chris Watts was 100% guilty of
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killing his entire family after all his behavior was suspicious from the beginning he a a trail of evidence and
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he lied to police all right so when does confession part two take place well that's what's interesting here because
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this is not a who done it you know we all know that Chris Watts seemingly a loving father and adoring husband was
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actually a murderer right the question in this case is how much of a monster is he did he how and why yeah did he just
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snap and kill shenan in retaliation for her murders of the girls as he has at times continued to claim or did he have
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some kind of mental break or as many believe and as he ultimately plad guilty to did he actually kill not only his
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pregnant wife and fetus but both his daughters as well and if so did he plan the whole event how much of his life was
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a lie and why would he do the unthinkable even if shenan drove him into a rage why did he kill his little
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girls as well so first of all the question about whether Chris or shenan killed the girls Chris claims that his
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wife lost it killed the daughters after the separation discussion right but investigators are not going to buy this
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for one thing Bella and CeCe were not strangled as he stated that he saw on the monitor right in Chris's story
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shenan strangles them in a rage but the autopsy reports in the death of both girls is very clear they died of
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expiation due to smothering there were no finger or hand marks around the girl's necks whatsoever Bella had
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struggled violently while she was being smothered she bit through her tongue CeCe had no marks on her at all so
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according to well she bit through her tongue but she also didn't she have separation of from her gums to her mouth
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yeah oh yeah on the soft tissue inside the face there yeah um shenan could not have
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strangled either of them you know Chris is lying about this and that's clear from the autopsy what is also totally
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and completely out of character for shenan to have laid a finger on her girls you know further most women who
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kill their children have warning signs such as depression anxiety and the list goes on and on right shenan
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had none of these Chris's story was a tale he invented an attempt to save his own skin he ended up pleading guilty to
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all three murders as well as unlawful termination of a pregnancy in a plea deal that saved him from the death
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penalty to this day his mother still alleges that shanan was the baby killer so now to our second question as to
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whether Chris Watts just snapped and killed his entire family in a rage a blackout or a break with reality or did
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he plan to murder his family right we may likely never know the answer to this for sure unless he speaks up at some
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point uh he has refused to address any of this but most people seem to agree that yes the slaughter of the Watts
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family was premeditated this includes the district attorney who made the plea deal with Chris whereby he plad guilty
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to all three murders he said that the evidence does not point to a crime of passion driven by blind rage so what
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points to premeditation First on that Friday before the murders the 10th Chris took
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the day off so he could care for the girls while shanan headed to Arizona while he was meeting a co-worker
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Troy McCoy in a parking lot to exchange an Amazon fire stick McCoy received a call from a colleague named Cody Roberts
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indicating that there was a possible slow leak at the 319 site and asking if someone could head out there on Monday
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Chris overheard McCoy's conversation with Roberts and he volunteered quickly that he could go out there and take care
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of it he knew it was a oneperson job and that the other employees would not be present further he then texts Cody
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Roberts on Sunday August 12th at 5:06 p.m. this is during a birthday party where he was at with his girls this is
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to confirm that he would be heading out to the site on Monday morning and then he would report back he said no reason
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for the both of them to go Roberts later remarked that it was unheard of for Chris to make contact on
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a weekend Chris also later told Nicole in a 2-hour phone call on the night of the 12th during which shanan was trying
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to call him from the airport that he would not be into the office in the morning as usual this would avoid him
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having to go into the office first which is his usual Mo and would give him time
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alone at the very remote site another thing Nicole Kissinger stated that on the rare occasions that the two went out
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in public Chris always paid with cash or anad Darko gift cards but on that Saturday night August 11th when Chris
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told shanan he was at the Rockies game and he and Nicole actually went to the lazy dog he casually charged dinner for
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two on shanann's joint credit card but if he's planning to murder her and this is premeditated murder he knows he's not
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going to have to answer for these charges or won't care that he did this well he is also fine with racking up
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almost a half a million dollars in debt and file bankruptcy the other thing too and this is more speculation you know I
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know it's all speculation but this seems a little more questionable there's something that's been referred to as the
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creepy doll photo this is quite the weird one but on August 9th Chris texted his wife a photo of a 3ot Long human
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looking doll lying on the sofa in the house covered with what looks like a white sheet I guess it's actually a a
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twister mat Chris said that the girls did it when they were playing but could this have been some kind of sick you
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know joke that only Chris would understand or some kind of weird warning um this is this image is one of the last
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to appear on shanann's Facebook page well and she actually replies I don't know what to think about
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this and then it's the the crying laughing Emoji mhm so that's very strange the final thing that points to premeditation
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is the manner of the killings you know remember the da said that Chris had not killed in Rage as he claimed this is
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because the evidence shows that the two girls were smothered separately one at a
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time which takes patience and perseverance experts say it takes 3 to four minutes to kill someone in this
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manner and Chris as we know made sure that they were really dead smothering the girls until they were blue he wasn't
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rushing around bashing people over the head or stabbing them the the girls had no marks on their bodies you know
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practically anywhere and as for shenan she had no bruises marks or wounds on her body the characteristic of a rage
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attack right she was systematically and deliberately strangled to death with the
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only marks left behind being finger marks on her throat throat we don't know where shenan was killed the the sofa in
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the loft or in the bedroom but I believe it was upstairs as the motion detectors
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in the home show no Motion in the house until 4:23 a.m. when we know Chris was waking up to make his Thrive shake and
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packing his lunch for the day we don't know exactly how she was killed you know was she attacked from behind or while
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she slept but remember there were no defensive wounds right we don't even know for sure the order of the killings
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no where the girls killed before shenan arrived home I I I think that this might
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be unlikely Captain as there's a chance that shanan may have noticed that they were dead but per perhaps I mean I don't
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it's tough to it's tough to figure out what was going in that home I I was actually speculating that he did it he
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actually killed his daughters first and maybe and then waited for her kept them in their rooms or or tucked
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away somewhere yeah because she gets home around two mhm so you're talking about it's only a couple hours few hours
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before he leaves to put them in their resting spots you know what's the what's weird here too amongst all this other
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chaos um there were some of his friends that came forward to state that it may have been a rage because
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they felt that Chris was smart and that if he planned the whole thing he likely would have never got caught yeah but
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just because you wear glasses doesn't make you smart I mean a lot of people assume people are look I think the fact
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that he's telling his work hey I'm not going to be in tomorrow I'm going to go to the job site first and that site was
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the the resting spot mhm to me that's that kind of shows the whole plan laid out like yeah not just like well I I I
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figured out how to dump them later because I knew I was going there anyway so I should just dump him there right
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but to me that's very calculated so that's where I I lean towards the fact that he he killed his daughters first
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because hey I got to get this done and then she gets home and then I got to kill her and then I got to get them all
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ready to get them out to this job site right and I think you're right I think the the taking on that job at the last
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minute and really pushing that he be the only one at that job site that points the most to me as
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premeditation the thing I think here regardless of how smart some of his friends may think he is and if he were
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capable of getting away with it because it looks to me like his plan was to dispose of their bodies there and then
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it's afterward go home clean up the house remove shanann's belonging in and probably some of the children's
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belongings he's likely going to want to make it look like they were either taken
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from some you know by someone or that they left on their own MH and his his whole Alibi is well I was gone at work
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the whole day while they either took off on their own or somebody got to them right what he didn't plan for was her
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friend being so concerned that she dropped by the house and as you said she gut feeling raised the alarm you know
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Captain the other thing we got to call in a question here is motive or how much of a motive there was for these murders
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why did it happen at all I mean we know the obvious reasons right the affair maybe wanting out of his
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marriage but was there also a financial motive you you know you talked about some of the problems they were having
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yeah and in fact Nicole kessinger told police that Chris was very stressed out about money now we know that shanan
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handled the finances but there were definitely Financial issues that's what he said yeah that's what he says right
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uh we know that there were Financial issues going on in fact finances were the one thing that anyone who knew the
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couple well said that they argued about now the wats filed for bankruptcy in 2015 they were
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$448,000 in debt Chris had to sell his car since the bankruptcy case closed in October of
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2015 they got themselves into financial trouble again at the time of shannan's death this is so ridiculous because
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first of all the fact the fact that we live in a country that you can rack up almost $500,000 worth of debt that that
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will be wiped clean yeah you're going to lose a couple of your items but there's a
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$400,000 house that you live in that they didn't take away that they still got to live in I mean it's just that's
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ridiculous to me well at the time of of her death at the time of you know this murder their credit cards were pretty
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much maxed out you know with with $8,000 to $10,000 balances well no [ __ ] because
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if you file bankruptcy and you have to pay it back the first time what makes you think that you're going to have to
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pay it back the second time it turns out their largest creditors were Toys R Us and Ford Motor Company the mortgage on
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the $400,000 house was sizable with a monthly payment of 207 sorry $2,700 Chris says shanan wanted the
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house he wanted a downsize they hadn't paid their mortgage in three months and received a delinquency letter from Chase
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now even though shanan at some point took took $10,000 out of Chris's 401k to pay mortgage payments right Chris told
00:28:04
Nicole the couple was quote house poor and that their lifestyle was not sustainable yeah he had life insurance
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policies on both the girls for $25,000 each and then on shanan it looks like there
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was I have a little question on what the amount was for shanan but I saw reports
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of as as little as $50,000 all the way up to $100,000 yeah but still that might not
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have been the motive as far as the insurance policy right mhm because maybe that gets you a little bit out of debt
00:28:41
but it's also if he is telling the truth which I don't believe him about [ __ ] really but if he's saying look she
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controlled the finances and and she pulled money and she charged things if she wanted
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to his motive his motive could have just been to stop the financial bleeding and
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she's the one causing the financial bleeding in his mind yeah I mean he would tell people
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that she was an overs spender and he made references to her shopping habits saying that she you know she had to have
00:29:15
everything that she saw and she needed to purchase a lot of things to look like the perfect family yeah there's a lot of
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keeping up with the Joneses here and a lot of fake narrative well and the girl went to a private school which was
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rather pricey it was like $500 a week and I think that was per child and then we have a third child on the way I guess
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there was a uh expensive neck surgery which was likely I mean necessary and needed possibly but again what what if
00:29:48
there is some hint of like hypercondriac right mhm and it's like this surgery that you don't really need but you have
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con convinced everybody else that you need it and I know that seems extreme but I've heard of
00:30:03
cases married couple that the wife goes to Mexico to get stuff removed because they won't remove it in the States
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because that's how delusional she got about her she's a hypochondriac well this surgery was for
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a compressed disc it cost $100,000 with their insurance and they owed $25,000 out of pocket I'm sure you know some of
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this was covered somewhere along the way we don't need to get too far into that but they had outstanding student loans I
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mean it's just it's it's it's on and on and on and on and on but either way I mean you're you're in a marriage that
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maybe you fall out of love you're in a marriage that the person's spending a lot more money you're not managing your
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money correctly you already went bankrupt this is no reason for murder well of course you know you have a mistress no
00:31:03
reason for murder there's no reason to take your CH your children's life right I mean it's
00:31:12
just I understand his parents trying to find excuses and his parents trying to find
00:31:22
something that makes sense and it might be possible that he was under so much stress that he
00:31:30
just snapped but snapped for a period not killed these people in Rage but snapped in a period And if I do this and
00:31:39
I kill them this will be all over with well it is all over with well and I mean his mother for the longest time and I
00:31:48
believe still to this day you know but for regardless but for the longest time she was standing behind
00:31:56
the idea that shenan was responsible for the deaths of the two girls and then Chris retaliated that
00:32:03
he that he went and then killed her yeah now I mean obviously there's no motive great enough we're just exploring what
00:32:12
these possibilities are because there are you know throughout history and we've talked about several of them on
00:32:18
this show there are what law enforcement deem entitle um family annihilators and
00:32:26
Chris watts to me fits this profile like a lot of the stuff going on in his world
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now these are choices he made this isn't he's not a victim here the this isn't [ __ ] that just started happening to him
00:32:40
these are all choices he made as a grown man but things going on in his world he's not he's not a man don't call him
00:32:46
that but you know what I mean as yeah whatever but but the things going on in his life at the time of these murders it
00:32:54
all seems to fit stories that we've heard before in similar situations with these family annihilators I mean very
00:33:01
much so like the Scott Peterson case m i mean so much so and I I don't know if I
00:33:07
want to spoil this but his we have the Google searches from the girlfriend right
00:33:16
Nicole and before she goes to the police I think it's before she goes to the police she Googles Scott Peterson
00:33:27
yeah yeah and Scott Peterson's mistress and then this this is this is Eerie to me mhm and there's something
00:33:36
really wrong here and this makes me it makes me question even more mhm because she Googles one do people
00:33:51
like Scott Peterson's mistress anymore do they hate her right right but Amber fry yeah Amber fry yeah she yeah and I'm
00:34:01
sorry to laugh but I thank God I'm able to because I this is a heavy case man a heavy heavy case and um I just needed
00:34:08
that little that little sigh of relief there after some of the stuff that we've discussed here but like you said man she
00:34:17
is searching whether people still hated or whether people hated Amber fry yeah and I look is that uh
00:34:27
is that a reasonable thing to search yeah okay I'll give it to you because you're going to the cops right
00:34:35
this is before you go to the cops and you go I was with this married man I knew it was wrong uh I didn't think he
00:34:42
was going to kill her I didn't think he was going to kill his daughters mhm how cute is it now that
00:34:48
he's a father right right so she has to go to the cops is it that wrong that she
00:34:54
searches that because if this hits the media like it's already has but if it blows up like the Chris um like the
00:35:03
Scott Peterson case are people going to hate me okay I'll give you that one but when you
00:35:10
Google how much Amber fry got for her book deal oh yeah yeah years a giant flaming pile of
00:35:25
[ __ ] and and then I think she did a big article on People magazine oh I didn't
00:35:32
see that how much she get paid for that one yeah you giant piece of [ __ ] like look you should not be a okay there's a
00:35:41
crime here did you cause the crime no but you're a part of it mhm and if you're a
00:35:48
part of it you shouldn't get paid for anything that's the way it should work oh I mean they might have paid her a
00:35:55
million dollars to do a story with People magazine do you deserve a million dollars you giant pile of dog [ __ ] no
00:36:04
you don't you you're a scumbag for sleeping with the married man you're you're a scumbag once you find out that
00:36:12
she's pregnant I mean the more and more she found out about it at some point you
00:36:16
should have cut this off you're part of the problem if if there's like you said if there is this new term which
00:36:27
eventually maybe we'll get to maybe we'll have this thing where it's you know a guy gets himself into this
00:36:33
situation he be he becomes a family Annihilator new term that's not a new term no what I'm saying is like I mean
00:36:42
well what yeah but you're identifying like a couple people but what I'm saying is like do they have like a clear def
00:36:48
definition of like what causes one of these individuals well no they just fall into a category you know you have serial
00:36:57
murders you have mass murderers you have family annihilators uh the list goes on
00:37:01
and on right but what I'm saying is that if you're the mistress then you're again
00:37:07
you're a part of the problem and by being part of the problem you shouldn't profit off
00:37:14
this yeah and where I mean where someone might be able to argue Google searching
00:37:21
whether Amber fry is a hated person or still hated person might look as maybe she could be another victim in this
00:37:29
whole mess but like you said the the checking out the how much money did Amber Fry's book deal amount to is
00:37:38
something completely different no and then look on top of that if you just look at the two
00:37:44
cases I mean Amber fry did not know Scott Peterson was not married in her mind was not told that he was married
00:37:53
mhm this you know it's a whole different thing with the Cole you work with this guy you know he's married he's telling
00:38:00
you he's separated well she attempted to delete every trace of her relationship with Chris from her phone before she
00:38:07
went to police and you know on Monday afternoon when she you know got word that shann and the girls were missing
00:38:14
she ran Google search for can cops Trace text messages and then another for how long do cell phone companies keep text
00:38:24
messages MH yeah and like I said I mean it's one of those SC where part of me does feel
00:38:31
bad for her but when you're searching that stuff it's almost like okay well I'm going to go to the cops hey is there
00:38:38
any way I can make a profit off this like come on be better than that you're better than that well on on that
00:38:46
night Chris Watts brought his little girls home from a birthday party they had pizza and candy and facetimed
00:38:55
Chris's dad then Chris showered both girls gave them a bedtime snack and put them to bed he was seen grilling alone
00:39:02
in his backyard at around 7:15 p.m. he spoke with Nicole for 2 hours that night ignoring calls from shenan at the
00:39:10
airport in Arizona and then texted his wife at 11:21 p.m. holy crap sorry I passed out on the couch shenan entered
00:39:20
the home at 1:48 a.m. what exactly happened after that we will likely never know
00:39:27
but what we do know is that sometime between 1:48 a.m. and 5:27 a.m. by then all three were murdered by the man that
00:39:36
was supposed to love them the most or well protect them yes or at least the the man that they likely loved the most
00:39:46
on November 6th 2018 3 months after annihilating his family Chris Watts pled guilty to nine felonies three counts of
00:39:55
first-degree murder murder two counts of murdering a child one count of unlawful
00:40:00
termination of a pregnancy and three counts of tampering with a deceased human body in court he was forced to say
00:40:08
guilty aloud nine times calling the crime the most inhumane and vicious he had ever seen in his career the judge
00:40:17
sentenced Chris Watts to five terms of life without parole well again the whole sentencing is on video you can watch
00:40:25
every second of it mhm well in a nice irony uh here's something that I found to be a little interesting all right Chris
00:40:37
Watts who murdered his wife and children and one of the reasons may have been because he was tired of being regimented
00:40:44
and directed you know his whole life was documented on social media his wife called the shots and his work documented
00:40:54
every move he made in his vehicle well he's now sitting in a prison being told what to do every minute of the day and
00:41:02
he'll never have to worry about money again if that was one of the motives right except that he is being forced to
00:41:08
pay restitution to his wife's family so he will have to work that off in prison and in Colorado thanks to him the
00:41:16
proposed Nico's law will make killing an unborn baby a first-degree murder yeah it should be and but I also
00:41:26
heard a lot of rumors that it's not going to be nice for uh Chris in prison it's not going to be just sleeping in
00:41:35
having a good time cable TV having a good time well I think no no no what I mean by that is like prison Justice
00:41:43
prison sucks but what I've heard is that um they've had to take they were taking
00:41:50
precautions early on because when the prisoners found out where he was staying getting excited they want to get to him
00:41:57
oh yeah because not only He's A Marked Man yeah you killed these innocent children and you killed your unborn baby
00:42:05
mhm I mean you you're you're beyond a piece of [ __ ] I mean well I I I hope him and Casey
00:42:16
Anthony just burn in hell well and I'd piss I piss on their graves I'll tell you that in a sick
00:42:25
irony Chris has been receiving hundreds of letters from romantic admirers in prison those are those are a bunch of
00:42:32
little pieces of [ __ ] these are love letters and sexy photos sent to uh an admitted family Annihilator yeah yeah I
00:42:42
mean kind of scumbag are you so that in for let me let me show you my titties you scumbag I mean come on they they
00:42:50
shouldn't allow that stuff anyways I you lost your you lost any privilege you lost your damn freedom
00:42:59
because you took somebody else's life so you lost your privilege to get any letter or maale from some sicko that
00:43:06
wants to go Oh I thought he was pretty cute yeah pretty cute till he suffocates you well I never understood I never
00:43:15
understood that I and I never Willers I never will now on the other end of the spectrum we have Nicole kessinger who
00:43:24
has apparently received so many death threats that it's been reported that she is being provided with Federal
00:43:30
Protection and possibly maybe she might get a new identity well and as like I said as much as I don't like the Google
00:43:39
searches you know uh I I do feel bad that she got mixed up in this but again you know sometimes you pay for your
00:43:50
actions you you you pay for your decisions mhm and so think about this you know you these people sometimes
00:43:59
think it's just you know I'm at work here's this guy he's married maybe he's separated maybe he's not he's given me a
00:44:05
little attention I like that well be careful for what you wish for because something that you just think is good
00:44:14
that feeds your ego a little bit could wrap you up in a mess that you don't want to be involved in well I take some
00:44:22
satisfaction captain in I'm pissed off man I take some satisfaction in the fact that the the people that seem to for
00:44:30
whatever reason there is and there's no good ones admire Chris Watts the individuals that want to harm him and
00:44:39
cause him pain they are the ones on the inside with him and they are the ones closest to
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