Chris Watts says he murdered his pregnant wife because she killed the couple’s 2 young daughters

In a strange and macabre twist in the murder case against Chris Watts, the Colorado man charged with murdering his pregnant wife and two young daughters, an arrest affidavit released by the Frederick, Colorado police states that Watts confessed to murdering his wife – but only because it was his wife that murdered the couple’s two young daughters.  Prosecutors aren’t buying Watts’ story, according to an August 21 report from CNN.

The father’s story goes like this:  he and his wife had an emotional confrontation in the early morning hours of August 13 when Watts told his wife he wanted to proceed with a separation that the two had previously discussed.

A short time later, Watts said that he could see on a baby monitor that his wife Shanann Watts, 34, was actively strangling the couple’s three-year-old daughter, Celeste.  Watts went on to say that he could also see on the baby monitor that the couple’s other daughter, four-year-old Bella, was already dead. He told police that he could see Bella already blue and sprawled out on her parents’ bed.

Watts said he flew into a rage and strangled his wife to death – but that it was the wife who strangled the couple’s two daughters to death.  Watts is confessing to killing his wife, but not his children.

Watts confessed to burying his wife in a shallow grave near two oil tanks filled with oil where he dumped his two daughters’ bodies.

The girls’ bodies were in an “oil well filled with crude oil for several days,” Chris Watts’ attorneys indicated in a court filing. ~ per CNN

Other news that has come to light states that the Watts family was struggling financially.  The Watts’ filed for bankruptcy in 2015 and were currently in debt to the tune of $70,000, “most of it from student loans and credit card purchases, according to the filings. The couple reported two savings accounts with a total of $9.51 and a joint checking account with $864,” according to WTKR.

Court documents also allege that Chris Watts was actively involved in an extra-marital affair with a co-worker before he killed his wife, according to People. The man charged with killing his 15-week pregnant wife and two young daughters denies the affair.

Watts was charged Monday with three counts of first-degree murder in the deaths of his wife and young daughters. Two additional first-degree murder charges accuse him of causing the death of a child younger than 12.

The 33-year-old father also faces three counts of tampering with a body, and a count of first-degree unlawful termination of a pregnancy … ~ per CNN

For more on the latest updates into the Chris Watts murder investigation, see the video below accompanying this article.

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(Original post from August 16)

A Colorado man, Chris Watts, has been arrested and charged with the murders of his wife and two young daughters.  On August 13, police in Frederick, Colorado, reported that the wife, 34-year-old Shanann Watts and her 3-and 4-year old daughters had gone missing.  Police also reported that the wife was 15 weeks pregnant.

On the same day he reported his wife and children missing, the murderous dad was on TV delivering an emotional performance, playing the victim, and was quoted by NBC News as saying, “I don’t feel like this is even real right now,” Watts said. “It’s like a nightmare I can’t wake up from.”

By August 15, the FBI and the Colorado Bureau of Investigation were assisting Frederick Police with the investigation of the missing girls. And by the early morning hours of August 16, the Fredrick Police Department reported that:

In the evening hours of August 15th, The Frederick Police Department, in conjunction with the FBI and the Colorado Bureau of Investigation, has made an arrest in connection to the missing person’s case involving Shanann Watts and her two daughters, Bella and Celeste.

Chris Watts, the husband of Shanann, has been placed into custody and is awaiting charges at this time. He will be held at the Weld County Jail. ~ per FPD

NBC reported this morning that the 33-year-old husband and father was charged with three counts of murder and three counts of obstructing justice for allegedly tampering with physical evidence. The father has since confessed to those murders and that he would lead police to the three bodies.

~ Written by: Richard Webster, Ace News Today   /   Connect with Richard on Facebook and Twitter