Chris Watts: A True Story Of A Man Who Killed His Wife And Daughters!
- Chris Watts killed his wife Shan’ann Watts and his two young daughters in 2018.
- Police later confirmed Shan’ann was pregnant with a boy at the time of her murder.
- In a letter, Chris detailed how he killed his wife and two young daughters.
In the Netflix true-crime category, American Murder; The Family Next Door shows the murder of Shan’ann and her daughters. It shows social security footage, some unseen police footage, and social media posts. Chris Watts is currently facing life imprisonment after pleading guilty to the murders of his pregnant wife and two daughters. In a letter, he detailed everything about the murder and even mentioned he planned everything a day ahead. Here is the heart-breaking story of the family in America.
The missing case turned into a murder mystery!
The crime became even more heart-breaking and senseless after Chris Watts confessed to killing his wife and his daughters. His wife Shan’ann was expecting a baby boy at the time he killed her. On August 13, 2018, Shanann Watts’s friend Nickole Atkinson dropped her home after their business trip. However, after few hours, of dropping her home Nickole couldn’t contact her friend. As Shan’ann was pregnant, her missing her appointment with an ob-gyn worried Nickole. After not being able to get in touch with her friend, she contacted her husband and the police.
During the investigation, Police found all the personal belonging in Shan’ann’s car in the house. So the very next day, they declared his wife and children missing. During the initial investigation, he stated he has no idea where his family is. He even asked people to help him find his wife and daughters on national television. But later n August 15, Chris failed his polygraph test which turned everything upside down. The investigators also found out he was having an affair with his co-worker when they checked his phone records.
How did Chris Watts murder his family?
Chris later confessed he killed his wife and daughters to his father. Police also found the body of the victims at an Anadarko Petroleum site. In the initial confession, he told he strangled his wife after seeing her smother their two daughters, Bella and Celeste. He also claimed he had tried to talk to her about separating and ending their marriage. But his story changed again and this time he confessed to all the murders. He pleaded guilty to all the nine counts against him. The first count being first-degree murder including two additional counts for his daughters because they were children under 12. He also faced one count of unlawful termination of a pregnancy and three counts of tampering with a deceased human body.
Though he is facing his counts, he had not yet revealed why he killed his family. Some of the conspiracy theories show the direction of his ongoing affair at the time of the murder. He said he had a long argument with his wife about the separation. After the fight, he strangled his wife and when he was bringing down the body the girls woke up. He then took the girls and his wife’s body into his truck, drove to the oil site. He then the girls one by one on the scene and disposed of the body.
