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Chris WAtts murder

‘He tried to poison Shanann’: Chris Watts slipped pregnant wife oxycodone weeks before he murdered her, prison pen pal says

Chris Watts and family
Family Crime

An author who sparked a friendship with convicted murderer Chris Watts claims in an upcoming episode of “Cellmate Secrets” that Watts admitted to dosing his wife with oxycodone — in an attempt to end her pregnancy. Shanann Watts was 15 weeks pregnant with the couple’s third child when Chris Watts murdered his family in August …

July 16, 2019

SEE IT: New photos of Bella and Celeste Watts taken by killer dad hours before he murdered his family

Family annihilator Chris Watts took photos of his two young daughters and sent them to their mother less than a day before he murdered his family. The Daily Mail obtained previously unreleased photos from Watts’ cell phone via an open records request. According to the report, Watts took photos of Bella, 4, and Celeste, 3, …

Family Crime
December 13, 2018

‘I can’t do this alone’: Texts show an increasingly distraught Shanann Watts worried about having a third baby as killer husband turns cold on her

In the days preceding her murder, Colorado mom Shanann Watts was increasingly worried about raising her growing family as a single mother, text messages to her friends show. Shanann Watts was 15 weeks pregnant with her third child, a boy, when Chris Watts murdered her and their young daughters Bella and Celeste on August 13. …

Family Crime
December 12, 2018

In Nichol Kessinger’s first interview with police, she said she wasn’t in love with killer dad Chris Watts: ‘It’s a horrible situation’ [EXCLUSIVE]

CrimeOnline has obtained audio of the first interview Chris Watts’ girlfriend Nichol Kessinger gave investigator, before Watts was arrested for murdering his pregnant wife Shanann Watts and daughters, 4-year-old Bella and 3-year-old Celeste. The Weld County District Attorney’s office provided an audio recording of Nichol Kessinger’s August 15 police interview in response to a Colorado …

Family Crime
December 6, 2018

Killer dad Chris Watts may have faked calls to hospitals, pretending to look for missing pregnant wife and two little girls: ‘A trail of concocted concern’

On the day that Shanann Watts and her young daughters were first reported missing in mid-August, her husband Chris Watts made a series of phone calls to area hospitals at the suggestion of concerned family and friends — but an investigating officer was skeptical that Watts actually inquired about his family. According to a phone …

Family Crime
November 28, 2018

[UPDATED] Chris Watts girlfriend searched for Shanann Watts online nearly a year before the murders and long before her affair with Chris Watts began: Report

UPDATED December 6, 5:11 p.m. E.T. The records supervisor at the Frederick Police Department told CrimeOnline on Thursday that the entry in the discovery report showing that Nichol Kessinger performed a Google search for Shanann Watts on September 1, 2017 is a typo. CrimeOnline reached records supervisor Amanda Purcell on Thursday after repeated inquiries made …

Family Crime
November 27, 2018

SEE IT: Chris Watts sent unsettling photo of a doll covered by a sheet to Shannan Watts days before her murder — and his father tried to use photo to claim murdered pregnant mom ‘planned’ killings

A photograph of a doll covered by a bed sheet that Chris Watts’s father claimed Shanann Watts took was actually sent to her by her husband Chris Watts, just days before her murdered Shanann and her two young daughters. Discovery documents released by the Weld County District Attorney’s office have provided extraordinary insight into the …

Family Crime
November 22, 2018

New documents in Chris Watts murder case reveal bizarre search histories of confessed family-killer and his new girlfriend

New documents released by the Weld County District attorney have provided more details about the relationship between Shannan Watts and Chris Watts, and revealed the unsettling search histories of the confessed killer and his mistress. CBS News Denver has obtained thousands of pages of documents from the Weld County District Attorney’s office, revealing Shannan Watts’s …

Juveniles
November 22, 2018

Shanann Watts’ mother suspected Chris Watts of foul play immediately after she disappeared with her two young daughters; confessed killer hinted to police that his pregnant wife may have been having an affair

Authorities have released a slew of documents related to the murders of Shanann Watts and her two young daughters, revealing marital troubles between the pregnant mother and her husband, who later confessed to killing his family. The Denver Channel reportedly received nearly 2,000 pages of documents from a Weld County District Attorney’s discovery report detailing …

Family Crime
November 14, 2018

‘She’s more capable’: Parents of Chris Watts say he was in abusive marriage; did not kill daughters Bella and Celeste

The parents of Chris Watts, who pleaded guilty last week to murdering his pregnant wife and two daughters, have said they believe the late Shannan Watts was “more capable” of killing her daughters Bella and Celeste than their son was. Doubling down on claims she made in an earlier interview with local Denver news station, …

Family Crime
October 3, 2018

Autopsy reports for Shanann Watts and daughters Bella and Celeste, allegedly murdered by Chris Watts, are complete: Report

A coroner has completed the autopsy reports for Shannan Watts and her daughters Bella and Celeste, who were found dead last month on the property of a petroleum company where Shanann’s husband Chris Watts worked. Watts has been charged with numerous felony counts, including three counts of first-degree murder. The Denver Channel obtained a court notice …

Juveniles
September 27, 2018

Chris Watts shocked to learn that Shanann Watts murder case is well-known; frustrated that people think he’s a ‘monster’: Report

“He feels like no one understands him”

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