– It is a nightmare I can’t wake up from. When I came home yesterday, it was like stepping into a spøgelseshus. She was not there. The children were not there. I have no idea where they are taken. The kids are my whole life.
that was the gist of the words from the familiefaren Chris Watts, when he appeared on people’s television screens and begged to get his pregnant wife and two daughters home.
Only a few hours after the interview, which awakened the compassionate feelings in many living rooms, was Chris Watts suddenly prime suspect in the case. Shortly after he was arrested at his home.
Familiebillederne of Chris, Shanann and daughters with big smiles stands in stark contrast to the fate of the latter three, and the couple’s unborn son, Nico, met. Photo: Ritzau Scanpix
During the first interrogations he claimed that he had taken his wife to stifle the two daughters. In a rage he had choked her.
But later he changed his testimony and admitted the killings, and at the end of november, he received a sentence of imprisonment for life for murdering his family.
vanished without a trace
In august 2018 disappeared Shanann Watts, who was pregnant in the fourth month, and the daughters, Bella and Celeste, respectively, three and four years, from the family’s home in the town of Frederick by the city of Denver, Colorado. She had just returned from a business trip and a colleague had driven her home and seen her go into his house.
Chris Watts acted distraught husband and father in the media before it turned out that he himself was behind the murders of his two daughters, his wife and their unborn son. Photo: Ritzau Scanpix
It was the last time, Shanann Watts was seen alive, and then disappeared, both she and the two daughters without a trace.
Already the day after, Chris Watts was arrested, his pregnant wife’s body found at a gas station near his workplace. Not long after appeared døtrenes equal up in the vicinity of the two fuel tanks. The police could see that the two little girls had been suffocated.
found another
There were never clarified the precise motive during the trial, but according to CNN, it was pretty clear from Chris Watts’ web searches, among other things, after holiday destinations, that he had found another woman. At the same time that the police were looking to light the lamp for his missing family, texted he was with his new love. The woman claims, however, that he had lied and said that he had applied for a divorce with the wife.
Shanann Watts coffin is borne out of the family at the funeral 1. september. Photo: Melissa Sue Gerrits/AP/Ritzau Scanpix
Now reveals Chris Watts in a scary letter, as the british media the Daily Mail has come exclusively in the possession of the how, according to him, went for him as he murdered his two daughters, his wife and his unborn child.
the Letter sent to Chris Watts for Cheryln Cadle, who had a correspondence with the convicted murderer after he went to prison. The letters and her one-to-one conversations with Chris Watt being published in her already controversial book, published 7. October.
Here he has laid down a frightening account of how he first thought he had killed the daughters, Bella and Celeste. But they woke up, bruised and frightened, and so he was going to have to start all over again to murder them.
‘On the morning of the 13. august, I went first into the girls ‘ room before Shanann and I had our quarrel. I went into Bella’s room, so Ceces room and used a pillow from their bed. It was, therefore, the cause of death was suffocation. When I went from Ceces room, I went back into the bed with Shanann, and our argument began’, writes Chris Watts in the standard letter.
Everything breathed joy and gammen in the couple’s relationship. But below the surface was simmering something completely different. Chris Watts tells in a letter from prison that he had known for a while that the family had killed. Photo: Rex/Shutterstock
‘After Shanann was dead, woke up, Bella and Cece again. I’m not sure how they woke up again, but they did. Bella’s eyes were bruised, and both girls looked as if they had gone through a trauma’, writes the convicted murderer on.
In the letter, he describes how he had planned the murders for some time, and when he put his daughters on the evening of the 12. august, he knew that it would be the last time. He also reveals for the first time, that the murders had been trying to provoke a miscarriage by giving his wife an overdose of painkillers. And he confirms that it was all about, that he would be with his new love, Nichole.
‘Will not be pen pals’
Chris Watts has refused many requests for interviews and brevkorrespondancer. But he answered according to the 65-year-old Cheryln Cadle on her letter because she wrote that it could be a ‘history of salvation’. The two have exchanged several letters and telephone conversations, and after having met Cheryln Cadle face to face, he let her publish the book ‘Letters From Christopher: The Tragic Confessions of the Watts Family Murders’ with their letters. In the book pays the author according to the Daily Mail does not hide that she believes his actions are ‘evil’.
Chris Watts’ forbryderfoto, which is now in the front of a book, where his 65-year-old Cheryln Cadle will be published 7. October. Photo: Politifoto
‘Let me just say, the criminal action was horrible, so I’m not writing to you to tell you how great you are, or that I will be pen pals, it sounded in the first letter from 65-year-old Cheryln Cadle.
