The harrowing case of Chris Watts when he plotted to murder his pregnant wife and their two daughters who were three and four in Frederick, Colorado broke news headlines and became a documentary two years later, titled “Netflix’s American Murder: The Family Next Door.”
The murder occurred on the morning of Aug. 13, 2018, when he strangled his wife with his bare hands and buried her in a shallow grave, then later on strangled his two daughters with a blanket and hid the daughters’ bodies in oil tanks where Chris formally worked.
Investigators discovered Watts was having an affair with a coworker, Nichol Kessinger, which caused Chris telling his wife Shannon their marriage was over, leading to strangling her. Two days after his family went missing, he failed a polygraph test terribly, which led to him confessing he killed Shannon but falsely claimed she killed the kids and not him which led him to killing her.
It wasn’t until Nov. of 2018 he officially pleaded guilty to murdering his wife and two daughters. He did not, though, provide the specific details of the death until the following year of Feb. 2019. In a five-hour interview with investigators at a Wisconsin Prison, Watts gave the complete and truthful accounts of murders. The footage can be found in the Netflix documentary, as the documentary became popular because it only had real footage and no narrator or reenactments.
Watts now spends 24 hours a day in a cell with a bible and a photo of the family he murdered.
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