Chris Watts' mom shared eerie comment son made about his pregnant wife before killing her and two daughters
Topics: True crime, Netflix
Kiesha Dosanjh
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Topics: True crime, Netflix
A chilling comment Chris Watts made about his pregnant wife before murdering her and their two daughters to his mother has resurfaced.
Watts, 41, is currently serving multiple life sentences without the possibility of parole for killing his wife, Shanann, 34, and daughters Bella, four, and Celeste, three, in 2018.
The murderer is being talked about by the public once again, after a jailhouse interview revealed he has pictures of his wife and kids in a cell, which he ‘talks to every morning and night’.
Now, an interview with his mother has resurfaced, in which she broke down in tears saying, she ‘doesn’t know how to get through it’.
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Speaking to 9News in 2018, a week after Chris pled guilty, his mother Cindy Watts, opened up about his childhood, saying he was ‘a good kid’.
“I would never in a million years have thought something like this would happen,” she said. “He was quiet and he got along with people. He was a perfect teenager to tell you the truth.”
Elsewhere in the interview, his mom - who didn't attend their 2012 wedding because she ‘didn't get along’ with Shanann - said she knew ‘very little’ about their marriage and issues.
Shanann was 15 weeks pregnant when Chris murdered her and their two young children, but in the interview, his mom claimed he ‘wasn’t excited’ about the pregnancy.
“I think it was a shock to him. And he said that they had been talking about divorce,” she revealed. “That they were not compatible anymore, and he was not happy anymore.
“And I finally thought, he’s finally seen the light.”
Watts was charged with the deaths of his pregnant wife and their daughters in 2018, although previously claimed that Shanann had killed one of their kids and was trying to kill the other, after he told her he was having an affair.
At the time, Watts was having an affair with a woman named Nichol Kessinger, who he met at work.
However, it was Watts who strangled Shanann, after telling her he no longer loved her and wanted a separation. Shanann accused him of having an affair, and told him he couldn't see his daughters again, before he committed the heinous act.
He then put his pregnant wife's body in a truck, driving it to a secluded oil field in which he worked, with his daughters, who he then smothered, later dumping their bodies in an oil tank.
Watts pleaded guilty to nine criminal charges on November 6, 2018.
At his sentence hearing, Cindy read out a statement to the court.
In tears, she said: "I am still struggling to understand how and why this tragedy occurred. I may never be able to understand and accept it but I pray for peace and healing for all of us.
"We have loved you from the beginning and we still love you now. This might be hard for some to understand, how I can sit here under these circumstances, and tell you all although we are heartbroken, although we can't imagine what could have led us to this day, we love you. Maybe you can't believe it either."
Cindy continued: "I hate what has happened. Your father and sister and I are struggling to understand why. But we will remain faithful, as your family, just as God remains faithful because of his unconditional love for us all."
Turning to face Chris, she concluded: "We love you. And we forgive you, son."
In 2020, Netflix released the documentary American Murder: The Family Next Door, which used raw, firsthand footage.
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