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3. [COLORADO] Chris Watts - The First Confession and the Recovery

Big Mad True Crime

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True Crime

4.75.7K Ratings

🗓️ 8 September 2019

⏱️ 23 minutes

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Summary

Going through the ever-changing story of what happened the night of the 13th, through Chris Watts' 1st "confession," which ultimately lead to the unfortunate and devastating details of the recovery of Shanann, Bella, and CeCe Watts. For photos and maps pertaining to this case, check out the Chris Watts highlight at the top of my Instagram profile at www.instagram.com/TheHeatherAshley Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

Hey everyone, I'm your host Heather and welcome back to Big Mad True Crime, where we get Big

0:05.0

Mad over True Crime.

0:07.0

I have to start off with a solid warning about today's episode, the recovery of the girls

0:10.8

is horrible, awful in all the bad things ever and it is hard to hear.

0:16.0

So last week we left off with Chris bombing his polygraph like an episode of Mori, the interrogators

0:21.2

trying to get him to admit to anything, and then Chris asking for his daddy.

0:27.1

We all know how I feel about small talk, so here we go.

0:34.1

So Chris is five or six hours into this polygraph slash interrogation and he is about

0:48.1

too crack.

0:49.6

He asks for his dad who's waiting on the lobby and the interrogator asks Chris to please

0:53.3

tell his dad what really happened.

0:55.6

He asks Chris what he would tell his father if they actually brought him in and Chris said

0:59.4

that he would tell his dad that he loved him and that he wanted him by his side.

1:05.0

Okay cool, fair enough.

1:07.0

The interrogator tells Chris that it seems like he really wants to get some heavy shit

1:10.2

off his chest and asks him to explain in more detail what happened to the girls.

1:15.0

This is a pattern that's going to continue throughout this episode but you'll see why.

1:19.4

Chris tells the interrogator again that him and Shania talked about the separation, selling

1:24.0

the house and she accused him of cheating and he says that she had mascara running down

1:28.6

her face.

1:30.1

Which by the way would mean that she slept in her makeup so not only did she not shower

1:33.7

before getting into bed fresh out of the airport, she also didn't wipe off her makeup.

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