Body Bags: The Chris Watts Murders

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🗓️ 9 November 2021

⏱️ 39 minutes

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Summary

Chris Watts’ wife and daughters were missing for three days before their bodies were found on the dad's former jobsite at Anadarko. Shanann Watts was buried in a shallow grave. The girls were stuffed through hatches into oil tanks. During the days before the bodies were discovered, Watts played the grieving dad, giving interviews, begging for information on his missing family. What no one knows is Chris Watts is having an affair, and no longer wants to be part of a family unit. Murder was his way out. Ultimately, he tells police where he deposited their bodies. Today on Body Bags, former death scene investigator and forensics expert Joseph Scott Morgan walks us through what investigators would have found at Anadarko.

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0:00.0	I'm Cheryl McCollum, host of the brand new Cold Case Podcast, Zone 7.
0:04.1	We're going to be talking to family members, detectives, prosecutors, and nationally recognized
0:09.1	experts that are in my Zone 7. The group of professionals that I've called on
0:13.6	to help me work hundreds of cases you've heard of and thousands you haven't.
0:18.0	We are going to solve these cases own air together. Listen to Zone 7 on the I Heart Radio app,
0:25.2	the Apple Podcast app, or wherever you listen to your favorite podcast.
0:29.8	I'm Joseph Scott Morgan. I was the youngest medical legal death investigator in the country.
0:34.8	The world that I inhabited gave me insight into things that most of the general public
0:39.6	can't even begin to imagine, always having to view the app normal in the context of the normal,
0:45.7	to make them make sense if you will. When all is said and done, I was the voice of the dead.
0:51.5	Listen to Body Bags with Joseph Scott Morgan on the I Heart Radio app,
0:55.9	Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts.
1:09.0	Body Bags with Joseph Scott Morgan.
1:11.6	One of the greatest gifts any man can be given is a beautiful wife,
1:25.8	two adoring daughters, and a child yet unborn.
1:32.6	For years now the case of Chris Watts has puzzled many of us wondering what his motivation was
1:38.9	to literally go in and destroy this beautiful gift he had been given.
1:44.4	My name is Joseph Scott Morgan, and this is Body Bags.
1:53.0	Joining me right now is my good friend Jackie Howard, producer of Cromstories with Nancy Grace.
2:00.0	Jackie, what can you tell us about this case?
2:02.2	As you said, Joe Chris Watts and his wife Shenan had two daughters for
2:06.4	your old Bella and three-year-old Celeste, and Shenan was expecting a baby boy.
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