Killer Dad Chris Watts Claims He Is A New Man
Crime Stories with Nancy Grace
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🗓️ 14 September 2025
⏱️ 48 minutes
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Summary
Hours after Chris Watts made an emotional plea for help finding his missing wife and two young daughters, the Colorado man led police to their bodies hidden in oil tanks near where he worked.
After being convicted for the three murders, Chris Watts labeled his pregnant wife, Shanann, a “control freak,” and claims that he sought refuge with his mistress. He says Nichol Kessinger was “everything my wife wasn’t like with me.” Watts confided to a jail mate that his marriage to Shanann was unhappy but Nichol was just everything my wife wasn’t like with me. She was just nice, and not a control freak." Later on, Watts told the jail mate that Kessinger became “the death of me,” blaming her for inticing him away from his morals.
Now Watts claiming from behind bars that he is a new "forgiven" man.
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| 0:00.0 | This is an I-Heart podcast. |
| 0:04.9 | Crime Stories with Nancy Grace. |
| 0:11.3 | Oh, my stars. |
| 0:14.1 | Chris Watts, the killer, dad. |
| 0:15.9 | Can you just be quiet. |
| 0:18.7 | Go away. |
| 0:20.2 | Go serve your life sentence and shut your pie hole. You know what? That's not possible. In the last days, so-called killer dad, Chris Watts. I hate to even say his name. It tastes like dirt in my mouth. I'll say his wife's name, Shanan Watts. Beautiful, loving, hardworking, supporting the family. |
| 0:43.3 | Mother of two little girls, Celeste and Bella, they were murdered too. |
| 0:50.3 | Mother to be of baby Nico, her first son. they're all dead thanks to dad, Chris Watts. |
| 0:58.1 | Motive to be with one of his many, many lovers. But in the last days, emerging, Chris Watts |
| 1:04.5 | in the headline again, go away. And his twisted prison letters claiming he's a, quote, new man and that God has forgiven him |
| 1:16.0 | for murdering his pregnant wife and both of his daughters. Did God tell him that? I don't know. |
| 1:21.9 | I'm Nancy Grace. This is crime stories. Thank you for being with us. I ain't to even look at him. Why do women think he's |
| 1:30.9 | attractive? He looks like the devil to me. Absolutely the devil. Killer dad Chris Watts now claims |
| 1:37.3 | he is a quote, new man. And God has forgiven him. This, as he rots in prison, for really horrific crimes and the |
| 1:47.3 | disposal of his wife and little girls. As I recall it, the Anadarko Oil Well Grounds, where he worked. |
| 1:56.6 | His wife endured coffin birth. |
| 2:03.1 | I don't know if endured is actually the right word. |
| 2:06.4 | After she died, she gave birth in her makeshift grave |
| 2:11.4 | to baby Nico, who of course also died. |
| 2:23.0 | I'm all for forgiveness. Lord knows I need it too. Dear Lord, I hope you're listening to that. And I think that if he seeks forgiveness, he will |
| 2:30.1 | get forgiveness from God. I do believe that. He can also rot behind bars at the same time. |
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