KILLER DAD CHRIS WATTS: "GENDER REVEAL PARTY MADE ME A KILLER”
Crime Stories with Nancy Grace
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🗓️ 18 May 2026
⏱️ 47 minutes
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Summary
Newly revealed text messages between Shanann Watts and a friend reveal her heartbreak as her marriage falls apart. Shanann canceled a gender reveal party planned for August 7, about a week before she was strangled by her husband. She had splurged over $800 on a cake, cookies, party supplies and flowers Then texts between the husband and wife revealed the collapsing marriage.
Shanann wrote “Chris told me last night he’s scared to death about this third baby and he’s happy with just Bella and Celeste and doesn’t want another baby." She then said she thought Chris was having an affair. Days later, Shanann and her two daughters were dead.
Joining Nancy Grace today:
- Cheryln Cadle - Author of a new book “Christopher Watts a Failed Life," “The Murders of Christopher Watts” and “The Many Faces of Christopher Watts: A 5-year Update”, website: www.cherylncadle.com
- Dr. Geri-Lynn Utter - Clinical Psychologist, Author of “Mainlining Philly: Survival, Hope and Resisting Drug Addition,” and “Aftershock: How Past Event Shake Up Your Life Today”, and Producer of “Utter Nonsense,” a documentary of exploration of addition and severe mental illness, available to stream on Apple TV and Prime Video, website:drgerilynnutter.com, Instagram & Facebook: DrGeriLynnUtter
- Dr. Kendall Crowns - Chief Medical Examiner Tarrant County (Ft Worth), Host of Podcast "Mayhem in the Morgue”, Lecturer: Burnett School of Medicine at TCU (Texas Christian University)
- Mark Peper – Criminal Defense Attorney, The Peper Law Firm; X: @PeperLawFirm
- Dave Mack - Investigative Reporter, 'Crime Stories'
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| 0:00.0 | This is an I-Heart podcast. |
| 0:03.4 | Guaranteed Human. |
| 0:05.8 | Crime Stories with Nancy Grace. |
| 0:12.1 | Does a gender reveal party push killer dad, Chris Watts, to murder his pregnant wife, |
| 0:19.6 | Shanan, and his two little girls, Bella and Celeste. |
| 0:23.0 | Is that what set him off? |
| 0:25.0 | That's no defense. |
| 0:26.1 | I was going to have a gender reveal party. |
| 0:27.9 | So my only choice was to annihilate my entire family. |
| 0:32.0 | I'm Nancy Grace. |
| 0:33.0 | This is crime stories. |
| 0:34.2 | I want to thank you for being with us. |
| 0:36.2 | I'm calling because I'm concerned about a friend of mine. |
| 0:39.5 | You have to trust me. I did nothing to them and to my beautiful wife. I did nothing to her. |
| 0:44.7 | But she won't answer the door. She won't answer phone calls. She won't answer text messages. |
| 0:48.9 | The amount of love I have for my family is exponential and it's never going to die. |
| 0:58.0 | My daddy is a hero. I had nothing to do with the disappearance. |
| 1:00.0 | My daddy is a hero. |
| 1:05.0 | He helps me grow up strong. |
| 1:09.0 | He helped me. Um,uggle too. He reads me books. He tied my shoes. |
| 1:19.8 | If you're a hero, blue and blue, my daddy, daddy, and love you. |
| 1:29.0 | Bella and Celeste dead. |
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