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Crime Stories with Nancy Grace

Killer dad Chris Watts has sex with pregnant wife Shanann before straddling & murdering her

Crime Stories with Nancy Grace

iHeartPodcasts and CrimeOnline

True Crime, News

3.97.6K Ratings

🗓️ 11 March 2019

⏱️ 38 minutes

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Summary

Colorado killer dad Chris Watts tells a chilling story to investigators about why and how he murdered his pregnant wife and two young daughters last August. Nancy Grace listens to the just released audio recording of the prison interview with Watts by the FBI and Colorado Bureau of Investigation. Nancy's panel includes forensics expert Joseph Scott Morgan -- author of "Blood Beneath My Feet," Southern California prosecutor Wendy Patrick, psychologist & lawyer Dr. Brian Russell -- host of Investigation Discovery's "Fatal Vows" series, and CrimeOnline reporter Ellen Killoran.

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MUSIC

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Crime stories with Nancy Grace

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My daddy is a hero. He helps me grow up strong. He helps me. I'm not good too. He

0:23.0

makes me put some tight my shoes. If you're a hero, full and full, my daddy, daddy, I love you.

0:40.4

You are hearing baby bellages four years old. She was murdered by her father. That was her sitting

0:47.2

in the back seat of the car singing. You know what? Sometimes when I hear one of the twins or both

0:53.5

of the twins singing, I just stop and I listen because I know in a couple of years there's not going

1:01.6

to be singing in that little voice. It sounds kind of like a fairy. It's just happy to be alive.

1:09.9

And I'm wondering now what Chris Watts is thinking when he hears that because you know he's obsessed

1:21.2

with himself. He's listening to every every shred of coverage. He can get his eyes and ears on.

1:27.6

Bella is dead along with her sister and their mother. In the last hours we've obtained

1:36.8

shocking audio of Chris Watts's killer dads confession from a Max facility in Wisconsin. Listen to this.

2:06.8

I just kind of like when I go on top of her we start talking and it was like I was it.

2:15.2

It's kind of like in my head, for like in the back of my head that was going to happen and just like at the

2:20.4

end of conversation. It was just like that's what happened. This was like I could let go.

2:29.4

Did it seem like it was that long? Did it for a minute? How long did it seem for you?

2:39.6

Almost kind of felt like it was longer almost because the whole time was standing still. It's kind of like at the

2:45.2

summit of life. It's just great before my eyes but it's just like I couldn't let go. It's like

2:50.0

somewhere else. Like if you picture somewhere else around you holding your hands, holding you to keep

2:58.4

and let it go. So my life disappearing before me saw my life flash before me. Wendy Patrick,

3:07.2

veteran California prosecutor and author of Red Flag's frenemies, underminers and ruthless people

3:13.2

on Amazon. Wendy, you know what I would be in the midst of a trial. I didn't really have time

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