Murderous Colorado Dad Chris Watts Blames Dead Wife For Not Being More Like Mistress
Crime Stories with Nancy Grace
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🗓️ 22 February 2025
⏱️ 45 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.
Now after being convicted for the three murders, Chris Watts has 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.”
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| 0:00.0 | Crime Stories with Nancy Grace. |
| 0:06.4 | In the last days, a stunning development in the case of so-called killer dad, Chris Watts, |
| 0:14.2 | suspect number one in the brutal murder of his two children, Bella and Celeste, and his gorgeous wife, Shanan. |
| 0:24.1 | I'm Nancy Grace. |
| 0:25.2 | This is Crime Stories. |
| 0:26.6 | Thank you for being with us. |
| 0:29.0 | That's right. |
| 0:30.2 | So-called killer dad, Chris Watts, believed by many to be responsible in the brutal murders of pregnant wife, Shanan, and his two little girls, |
| 0:42.2 | Bella and Celeste, now blames his wife for his sex affair that, quote, led him to murder her |
| 0:54.0 | and their two young daughters. |
| 0:57.8 | Yes, you are me right. |
| 0:59.9 | Killer dad, Chris Watts continues to blame everyone but himself for his horrific murders of his wife and two little girls. |
| 1:10.9 | In newly revealed letters, he labels his pregnant wife, Shannon, as a, quote, control freak |
| 1:18.7 | and claims he sought refuge with his lover, his mistress, who he writes was, quote, everything my wife wasn't like with me. |
| 1:33.8 | I cannot believe this man. He is actually blaming Shanan. |
| 1:39.7 | The mother of his three children, two little girls and one unborn baby boy, for his triple |
| 1:46.5 | homicide. Okay, what happened in their disappearance in murders? I want you to hear the husband |
| 1:53.7 | as he begs for help. I just want them back. I just want them to come back. And if they're not safe right now, that's what's, that's what's tearing me apart. Because if they are safe, they're coming back. But if they're not, this, this, this has got to stop. Like, somebody has to come forward. |
| 2:12.6 | Somebody come forward, the husband begging for help at that point trying to find his wife. She's gorgeous. |
| 2:20.3 | A million dollar smile, long brunette hair. Shannon Watts. I'm looking at a photo of her right now |
| 2:27.8 | with her two daughters, Celeste, just three years old, Bella, just four. Straight out to Ellen Kalorian joining us with crimeonline.com. |
| 2:37.7 | Ellen, I want to start at the beginning as this whole thing unravels. |
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