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Body Bags with Joseph Scott Morgan

The Chris Watts Murders

Body Bags with Joseph Scott Morgan

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4.81.8K Ratings

🗓️ 4 November 2021

⏱️ 36 minutes

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Summary

Chris Watts’ wife and daughters were missing for three days before their bodies were found.

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0:00.0

Body bags with Joseph Scott Morgan, one of the greatest gifts any man can be given.

0:23.2

His a beautiful wife to adoring daughters and a child yet unborn.

0:32.6

For years now the case of Chris Watts has puzzled many of us wondering what his motivation was

0:38.9

to literally go in and destroy this beautiful gift he had been given. My name is Joseph Scott Morgan

0:46.8

and this is Body Bags. Joining me right now is my good friend Jackie Howard, producer of

0:57.6

Chrome Stories with Nancy Grace. Jackie what can you tell us about this case?

1:02.2

As you said Joe Chris Watts and his wife Shenan had two daughters four-year-old Bella

1:07.1

and three-year-old Celeste and Shenan was expecting a baby boy. Shenan had been out of town and

1:13.2

came home and that's where things go sideways. Shenan misses a doctor's appointment and when

1:19.4

a friend goes over to check on them Shenan's car is still in the driveway with the car seat

1:24.6

senate and Chris Watts tells her that Shenan had taken the kids on a play date. At that point

1:30.1

the friend knew there was exactly a problem because the car seats were still in the car in the

1:34.9

driveway. Police are called. We know now Joe that Chris Watts strangled his wife in their bad

1:41.6

after sex which leads us to wonder how was he able? Yes she was pregnant but how was he able to

1:48.4

so easily overpower his wife? We know that she traveled so she was tired. She had just gotten home.

1:54.3

She is pregnant and we also find out later on that over the weeks before her murder he had been

2:00.4

dosing her with oxycodone. Any of these things alone would have taken her strength away. What

2:07.7

happens when you've got all of these things going on together? Jackie I think this thing comes

2:11.8

to mind for me in regards to Shenan in this case is a term that you hear many times from

2:17.6

bone weary. Can you imagine? She is in the advanced months of pregnancy. She's been carrying her

2:27.1

unborn son Nico for all this time and she's still on the road going to sales meetings and this

2:35.6

sort of thing and that evening she had in fact returned from the sales meetings. Her friend

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