Husband confessed to killing pregnant wife and their two daughters.

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Anonymous wrote:I found this video of Chris Watts 6 months before he got married. He looks completely different! He is much better looking and fit now. I am thinking he was either having an affair or wanting to.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=ciP7Hfj7ONE

Holy crap. I can't believe people were right about the affair. I mean - him having one.

Investigators said Watts was involved in an affair that he had previously denied in interviews, according to affidavit.
Watts told police the strangulation took place after he told his wife he wanted a separation, court papers said.

https://www.cnn.com/2018/08/20/us/colorado-watts-investigation/index.html

I read a British study of family killers that typed them into 4 types. One was men who only see economic value in things, including their family members. Those types have perfect looking families, flashy cars and fancy houses, affairs because they’re basically narcissists. He definitely seems to fit the mold. It’s when things start to crack that they murder the whole family. The study also found a trend of people murdering their kids in August when school is out, and the most common day of the week was Sunday. Creepy.

Maybe that's why she had the kids down at her parents for six weeks. She knew he couldn't handle them by himself when she was on her 'trips'. Apparently not even 2-3 days which is a pretty short time to solo parent.

He could have been abusive toward her or them and she felt like that length of time was too much but a couple days would be fine. No one ever believes their child's parent is capable of murdering their beloved children. It's unthinkable. But the fact is that violent people are very capable of it. The trick is to recognize that a controlling and/or abusing person is a danger to the whole family. Go read Gavin de Becker's book.

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Anonymous wrote:Shanann’s friend completely messed up his whole plan by alerting the police mere hours after she was killed. His first story was that she told him she was taking the kids and going to stay with a friend. Why would he have reported her missing to the police for at least a few days if that was the case? He thought he had a ton of time.

I’m guessing he planned to go back to get Shananns body that night. Remember her plane was delayed so he ended up having way less time to get rid of the bodies under the cover of night. He also thought he would have time to dispose of the sheets, get rid of her personal items, etc. All he had to do was keep calling her phone. Maybe he would call her parents in a week or so pretending to be the outraged father whose terrible wife was keeping his kids from him.

If not for the friend, he might have gotten away with it.

Thank God for that friend.

The new People link says the friend is the one who drove her home after her flight landed, and called he the next day to check on her because she knew she wasn’t feeling well.

Maybe he was “inspired” by the Mollie Tibbets story? She just disappeared, maybe he thought his family could just do so as well and he could just hang out acting innocent?

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Anonymous wrote:Or maybe she came back from her trip and he told her he was leaving the family for the other woman. She had a psychotic break and killed the kids to punish him. There are parents (of both genders) who have done this to inflict the ultimate revenge upon a despised spouse.
It's interesting that his lawyer asked for the kids' necks to be focused on in the autopsy. Why would they ask this unless they know that her DNA would be on their necks and the indentations/bruises from strangulation would match her hand/finger size.
UGH.
We have no way of knowing if they were both psychopaths or just him.
What we do know is that nothing she posted about on social media matched reality: their marriage, him, their finances---they were all a farce. For all we know she wasn't the doting mother and innocent victim either.

She is dead, you asshole. She is the victim, not him. He's trying to throw his guilt into question by blaming her for the kids' deaths. He could very easily have called 911 if she was harming their kids, but that's not what happened.

He killed her.
You have ZERO knowledge of who killed those kids unless you were in the room.

I hope you're never on a jury or have to make a decision based on facts and not emotion.

So you think that he DIDN'T kill the kids and yet dumped them in the oil barrel? I hope you never have to make a decision based on deduction and logic.

+1,000,000

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Or maybe she came back from her trip and he told her he was leaving the family for the other woman. She had a psychotic break and killed the kids to punish him. There are parents (of both genders) who have done this to inflict the ultimate revenge upon a despised spouse.
It's interesting that his lawyer asked for the kids' necks to be focused on in the autopsy. Why would they ask this unless they know that her DNA would be on their necks and the indentations/bruises from strangulation would match her hand/finger size.
UGH.
We have no way of knowing if they were both psychopaths or just him.
What we do know is that nothing she posted about on social media matched reality: their marriage, him, their finances---they were all a farce. For all we know she wasn't the doting mother and innocent victim either.

She is dead, you asshole. She is the victim, not him. He's trying to throw his guilt into question by blaming her for the kids' deaths. He could very easily have called 911 if she was harming their kids, but that's not what happened.

He killed her.
You have ZERO knowledge of who killed those kids unless you were in the room.

I hope you're never on a jury or have to make a decision based on facts and not emotion.

So you think that he DIDN'T kill the kids and yet dumped them in the oil barrel? I hope you never have to make a decision based on deduction and logic.

+1,000,000

DP here. To any objective bystander there is no alternative explanation for why he would try to hide the bodies if he didn't kill them himself. But the defense will try to cast doubt on that and confuse the jury, and all you need is a consensus of reasonable doubt (reference the Casey Anthony trial). This is assuming no other forensic or other type of evidence turns up to corroborate him murdering the girls (which it probably will since he has already proven not very careful in covering his tracks). And assuming he/his family will be able to pay for top-notch legal representation.

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Listen, I think the guy is scummy lunatic because at the very least he killed his wife. I really don't think my husband would kill me even I killed our children.

That said, it also makes me uncomfortable to "convict" him of all 3 murders based on the fact that he had an affair and talks like he's a redneck.
We have no idea what happened. She was a victim but we have no idea what she did or didn't do either. She obviously wasn't 100% forthcoming in
the picture she portrayed of her life. Just because she was murdered doesn't grant her sainthood (or not). We.just.don't.know.
That's all I'm saying. I get squeamish when people convict others based on their gut instinct---even a likely scum like him. We weren't in the house that morning. Everyone is innocent until proven guilty.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Listen, I think the guy is scummy lunatic because at the very least he killed his wife. I really don't think my husband would kill me even I killed our children.

That said, it also makes me uncomfortable to "convict" him of all 3 murders based on the fact that he had an affair and talks like he's a redneck.
We have no idea what happened. She was a victim but we have no idea what she did or didn't do either. She obviously wasn't 100% forthcoming in
the picture she portrayed of her life. Just because she was murdered doesn't grant her sainthood (or not). We.just.don't.know.
That's all I'm saying. I get squeamish when people convict others based on their gut instinct---even a likely scum like him. We weren't in the house that morning. Everyone is innocent until proven guilty.

They aren’t charging him because he had an affair and speaks low class.

He lied about affair.
He lied about everything.
She’s dead.
Kids dead.
3 bodies.
He’s alive and lying.
What’s the other possible causes of all the dead people?

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I’m from Frederick and what hasn’t made it to the National news yet was another woman was still missing Monday from our town. Had been for a week.
I think he thought that he could lump his family in with her but unfortunate for him they found her later that evening and her circumstance was different.

It will never make sense to any of us the why or how. So more facts won’t help. What you need to know is this happens more often than we think and there are signs. Read up. Be that friend who thinks they are over reaching. If it wasn’t for Nickole who knows how long it would have taken this to unfold. Nickole is that families hero.

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Anonymous wrote:Listen, I think the guy is scummy lunatic because at the very least he killed his wife. I really don't think my husband would kill me even I killed our children.

That said, it also makes me uncomfortable to "convict" him of all 3 murders based on the fact that he had an affair and talks like he's a redneck.
We have no idea what happened. She was a victim but we have no idea what she did or didn't do either. She obviously wasn't 100% forthcoming in
the picture she portrayed of her life. Just because she was murdered doesn't grant her sainthood (or not). We.just.don't.know.
That's all I'm saying. I get squeamish when people convict others based on their gut instinct---even a likely scum like him. We weren't in the house that morning. Everyone is innocent until proven guilty.

He looked guilty way before the affair was discovered. Don’t treat me like I’m an idiot with that cockamamie story re the baby monitor and seeing his wife strangle the kids so then he strangled her?! Jesus take the wheel, seriously, it’s bs. Sorry you’re squeamish but give me a break.

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3 dead bodies aren’t a gut instinct.

Why would he throw his kids in oil? That’s a lot worse than posting cheery pictures to social media.

Everyone posts their best pictures to Facebook.

How many people throw their murdered kids in oil tanks,

See? It’s not hard.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Listen, I think the guy is scummy lunatic because at the very least he killed his wife. I really don't think my husband would kill me even I killed our children.

That said, it also makes me uncomfortable to "convict" him of all 3 murders based on the fact that he had an affair and talks like he's a redneck.
We have no idea what happened. She was a victim but we have no idea what she did or didn't do either. She obviously wasn't 100% forthcoming in
the picture she portrayed of her life. Just because she was murdered doesn't grant her sainthood (or not). We.just.don't.know.
That's all I'm saying. I get squeamish when people convict others based on their gut instinct---even a likely scum like him. We weren't in the house that morning. Everyone is innocent until proven guilty.

By this logic everyone is innocent until video footage is presented that clearly shows the crimes taking place. But the burden of proof is far less for a conviction. And the wife isn't on trial for murder, he is. There is plenty of proof already to convict him, and if forensics find the smoking gun (his DNA or finger imprints on the kids' necks) then he's done.

Evidence so far:

He was at the scene of the crime and by his own assertion murdered one of the victims. Video corrobrates his presence at the house during the time period of the crimes.

Unquestionable proof he tried to hide key evidence.

Unquestionable proof that he lied to police and others to protect himself. More than once, quite convincingly.

He fits the profile for a family killer, almost to a T. Plenty of psycho-behavioral research to show his combination of circumstances and actions fall into a documented pattern. Prosecutors won't have any trouble at all painting that picture.

Not that it matters greatly but her actions are easy to explain if you view her as a victim of a controlling man who she was trying hard to placate.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Shanann’s friend completely messed up his whole plan by alerting the police mere hours after she was killed. His first story was that she told him she was taking the kids and going to stay with a friend. Why would he have reported her missing to the police for at least a few days if that was the case? He thought he had a ton of time.

I’m guessing he planned to go back to get Shananns body that night. Remember her plane was delayed so he ended up having way less time to get rid of the bodies under the cover of night. He also thought he would have time to dispose of the sheets, get rid of her personal items, etc. All he had to do was keep calling her phone. Maybe he would call her parents in a week or so pretending to be the outraged father whose terrible wife was keeping his kids from him.

If not for the friend, he might have gotten away with it.

Thank God for that friend.

The new People link says the friend is the one who drove her home after her flight landed, and called he the next day to check on her because she knew she wasn’t feeling well.

Maybe he was “inspired” by the Mollie Tibbets story? She just disappeared, maybe he thought his family could just do so as well and he could just hang out acting innocent?

I was thinking the same thing about the Mollie Tibbets story. If people believed that Shanann left him willingly and took the kids, then he would become the "victim:" Not only did my wife leave me, she took my kids with her.

[Anonymous]

Does anyone know who the girlfriend is/was?

[Anonymous]

Anyone else reminded of Jeffrey MacDonald? Two small daughters, pregnant wife, affair - so many parallels.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Listen, I think the guy is scummy lunatic because at the very least he killed his wife. I really don't think my husband would kill me even I killed our children.

That said, it also makes me uncomfortable to "convict" him of all 3 murders based on the fact that he had an affair and talks like he's a redneck.
We have no idea what happened. She was a victim but we have no idea what she did or didn't do either. She obviously wasn't 100% forthcoming in
the picture she portrayed of her life. Just because she was murdered doesn't grant her sainthood (or not). We.just.don't.know.
That's all I'm saying. I get squeamish when people convict others based on their gut instinct---even a likely scum like him. We weren't in the house that morning. Everyone is innocent until proven guilty.

Maybe his pregnant wife strangled the children and then she strangled her own self before he could stop her. He buried her body and threw the children's bodies into the oil tank because he didn't want her parents and friends to be devastated over what she had done. Maybe he's totally innocent, right? You know, like OJ.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Anyone else reminded of Jeffrey MacDonald? Two small daughters, pregnant wife, affair - so many parallels.

Yes.