Husband confessed to killing pregnant wife and their two daughters.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I listened to the tapes. And, while I agree that he comes off as a regular guy who just sort of lost it and snapped one day I don't believe it.

He claims that they rarely argued, yet neighbors have said that they heard yelling coming from their house. It had gotten to the point where he was rarely sleeping at their home anymore. He had run out of his own assorted stash of gift cards so he used a joint bankcard to pay for an outing with his mistress. Shannan handled their finances and she was going to find out about his affair. He couldn't hide it any longer.

I can not fathom how this man strangled his wife, killing their unborn baby in the process, and then had his two young daughters ride in the backseat of his truck along with their mother's dead body wrapped up in a sheet for 45 minutes to 1 hour. He then killed the youngest girl while his oldest daughter watched. Afterwards, he killed his oldest daughter while she cried "No Daddy!"

This guy is a monster. I get the impression that he is on his best behavior in prison in order to get more privileges. He thinks he can con his way into people letting their guard down around him. They better not.

I think he is a sociopath going by his behavior and his mother. It was there all along, then married a woman who pushed all his buttons.

Except there is no evidence of this. No evidence of sociopathic behavior or anything up until that night / day. No one came forward with stories from his past. People who knew Shanann and Chris didn't speak of him that way. The letter the friend wrote about her visits with Shanann during the month of July detail a mother in law who could be called sociopathic but nothing but positives about Chris. He backed her up and supported her regarding his family.

His mother must regret pushing the idea that S was the problem. I don't think that people realize how the toxic in-law relationships could hurt families, including their grandchildren. Chris might have sucked it up, got counseling, or quietly separated with better guidance from his parents.

[Anonymous]

I agree that Cindy + Ronnie Watts are not living in reality.

Cindy should never have given little “CeCe” any pecan ice cream, lest purchase it knowing full well she had a tree nut allergy.

What was she thinking.....??!
She obviously wasn’t.
And then for her to kick Shan’nan out of the house, making Shan’nan call her Father to pick her up is just M-E-A-N.
It was also pretty mean that both she + Ronnie did not attend Celeste’s Third birthday party (which sadly was her very last.) ;(

Yet at the sentencing hearing, they called Shan’nan a daughter & stated that they believed their son WAS responsible for the deaths of her & the children.

However now, Ronnie Watts is stating that he knows in his heart that Christopher had nothing to do w/his Grandchildren’s death.
This implies to me that he still believes his son’s stupid confession that Shan’nan killed them!!

None of us on here knew Shan’nan and it is so easy to judge her based on what we have heard, read or seen in her Facebook videos.
Just remember that she like all of us, was a human being w/unique qualities.

Love her or hate her.
No one really cares.

One thing we can all agree on: —> She did not deserve to be murdered the way she did.
Neither did her daughters + her unborn son.

She was likely swayed by a handsome, loving man who just happened to appear in her life when she was vulnerable (health challenges, etc.)
Looks can be deceiving.
Never in a million years could she have imagined the horror that her husband inflicted on the entire family.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I agree that Cindy + Ronnie Watts are not living in reality.

Cindy should never have given little “CeCe” any pecan ice cream, lest purchase it knowing full well she had a tree nut allergy.

What was she thinking.....??!
She obviously wasn’t.
And then for her to kick Shan’nan out of the house, making Shan’nan call her Father to pick her up is just M-E-A-N.
It was also pretty mean that both she + Ronnie did not attend Celeste’s Third birthday party (which sadly was her very last.) ;(

Yet at the sentencing hearing, they called Shan’nan a daughter & stated that they believed their son WAS responsible for the deaths of her & the children.

However now, Ronnie Watts is stating that he knows in his heart that Christopher had nothing to do w/his Grandchildren’s death.
This implies to me that he still believes his son’s stupid confession that Shan’nan killed them!!

None of us on here knew Shan’nan and it is so easy to judge her based on what we have heard, read or seen in her Facebook videos.
Just remember that she like all of us, was a human being w/unique qualities.

Love her or hate her.
No one really cares.

One thing we can all agree on: —> She did not deserve to be murdered the way she did.
Neither did her daughters + her unborn son.

She was likely swayed by a handsome, loving man who just happened to appear in her life when she was vulnerable (health challenges, etc.)
Looks can be deceiving.
Never in a million years could she have imagined the horror that her husband inflicted on the entire family.

What? Who's judging the brutally-murdered woman?

And as for Cindy "obviously" not thinking when she gave her granddaughter pecan ice cream, I'd say the opposite is obvious. That was a deliberate choice eliciting the intended reactions.

Lastly: sorry, but Ronnie Watts' statement that he doesn't think his son killed his grandchildren is just another aggression against the mother of his grandchildren who was brutally murdered by his son.

[Anonymous]

Shanann was still singing Chris's praises just months before her death. She talks about what an amazing dad he is in her videos and how he always supports her, always backs her up, is a great husband etc

It seems they had a very normal, typical life and relationship right up until the affair / August

There are no reports or people coming forward giving any different picture of him.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Shanann was still singing Chris's praises just months before her death. She talks about what an amazing dad he is in her videos and how he always supports her, always backs her up, is a great husband etc

It seems they had a very normal, typical life and relationship right up until the affair / August

There are no reports or people coming forward giving any different picture of him.

That is a good point. If anything, she's the one being defamed. Her in-laws have come out and said she was bad person and they didn't approve of her, her husband said his family never liked her, none of her friends are really able to say she was that great of wife.

It doesn't help that she was murdered after coming home at 2AM from a MLM (scam) trip after 2 nights away.

[Anonymous]

Interview from his best friend. It seems like Cindy and Shanann couldn't stop engaging.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ybiSdT199LI

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Interview from his best friend. It seems like Cindy and Shanann couldn't stop engaging.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ybiSdT199LI

Sounds like Chris couldn’t handle the pressure from his mother and wife. Mother probably asked son to divorce wife, which is not her place to do.

[Anonymous]

I didn't realize his mother was potentially such a factor. Wow.

I really wonder if Shanann ever felt unsafe in this family... lots of women experience triangulation and drama with their MIL and spouse, but I wonder if this felt different to her, vs. just a difficult and dramatic family.

[Anonymous]

I think part of the issue was that Chris married his mother. He grew up with a difficult woman who controlled him and he married a difficult woman who controlled him. In the police interview when they asked him about the affair, his answer was that I am allowed to have an opinion and she is interested in what I say. He was always playing the middle man negotiating the high conflict relationship between his wife and mother. He backed up and supported Shanann and then would be blasted by his mother, He could never win. I feel like he did just snap. That when Shanann told him that night that he would never see the kids again, he again felt so passively helpless and trapped. He wouldn't even get say in seeing his kids. He was always just being pulled along by these two (actually 3 as his sister seems to be similar to his mother and wife as well) and inside he was becoming more and more trapped, I wonder if on that night when it all just became too much if it had been his mother who pushed that last button, he might have killed her.

Then I think he just went into shock, dissociated mode and in that altered state brutally murdered his daughters. Or maybe they represented more of the same women in his life. Maybe they were Shanann's little minions and they also didn't respect him at at that moment his rage against all the women in his life consumed him.

[Anonymous]

There is nothing, and I mean NOTHING, that his mother did that would explain how he callously treated and tormented his oldest daughter the way he did. She was old enough to "get" what was happening. She saw her mom being wrapped up in a sheet, she was forced to ride with her dead mother's body for up to an hour and she watched her younger sister being killed by her daddy right before her daddy came to do the same exact thing to her.

The way he straddled Shannon's pregnant belly and "talked" to her for 30 minutes before he killed her..it was cruel.

There was a level of cruelty involved in this. He was making them suffer.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:There is nothing, and I mean NOTHING, that his mother did that would explain how he callously treated and tormented his oldest daughter the way he did. She was old enough to "get" what was happening. She saw her mom being wrapped up in a sheet, she was forced to ride with her dead mother's body for up to an hour and she watched her younger sister being killed by her daddy right before her daddy came to do the same exact thing to her.

The way he straddled Shannon's pregnant belly and "talked" to her for 30 minutes before he killed her..it was cruel.

There was a level of cruelty involved in this. He was making them suffer.

Yes, the cruelty lends itself less to this notion that he "snapped." Also, the suggestion above that he snapped because Shannan was "controlling" and his daughters were her disrespectful "minions" is beyond the pale. Nothing suggests any of that.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I think part of the issue was that Chris married his mother. He grew up with a difficult woman who controlled him and he married a difficult woman who controlled him. In the police interview when they asked him about the affair, his answer was that I am allowed to have an opinion and she is interested in what I say. He was always playing the middle man negotiating the high conflict relationship between his wife and mother. He backed up and supported Shanann and then would be blasted by his mother, He could never win. I feel like he did just snap. That when Shanann told him that night that he would never see the kids again, he again felt so passively helpless and trapped. He wouldn't even get say in seeing his kids. He was always just being pulled along by these two (actually 3 as his sister seems to be similar to his mother and wife as well) and inside he was becoming more and more trapped, I wonder if on that night when it all just became too much if it had been his mother who pushed that last button, he might have killed her.

Then I think he just went into shock, dissociated mode and in that altered state brutally murdered his daughters. Or maybe they represented more of the same women in his life. Maybe they were Shanann's little minions and they also didn't respect him at at that moment his rage against all the women in his life consumed him.

You are making this up. Just stop.

[Anonymous]

It’s only normal that people are trying to come up w/a reason....a concept for what Chris did to his entire family.

I think it is human nature to want to know the answer to “Why??”
Perhaps for a false sense of closure, perhaps in an attempt to understand human nature in general.
Who really knows?

I personally feel Chris fell hard for Nicole (his mistress) & realized this was the type of woman he had wanted his entire life.
She was his dream woman - one he never imagined he could have in a million years!

So in order to build a perfect life w/her, he had to destroy the one he had already built w/Shan’nan + the kids.

I am guessing he likely thought he would take out his wife, but when he realized that Bella witnessed something pivotal,
he felt the need to get rid of her as to save his hide.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I think part of the issue was that Chris married his mother. He grew up with a difficult woman who controlled him and he married a difficult woman who controlled him. In the police interview when they asked him about the affair, his answer was that I am allowed to have an opinion and she is interested in what I say. He was always playing the middle man negotiating the high conflict relationship between his wife and mother. He backed up and supported Shanann and then would be blasted by his mother, He could never win. I feel like he did just snap. That when Shanann told him that night that he would never see the kids again, he again felt so passively helpless and trapped. He wouldn't even get say in seeing his kids. He was always just being pulled along by these two (actually 3 as his sister seems to be similar to his mother and wife as well) and inside he was becoming more and more trapped, I wonder if on that night when it all just became too much if it had been his mother who pushed that last button, he might have killed her.

Then I think he just went into shock, dissociated mode and in that altered state brutally murdered his daughters. Or maybe they represented more of the same women in his life. Maybe they were Shanann's little minions and they also didn't respect him at at that moment his rage against all the women in his life consumed him.

You are making this up. Just stop.

Yes it is made up. It is made up as speculation of what Chris might have been thinking. He had to be thinking something as it related to his actions that in that moment led to him making the choices he did.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:It’s only normal that people are trying to come up w/a reason....a concept for what Chris did to his entire family.

I think it is human nature to want to know the answer to “Why??”
Perhaps for a false sense of closure, perhaps in an attempt to understand human nature in general.
Who really knows?

I personally feel Chris fell hard for Nicole (his mistress) & realized this was the type of woman he had wanted his entire life.
She was his dream woman - one he never imagined he could have in a million years!

So in order to build a perfect life w/her, he had to destroy the one he had already built w/Shan’nan + the kids.

I am guessing he likely thought he would take out his wife, but when he realized that Bella witnessed something pivotal,
he felt the need to get rid of her as to save his hide.

This suggests that the murder was premeditated when it seems quite apparent to me that it wasn't. I think he killed Shannan in the heat of the moment. Bella came in and saw him covering up the body. At that point he knew there would be no way to get away with it so he had two choices - spend life in jail or take out the kids. He chose the latter.