While in police custody, Chris claimed that he told Shanann that he wanted to separate. He alleged that he went downstairs and noticed Shanann strangling C.W. — and that B.W.'s lifeless body was nearby. He ran upstairs in a "rage," he claimed and strangled Shanann. Cops didn't believe his story. "His story didn't match the evidence that we had," a police source told PEOPLE at the time.
FBI Special Agent Grahm Coder and Colorado Bureau of Investigation Field Agent Tammy Lee spoke in September 2022 at the Northeast South Dakota Family Violence Prevention Conference in Aberdeen, S.D. According to Coder, Watts had no criminal record or history of domestic violence before the murders, according to Coder and Lee, who also explained general warning signs to identify domestic violence.
| WATTS COMES CLEAN - GUILTY VERDICT On March 7, 2019, a video of Chris Watts' full confession — which he'd provided to investigators in February — was made public. In the video, he told investigators from the Colorado Bureau of Investigation that on the night of the murders, he'd jumped on Shanann in bed after he'd told her he didn't love her anymore. He claims she threatened to leave him and take the children. Then Watts drove 45 minutes to a remote oil field, with Shanann's corpse in the bed of the truck and his still-living girls in the backseat. Before burying Shanann in a shallow grave, Watts said he smothered C.W. in the backseat. After dumping C.W.'s body in an old field, he returned to smother B.W., who begged for her life. As he went to kill her, B.W. screamed, "Daddy, No!" and "it was the last words she spoke," the report reads. |