During a December 2018 sentencing hearing, Watts was ordered to serve five life terms without the possibility of parole for the first-degree murder charges, as well as multiple other prison terms related to the tampering of dead bodies and for the unlawful termination of a pregnancy, according to Denver 7 News.
According to CNN, Watts was facing the death penalty for the nature of the crimes but took a plea deal instead that would send him to prison for the rest of his life. Last month, Cadle revealed that Watts said he never would have killed his pregnant wife and two daughters if he hadn’t met his co-worker mistress Nichol Kessinger.Chris Watts Was Sentenced To Five Life Terms After Pleading Guilty To Murder ChargesĬhris Watts eventually pleaded guilty to first-degree murder and multiple other charges related to the deaths of his wife, two daughters, and unborn son, in November 2018, but still would not reveal the specifics of their deaths, even as he awaited sentencing. Watts admitted to driving Celeste and Bella to a Weld County Oil site, where he dumped his wife’s body and then smothered the girls for a second time. She was awake, the younger one.” Shanann Watts with daughters Bella and Celeste Facebookįollowing the August 2018 incident, Watts initially claimed that his wife strangled their two daughters after she learned her husband had been having an affair.īut about a year ago, he fessed up to killing all three family members - and his unborn son - in a deal that would spare him the death penalty. She had bruises above her eyes, and you could tell she had been traumatized. “Bella, the oldest one, was crying,” Cadle added.
So, then he was wrapping her in the sheets and both girls got up and saw him and started questioning, ‘What’s wrong with mommy? What happened to mommy?’” “They argued a little and he murdered her. “Well, the morning of, he went into his baby girls’ rooms and took a pillow from their bed and smothered them and then he went into his room with Shanann and laid down next to her,” Cadle said. Watts told Cadle that the plan was to kill his daughters, Bella, 4, and Celeste, 3, first before turning his attention to his 15-weeks-pregnant wife, Shanann, the author shared. The Colorado monster convicted of murdering his family feels that he killed his two young daughters “twice” - because they survived his first attempt to smother them before he got back into bed and strangled his wife, according to his prison pen pal who wrote a book about the case.Īuthor Cheryln Cadle, who has reportedly exchanged letters and phone calls with accused killer Chris Watts - the basis for her book, “ Letters from Christopher: The Tragic Confessions of the Watts Family Murders” - shared the disturbing account in a Tuesday “Dr. Convicted family killer is 'in a hell of his own making'įamily killer Chris Watts ‘is corresponding with multiple women from prison’Ĭonvicted family murderer Chris Watts 'triggered' by new Netflix docĬhilling 'American Murder' trailer: Why Chris Watts killed his family
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