Chris Watts Wiki, Age, Girlfriend, Wife, Children, Family, Biography & More

Publish date: 2024-05-22

Chris Watts is a Colorado man who murdered his fifteen-weeks pregnant wife, Shanann Watts, and his two daughters, Bella and Celeste Watts.

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Wiki/Biography

Chris Watts was born as ‘Christopher Lee Watts’ on Thursday, May 16, 1985 (age 35 years; as in 2020), in Spring Lake, North Carolina, US. His zodiac sign is Taurus. He did his schooling from Pine Forest High School, North Carolina.

Physical Appearance

Height (approx.): 5’ 10”

Eye Color: Brown

Hair Color: Salt & pepper

Family & Ethnicity

Parents & Siblings

He was born to Cindy Watts and Ronnie Watts.

Chris Watts’ Parents

He has a sister named Jamie Lynn Williams.

Chris Watts with his Sister

Wife, Children & Relationships

In 2010, he met Shanann Watts who was an independent representative at ‘Le-vel,’ a multi-level marketing company that sells a product called ‘Thrive.’ They got married in Mecklenburg County on November 3, 2012.

Wedding Picture of Shanann and Chris Watts

They had two daughters: Bella Marie Watts (born on December 17, 2013) and Celeste Cathryn “Cece” Watts (born on July 17, 2015).

Chris Watts with his Family

At the time of her death, Shanann was fifteen weeks pregnant with a son whom the couple had named Nico Lee Watts; her due date was January 31, 2019. While he was married to Shanann, he started dating Nichol Kessinger. He started seeing her just two months before the Watts Family was murdered.

Chris Watts with Nichol Kessinger

The Murder

After Shanann returned home from a business trip to Arizona at about 1:48 am on August 13, 2018, Chris was home with the children. In an interview with the investigators, Chris described how he killed his wife and two daughters. According to Chris, after he fought over separation with Shanann, he strangled her at their home in Frederick. After having Shanann murdered, he dragged her body down the stairs, when Bella witnessed him. According to Chris, Bella cried,

What is wrong with mommy?”

He then loaded Shanann on the floorboard and Bella and Cece on the back seat of his work truck. He drove them about 45-minutes to an oil site, a property of Anadarko Petroleum where he worked. When he got there, Chris used a blanket to smother Cece and threw her in an oil tank. He returned and did the same to Bella as well. According to Chris, before Bella died, she asked him,

Is the same thing gonna happen to me as Cece?”

Place Where Chris Watts Children were Hidden

After he dumped both his daughters in the oil tanks, he buried his wife in a shallow grave nearby.

Place Where Shanann Watts was Buried

The Report of Disappearance and Arrest of Chris

Nickole Utoft Atkinson, a former friend, and colleague of Shanann dropped her home from the Airport on August 13, 2018, in the morning.

Nickole Utoft Atkinson, Friend, and Colleague of Shanann Watts

Later that day, Nickole began worrying as Shanann had missed her business meeting, her OB-GYN appointment, and Shanann did not even respond to her messages. Nickole went to Shanann’s home at 12:10 pm, where nobody responded to the doorbell. Nickole contacted Chris, who had gone to work, and subsequently called the Frederick Police Department. At about 1:40 pm, an officer arrived for a welfare check at his home. Chris also arrived and permitted the police to search his home. During the welfare check, Shanann and his daughters were missing. The searchers later discovered Shanann’s purse containing her phone and keys, her car in the garage, and her wedding ring, which was found on the couple’s bed. The following day, the FBI and the Colorado Bureau of Investigation joined the investigation. Initially, Chris had told the police that he had no idea where both his daughters and wife were, and he had not seen his wife since 5:15 am on the 13th when he left for work.  He gave interviews to many media outlets in which he was seen pleading for his wife and daughters’ safe return. In an interview, Chris said,

Shanann, Bella, Celeste, if you’re out there, just come back. If somebody has her, just bring her back. I need to see everybody.”

On August 15, 2018, he was arrested.

Chris Watts Being Arrested

According to the arrest affidavit, Chris failed a polygraph test and confessed to murdering Shanann. Before confessing, he asked the investigators to speak to his father.

During the investigation, he claimed that he killed his wife as an act of rage after she killed their daughters in response to the request for a divorce. He stated that he strangled Shanann and took the three bodies to a remote oil-storage.

Chris Watts Confessing to his Crimes before his Father and Investigators

He was fired from his job on the same day of his arrest. The authorities located the bodies on August 16. Later, in an interview he gave to the police, he admitted to his crimes of killing his pregnant wife and daughters. After Chris was arrested for the murder of his wife, his mistress, Nichol Kessinger went to the Colorado Bureau of Investigation and told them that she believed that Chris was about to divorce his wife. She said,

Chris would often pay for dates with gift cards — possibly so his wife couldn’t track his spending. He always paid with those. Always. But during their last date together the night of August 11, something changed. Instead of paying with his usual gift cards, Watts paid with a personal credit card. It was like he had nothing to hide. Or nothing to lose”

Charges & Sentencing

On August 21, Watts was charged with five counts of first-degree murder of his wife and two daughters, including an additional one count per child cited as “death of a child who had not yet attained 12 years of age and the defendant was in a position of trust” of his two daughters; unlawful termination of a pregnancy; and three counts of tampering with a deceased human body. On his first court appearance, he was denied bail, and at a later hearing, his bail was set at $5 million, with Chris required to put down 15% for his release.

Chris Watts During a Court Hearing

On September 1, Watts gave $750,000 and was released with pending legal proceedings. On November 6, he pleaded guilty to the murders, and the death penalty was not put forward by the district attorney on the request of Shanann’s family who accepted the plea deal. On November 19, Chris received five life sentences – three consecutive and two concurrent without the possibility of parole; he also received an additional 48 years for the unlawful termination of his wife’s pregnancy, and 36 years for three charges of tampering with a deceased body. Later, Chris revoked his $5 million bails and was immediately remanded. On December 3, 2018, Watts was moved to an out-of-state location due to “security concerns” and on December 5, 2018, he arrived at the Dodge Correctional Institution, a maximum-security prison, in Waupun, Wisconsin.

Property

Chris and his wife, Shanann, owned a five-bedroom, four-bathroom house at 2825 Saratoga Trail in Frederick, Colorado. The house was bought in April 2013 on a loan of $392,709. As of 2020, the house is valued at $583,500. [1]

Chris and Shanann Watts House

Salary

As an employee of Anadarko petroleum, he earned an annual salary of $61,000, according to their bankruptcy records filed in 2015. [2]

Facts/Trivia

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