Chris Watts

Watts is serving a life sentence for murdering his pregnant wife, Shanann, and their two daughters, Bella and Celeste, in 2018. 

Nichol Kessinger apparently entertained notions of spending the rest of her life with Chris Watts, until she learned the terrible truth about him.

“I watched him get more and more unhappy with his life. He went from being a friendly guy to being withdrawn and angry,” said Brian Spence, a contractor who worked with Chris Watts.

"This case shows that domestic violence can happen anywhere," Colorado Bureau of Investigation Agent Tammy Lee said of Chris Watts murdering wife, daughters.

“You certainly don’t expect someone to react that way over a simple ‘hello,’” neighbor Vonda Knox said of her encounter with Chris Watts before he murdered his family.

Andrea Yates was one female family annihilator, notorious for drowning all five of her children in a bathtub.

Chris Watts also allegedly confessed to writer Cheryln Cadle that he unsuccessfully tried to kill daughters Bella and Celeste before murdering Shanann in August 2018.

Christa Richello, who started corresponding with Chris Watts and his cellmate Dylan Tallman, says she believes Watts is innocent. 

Letters found on Shanann Watts' phone show how she pleaded with her husband Chris to tell her what was wrong so she could fix it. He strangled her to death a short time later.

A pregnant Shanann Watts vowed to do whatever it took to save her marriage with Chris Watts, days before he killed her and their daughters Bella and Celeste.