Convicted murdererChris Wattsreveals in a newly released confession that whenever he closes his eyes, he hears his oldest daughter’s final words begging him not to kill her.
“Daddy, no!,” Bella Watts, 4, screamed as her father moved in to smother her with the same blanket he’d used to kill her sister Celeste, 3, moments before.
“I hear it every day, when Bella was talking to me,” Watts told police. “When she said, ‘Daddy, no!'”
Watts, who was transferred to a prison in Wisconsin, spoke for hours on Feb. 18 with authorities from the Colorado Bureau of Investigation.The confessed triple-killeris serving multiple life sentences after pleading guilty last November to the Aug. 13, 2018, murders of his pregnant wife, Shanann, 34, and the couple’s two daughters.
Watts agreed to discuss the details of the murders after reportedly finding religion.
The Watts family.Facebook
Watts, 33, said during his confession he and Shanann had sex after she returned from a business trip to Arizona. Hours later, on Aug. 13, 2018, he jumped on Shanann, who was on her back in their bed, after a fight in which he told her he didn’t love her, and she threatened him with leaving him and taking the children.
During his confession, Watts saidhe believed Shanann began prayingas he started strangling her, and that she did not try to fight off the fatal attack.
He also told police he haspictures of his family in his prison cell, and reads to the photos of his children daily.
According to the confession, 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.
Each of the girls had their own blanket, he said, and Celeste brought a stuffed animal — a barking dog — along for the trip.
Shanann Watts in an undated photo with her two daughts.Facebook
“During the ride, the girls were dozing on and off, held each other, and laid in each other’s laps,” reads the CBI report on last month’s confessional.
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Watts told detectives he wasn’t thinking clearly during the drive.
“If I was thinking, this wouldn’t have happened, or any partial hint of what I feel for those girls and what I feel for my wife, then none of this would have happened. So I wasn’t thinking.”
“He is not sure if he told Bella ‘yes’ like a horrible person,” the report states.
source: people.com
