Chris Watts’ haunting confession letter after murdering his wife and children
The Colorado man convicted of slaughtering his family says he never would have killed his pregnant wife and two daughters if he hadn’t met his co-worker mistress, reports the New York Post.
Reports said, Chris Watts, 34, confessed in a prison letter that he would never kill his family, revealing that he had been seeing lover Nichol Kessinger for two months when he decided to murder his wife Shanann and daughters Bella, 4, and Celeste, 3.
The letter was written from prison to his pen pal Cherlyn Cadle, forming the basis of her new book “Letters from Christopher.”
According to NY Post, Watts is serving multiple life sentences for the August 2018 murders, telling Cadle he thought Kessinger was his ‘soulmate’ and felt no remorse for killing his family.
“All I could feel was now I was free to be with Nikki,” he wrote after the slaughter. “Feelings of my love for her was overcoming me. I felt no remorse.”
Watts confessed he slipped Shannan the potent painkiller Oxycodone in hopes she would miscarry, making it easier to be with his mistress.
Reports said Watts later describes in chilling detail how he smothered his daughters before heading to bed and strangling his wife.
NY Post said Watts attacked his daughters twice when his first attempts to suffocate them with a pillow but was unsuccessful.
“I went to the girls’ room first, before Shanann and I had our argument,” he wrote to Cadle.
“I went to Bella’s room, then Cece’s room and used a pillow from their bed,” Watts wrote.
He then went back to bed and continued arguing with his wife before strangling her.
Watts said after Shannan had passed, his daughters woke back up. “I’m not sure how they woke back up, but they did,” he wrote in the April 2019 letter.
“Bella’s eyes were bruised and both girls looked like they had been through trauma.”
NY Post report Watts previously confessed to driving his daughter Celeste,3, and Bella, 4, to an oil site where he dumped his wife’s body and then smothered the girls for a second time.
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