Chris Watts: The Father Who Murdered His Pregnant Wife and Two Daughters — Transcript

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1. 0:00A man stands in front of TV cameras
2. 0:02begging for his missing family to come
3. 0:04home. He says he just wants them back
4. 0:06safe. He claims he has no idea where
5. 0:08they are, but his body language tells a
6. 0:10different story. Within hours, body
7. 0:12language experts across the internet are
8. 0:14saying the same thing. He's lying. Days
9. 0:16later, he confesses he murdered his
10. 0:18pregnant wife and smothered his two
11. 0:20young daughters. This is the Chris Watts
12. 0:22case, and it's one of the most
13. 0:23disturbing family annihilations in
14. 0:25recent history. On August 13th, 2018,
15. 0:29Shannan Watts returned home in Colorado
16. 0:30after a business trip. She was 15 weeks
17. 0:33pregnant with their third child, a boy
18. 0:35they planned to name Nico. Her husband,
19. 0:37Chris, was there waiting, but something
20. 0:39was terribly wrong. Chris had been
21. 0:41having an affair with a co-orker named
22. 0:43Nicl Kessinger. He wanted a new life
23. 0:45with her. Shannan and their daughters,
24. 0:48four-year-old Bella and three-year-old
25. 0:49Celeste, stood in the way. In the early
26. 0:52morning hours of August 13th, Chris
27. 0:54strangled Shenan to death in their
28. 0:56bedroom. Then he woke up Bella and
29. 0:58Celeste, loaded them and their mother's
30. 0:59body into his work truck, and drove to
31. 1:01an oil field where he worked. He buried
32. 1:03Shenan in a shallow grave. Then he
33. 1:05smothered Bella and Celeste and stuffed
34. 1:07their small bodies into oil tanks. He
35. 1:10went to work like it was a normal day.
36. 1:12That afternoon, Shannan's friend came to
37. 1:13check on her and couldn't get inside.
38. 1:15She called police. Chris arrived home
39. 1:17and acted confused. He said, "Shannan
40. 1:20must have taken the girls somewhere.
41. 1:21Police immediately suspected something
42. 1:23was wrong. The house was too clean.
43. 1:25Shannan's phone, keys, and purse were
44. 1:27still there. Her medication was there.
45. 1:29No mother leaves without those things."
46. 1:32The next day, Chris appeared on local
47. 1:33news, pleading for his family's return.
48. 1:35He stood on his porch and said he just
49. 1:37wanted them back. He said he had no idea
50. 1:39what happened, but watching the footage,
51. 1:41something is off. He's smiling slightly.
52. 1:44He touches his neck repeatedly, a sign
53. 1:46of stress. He can't make eye contact.
54. 1:49His words say he's devastated, but his
55. 1:50body language says he's lying. Body
56. 1:53language experts analyzed the interview
57. 1:54and pointed out every tell. The internet
58. 1:56exploded. Everyone could see it. He was
59. 1:58guilty. Police confronted him. His story
60. 2:01fell apart. He failed a polygraph test.
61. 2:04On August 15th, just 2 days after the
62. 2:06murders, Chris Watts confessed. He
63. 2:08admitted to killing Shannan, but
64. 2:09initially blamed her for the girl's
65. 2:10deaths, claiming she killed them and he
66. 2:12killed her in rage. It was a lie. He
67. 2:15later admitted the truth. He killed all
68. 2:17three. Shannan's body was found in a
69. 2:19shallow grave. Bella and Celeste were
70. 2:21pulled from the oil tanks. The autopsy
71. 2:23revealed Bella had fought back. She had
72. 2:25Chris's DNA under her fingernails. She
73. 2:28knew her father was killing her. Chris
74. 2:30Watts was sentenced to life in prison
75. 2:31without parole. He's currently serving
76. 2:34five life sentences. But the question
77. 2:35remains, how does a father kill his own
78. 2:38children? What kind of person smothers a
79. 2:404-year-old who's begging for her life?
80. 2:42The Chris Watts case isn't just about
81. 2:44murder. It's about evil hiding behind a
82. 2:46normal face. This is Shadow Archives,
83. 2:49where forgotten crimes come to light.