Cynthia Watts, Chris Watts was railroaded into the confession — Transcript

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6. 0:12Ronnie and Cynthia Watts, the parents of Chris Watts have broken their silence after Chris
7. 0:18pleaded guilty to killing his pregnant wife, Shannan and his two daughters Bella and Celeste.
8. 0:25Chris should have pleaded guilty to the killing of the girls in an attempt to avoid a death
9. 0:32sentence.
10. 0:33But Ronnie and Cynthia Watts do not believe their son murdered the little girls they are
11. 0:37convinced Chris was railroaded into making his guilty plea and they want him to take
12. 0:44his guilty plea back if he is innocent.
13. 0:47Both parents of Chris Watts said they know their son isn’t a sociopath despite he has
14. 0:54told them he killed his pregnant wife Shannan.
15. 0:57Cynthia told the Denver Post she knows he has made the confession, but it is her belief
16. 1:04he was railroaded into it.
17. 1:06Tuesday Chris made the plea deal with prosecutors and this means he will not face the death
18. 1:12penalty.
19. 1:13But Cynthia told she has said to Chris not to confess to something he didn’t do.
20. 1:19She believes Chris’ story that he killed Shannan after she had strangled Bella and
21. 1:25Celeste.
22. 1:26To ABC 7 Denver, Cynthia Watts has told she believes the lawyers were only thinking about
23. 1:32saving her son’s life.
24. 1:34But for her saving his life and a life in prison are not different.
25. 1:38She said he is going to die in prison but she wants him to fight she don’t want him
26. 1:44to take the plea deal she wants him to plead not guilty in the murders of the girls.
27. 1:50Ronnie Watts told if he didn’t kill the girls he wants him to face that and let them
28. 1:55prove otherwise.
29. 1:56Ronnie also told they are stills looking for answers to a lot of questions regarding the
30. 2:02case.
31. 2:03In Ronnie’s opinion, everything happened too fast, from a case status to a plea.
32. 2:09Prior Chris Watts had denied murdering Bella and Celeste.
33. 2:12The plea deal was approved by Shannan’s family who has told they didn’t want to
34. 2:17end his life as he ended their daughter’s and grandchildren’s lives.
35. 2:22After the hearing, the family didn’t speak but they watched as the DA announced the outcoming
36. 2:28of the hearing.
37. 2:29After the hearing, Weld District Attorney Michael Rourke revealed Shannan’s family
38. 2:34did not want Chris to be executed he told Shannan’s mom, Sandra had said he made the
39. 2:41choice to take their lives and that she didn’t want to be in the position of choosing to
40. 2:46take his.
41. 2:48Rourke told one of the factors in the decision was the impending gubernatorial election which
42. 2:54could determine whether or not a governor would even enforce the death penalty if it
43. 3:00applied.
44. 3:01Rourke took a stab at Colorado governor John Hickenlooper, who repeatedly had opposed the
45. 3:08execution of death row inmate, Nathan Dunlap.
46. 3:10Rourke said they explained the currently excising delays in the state of Colorado which is partly
47. 3:17a result due to the actions of their current governor.
48. 3:21They were strongly in favor of a resolution, in this case, the death penalty.
49. 3:25Rourke tells this was the most important consideration to him in deciding how to proceed in this
50. 3:32case.
51. 3:33He continued telling he doesn’t know how he should have sat with Sandy in her kitchen
52. 3:37asking her to commit the next 25 years of her life to the criminal justice system without
53. 3:44any assurance that the sentence would ever actually be imposed,'
54. 3:49Rourke told they had established a partial motive but would not say what that was.
55. 3:55The victims' autopsy reports remain under seal.
56. 3:59Rourke told he was 'sick' and 'saddened' by the case.
57. 4:02He said he never wanted to have a press conference like this.
58. 4:06There is no cause for celebration.
59. 4:09Rourke told during the plea hearing the falsehood that Shannan had killed the girls was corrected
60. 4:15and the spotlight he falsely tried to shine on Shannan now shines on him.
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