After his arrest he initially claimed that Shanann had killed the girls after he had told her he wanted a separation, and then he had strangled her in anger.Īt his trial, he pleaded guilty to avoid the death penalty, which has since been abolished in Colorado.Ĭarter, who is now living in a halfway house in Green Bay, Wisconsin, said that Watts keeps pictures of his two daughters pinned up in his cell. 'He told me he thought the oil would disintegrate the bodies,' Carter told .įor two days Watts claimed that he had nothing to do with his family's disappearance and went on television to plead for them to come home. He buried Shanann in a shallow grave and then smothered his two daughters and placed their bodies inside the storage tanks. He strangled her and then put her body and their two daughters in his truck and drove to isolated oil storage tanks owned by Anadarko. Watts killed his wife after she came home from a business trip to Arizona. She is still living in hiding, more than 2.5 years after the murders.Īt his trial, Watts pleaded guilty to avoid the death penalty, which has since been abolished in Colorado There was never any suspicion that Kessinger knew that he intended to kill his family but she was inundated with hate mail despite believing their affair was just a harmless fling. When he eventually confessed to the murders, he told investigators it was because he wanted be with her. Watts told her that he was separated from his wife. Kessinger and Watts both worked for the oil company Anadarko and met at work. Wisconsin Department of Corrections spokesman John Beard said he could not comment on Carter's claims. 'He wasn't supposed to have any contact with her, but she initiated it by writing to him.' Now Carter has backed those claims that Kessinger does write to the man whose crime shocked the nation - or at least that Watts believes she does.Ĭarter, who was released from Dodge on February 27, said it was back in September last year that Watts, 35, first told him Kessinger was writing to him.Īnd Watts claimed that prison authorities discovered what was happening and punished him by suspending his email account carefully monitoring all his mail. Cadle went on to write a book about their correspondence called Letters From Christopher. Watts told pen pal Cheryln Cadle in 2019 that he was still in love with Kessinger and believed that some of the letters he received in prison were from her writing under assumed names. Watts is currently serving five life sentences plus 48 years in prison without the possibility of parole for the murders of his pregnant wife and two daughtersīy Martin Gould In Green Bay, Wisconsin, For Dailymail.Com.Watts claimed that prison authorities discovered what was happening and punished him by suspending his email account carefully monitoring all his mail.Carter said that Watts, 35, first told him Kessinger was writing to him in September 2020.'He wouldn't tell me exactly what she had said.' 'He told me she said that she needed to speak to him to clear some things up,' Carter said.Fellow inmate David Carter made the revelation in an exclusive interview with.Kessinger, 32, took on a new identity and moved from her home in Arvada, Colorado, after Watts was arrested for murdering his family.
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