Colorado father charged with 5 counts of murder in deaths of wife, daughters

[NewsVine_Mariyam]

Christopher Lee Watts is also charged with three counts of tampering with a deceased body.

The Colorado man who had pleaded publicly for the safe return of his missing wife and two young daughters was charged Monday with five counts of murder.

Christopher Watts, 33, of Frederick, Colorado, a suburb north of Denver, was being held without bond in the Weld County Jail pending a bond hearing on Tuesday. He is also charged with a single count of unlawful termination of a pregnancy and three counts of tampering with a deceased human body.

The murder charges relate to the deaths of Shanann Watts, 34, Bella Watts, 4, and Celeste Watts, 3, who the Colorado Bureau of Investigation said were killed last Monday. Watts was charged with two counts of murder for each of the girls, the second counts specifically citing the death of a child who "had not yet attained twelve years of age and the defendant was in a position of trust."​

 

[harmonica]

human males...humans
the human brain is ''weird''/''insane''/nonsensical

 

[tinydancer]

It takes a special kind of evil to strangle your baby daughters to death. I hope Colorado goes for the death penalty.

 

[SassyIrishLass]

If any schmuck deserves to die it's this one.

 

[NewsVine_Mariyam]

I do my best not to judge others but I'm not having any success with coming up with a reason that was so terrible, this was the only solution although I had this guy pegged for the murders from the first moment he opened his mouth:

The causes of death weren't made public, but prosecutors alleged that Shanann Watts died "as a result of the unlawful termination of her pregnancy." Defense attorneys, meanwhile, sought DNA swabs of the children's necks, informing the court that they had engaged an expert specializing in strangulation.

Shanann Watts' body was discovered on the property of the oil and natural gas company that Christopher Watts worked for, prosecutors said, and defense attorneys indicated in court documents that the girls' bodies were found in an oil well filled with crude oil. The oil company, Anadarko Petroleum Corp. of Texas, fired Christopher Watts the day he was arrested.

Husband arrested on suspicion of murder after pregnant wife and daughters go missing
The Wattses presented themselves as a happy family on social media, but a bankruptcy filing from 2015 indicated that they were in significant financial distress, with debt eating up most of the couple's combined income. They said in the bankruptcy filing that they had two savings accounts with less than $10 and a joint account with less than $870.

Watts briefly kept up the facade after his family were reported missing last Monday, telling reporters that he was "torn up inside" and that he wanted "everybody to just come home." But shortly before he was arrested, police alleged that Watts had confessed to having killed all three of them.​

 

[harmonica]

It takes a special kind of evil to strangle your baby daughters to death. I hope Colorado goes for the death penalty.

yes--it's up close/''face to face''/''not fast''

 

[tinydancer]

It takes a special kind of evil to strangle your baby daughters to death. I hope Colorado goes for the death penalty.

yes--it's up close/''face to face''/''not fast''

The mark of a true monster. Slow and steady with his babies eyes looking directly at him as he choked the bloody life out them. I recommend death by hanging. No hood. With those in attendance holding pictures of his little girls so they can look at him as he has takes his last fucking breath.

 

[shockedcanadian]

Christopher Lee Watts is also charged with three counts of tampering with a deceased body.

The Colorado man who had pleaded publicly for the safe return of his missing wife and two young daughters was charged Monday with five counts of murder.

Christopher Watts, 33, of Frederick, Colorado, a suburb north of Denver, was being held without bond in the Weld County Jail pending a bond hearing on Tuesday. He is also charged with a single count of unlawful termination of a pregnancy and three counts of tampering with a deceased human body.

The murder charges relate to the deaths of Shanann Watts, 34, Bella Watts, 4, and Celeste Watts, 3, who the Colorado Bureau of Investigation said were killed last Monday. Watts was charged with two counts of murder for each of the girls, the second counts specifically citing the death of a child who "had not yet attained twelve years of age and the defendant was in a position of trust."​

Another cowardly, sick, scumbag sob. Tell me, how difficult is it to be a forgiving, peaceful man who believes in God when we know such animals live among us? Very difficult for me to bite my tongue.

 

[CarlinAnnArbor]

It takes a special kind of evil to strangle your baby daughters to death. I hope Colorado goes for the death penalty.

Beautiful family. Sick "husband" and "father "

 

[EverCurious]

Christopher Lee Watts is also charged with three counts of tampering with a deceased body.

The Colorado man who had pleaded publicly for the safe return of his missing wife and two young daughters was charged Monday with five counts of murder.

Christopher Watts, 33, of Frederick, Colorado, a suburb north of Denver, was being held without bond in the Weld County Jail pending a bond hearing on Tuesday. He is also charged with a single count of unlawful termination of a pregnancy and three counts of tampering with a deceased human body.

The murder charges relate to the deaths of Shanann Watts, 34, Bella Watts, 4, and Celeste Watts, 3, who the Colorado Bureau of Investigation said were killed last Monday. Watts was charged with two counts of murder for each of the girls, the second counts specifically citing the death of a child who "had not yet attained twelve years of age and the defendant was in a position of trust."​

Another cowardly, sick, scumbag sob. Tell me, how difficult is it to be a forgiving, peaceful man who believes in God when we know such animals live among us? Very difficult for me to bite my tongue.

I don't think you should be at all inclined to bite your tongue with this kind of thing. Let the entire world know this is not acceptable behavior, period. It's a violation of natural instinct to kill your kids, a violation of human relationships to kill your wife - and the combination of both should leave us all with zero sympathy for them and their type. ~shrug~

 

[CarlinAnnArbor]

It takes a special kind of evil to strangle your baby daughters to death. I hope Colorado goes for the death penalty.

yes--it's up close/''face to face''/''not fast''

The mark of a true monster. Slow and steady with his babies eyes looking directly at him as he choked the bloody life out them. I recommend death by hanging. No hood. With those in attendance holding pictures of his little girls so they can look at him as he has takes his last fucking breath.

Colorado has the death penalty, but hasn't executed anyone since 1997.

 

[tinydancer]

Christopher Lee Watts is also charged with three counts of tampering with a deceased body.

The Colorado man who had pleaded publicly for the safe return of his missing wife and two young daughters was charged Monday with five counts of murder.

Christopher Watts, 33, of Frederick, Colorado, a suburb north of Denver, was being held without bond in the Weld County Jail pending a bond hearing on Tuesday. He is also charged with a single count of unlawful termination of a pregnancy and three counts of tampering with a deceased human body.

The murder charges relate to the deaths of Shanann Watts, 34, Bella Watts, 4, and Celeste Watts, 3, who the Colorado Bureau of Investigation said were killed last Monday. Watts was charged with two counts of murder for each of the girls, the second counts specifically citing the death of a child who "had not yet attained twelve years of age and the defendant was in a position of trust."​

Another cowardly, sick, scumbag sob. Tell me, how difficult is it to be a forgiving, peaceful man who believes in God when we know such animals live among us? Very difficult for me to bite my tongue.

With all due respect, my Christ acted when he encountered evil. He was neither peaceful, nor forgiving at times. My Christ freaking rocked. Like his Father. Evil must be confronted by us. We must address it.

 

[Rambunctious]

I don't understand this kind of evil....

 

[shockedcanadian]

It takes a special kind of evil to strangle your baby daughters to death. I hope Colorado goes for the death penalty.

yes--it's up close/''face to face''/''not fast''

The mark of a true monster. Slow and steady with his babies eyes looking directly at him as he choked the bloody life out them. I recommend death by hanging. No hood. With those in attendance holding pictures of his little girls so they can look at him as he has takes his last fucking breath.

Colorado has the death penalty, but hasn't executed anyone since 1997.

For abusing the trust of his family in the manner he did it might be time to break this streak.

 

[CarlinAnnArbor]

Was he charged with the MURDER of his UNBORN child?

 

[harmonica]

I don't understand this kind of evil....

...the human brain/humans are capable of the most outlandish crap--what we think is unthinkable
...humans murder and have murdered since being human

 

[tinydancer]

It takes a special kind of evil to strangle your baby daughters to death. I hope Colorado goes for the death penalty.

yes--it's up close/''face to face''/''not fast''

The mark of a true monster. Slow and steady with his babies eyes looking directly at him as he choked the bloody life out them. I recommend death by hanging. No hood. With those in attendance holding pictures of his little girls so they can look at him as he has takes his last fucking breath.

Colorado has the death penalty, but hasn't executed anyone since 1997.

For abusing the trust of his family in the manner he did it might be time to break this streak.

Please don't think for one minute anyone is judging you on how you are dealing with this atrocity. Heavens no. I'm just telling you from my personal journey that I'm kinda a Ted Nugent kinda Christian and when evil acts like this are so beyond the pale I have no problem pounding it down as a Christian. NOW that doesn't entitle anyone to go into work tomorrow and start throwing over tables........but man oh man it's ok to have righteous anger.

 

[EverCurious]

Was he charged with the MURDER of his UNBORN child?

No they avoided handing the pro-lifers that on a silver plate, sorry. He was charged with an "unlawful termination of a pregnancy."

 

[tinydancer]

I don't understand this kind of evil....

This is one of those times where you want to go "oh it was the drugs. please let it be drugs. no one could clamp their hands around their child's throat and choke them to fucking death. "

 

[tinydancer]

Was he charged with the MURDER of his UNBORN child?

No they avoided handing the pro-lifers that on a silver plate, sorry. He was charged with an "unlawful termination of a pregnancy."

Considering its Colorado, I'm happy with that charge. But we still don't know what he did. First up he took out the baby and his wife. Then he killed his daughters if the timeline is correct.