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Speaker 2: I'm Jackie breaking Prime news now. It's been six years

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Speaker 2: since Chris Watts murdered his wife, Shanan and their two children,

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Speaker 2: Bella and Celeste. Now, the soon to be thirty nine

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Speaker 2: year old killer says he is afraid for his life.

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Speaker 2: Reporters for the New York Posts say three people who

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Speaker 2: have contact with Watts say he lives the sedentary lifestyle

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Speaker 2: has gained significant weight and has lost most of his hair.

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Speaker 2: He mostly keeps to himself, attending Bible study. According to

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Speaker 2: the Post, and inmate who spent a year at the

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Speaker 2: prison says there are those who would like to get

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Speaker 2: revenge on Watts for what he did to his children.

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Speaker 2: Here's cromwein lyin stave Mack.

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Speaker 3: During an argument about divorce, Watts strangle Shanean. Their four

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Speaker 3: year old daughter, Bella, wakes up and sees her dad mom.

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Speaker 3: Watts tells Bella mommy's sick and puts her back to bed.

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Speaker 3: Watts loads Shannan's body into the bed of his truck,

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Speaker 3: and with Bella and three year old Celeste in the

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Speaker 3: back seat without their car seats, he takes his family

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Speaker 3: to the oil tankers where he works. Smothering his daughters

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Speaker 3: to death, he squeezes them through an eight inch and

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Speaker 3: the oil tank and drops his wife into a shallow

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Speaker 3: grave one hundred yards from the oil tankers and covers

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Speaker 3: it with dirt.

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Speaker 2: Shannan Watt's disappearance was first reported to police in August

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Speaker 2: twenty eighteen by her friend Nicole Atkinson, listened to her

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Speaker 2: nine to one one.

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Speaker 4: Call I dropped her off at her house at two

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Speaker 4: in the morning last night because we were out of

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Speaker 4: town together and threw on the way back from the

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Speaker 4: airport and learning issues, and she's pregnant, and I haven't

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Speaker 4: been able to get a hold of her this morning.

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Speaker 4: And I've gotten to her house and her car's there

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Speaker 4: and stuff like that, but she won't answer the door,

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Speaker 4: she won't answer the phone call, she won't answer text messages.

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Speaker 4: And I'm just really really concerned. And she had a

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Speaker 4: doctor's appointment this morning and she didn't go to it,

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Speaker 4: and I'm just I don't know what to do. I've

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Speaker 4: called him and talked to him, and he said that

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Speaker 4: she went on a playdate with her other two daughters.

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Speaker 4: But like, if she went on a playdate, they book

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Speaker 4: in carpets, why would she not gake a car.

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Speaker 2: The two little girls were alive when Watts drove to

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Speaker 2: the oil filled to dispose of bodies. Given a Facebook

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Speaker 2: post where one of the little girls sang a song

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Speaker 2: about her father, no one saw the brutal actions coming.

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Speaker 5: Rank Daddy is that heir loo? He helped me girl up,

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Speaker 5: He helped me Oh sad good too. He reads me books,

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Speaker 5: Time Nations.

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Speaker 2: Chris Watts finally confessed to the murders two days after

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Speaker 2: his family had been reported missing, but he claimed he

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Speaker 2: only killed his wife because she had smothered the children

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Speaker 2: after he told her he wanted to separate. Chris Watts

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Speaker 2: had been having an affair with coworker Nicole Chisinger. She

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Speaker 2: came forward to police saying she thought he was separated

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Speaker 2: from his wife. Watts was convicted of nine total charges,

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Speaker 2: five counts of first degree murder, one count of unlawful

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Speaker 2: termination of a pregnancy. Sanan was pregnant at the time

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Speaker 2: of her death, and three counts of tampering with the

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Speaker 2: deceased body. Watts was sentenced to life in prison without

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Speaker 2: the possibility of parole. For more crime and justice news,

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Speaker 2: with this crime Alert. I'm Jackie Howard.