“How do you put someone you love into an oil tank?” Shanann Watts’ parents said they were devastated when they learned the truth about what their son-in-law had done. “I knew in my heart of hearts the friend that I had cared so much for would never hurt her babies,” Atkinson told “20/20.” “I knew from day one that was not true.” Chris Watts was arrested for their murders. Shanann's body was discovered in a shallow grave, and the children were found in separate oil tanks nearby at the Cervi 319 Oil Well, court documents show. Watts, also charged with killing his two daughters, is seen with his father in a police interrogation room blaming the death of the couple's daughters on his wife, Shanann Watts. Stunned, investigators came back into the interrogation room to continue questioning. As police continued to question him, he asked to speak with his father, Ronnie Watts, in the interrogation room, which they allowed.Ĭhris Watts then admitted on video to his father that he’d strangled his wife in a rage because he claimed she had killed their children. 15, Chris Watts then went to the police station to take a polygraph test, which he failed. 13, and arrived, 47 minutes later, at a remote oil field known as the Cervi 319 Oil Well. Police then checked the GPS in Chris Watts’ work truck and found he had left his house at 5:46 a.m. I thank God in heaven that he didn't listen to me.” “I said, ‘Chris, I don't think you should do any media.’ I said, "You're the last one to have seen them, so I don't think you should.’ … I thank God he did it.
“He didn't give a flying flip,” Sandra Rzcuek said. He even gave an interview to ABC’s Denver affiliate KMGH-TV after they went missing, in which he said, "My kids are my life. ”Īuthorities say a neighbor's security video shows Chris Watts making three trips from the house to his truck carrying something the morning his wife and children disappeared.Īt first Chris Watts appeared cooperative with police and denied having anything to do with his wife and daughters’ disappearances. The sheets were missing from one of the girl's bedrooms. The matching sheet, the non-fitted or flat sheet, was found in the garbage can. “There were sheets missing from a couple of the beds,” Weld County District Attorney Michael Rourke told “20/20.” “There was a sheet missing from the bed in the master bedroom. They asked to search the home, and found Shanann Watts’ purse and wallet on the counter, her wedding ring on the nightstand, and some of the sheets on the beds stripped off. I don't want to get them involved’ … I said, ‘You're an idiot and you need to get to the house because something's wrong.’”Ĭhris Watts showed up as police officers were doing a perimeter check of the family’s home. “I was frantic, ‘You need to get to the house… Nicki's calling the police so they could break down the door,’” Rosenberg told “20/20.” “He said, ‘No. Meanwhile, Chris Watts called her friend Cassandra Rosenberg in Arizona, who said she began screaming at him to get home.
Atkinson went over to Watts’ doctor’s office next, but when she got there, she said the receptionist told her Watts hadn’t shown up for her appointment.Ītkinson called 911 and went back to the Watts’ house to wait for the police.
Nickole Atkinson was a close friend of Shanann Watts, the woman who was found dead along with her two young daughters, Celeste and Bella.Ītkinson said she spoke with Meacham again, who suggested Watts was probably at her OB/GYN appointment.
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