Mum killed alongside two kids has final moments revealed in evil husband’s sick prison letters
A MUM killed alongside her two kids has had her final moments revealed in her evil husband's sick prison letters.
Chris Watts, 35, has revealed details of his pregnant wife’s murder in a bombshell message from jail in Wisconsin, US.
Details of the horrific murders have been shown in new Netflix documentary American Murder: The Family Next Door, shocking viewers.
The wife killer is currently serving multiple life sentences in prison for the murder of victims Shannan and , Bella, four, and Celeste, three, on August 13, 2018, in
";She looked at me and she died. I knew she was gone when she relieved herself," recalled in a bombshell letter to author Cheryln Cadle, which was obtained by the .
She visited Watts in prison three times for research and they wrote to each other.
In these letters, Watts admitted that he unsuccessfully tried to smother their young daughters after an argument with Shannan, using "a pillow from their bed."
He wrote that the little girls both regained consciousness and got out of bed bruised and traumatised after he had killed Shannan, who was 15 weeks pregnant.
Watts said he knew he would kill them on August 12 but "did nothing to stop it" and felt "mad" when he discovered they were still alive after his murder attempt the next day.
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The terrified children found Watts wrapping their mum in a bed sheet, the letter said.
Watts said he told them Shannan wasn't feeling well before dragging her body down the stairs and into his truck.
He then drove his dead wife and two frightened daughters to a remote oil field owned by his former employer, Anadarko, bringing his lunch, a shovel, and rake, the Mail reported.
After dumping his wife's remains on the ground, Watts smothered Celeste while her sister watched before dropping her body through an eight-inch hatch in one of the oil tankers.
Watts told Cadle that "little quiet Bella had a will to live" and was the only one to put up a fight against him, saying "daddy, no!" as he killed her.
He insisted both of the girls were dead when he dropped them in the oil tankers.
Shannan's cause of death was strangulation while an autopsy found crude oil in Bella and Celeste's throats, stomach and lungs.
Watts previously told investigators that Shannan's killing was a spur-of-the-moment crime and didn't admit to planning it.
Initially, he told cops that he had flown into a rage and killed Shannan after falsely claiming she had strangled their daughters.
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The letter is the first time he's acknowledged killing his kids.
Watts later pleaded guilty to all three killings and his mistress Kessinger has been taken into witness protection in another state.