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The word 'monster' is crude, and yet it aptly sums up who Chris Watts is.
He is currently serving three consecutive life sentences for the murder of his 34-year-old pregnant wife Shanann, and their daughters Bella, four, and Celeste, three, in Colorado in August 2018.
Watts made the choice to murder his family in cold blood. Yet he blames one person for his decision — the woman who he was having an affair with at time. And in his prison letters referencing her, he only refers to her as "Jezebel".
In the Christian religion, a Jezebel is considered an immoral woman who deceives people in order to get what she wants. In Watts' mind, his former mistress Nichol Kessinger is to blame for his callous actions.
Watch the trailer for American Murder, the Netflix documentary that follows this case. Post continues below.
Watts originally fronted news cameras with a desperate appeal for help when his wife and two young daughters were reported missing, the truth soon emerging when the bodies of Shanann, Bella and Celeste were recovered from an oil field owned by the petroleum company that Watts worked for.
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