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BREAKING: NEW arrest video shows killer dad Chris Watts handcuffed on day he’s booked for murdering his pregnant wife and young daughters
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Newly released bodycam footage taken the day Chris Watts was arrested for killing his wife and daughters show the confessed murderer being handcuffed in the same interrogation room where he admitted to murdering his pregnant wife Shanann Watts. The video obtained by RadarOnline shows the arresting Frederick Police officers instructing Watts to face a wall …

Juveniles
November 30, 2018

LISTEN: Chris Watts girlfriend Nichol Kessinger sobs in police interview over murder of his daughters; resists giving police contact information of friend who could confirm her whereabouts on day of murders

The Weld County District Attorney’s Office has released hours of audio and video footage related to the murder investigation of Shanann Watts and her daughters Bella and Celeste, including the interrogation of Chris Watts and his eventual confession to killing to pregnant wife. Among the documents is an audio file of a 2-hour interview, obtained …

Maddox Ritch: Autopsy says autistic boy found in creek died from ‘probable drowning’
Missing
November 29, 2018

Maddox Ritch: Autopsy says autistic boy found in creek died from ‘probable drowning’

An autopsy has determined that Maddox Ritch, the 6-year-old boy with autism who was found dead in a North Carolina creek in September, likely died from an accidental drowning. Mecklenburg County Medical Examiner’s Office also said in Thursday’s report that Ritch suffered wounds to his neck which were likely caused by an animal attack that …

Family Crime
November 28, 2018

[UPDATED] Chris Watts girlfriend searched for Shanann Watts online nearly a year before the murders and long before her affair with Chris Watts began: Report

UPDATED December 6, 5:11 p.m. E.T. The records supervisor at the Frederick Police Department told CrimeOnline on Thursday that the entry in the discovery report showing that Nichol Kessinger performed a Google search for Shanann Watts on September 1, 2017 is a typo. CrimeOnline reached records supervisor Amanda Purcell on Thursday after repeated inquiries made …

Family Crime
November 26, 2018

Unidentified woman seen at the home of Shanann and Chris Watts over a month after the murders; Police respond to a report of ‘suspicious activity’

Over a month after Shanann Watts and her two young daughters were murdered, police responded to a report of suspicious activity at their Frederick, Colorado, home, where a neighbor saw a woman approach the house via video surveillance but never saw her leave. The discovery documents released by the Weld County District Attorney’s office, and …

Family Crime
November 25, 2018

Chris Watts mistress searched online for wedding dresses; confessed killer tried to claim wife’s pregnancy was not his baby: Documents

Discovery documents released by the Weld County District Attorney’s office have revealed more about the relationship between Chris Watts and his pregnant wife Shanann, along with the phone communication and online search activities of both the confessed family-killer and his new girlfriend, who he started seeing less than two months before he murdered his wife …

Family Crime
November 24, 2018

New docs show Chris Watts lies, contradictions in polygraph test: Family-killer claimed to be at a baseball game when he was on a date with his mistress; tried to paint his murdered wife as ‘unstable’

The transcript of a polygraph test along with a conversation Chris Watts had with his father shows how the confessed family-killer changed his story about the events leading up the murder of his pregnant wife and two young daughters. The Weld County District Attorney’s Office released nearly 2,000 pages of discovery documents in the Chris …