He Begged for Them Back on Camera. He’d Already Put Them in Oil Tanks.
At 1:48 a.m. on August 13, 2018, a doorbell camera caught pregnant Shanann Watts walking into her Frederick, Colorado home. By dawn her husband, Chris Watts, was loading a truck. By Thursday she was in a shallow grave at his worksite. Bella, 4, and Celeste, 3, were in crude-oil tanks. Then he went on TV and asked America to bring his family home.
Alexander Lawson tells the Watts case from the last ordinary night to the confession, the plea that took death off the table, and the words Bella said in the truck: “Daddy, no.”
This episode covers the murders of a pregnant woman and two children…
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