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Bonus: Killer Dad Chris Watts Fears For Life Behind Bars | Crime Alert Hourly Update · Crime Stories with Nancy Grace

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  Speaker 3: Crime Alert. I'm Jackie Howard, Breaking Prime News Now. It's
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  Speaker 3: been six years since Chris Watts murdered his wife, Shanan
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  Speaker 3: and their two children, Bella and Celeste. Now, the soon
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  Speaker 3: to be thirty nine year old killer says he is
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  Speaker 3: afraid for his life. Reporters for the New York Post
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  Speaker 3: Day three people who have contact with Watts, say he
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  Speaker 3: lives the same mood and terry lifestyle, has gained significant
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  Speaker 3: weight and has lost most of his hair. He mostly
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  Speaker 3: keeps to himself, attending Bible study, according to the Post,
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  Speaker 3: and inmate who spent a year at the prison, says
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  Speaker 3: there are those who would like to get revenge on
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  Speaker 3: Watts for what he did to his children. Here's Cromwell
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  Speaker 3: Lynes Dave Mack.
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  Speaker 4: During an argument about divorce, Watts strangle Shanean. Their four
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  Speaker 4: year old daughter, Bella, wakes up and sees her dad mom.
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  Speaker 4: Watts tells Bella mommy's sick and puts her back to bed.
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  Speaker 4: Watts loads Shannan's body into the bed of his truck
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  Speaker 4: and with Bella and three year old Celeste in the
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  Speaker 4: back seat without their car seats, he takes his family
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  Speaker 4: to the oil tankers where he works. Smothering his daughters
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  Speaker 4: to death, he squeezes them through an eight inch hatch
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  Speaker 4: in the oil tank and drops his wife into a
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  Speaker 4: shallow grave one hundred yards from the oil tankers and
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  Speaker 4: covers it with dirt.
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  Speaker 3: Shanan Watts's disappearance was first reported to police in August
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  Speaker 3: twenty eighteen by her friend Nicole Atkinson. Listen to her
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  Speaker 3: nine to one one call.
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  Speaker 5: I dropped her off at her house at two in
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  Speaker 5: the morning month because we were out of town together
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  Speaker 5: and threw on the way back from the airport and issues,
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  Speaker 5: and she's pregnant and I haven't been able to get
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  Speaker 5: a hold of her this morning and I've gotten to
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  Speaker 5: her house and her car's there and stuff like that,
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  Speaker 5: but she won't answer the door. She won't answer phone calls,
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  Speaker 5: she won't answer text messages, and I'm just really really concerned.
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  Speaker 5: And she had a doctor's appointment this morning and she
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  Speaker 5: didn't go to it, and I'm just I don't know
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  Speaker 5: what to do. I've called him and talked to him,
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  Speaker 5: and he said that she went on a playdate with
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  Speaker 5: her other two daughters. But like, if she went on
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  Speaker 5: a playdate, their books and card seats, why would you not.
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  Speaker 2: Take a car.
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  Speaker 3: The two little girls were alive when Watts drove to
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  Speaker 3: the oil filled to dispose of bodies. Given a Facebook
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  Speaker 3: post where one of the little girls sang a song
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  Speaker 3: about her father, no one saw the brutal actions coming.
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  Speaker 2: My daddy is a hello. He helps me up. He
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  Speaker 2: helped me so good too. He reeps me the scene.
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  Speaker 3: Chris Watts finally confessed to the murders two days after
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  Speaker 3: his family had been reported missing, but he claimed he
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  Speaker 3: only killed his wife because she had smothered the children
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  Speaker 3: after he told her he wanted to separate. Chris Watts
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  Speaker 3: had been having an affair with coworker Nicole Kissinger. She
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  Speaker 3: came forward to police saying she thought he was separated
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  Speaker 3: from his wife. Watts was convicted of nine total charges,
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  Speaker 3: five counts of first degree murder, one count of unlawful
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  Speaker 3: termination of a pregnancy. Sanan was pregnant at the time
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  Speaker 3: of her death, and three counts of tampering with the
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  Speaker 3: deceased body. Watts was sentenced to life in prison without
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  Speaker 3: the possibility of parole. For more crime and justice news,
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