In 2015, the Watts family had just purchased a $400,000 home, and was in roughly $70,000 of debt. At the time of the filing, Chris was the family’s main source of income, bringing in $63,000 of their joint $91,000 income. Netflix’s documentary does not touch on the Watts family’s financial situation, but according to CNN, court records show that Chris and Shanann Watts had filed for bankruptcy in 2015, three years before Chris committed the atrocious crimes. "I thought it would be easier to be with Nichol if Shanann wasn't pregnant,” he wrote. Watts also appears to confirm that his motive was related to his affair in his letters, writing of strangling Shannan: "I knew if I took my hands off of her, she would still keep me from Nikki.” He also revealed that he had previously drugged his pregnant wife with Oxycodone in an attempt to cause a miscarriage. In one, he reveals the murders were premeditated, writing of Shannan’s death: "All the weeks of me thinking about killing her, and now I was faced with it," and of tucking in his daughters the night before the murders: "I walked away and said, 'That's the last time I'm going to be tucking my babies.'" He confesses that he attempted to smother his daughters in their beds before he murdered their mother, but they “woke back up” bruised and disoriented, and he instead drove them alive to the site where he buried their mother, smothered them again, and shoved their lifeless bodies through a small opening into an oil tank. Netflix’s film doesn’t explore Chris’ psyche too much, but a pen pal named Cheryln Cadle compiled and published his letters to her from jail in the 2019 book Letters From Christopher: The Tragic Confessions of the Watts Family Murders. ![]() The 49 Best True Crime Movies of All Time.American Murder Digs Into the Chris Watts Case.
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