Chris Watts gave painkiller Oxycodone to pregnant wife Shannan hoping to induce miscarriage weeks before murder
Chris Watts reportedly revealed in a prison letter that he had been contemplating his wife's murder weeks in advance and admitted to slipping her Oxycodone in an attempt to end her pregnancy. Watts is currently serving multiple life sentences for the murder of his pregnant wife and two young daughters. Disturbing new details were revealed by the family annihilator in a letter to first-time author Cheryln Cadle, who documented her correspondence with Watts in her upcoming book “Letters From Christopher: The Tragic Confessions of the Watts Family Murders,” and shared the same with Daily Mail.
In the aforementioned letter published in the British newspaper, Watts also hinted at joining the ministry if he were ever to be released from prison, albeit his sentence did not include the possibility of parole.
"Do I feel like I should be incarcerated for the act I committed, I most definitely think so," he reportedly wrote in the letter. "Do I imagine myself ever doing anything like this or be a danger to society? I most definitely think NOT! If I were to ever be released, I know I would go straight to a ministry, and start going to jails/prisons and help inmates."
Watts, who was having an affair with co-worker Nichol Kessinger since early 2018, also admitted that he had considered killing Shannan for "weeks" before her murder. Considering, he also revealed he surreptitiously gave her the opiate painkiller Oxycodone in a bid to terminate her pregnancy.
“I thought it would be easier to be with Nichol if Shanann wasn’t pregnant,” the horror husband and father wrote in the letter.
Watts reportedly told author Cadle that he had attempted to kill his daughters Bella and Celeste, aged four and three respectively, in their beds before he strangled his wife to death. However, he admitted that his attempts to smother his kids were unsuccessful and that they both "regained consciousness and got out of bed, appearing bruised and traumatized," CrimeOnline reported.
In his correspondence with Cadle, Watts delved into disturbing details of how he murdered his pregnant wife after telling her he wanted a divorce.
“All the weeks of me thinking about killing her, and now I was faced with it. When she started to get drowsy, I somehow knew how to squeeze the jugular veins until it cut off the blood flow to her brain, and she passed out,” Watts reportedly wrote. “I knew if I took my hands off of her, she would still keep me from Nikki. They asked me why she couldn’t fight back, it’s because she couldn’t fight back. Her eyes filled with blood; as she looked at me and she died. I knew she was gone when she relieved herself.”
According to CrimeOnline, much of Watts told the author conflicts with past interviews he gave to authorities when they first began investigating the crimes, as well as a subsequent interview he gave detectives from prison earlier this year. It's worth noting that Watts had originally characterized killing his wife as a spontaneous crime of passion and hadn't admitted to plotting or even considering murdering his family members before prior to the tragedy.