A Timeline Of Chris And Shanann Watts' Marriage

Shanann Watts worked for a multi-level marketing company while Chris Watts was employed by Anadarko Petroleum (though he was fired on the day of his arrest) per The Coloradan. According to their bankruptcy documents, they made a combined $100,000 and had a mortgage payment of $3,000 per month on their $400,000 home.

In June 2018, Shanann told her husband she was pregnant with their third child. That same month Shanann and her daughters flew to North Carolina for six weeks to visit family, per Pop Sugar. Meanwhile, Chris began his affair with Nichol Kessinger, a woman he worked with, telling her he was separated. In July, Chris flew to North Carolina to meet up with his family. He and Shanann began to fight.

On August 9, Shanann left for a work trip to Arizona and returned the morning of August 13. Chris told Shanann he wanted a divorce a few hours later. They argued and he strangled her. He then loaded his daughters into his truck along with their mother's body. He smothered his daughters to death, buried his wife in a shallow grave, dumped his daughters' bodies in an oil tank, then he went to work as if nothing happened.

Chris Watts is serving five life sentences plus 48 years in prison without the possibility of parole. He is also reportedly back in touch with Kessinger, who changed her name after the murders, per Daily Mail.

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