Why do I think Chris Watts pleaded guilty?

"Notwithstanding the provisions of paragraph (a) of this subsection (3), murder in the second degree is a class 3 felony where the act causing the death was performed upon a sudden heat of passion, caused by a serious and highly provoking act of the intended victim, affecting the defendant sufficiently to excite an irresistible passion in a reasonable person; but, if between the provocation and the killing there is an interval sufficient for the voice of reason and humanity to be heard, the killing is a class 2 felony." - Colorado 18-3-103 (3)(b) C.R.S.
The first part of a 20 page essay I wrote a couple years ago will be in the comments below. Part of this video is loosely based on this Dr. Todd Grande video:
• Chris Watts - Familici...
That video is funny because he is SO CLOSE to figuring this out that it's almost hard to watch. If he just for one second thought, well, wait a second, if this profile matches the wife, not the husband, we know for sure she isn't the one who killed the kids, right? What? Chris claimed for the initial 2 months that the controlling, matriarchal, love-starved, emotionally tortured wife killed the kids?!?! OK hold on a second, let me look at this again." I mean he starts off the video by saying we know for sure Chris killed everyone, so it's really disappointing. There is no physical evidence whatsoever linking him to the physical deaths of those girls. There were two capable adults in that house that night and only one of them was ever interrogated or otherwise questioned. We didn't get to analyze Shanann's nonverbal body language in her media interviews or in her interrogations. She instantly gets a free pass from ALL scrutiny because she got murdered. It's morally impermissible to blame the victim, they all say. But can't someone be a victim of one crime and the guilty perpetrator of another? So is it really "blaming the victim", or is it a multi-part analysis?

[@lucythecat12]

An index card that needs to be added was he was covering for accomplices. If the mistress and coworker helped him discard the bodies after the killings took place this would be a reason to plead guilty as well. The mistress repeatedly said on August 14th that she was scared. Scared of what? Troy McCoy lied about being at Cervi. Chris possibly felt he had no other choice.

[@jordanhenshaw]

Fair. Although everyone had extremely good reason to be extremely anxious and irrational once it broke that the police were possibly investigating a triple-homicide. Innocent people and guilty people alike tend to start doing really stupid things during homicide investigations. No one wants to say anything wrong and end up in the interrogation room. But axing the trial to prevent NK from being investigated further would have been a good index card. I'm about 40% sure that NK was involved with the clean up, but I have never thought she played any malicious role in the actual murders. That's because Chris grossly overestimated the size of the hatch and because his truck was parked in a place where the oil workers would never park (so I think NK drove his truck because Chris was in no shape to be driving the bodies of his dead family).

[@lucythecat12]

@@jordanhenshaw I agree. We can't assume someone would react the same way we would under those circumstances. Saying "I would have this,I would have that" is easier said than done. What I do know is the discovery reports of a suspicious white truck, the mistress owns a white truck, and sold her white truck the same week of the murders, her phone pinged in Frederick the same day of the murders (some will disagree and say it's because it was her route to work) but the phone never pinged before or after the murders on her way to work, also no proof she clocked in that morning only clocked out. She destroyed her SIM card. I lean towards your theory of her involvement. I don't think she acted in the murders but do believe she helped clean up. I look forward to more of your videos.

[@jordanhenshaw]

@@lucythecat12 It’s interesting because a lot of people spend all their time concocting all these reasons NK mustakilledem, but psychologically, there’s just no known model for that type of behavior. Jealous mistresses just don’t annihilate families. It’s not a thing that happens. For me to be convinced it did happen, I would need to see some very strong evidence she killed someone, and I haven’t seen that. All I’ve seen is evidence she was present for the cleanup, which doesn’t require malice, and that she was deep in limerence with Chris, and that she may have had some slightly cluster b tendencies. In other words, basically nothing.

[@jordanhenshaw]

@@lucythecat12 One thing I'll say about her selling the white truck. Have you ever heard the country song, "New Truck" by Dylan Scott? Give it a listen. Flip the roles and instead of a normal break up, they separate because one of them goes to prison for killing their family. Put it this way and it would be SHOCKING if she DIDN'T sell the truck. Because you know they spent a ton of time f-ing around in that truck.

[@jd7936]

I have a question why would a co worker or even the mistress help in any of this? it doesn't make sense chris watts an his mistress or anyone else in this case are nobody of importance that all this cover up needed to happen. What makes sense is chris had an affair wanted out of his marriage an responsibility of children he wanted to keep what ever money he had to fund his new life with kessinger if you remember kessinger was very concerned on his financial status she didn't want anyone else's baggage an she felt she didn't have any first with chris. he actually thought he would get away with it because of his such a good husband an father routine which obviously was not the case. If anyone else was involved do you really think he would have gotten caught so quickly an what a trail of evidence he left.

[@christineclark1286]

Because he was covering for his mistress NK !!!

[@kristinecrowley8321]

I love that your coverage of this case is in short, easy to digest videos. This case fascinates me but other creators hold hours and hours of live conversation every day and I can’t keep up with all that. Thank you!

[@Agathanagatha]

He spoke to his dad before he confessed,he didn’t want to speak to his mother

[@Girl-101]

I get the feeling that he doesn’t even like his mother

[@Agathanagatha]

@@Girl-101 you only have to listen to the phone calls to tell he didn’t even want to speak to her,but she took over every call

[@Girl-101]

@@Agathanagatha Who Shan’aan? She also pretended that at 4am then Bella & CeCe wanted to talk to Chris & this is why SW went nuts at him for not answering 🙄🙄 when, really, imo then it was she wanting control of him, you tell little girls at that hour that Daddy is still in bed and will chat later! I’m not married but is it normal to want to speak to your spouse of 8 years, whilst away from them, more than once a day?! Surely that’s for new ‘honeymoon’ couples? Like I say I’ve never been married but I’d imagine that taking a small break from each other, is exactly that..having a break?!

[@Girl-101]

@@Agathanagatha Ahh I’ve just realised you meant his mum and not Shan’Ann!! Lol,.yes I think he and his father were closer, makes sense as Jamie was closer to Cindy, boys together and girls together! I think Chris hates women and mummy is usually the reason why!

[@Agathanagatha]

@@Girl-101 no I was talking about the jail phone calls from Chris to his dad,as for sw calling him early hours of the morning I don’t know about that but I guess if you are desperate to save your marriage and you suspect your husband is seeing someone else then yes I can imagine 8 calls per day is understandable,you and I might not do it but probably if someone’s always had control and now feels like they are losing that control then desperation and rejection might make you act crazy and possessive,add pregnancy to it and that probably added to it

[@KitKat24531]

He was threatened that they would kill the rest of his family.

[@standingstrong1490]

I agree!

[@kanyeet5162]

If he didn't plead guilty he would have to go through a trail where the persecution will seek the death penalty

[@judiroth7855]

Your input is fascinating 👏👏👏👏👏. You should be an FBI agent - just brilliant. Thank you.

[@irenevigil5980]

NK has never given a statement in her behalf a person not guilty of anything would want to prove there was no involvement, what's so ever. Cleaning up is involvement! that does not make her innocent, but an accessory to a crime. Imo she was a possible accomplice, therefore, was present possibly before, during, and after. In that situation Innocent mistresses don't go to a married mans family home, don't pretend or have delusions they were officially living separate bc the basement was separate from the marital bed, don't destroy sim cards, ping in the vicinity of the home, not clock in am work hour on murder Monday, sell the truck precise timing, lie, lie and lie, take dad along for the ride, instead of going like an innocent adult, deny talking to CW on murder Monday, leave your bf Jim alone to spend time with a married man, call Jim, call CW, call Jim, call, call and call on murder Monday, Say you don't remember 111 minutes phone call strangely! neither one can remember nor can elaborate one full sentence of what was said, again perfect timing not to remember, many more things innocent Ppl don't do. But! Can remember his wife was so beautiful the girls were so little, all the finances ect.. all ears then.. an total recall.. to much more. But imo a fast nickel beats a slow dime.

[@isabellamaree1433]

Not sure to mention trying to have Shannon miscarriage the oxy 😮

[@Girl-101]

She doesn’t owe the public anything, she made a statement to police and that’s enough, it’s you that wants her to make a statement, this case has become like a housewives case.

[@cjbrew34]

Protect N. K........

[@msjujuz266]

I agree however I think he was a victim of Domestic abuse and has BIG problems dealing with his emotions in a healthy way, you can push people into doing bad things to themselves or others. I have seen it before, if he was female he would have got much more understanding and sympathy and possibly a lighter sentence.

[@Girl-101]

Not for killing the kids, putting them in oil vats and then going on live Tv and smirking whilst pretending to ask for help looking for the family. If SW truly did Abuse him & this is his reason for killing her, then did the girls abuse him too, at 3 and 4 years old?! He also called the nursery to withdraw the kids so that his cash wouldn’t come out of his bank for them, he may have been abused but he killed Shan’Ann because he couldn’t be seen as a shitty man for leaving a pregnant woman.

[@carolinekelsall9080]

I have subscribed to your channel because your videos are very interesting and informative 👍

[@jordanhenshaw]

*The Bomb* RBMK nuclear reactors do not explode. That is a fact. On April 26th, 1986, an RBMK nuclear reactor in the Chernobyl nuclear power plant exploded, poisoning an entire region for tens of thousands of years and ensuring the demise of the Soviet Union. Now it is important to note that RBMK reactors do not explode. It was a given fact at the time of the explosion that RBMK reactors indeed do not explode. When multiple engineers early that morning reported to their superiors that they had “looked into the core” and that the 1,000 ton lid was blown off and that the reactor had exploded, they were repeatedly and consistently mocked. Because RBMK reactors do not explode. That is a fact. This is why when it became apparent to everyone that the reactor in fact did explode, the question in everyone’s minds was, “How does an RBMK reactor explode?” No one knew the answer. Everyone knew that RBMK reactors do not explode and this was a fact. RBMK reactors do not explode. The authorities then set out to find out exactly how an RBMK reactor explodes. They conducted numerous interviews, they studied the science, they analyzed the engineering, they analyzed the history, they analyzed the decisions, they analyzed the math, they analyzed the timeline, and they analyzed the materials involved inside the core. What they found was that the RBMK reactor in question indeed did not “just explode”. Instead of finding that the reactor “just exploded”, they found that a long chain of events, a list of bad decisions, a pattern of cheap, dangerous engineering designs, an extremely unsafe company culture, and overbearing, ignorant government personnel had created not an RBMK reactor that “just exploded”, but an RBMK reactor that was actually destined to explode. What they found was a story - a story that started when the reactor was constructed and ended when the final command was sent to it. They found a pattern of horrible steps that escalated and escalated until the only thing left to escalate towards was an explosion. They successfully answered the question of how exactly an RBMK reactor explodes. The conditions for an explosion occur when exactly the right materials are reacting in exactly the right way at exactly the right time and the explosion itself occurs only when exactly the wrong trigger is pulled. In the case of Chernobyl, the reactor had been manipulated into an extremely unstable condition inside a Xenon during a failed safety test - the horrible decision was made to power the reactor back up and that only made the conditions exponentially more unstable and volatile. But even then an RBMK reactor cannot “just explode”. The trigger in this case was not a bad decision made on the morning of April 26th, but a bad decision made when the reactor was being built. What the engineers on April 26th did not know was that the emergency shutdown button that was supposed to be their saving grace in the event of any catastrophe was capable of acting as a detonator. This emergency kill button labelled “AZ-5” was programmed to immediately insert all of the reactor’s control rods in order to almost instantly shut down the reactor. What the engineers that day did not know was that these control rods were tipped with graphite. Graphite has the opposite relationship with a nuclear reactor than does the control rod itself. This information was kept from them. They were not told that their emergency kill button could act as a detonator. As the instability and power level was building and building and building and building and building and building and building, they pressed the button, the graphite tips accelerated the already accelerating nuclear reaction at an unthinkable rate and it reached a power level never before even conceived. And that is how an RBMK reactor explodes. *The Familicide* A 33 year father does not just drive the corpses of his dead wife and daughters to an oil site for disposal before going to work one morning. That does not happen. Setting out to read the Discovery documents you sent me, it was my mission to find out how a 33 year old father drives the corpses of his dead wife and daughters to an oil site for disposal before going to work. Because that does not happen. To answer the question of exactly how this happens, I began to read the Discovery documents looking for the conditions, materials, psychological processes, personalities, and decisions needed to create the conditions in which this is able to happen. I wanted to find all the explosive materials required and I also wanted to find the trigger or spark that detonated them. Because this doesn’t “just happen”.

[@rodofgod5262]

Welll , technically there was a steam explosion followed by the graphite and other elements overheating causing a larger explosion within seconds of each other. However due to some of the elements found spread in the atmosphere there is a theory that there was a small nuclear explosion deep in the core which fractured the fuel rod channels and this was all one explosion instead of the two back to back in the official version.

[@jordanhenshaw]

@@rodofgod5262 a·nal·o·gy /əˈnaləjē/ Learn to pronounce See definitions in: All Philosophy Logic Linguistics Biology noun a comparison between two things, typically for the purpose of explanation or clarification. "an analogy between the workings of nature and those of human societies" a correspondence or partial similarity. "the syndrome is called deep dysgraphia because of its analogy to deep dyslexia" a thing which is comparable to something else in significant respects. "works of art were seen as an analogy for works of nature"

[@rodofgod5262]

@@jordanhenshaw I get it and my analogy is nobody knows the exact type of explosions or sequence of events that led to the meltdown. There is a official version but it's filled with speculation. Kinda like the Chis Watts case. The only person who knows what happened that night is Chis Watts and everyone agrees he is lying about it in one way or another.

[@joanhenderson113]

He was controled for years , one day people just are done with being someones bitch

[@rakeshtailor8264]

omg yes

[@kez-chick5647]

The girls were alive after Shannan died, so if Shannan didn’t kill the girls , who did .

[@joanhenderson113]

I agree . You are very smart .

[@lisarenae1008]

Newbie here, great job.

[@joanhenderson113]

You are smart .When will people learn you dont own people ,just material things

[@VaderPopsVicodin10]

Interesting 🤔.. great points.

[@alph1057]

I just subbed to your channel. I picked up a lot of Cluster B traits from Shan'ann as well. I love your analyses on this case. Due to the idea that she had both a Factitious Disorder and Factious Disorder Imposed On Another, I know that this/these disorders tend to go hand in hand with BPD. However, I pick up a lot of Narcissistic Personality Disorder as well, because of her coldness shown toward the girls' basic needs at times, her strict parenting regimen with very little flexibility, and this sounds trite, but the fact that I've never seen her in the same outfit twice (out of control spending habits). There a lot of risk-taking behavior with her as well, such as alcohol showing up in her autopsy report. And of course, Histrionic Personality Disorder might be the case with her due to extreme attention-seeking behavior (always claiming that the girls are ill), and the constant presence of her on Social Media. She's perpetually abusing Chis, along with the Borderline behaviors of praising him and devaluing him too. I can only imagine how many times that he's been gaslighted by her behind closed doors.

[@jordanhenshaw]

Yeah the alcohol in the autopsy didn't conclusively indicate she had been drinking. They waited a pretty long time to do the autopsy, so by the time they finally did it, it was far too late to get an accurate bac reading due to post-mortem processes. The blood naturally ferments after death.

[@overit818]

@@jordanhenshaw how long did they wait to the autopsy?

[@jordanhenshaw]

@@overit818 Something like 12-24 hours after they found the body, I think. I know they at least let it sit overnight and then didn’t do it first thing in the morning.

[@Girl-101]

ADHD could be the explanation for the out of control spending

[@MistyBlue93]

The lawyers and prosecutors used shananns family’s love for him against him (more than once)

[@MistyBlue93]

They all kno she killed the kids. evn her family knos she did. her mom evn ask to check the knives as soon as they went in the house.

[@paulathornton8858]

@@MistyBlue93 you do talk junk

[@chickenhead33]

@@MistyBlue93I agree.. that’s why they were so worried , so soon. They knew what she was capable of and knew she was unhinged, in my opinion.

[@victoriaWitch8290]

@@chickenhead33 and that's why shannan's mum set up Nickole Atkinson to "mind" shannan and report back to sandy.

[@chickenhead33]

@@victoriaWitch8290 I definitely think SaR and NA and other thrivers knew Sw had mental health issues and I believe they knew she was becoming unhinged…but she still was a very good liar , IMO .. and I think she was planning to set CW up ( I don’t think she was thinking of what ended up) but she was trying to make CW out to be this bad man in the weeks and months before. Lana @ truth and transparency spent years on this case and when I watched her videos .. what she said just filled in the blanks for me and it just clicked !! I highly recommend you watch her watts videos!!

[@joanhenderson113]

She was a monster . HE SNAPPED

[@elisehamilton7878]

Subbed. From Victoria Australia 🇦🇺.

[@ginap349]

I know for FACT that he was threatened with the death penalty.

[@jordanhenshaw]

That does have a tendency to cause people to do things they wouldn't otherwise do.

[@lss74]

Be interested how you "know for a fact" pls

[@sumanpeek3233]

Do you think he has an opportunity for an appeal or has that door been forever closed ? The case remains ambiguous and requires deeper research to conclude without a reasonable doubt that he is indeed guilty of killing children.

[@jordanhenshaw]

He had 7 weeks after the sentencing to appeal. After that, it’s a done deal.

[@ireneklauber4008]

Fear of his co conspirators would be at the top of that list.

[@joanhenderson113]

He needs a new trial

[@alexisscott7115]

Too bad the death penalty was not part of the equation!

[@waynewear5839]

🎯 new trial

[@Tia-Louisa]

100%

[@joanhenderson113]

Agreed . Thank you for your content

[@IndigoRoses7]

I agree with almost everything on your channel about the Watts case. The one thing I don't understand...if he didn't kill the girls, why did he make a complete story about how he did it. Even including Bella saying "daddy..no!" That's a pretty awful scenario to create as a confession, if he's innocent in that aspect. The other thing, on video footage from neighbor Nate the morning of the murders, you can see Chris lean down and looks like he picks up a small child to put them in the backseat. If you're innocent and your wife kills your children, even if I was scared to death of being blamed for it I would call the police and report it..versus taking my daughters I didn't kill, and throw their bodies into oil tanks. Alot of this case is just hard to swallow in many aspects. I understand the engines that drove Chris over the edge with Shanann. She was a narcissist and was financially abusing him, emasculated him, and I think just every little thing about her he began to despise.. and he mentally checked out. To me, the scenario of him killing the girls makes more sense. I do think all of this happened during complete mental collapse and disassociate. I DON'T think him killing the girls was premeditated though, I think he decided to because he said Bella walked in and saw Shanann on the bed..maybe he was afraid that the girls would be questioned if they saw anything or knew what happened to their mom..and I'd say a 4 year old is not inclined to lie on the whereabouts of their mother, if a police officer asked. I do respect the scenarios here, I just think there's certain things that don't add up with a person that is genuinely innocent of this particular part of the case. I think if anything, he began to resent Shanann so much that there may have deep down been a part of him that resented the life he had with her and all ties to her. He endured alot of abuse over the years and remained agreeable and docile...and I think that is a reason Shanann married him. She knew she could be in charge of everything. Its just a sad case no matter how you look at it, you try to make sense of a terrible situation. I'm not excusing Chris of what he did to Shanann, or possibly the girls. I just think the idea of his resentment towards her manifesting in terrible ways and him being responsible for the deaths of all 4 is likely.

[@chickenhead33]

He was in jail, they surprised him there in plain clothes , they told him it was for the Rzuceks peace of mind . In jail , you have no freedom to get up and walk away , you go where they tell you to go and are done when they get what they want . Nothing he said during that interview matched the autopsy of the girls bc he didn’t hurt the girls .. that wouldn’t be admissible in court bc they were telling him what they wanted him to say. So, he made up a story bc he was being intimidated to do so , he said whatever they wanted bc he thought they were sending him back to Colorado ( and he was tortured there.. mentally , emotionally and threatened psychically) so he could be done and they would leave. They stayed there 5 hours to get him to say what he said . Plus they were shady and didn’t tell him it was being recorded and that this was to to help the R’s clear Shananns name . He already took the plea . He is a yes man and he already felt guilty that he indirectly caused SW to do this.. so whether he wanted to talk or not he had no choice, unfortunately, bc they would have made his life hell .

[@ShakerMaker1980]

@@chickenhead33also, that particular confession (given at Dodge) was almost word for word the description given to him by the author of the book “Letters from Christopher” by Cheryln Cadle. It was a dream someone had about how the murders had happened. Bella saying “Daddy NO!” seems on, the face of it, to be an unnecessary & upsetting thing to add but the agents asked him what did Bella say when you went back for her - Chris had to say something, anything and he chose to say this because it fits with that scenario. IMO

[@pumpkinfield100]

@@ShakerMaker1980Agree. And they only reason he was able to say all those things (“daddy, no” etc) because it was NOT TRUE. You can say those awful things when they are only words, not actual facts

[@Eman__7]

😅😅😅😅 What a joke!

[@hallelujah969]

CW CARES WHAT PEOPLE THINK ABOUT HIM, AND WOULD NOT HAVE WANTED THE ADDED HUMILIATION THAT A TRIAL WOULD PUT HIM THROUGH. ALSO, I BELIEVE HE DIDN'T WANT THE ADDED HUMILIATION FOR HIS MISTRESS EITHER. DO YOU REMEMBER THE CHRIS COLEMAN TRIAL? IT HAD TO HAVE BEEN HUMILIATING FOR HIM, HIS MISTRESS, HIS EMPLOYER, AND FAMILY AND FRIENDS. THEN AFTER ALL THAT, HE WAS STILL FOUND GUILTY. HE SHOULD HAVE JUST PLED GUILTY TO BEGIN WITH.

[@danbaron2561]

It seems that you are the only one online who thinks this way. Good for you for being brave enough to broadcast what you think. And, you are a smart guy. I don't know how you could stand watching Shanann. She had the perfect family, and the perfect life, right? 🥲 It was all built on a foundation of sludge. I'll have to watch more of your videos - I see you have the video of what you think happened. I don't know why she would come home from the trip, and kill the kids. Like you say here, because she was suicidal, and she viewed them as being part of herself? Narcissists are like that, correct? Suicidal because she realized the marriage was over? But apparently, she was not suicidal enough to kill herself. She couldn't strangle herself, right? She didn't die from poison, yes? Doesn't that mean Chris must have strangled her?

[@Girl-101]

He did strangle her! He also confessed to killing his girls in the WI Feb’2019 interview! People are clutching at straws and need to make content about this case so they need to pretend they believe other things..that’s only my opinion mind you!

[@paulathornton8858]

What before he confessed he blamed shanann for the girls deaths, hoping they would go soft on him for killing shanann. But seeing has he lied after kie no one believes him so he came clean

[@Purpleeye600]

I'd like to know why he plead guilty and also would like to know why NK is not in prison

[@jordanhenshaw]

I have a video entitled Why do I think Chris Watts Pleaded Guilty? where I list 13 possible reasons.

[@deoglemnaco7025]

Because he is a good man. Good men take the high road.

[@alexisscott7115]

LOL

[@jrlv62]

Because he did

[@sideshow4212]

LMFAO Chris Watts? Innocent? That's the hill you're choosing to die on? You are cooked bro😂

[@jenaholley5729]

I believe that his mom and nk did of it and he's innocent

[@TEXASGAL4HIM]

Obsessed - Always shifting the blame on Shanann. "Who does that sound like?

[@jordanhenshaw]

Because she most likely killed her kids.

[@TEXASGAL4HIM]

@@jordanhenshaw Your obsession will never change the truth about what happened. If your theory is proven, where do you think your "boy" would be today? Do you ever consider facts? I'm asking because in your reply, you are still present much uncertainty.

[@pumpkinfield100]

⁠@@TEXASGAL4HIMDo YUO ever consider facts? Doll picture taken by SW is a fact. Does it tell you anything

[@TEXASGAL4HIM]

@@pumpkinfield100 the only fact that I can attest to about what you just said, is, "unless I was there to see the ''doll' that you saw, I don't know.

[@TEXASGAL4HIM]

@@pumpkinfield100 were you there to see that? Do they buried a doll? Have you ever seen or held a small child not long after death? What are your facts?

[@standingstrong1490]

WTH ...what?