Dad now blames ‘control freak’ wife for his affair with mistress that led him to murder her and their daughters

Chris Watts, the man who brutally murdered his pregnant wife and two young daughters in August 2018, continues to deflect blame for his heinous actions in newly revealed letters.

In these handwritten notes, Watts, now 39, portrays his wife Shanann as a “control freak” and claims that he was drawn to his mistress, Nichol Kessinger, because she was “everything my wife wasn’t like with me.”

Watts, who is serving a life sentence without parole at Dodge Correctional Institution in Wisconsin, confessed to strangling his 34-year-old wife Shanann, in their Colorado home on August 13, 2018.

He then transported her body to his work site at an oil company and disposed of it. His two daughters, 4-year-old Bella and 3-year-old Celeste, were in the truck during this time. Watts cruelly suffocated them as they pleaded for their lives before hiding their bodies in oil drums.

The shocking murders were driven by Watts’ desire to be with Kessinger. After pleading guilty, he was sentenced to life in prison without parole and was transferred to Wisconsin for his safety.

In his letters, Watts confided in Dylan Tallman, a fellow inmate who became close to him. Tallman, who was in the cell next to Watts, later published a series of books titled “The Cell Next Door” after Watts backed out of a plan to co-author a prayer book.

According to these letters, Watts described his marriage to Shanann as troubled, claiming that her demanding job often left him as the primary caregiver to their daughters.

Watts revealed that after losing weight and starting to work out in 2017, he began receiving attention from other women. This is when he met Kessinger, whom he described as “nice, and not a control freak,” and said they had chemistry.

Their affair, which began six weeks before the murders, led Watts to describe Kessinger as “the forbidden fruit.”

However, Watts’ feelings towards Kessinger turned bitter. He later referred to her as “the death of me,” and in a letter dated March 2020, he called her a “harlot” and a “jezebel” who led him to ruin.

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Watts wrote a prayer of confession in which he lamented that Kessinger’s words were “like drops of honey that pierced my heart and soul,” ultimately leading him to the “chamber of death.”