Chris Watts blamed his “control freak” wife as the reason he had an affair in sickening letters he wrote about murdering her and their two young daughters. Watts, 39, is serving five life sentences plus 48 years in prison for the murder of his pregnant wife Shanann and their two little girls, Bella, four, and Celeste, three, in 2018 in Frederick, Colorado. He reportedly whined to prison mate Dylan Tallman, in the letters seen by the New York Post , how Shanann was “really busy with her job and everything it required” which left him to be the primary caregiver to their daughters.
Tallman has written a series of books about his time with Watts in Dodge Correctional Institution in Waupun, Wisconsin. Watts met co-worker Nichol Kessinger in 2017 and the pair began an affair in the months before he executed his family. He wrote to Tallman that Kessinger was “just everything my wife wasn’t like with me.
She was just nice, and not a control freak. We could make decisions together.” He said: “I was not thinking.
We worked together, we had chemistry, and I fell into temptation. She was the forbidden fruit.” In a previous letter, the newspaper reported Watts went on to blame Kessinger for the affair, confiding in Tallman she “became the death of me” and was a “jezebel”.
Watts killed his wife in August 2018 during a fight when he told her he’d been having an affair and wanted a divorce. After strangling Shanann in the family home - who was pregnant with their .