A newly-released video shows the moment when authorities arrestedChris Wattstwo days after he murderedhis pregnant wife and the couple’s two daughters.
He consented to a polygraph examination, but he failed it.
“You did not pass the polygraph test,” an officer tells Watts. “We need to talk about what actually happened. I feel like you’re probably ready to do that.”
Watts, 33, maintained that he was being honest. “I didn’t lie to you on that polygraph. I promise,” he told the officer, before requesting a meeting with his father.
“Chris, come stand up for me,” an officer tells Watts. “I’m going to have you face the wall.” Watts complies and allows the officer to handcuff him.
Chris and Shanann Watts.Shanann Watts/Facebook
The footage was released last week as part of a trove of evidence prosecutors would have presented at Watts’ trial had he not agreed toplead guilty in November, sparing himself a possible death sentence.
Watts murdered his family on Aug. 13 and was sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole on Nov. 19. Prosectors have said his motive for the killings was his desire for a fresh start withNichol Kessinger, a female coworker with whomWatts was having an affair.
Shanann was 15 weeks pregnantwith the couple’s third child, Niko, when she was murdered.
After killing them in the early morning hours, Watts drove the bodies of his wife and daughters to a remote oil work site, where he stuffed the girls into oil tanks and buried Shanann in a shallow grave.
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The Watts family.Facebook
Before his arrest, Watts did interviews with local media and pleaded for the safe return of his family.
There is alsoaudio of Kessinger speaking to investigatorsabout herrelationship with Watts.
source: people.com
