Apparently, Chris Watts’ parents, Cindy Watts and Ronald “Ronnie” Watts, didn’t want their son to marry Shanann Rzucek, because Cindy said she and Shanann “just didn’t get along.” According to a statement by Sandi Rzucek, Chris’ mother Cindy didn’t like the idea that Shanann had been married previously. Again in August of 2018, the disappearance of 35-year-old Shanann Watts and her two younger daughters, Celeste and Bella, from their Colorado dwelling captivated the nation. One year after Chris Watts murdered his pregnant wife and two young daughters, lawyers in Weld County are working to negotiate the future of the family home in which Shanann Watts was killed. “It would be really easy for her to sit here and be hateful, and instead of seeing that, what you see is her really talking about light and love and talking about her daughter and all the positive things in their life… they think justice was really served in this case with the plea and that it was the right choice to make.”, Now, Sandra Rzucek says they are leaning on their Catholic faith for strength and hopes the world will remember her daughter and granddaughters as “amazing” people who “had a lot of love.”, “I couldn't ask God for more. Michael Rourke. According to longtime friend, Cristina Meacham, the couple’s relationship was enviable and an inspiration to her. Investigators who worked on the Chris Watts case, one of the most publicized American murders in recent history, are now discussing the moment that Shanann and her children’s bodies were found and how the grim discovery profoundly affected them on Oxygen’s “ Criminal Confessions," airing Saturdays at 6/5c. https://www.cnn.com/2019/07/23/us/shanann-watts-family-online-harassment “It was amazing to see how they were as a couple and parents," she said. They’ve spoken to the media about their son multiple times and their feelings about the crimes and the sentence he faces.
If … “Being that she was pregnant … she was very uncomfortable on the plane,” Atkinson told “20/20.” “I just told her, ‘If you need help in the morning, let me know.’ … We gave each other a hug and I watched her go into the house.”. Atkinson went over to Watts’ doctor’s office next, but when she got there, she said the receptionist told her Watts hadn’t shown up for her appointment. Turn on desktop notifications for breaking stories about interest? He is a monster. When she was pregnant a third time, Shanann’s friend Nickole Atkinson said she was happy to be having a boy and that Chris was “a very loving father.”, “He was so in love with her,” Sandra Rzcuek added. “If he was that unhappy with his family and wanted to start this new relationship, get a divorce.
Meacham said she also normally received a morning message from Watts and didn’t hear from her that morning. The matching sheet, the non-fitted or flat sheet, was found in the garbage can. He didn't move. American Murder on Netflix is an hour-and-a-half deep dive into the life of the Watts family. Shanann was 15 weeks pregnant at the time with the couple’s unborn son, whom they were planning on naming Niko Lee Watts. “She wasn't herself,” Addy told “20/20.” “She was trying really hard, but her mind and her heart were really with what was happening in her marriage.”. The first indication that something might be wrong in their daughter and her husband’s marriage was during a family trip this past summer. “He is a monster,” Frank Rzucek said. “I was frantic, ‘You need to get to the house… Nicki's calling the police so they could break down the door,’” Rosenberg told “20/20.” “He said, ‘No. "Your life is between you and God and I pray that he has mercy for you.". Prosecutors believe his "desire for a fresh start" to begin a new relationship outside of his marriage was in part a motive for the crimes. Meanwhile, Chris Watts called her friend Cassandra Rosenberg in Arizona, who said she began screaming at him to get home. The Rzuceks said their daughter was a “phenomenal” mother who would “do anything for her children.” She had battled lupus for a long time, and met Chris Watts through Facebook. Atkinson called 911 and went back to the Watts’ house to wait for the police. You don't have to eliminate your whole family,” said D.A. He really blessed us with them,” Sandra Rzcuek said. In a letter dated July 30 to his mistress Nichol Kessinger, Chris Watts described her as "the most amazing, unique and electric woman EVER" only weeks before he murdered his wife and children.
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As a result of Shanann was pregnant with a son, the state of affairs turned all of the extra dire for her family members and for investigators. “You just don't sleep very good with lupus,” Sandra Rzcuek said. At the time of the killings, Chris Watts was having an affair another woman, 30-year-old Nichol Kessinger. The Rzucek’s Say They Loved Chris At First. The sheets were missing from one of the girl's bedrooms. “He must have snapped, because there’s nothing else I could figure out what happened to him.”, “We did scream at God, yes we did,” added Sandra Rzucek, Shanann Watts’ mother. He didn't get a drink. Watts, who was having an affair with co-worker Nichol Kessinger since the late spring or early summer of 2018, also reportedly wrote in the letter that he considered killing Shannan for “weeks” before her murder, and admitted to surreptitiously giving her the opiate painkiller Oxycodone in an attempt to terminate her pregnancy. Shanann Watts’ parents said they were devastated when they learned the truth about what their son-in-law had done. As police continued to question him, he asked to speak with his father, Ronnie Watts, in the interrogation room, which they allowed. She had her hand in everything. “I said, ‘Chris, I don't think you should do any media.’ I said, "You're the last one to have seen them, so I don't think you should.’ … I thank God he did it. “[Watts] was standing right in my living room basically watching it. Watts, 33, was arrested back in August, two days after his pregnant wife, Shanann, 34, was reported missing. I don't want to get them involved’ … I said, ‘You're an idiot and you need to get to the house because something's wrong.’”. Atkinson said she spoke with Meacham again, who suggested Watts was probably at her OB/GYN appointment. Frank Rzucek and Sandra Rzucek, parents of Shanann Watts, spoke about their late daughter in an exclusive interview with "20/20. In December of 2018, just a few months after Shanann's death, her parents opened up about her legacy for the first time to 20/20. Shanann Watts' parents sued Chris Watts for her wrongful death after his sentencing, seeking funds to cover funeral expenses, the loss of their daughter's future income and compensation for emotional distress. “I tried calling. Watts said Shanann had snapped because she knew he had an affair. But Shanann, who was a promoter for Thrive, a program from direct-selling business Le-Vel, decided to go to a work training event in Scottsdale, Arizona.
Chris Watts was sentenced to five life sentences in Colorado for the murders of his pregnant wife and young daughters. “I knew something was wrong, I just didn’t know what.”. Stunned, investigators came back into the interrogation room to continue questioning. She wanted to soar the earth, and she always said, ‘Mom, I want to leave my mark on the earth,’ and she did.”. She wasn't herself. Shanann Watts, 34, and her daughters Celeste, 3 and Bella, 4. On Aug. 15, Chris Watts then went to the police station to take a polygraph test, which he failed. How could she have gone on a play date when both Bella and Cece are in car seats?’”. “And then I called Chris [who had already left for work] and asked if he knew where Shanann was.