I have a horrible feeling he would place some of the blame on Shan'ann if he was asked to account for what happened. Something like she threatened to not let him see the children again. I'd rather he didn't have the opportunity to tell yet more lies. I want to hear what the police investigation uncovered. Facts. Not self-serving lies from the mouth of the narcissistic psychopath.
I think if he had had time to implement his original plan, he was going to claim they had that "emotional conversation" when she got home and that she then left because of it with the girls, and that was going to be his excuse for why nobody could get ahold of her. Make it seem like she was the one who left.
Definitely - and he just assumed some friend had come round to pick her up. He only had to dispose of her purse and phone. Probably left them behind inadvertently in his haste to get out of there asap with the bodies.
Yes, in his mind he probably justifies his actions and blames her for his having to kill them. I am interested in any future psychological assessments they may do. One more case to add to the research for "family annihilators."
I think he was setting this scenario up for a long time, or at least in the weeks before the murder. The fact that he told a friend that he wanted the separation, and deleted his FB account because " she kept posting about him", or wouldn't accept that he wanted out of the marriage, was always suspicious to me. I think once he began distancing himself from the family, he was planning the murder. The one thing he wanted to make sure everybody knew on the day of the murder was that he initiated the conversation about his wanting the separation. It just seemed so obvious that he was telling a story.
He definitely wanted to make himself the victim. He did it throughout his interviews with the media too.
Likely so.
BBM I also found that interesting, especially since Bella was the one who had his personality (according to him). I suspect Bella was his favorite and would have guessed she would have been the one he'd show the most emotion over.
I believe he deliberately told everyone so his story of her leaving would be believable, and when he knew that wouldn't work, that she killed the kids in a jealous rage. Jmo
There’s something about his mind set, though, that he thought his life and happiness were so important, that Shanann, Bella, and CeCe could be dumped in an oil field, and his life would go on just as it was, and only get better without them. How he spent that night at the Thayer’s, taking full advantage of their hospitality under false pretenses, 2 days after he murdered his entire family. How he could lie to the police and stand on his front porch and lie to the world without shedding a tear. Something is very wrong with Chris Watts, so whatever explanation he gives isn’t going to make sense because nothing he did makes sense.
Agree Tippy.
I'd have contacted the police right off, but that's just me. Others may not, for various reasons.
