Ronnie Watts said, “It boils down to: I just want the truth of what really happened.
If he did it all, I can live with it. If he didn't, I want him to fight for it”.
RW said he believes what Chris told police – that he killed his wife only after finding out she had strangled their daughters. "It's hard for me to believe that he would hurt them girls no matter what. The story he told me that night, I believed it: The way he looked at me, the way he was crying, I believed it”.
Compare the above to what his mother said when asked whether Chris was capable of killing their children:
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I would say she's more capable than Christopher. Christopher, I don't see him capable at all but if something happened that night and that did happen -- God forbid if it did happen -- what was the trigger? Why? What happened? I just want the truth because he's not the sociopath next door. He's not the kind of person that would do something like that. I have to know why. I have to know. It's important to me. … I just want to know what triggered it.
It has been a nightmare – a complete nightmare. I cry in the morning. I cry during the day. I cry when someone comes up and gives me a hug. I cry with all these messages I get for support. It has been so overwhelming, and I feel like I have to do something to help my son. I need to do something. If he's not going to fight, I'm going to fight for him”.
It says a lot that CW asked to speak to his father before telling LE “the truth”, and it’s obvious that he doesn’t want to come face to face with his mother at all. She said the defence lawyer shut her down but her son has shut her out completely.
Well, she wants to know the truth and come Monday she'll be in for a rude awakening because it's going to be a bad news day for her, not that it will change her mind though.
'Not a monster': Chris Watts' parents defend son who murdered family