CO - Shanann Watts (34), Celeste"Cece" (3) and Bella (4), Frederick, 13 Aug 2018 *Arrest* #18

[MerryB]

Actually it's the SM videos where I noticed the flat affect. I haven't seen them all though and he could be totally different IRL. He just comes across like a dork and kind of meek. Just my opinion.

Agree that he comes off as submissive & meek & definitely seems controlled by/dominated by SW IMO.

 

[MCDRAW]

I agree- the place he works makes sense (well, as much as any of this "makes sense"). And definitely agree his need to get to work and show some sort of normalcy was top of his mind. And the tanks do offer a place well-concealed. Which is why I think he'd thought about it before.

I don't know- it just seems so random to come up with the tanks. Why not somewhere else near his work or buried like SW. There's also the element of access, which I'm not sure had ever been figured out- did he have a quick way to access it (both through the gate and actually INTO the tank openings) without having thought ahead?

Appalled at the act. Indeed.

Why not dump them closer to home? I think he thought on this awhile.

 

[molly1255]

They won't. But it's my greatest fear that this case will end up with multiple trials because of some dingbats on the jury who take a disliking to SW. I don't see her poor family handling that.

I'd really hate to see SW's family have to go through multiple trials. In the end, I do believe justice will be served. I just hope it is served first time around!

 

[MassGuy]

Why not dump them closer to home? I think he thought on this awhile.

Where though? It’s not like he had pre-dug graves. He had little time to work with, he had to be at work, and had to hide them well enough so they wouldn’t quickly be discovered. He can’t dump them on the side if he road, and digging takes time. That ground at the work site looked loose, which is why it wouldn’t have taken too long to dig Shanann’s grave. This likely wouldn’t have been the case in most other areas.

 

[Shekkiec]

My apologies if this has been posted before

From the operations section of the Anadarko website....www.anadarko.com

• More than 6,800 wells and 3,800 oil production tanks are monitored around the clock with an alarm system tied directly to the IOC

They have 24/7 monitoring system.
And all company vehicles have tracking devices for quick incident response.

Great insight ! Answers so much ! Thanks

 

[MyBelle]

Plenty of husbands have killed their families. They didn’t need drugs to do this. I find the actual killing, to be worse than what he did to them when they were dead. If you don’t need drugs to kill, you certainly don’t need drugs to dispose of the bodies, even in this terrible way.

He may very well have been under the influence, but my point is that he didn’t have to be.

Plenty of husbands have murdered their families but I don't recall a case where they hid the bodies.

 

[MassGuy]

Plenty of husbands have murdered their families but I don't recall a case where they hid the bodies.

Bradford Bishop burned and buried his family’s bodies.

 

[ZsaZsa]

Husband?

And kids, apparently...

 

[MCDRAW]

I'm holding on tight to your words.

Do you think he might be acquitted of SW's murder even though he confessed? The girls? or both?

 

[MyBelle]

Bradford Bishop burned and buried his family’s bodies.

Thanks. I've never heard of that case. Did he immediately confess?

 

[OTPTarheel2018]

Bradford Bishop burned and buried his family’s bodies.

Buried them in remote Columbia NC. They thought it was a forest fire. I remember it well.

Off topic- As my husband says it’s not the end of the earth but you can see it from there.( eastern NC).

 

[MassGuy]

Thanks. I've never heard of that case. Did he immediately confess?

Nope. He killed his family. Burned and buried them in the woods. He ran. And is still on the run.

 

[Shekkiec]

And I believe that’s what the gas can in the truck was for-gas explosion of the tanks.
But having to bury his wife nixed that plan.
JMO

I believe that as well IMO no other reason I see to take it . And wouldnt that be premeditation ? Unless lawn mower gas can

 

[OTPTarheel2018]

Thanks. I've never heard of that case. Did he immediately confess?

He’s still missing. Fascinating case.

 

[MerryB]

Husband?

I don’t believe AP is married.

I think she was probably being lied to as well. CW probably told her that he & SW were separated when she went with the girls to NC.

AP was probably in the house, spending the night, going out in public with CW during this time & believed that his wife & children had left for good. She believed what he told her.

Then SW returned & left the girls with him. Uh oh, now CW was in a real pickle.

 

[MerryB]

In my opinion, he never asked SW for a separation and never planned too. He wanted out, yes, but I believe he thought killing them was the only way out for him. Again, JMO.

You could be right. I’m open to anything & like to consider all possibilities.

 

[x_files]

Didn't he run off and live with a male lover in SF? If it is the case I am remembering anyway...

And he knew his 2 young kids were making cookies for Valentines Day and he was supposedly coming home with ingredients to help or something. So he really did a number on his family because they were so certain something bad happened to him, cuz he'd never do something like that to his kids....right

Wasn't he from Seattle?
strange case!

 

[Allabouttrial]

And kids, apparently...

Hmmmm

 

[MCDRAW]

Where though? It’s not like he had pre-dug graves. He had little time to work with, he had to be at work, and had to hide them well enough so they wouldn’t quickly be discovered. He can’t dump them on the side if he road, and digging takes time. That ground at the work site looked loose, which is why it wouldn’t have taken too long to dig Shanann’s grave. This likely wouldn’t have been the case in most other areas.

I have no idea where. Wasn't there woods behind their house? I'm thinking closer to home would be less risky than driving 40 minutes with 3 dead bodies in the back seat. That's why I believe he planned to put them in the tanks all along. In that 40 minute drive, there had to be somewhere he could have dumped them. JMO

 

[ZsaZsa]

If anyone asked for a separation or divorce, it was Shanann. No one leaves this guy, and Shanann wasn’t getting out alive.

I am just surprised that Shanann didn't commit some grievous bodily harm on him. If I had found out my husband was having a long term affair, male or female, while at the same time making the decision to get me pregnant, THEN deciding he
wanted to leave me with all 3 kids so he could have the life he desired with the lover, I would have been incandescent with rage at the nerve of him!