Found Deceased CO - Shanann Watts (34), Celeste"Cece" (3) and Bella (4), Frederick, 13 Aug 2018 *Arrest* #19

[Allabouttrial]

Baby monitor. Date: 6th May 2017. SW FB

https://www.facebook.com/video.php?v=10154500905086935

 

[Seattle1]

Excerpt:
Integrated Operations Center Provides 24/7 Operations Monitoring


Anadarko’s state-of-the-art Integrated Operations Center (IOC) is staffed 24/7 by personnel who have been trained in the Anadarko response practices and procedures, including Incident Command System (ICS) and National Incident Management System (NIMS) protocols. Located in Platteville, Colo., the IOC serves as a centralized dispatch center to route communications between the field and an Incident Management Team.

More snippets:

• 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
• Pipeline flow and rates are monitored 24 hours a day

• Company vehicles are equipped with tracking devices in order to quickly deploy resources

For full description go to:
Operations

So it says that the tanks have alarms but doesn't say that there are security cameras.

Just to clarify -- CERVI 319 is not a gas, oil, well and/or production pipeline but a limited, cold storage tank with an overflow basin. Not subject to the full monte per above...MOO

 

[Layla123]

So hopefully that means they defense is getting the discovery and at the status conference they will determine if there will be a prelim. Which is the little mini trial before trial.

The Defense does have what we have, and that includes CW’s lying interviews.

 

[gitana1]

I don't agree with the view that LE would never suspect they need to look in the tanks. People have been disposing of bodies but dumping them in things for centuries by using anything from dumpsters, to lakes to wells. It doesn't take much imagination to conclude the tanks need checking once he would need to be checked once the circumstances are clear.

I never said there were cameras there. I agree if they existed the drone search seems unnecessary unless he parked or accessed the site in such a way he was somehow out of camera view. I think it is obvious his truck or cell phone was used to track him to that location.

Once they determined the last person to see them alive drove to that site at an usual hour those tanks would've been checked no matter what had to be done.

I don't think anyone here has the view that LE would never suspect that they need to look in the tanks. No one is saying LE wouldn't think to look in the tanks.

Instead, it's that CE may have thought they wouldn't: "in his mind at least.."

 

[gitana1]

You would think that Anadarko or any oil company would have security cameras. They don't want someone stealing the oil or protestors sabotaging
the tanks.

Sensors would show if someone is stealing oil or messing with tanks.

 

[molly1255]

How do we know she wouldn't fit in the tanks?

Gitana, Good point! The truth is, we don't know that for a fact.

 

[Layla123]

Yes. But not just to plead guilty. It's always as part of a plea deal. Basically advising them that the evidence is powerful. They have no chance of winning. Or the risk is too great. So they try to convince them to take a deal.

In this case it would be a deal of life instead of death, if he was on video strangling the girls.

But if the DA had that much evidence they'd likely offer no deal. And then the defense would try some diminished capacity defense.

How does one plead when they’re obviously guilty of some of the crimes? Guilty and Not Guilty? CW has confessed to desecrating those bodies.

 

[Layla123]

Gitana, Good point! The truth is, we don't know that for a fact.

I don’t see how SW could fit in there.

 

[Allabouttrial]

The Defense does have what we have, and that includes CW’s lying interviews.

How do you know what they have?

 

[cottonweaver]

The overall consensus here seems to be that CW is not particularly intelligent but the one thing we do know he is good at is being an auto mechanic. I'm thinking it would have been impossible for him not to be cognizant (even in a panicked state) of the GPS tracking on his company vehicle. He previously worked at an auto dealership, so he could have even installed those things himself many times.

My theory is that he planned for his company truck GPS tracking system to be his "alibi." He could have previously detached the GPS tracker and attached it to a portable battery so he could remove it at will. So he could have temporarily left the tracker (along with his cellphone) at the Hudson site while he disposed of the bodies.

Alternatively, he could have used some unregistered beater truck he already had, transferred the bodies into it and left his work truck and phone behind temporarily. Considering many of his hookups probably happened during work hours, a beater truck could have come in really handy because he would have been able to leave his company truck at his job sites so it wouldn't look like he was slacking off.

If there were cameras at the sites, maybe they weren't actively monitored and the footage was only reviewed if there was a problem. But CW was sloppy leaving that sheet behind which the drones detected and didn't realize how thorough the investigation would be.

It kind of reminds me of how Ross Harris lied by omission about that lunchtime car visit. RH knew the parking lot was monitored by cameras but didn't think they would check the footage. Just like RH lied that he didn't normally drop his son off at daycare when he in fact did so at least 80% of the time. Like CW, RH just wasn't smart and didn't realize LE would verify everything.

Re GPS. Yes it's easy to temp dismantle a tracker on your vehicle.

 

[katydid23]

She had no way of forcing him out of the house.

If she filed for divorce, the judge would likely allow her to live in the house with the girls.

 

[Seattle1]

@DexterMorgan said: ↑
Why tell them I loaded tools and then left for the Hudson site? Why not just say I left for work at 5:30 am?

Maybe they asked?

I believe there was a statement something to the effect that the neighbors camera showed "CW truck backing up to his garage." Perhaps he was parked in the street, and captured backing up to garage which would lend to CW response he was loading his tools. MOO

 

[Layla123]

How do you know what they have?

I’m assuming they have computers and have access the same information we do. They did file a complaint about LE leaking information to the press, so they are paying attention to the news.

 

[The Saint]

Baby monitor. Date: 6th May 2017. SW FB

https://www.facebook.com/video.php?v=10154500905086935

Thanks for finding this. So Bella had an adult -size bed? You can barely see her in the bed much less be able to determine that she dead and "was blue."

 

[The Saint]

Re GPS. Yes it's easy to temp dismantle a tracker on your vehicle.

But I think that Anadarko's tracking system would have sounded an alert
if their ROVR had been disabled. They might think a terrorist had hijacked CW's company truck.

 

[Jennifer17]

I don’t see how SW could fit in there.

Yes, that is of oil tanks but they are not the ones he used for the bodies.

 

[The Saint]

I don’t see how SW could fit in there.

SW wouldn't fit in the silver-domed hole in the video, but she would have fit in the bigger hole where there is a ladder inside (later on on the video).

 

[The Saint]

Yes, that is of oil tanks but they are not the ones he used for the bodies.

But they seem to be identical in size. All of the tall tanks that the couple driving around passed in the area seem to be the same size.

 

[PommyMommy]

Baby monitor. Date: 6th May 2017. SW FB

https://www.facebook.com/video.php?v=10154500905086935

Thank you, this is very helpful and answers one of my questions about the baby monitor. This convinces me that the monitor switches between the rooms without having to manually toggle. (I counted seconds between the switches and they are consistent throughout the video.)

 

[DexterMorgan]

Yes, that is of oil tanks but they are not the ones he used for the bodies.

Agree. Because I don't think the oldest daughter would even fit through that hole on top from the one shown in the video.