"It's changed: the texts show a gap between Chris Watts and his wife before he kills her."

The talks between Watts and his wife intensified when he found his family back in North Carolina in late July and early August. Upon their return to Colorado, Shanann Watts, pregnant about 15 years old, revealed to friends that her husband had told her that he did not want a baby, friends told the police.

"I do not know how you fell in love with me in five and a half weeks, or if it's been a long time, but you're not planning another baby if you're not in love," Shanann wrote. her husband on August 8, according to a police report on his phone data included in the investigation documents.

"Chris said we are not compatible anymore"

A friend reported the disappearance of Shanann Watts on August 13, claiming that she was not responding to messages shortly after returning from a brief work trip from Arizona. The police found no one at home.

Returning from work, Chris Watts told police that he had informed his wife early in the morning that he wanted a separation. They had not discussed, but they were both upset and crying, he told the police, according to an affidavit. He told the police that she had indicated that she was leaving for the house of an anonymous friend.

But later in the same week, Shanann Watts' body was found in a shallow grave and the bodies of Bella and Celeste were found in oil tanks at a company where Watts had been working. Chris Watts had strangled his wife and choked the children, the authorities said. He was stopped.

While they were investigating, the police met with several friends of Shanann Watts, who told them that Chris Watts had recently become distant with her.

"In North Carolina, Shanann called (a friend) and told him that he (Chris Watts) would not touch her anymore or kiss her anymore," wrote a Frederick police officer in the United States. One of the documents. "Shanann told him that Chris did not want the baby she was pregnant with and that he was scared he was happy to have only the two girls."

This friend told the officer that after Shanann and the children had spent five weeks without Watts in North Carolina during the summer, "Chris came back to Shanann, a different man. "

Another friend told the police that she had helped to organize a party on August 19 during which the baby's sex would be revealed. But the girlfriend learned on August 8 – a day after the North Carolina family's return – that Shanann was canceling the party.

The friend asked, by SMS, if everything was fine. Frederick's police documented the exchange:

Shanann: "No, I can call you tomorrow and tell you."

Shanann: "Chris said we're not compatible anymore"

Friend: "… Oh my god what?"

Shanann"He said we were no longer compatible!" He refused to hug me, he said that he thought another baby would settle his feelings. He refused to advise couples!

…

Friend: "What's the hell changed in 6 weeks?"

Shanann: "He said that he had plenty of time to think."

"Why did not you say you were done?"

Recently released documents include a police investigator's analysis of Chris Watts and Shanann Watts' phone data. The messages show increasing tension as Shanhan's summer trip to North Carolina progresses. Some excerpts from the documents:

July 10:

Shanann writes to Chris: "Are you okay, it's like you did not want to talk, I was trying to talk and I had to get by?"

Chris replied, "I'm fine, baby.These last days at work have made me a lot empowered with new people.I did not want to look small, Boo.I love you for the moon and for the return . "

Shanann answers, "I miss you and I feel you just want to work and run."

Watts said that running helped to "empty my head".

Shanann responds: "I would like my husband to want to talk to me."

July 24

Shanann notices that Chris has been slow to answer him.

"I thought something had happened, but you do not care about other people's feelings … or think you're with another girl, or worse, no consideration for others."

Later, Shanann writes:

"I realized (during) this trip what is missing from our relationship! It's only in a sense of emotions and feelings.I can not come back like that.I need that you met me half-way, you do not consider others at all, nor do you think about the feelings of others. "

Watts responded that he was sorry and that he liked it, writes the investigator.

Shanann replied: "I'm trying to leave you room, but while you work and live the single life, I wear our 3rd and everyday fight with our two kids and I try to work and earn money.This is not difficult to send you text messages.If you do not think it, I understand, but we have to talk.I was watching my phone all night and I We did not respond any more, as seriously, we did not start dating yesterday together 8 years and have 2.5 children together. "

July 29

After a 14-minute phone conversation, Shanann writes, "It would have been nice if my husband was interested in how the girls and I are, as well as the baby." enough to beg you to speak. "

5 August

To date, Chris has found his wife and children in North Carolina.

Shanann told Chris, "I do not know how you fell in love with me in five and a half weeks, or if it's been a long time, but you do not plan another baby if you're not in love. kids do not deserve a broken family … you show up and I have to practically ask for a kiss at the airport. "

Later, she adds: "Far from you, I did not miss the help because I managed it, it was exhausting, but with the school, it is not difficult. You missed the smell of you, you touch me when I cook, you touch me in bed, you touch me a little! I missed you to hold and snuggle with you … If you're done, do not I do not like it, I do not want to settle it, I'm no longer happy and I only stay for that, kids, I need you to tell me. "

August 6

Shanann writes to Chris: "Your only answer last night was" I do not want to lose the kids! "You've used me to just have a boy!" The only reason you wanted another child ?! I can not handle that and you're fine. Did not you say you were done, why do I get pregnant?!? "

Chris replies, "I do not just stay because of the kids, they are my light and it will not change, I did not fall in love in 5 weeks, it's impossible, I do not want to erase 8 years only like that, I'm not sure what I have in my head. "

Later, Shanann wrote that at one point she was trying to convince him to take her in his arms and "make me feel safe." Chris replies that "all this will be fixed".

"No, I do not need words," Shanann replied. "You just told me that you do not want this baby."

August 7th

In a text with a friend, Shanann writes: "Chris told me last night that he was very scared of this third baby and that he was happy with Bella and Celeste and that he did not want another baby. "

After the friend wrote that Chris was just scared and that everything would be fine when the baby was born, Shanann wrote, "He has changed, I do not know who he is, he has not touched me all week, he kissed me, spoke to me except when I try to figure out what's wrong … He's been distant since I left. "

Another woman tells her story

In a report analyzing Kessinger and Chris Watts' phone records, police reported that they had had appointments with his wife in North Carolina, including in the Great Sand Dunes National Park and Reserve, in southern Colorado, and in a museum in Boulder.

"We had just met," Kessinger told the newspaper. "I hardly knew him."

He was not wearing an alliance when they were introduced, and she found him attractive, with a soft voice and listening, she said. When they met for the first time outside of work at the end of June, he told her that he was about to get divorced. She has never met any of her relatives or friends, Kessinger told The Post.

Watts texted her on August 13 to announce that her family had disappeared and that she did not understand why the media were at home.

"When I read the information, I discovered that he was still married and that his wife was 15 weeks pregnant," Kessinger told the newspaper.

She enamelled questions via phone calls and texting, she said. He changed his story about divorce, showed little emotion about the disappearance of his family and tried to change the subject.

"He came to a point where he told me so many lies that I finally told him that I did not want to talk to him until his family was found," she said. told the newspaper, explaining that she had called the police on August 15 reports Watts' lies.