Shannon Watts was an American businesswoman who was the victim of the Watts Family Murders on August 13, 2018, in Frederick, Colorado.
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Wiki/Biography
Shannon Watts was born as ‘Shanann Katherine Rzucek’ on Tuesday, January 10, 1984 (age 34 at the time of death) in Passaic County, New Jersey, United States. His zodiac sign is Capricorn. She grew up in Moore County, North Carolina, and attended Pinecrest High School in Southern Pines.
Physical Appearance
Height: 5′ 5″
Eye colour: brown
Hair Color: Black
Family and ethnicity
parents and siblings
Shannon’s father’s name is Frank Rzucek and her mother’s name is Sandra Rzucek.
Shannon Watts’s parents
She had a brother named Frankie Rzucek.
Shannon Watts with her brother
Husband, Children and Relationships
Shannon met Chris Lee Watts in 2010. He was an employee of Anadarko Petroleum, The Woodlands, Texas. Before meeting Chris, she was married to a man named Leonard King and they divorced in 2009. Chris and Shannon got married on November 3, 2012 in Mecklenburg County, North Carolina.
Shannon and Chris Watts wedding photo
They had two daughters: Bella Marie Watts (born December 17, 2013) and Celeste Katherine “Sis” Watts (born July 17, 2015).
Shannon and Chris Watts with their children
At the time of her death she was fifteen weeks pregnant with a son (whom she named Nico Lee Watts); She was expected to give birth to the child on January 31, 2019.
livelihood
From 2013 to 2016, she was a human resources specialist at Children’s Hospital Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus, Aurora. Since January 2016, Shannon was an independent representative for the ‘Le-Well’ company, which sells ‘Thrive’ health and wellness products.
Address
Shannon Watts lived with her family in a five-bedroom, four-bathroom home at 2825 Saratoga Trail in Frederick, Colorado. The home was acquired by Watts in April 2013 on a loan of $392,709. The home is valued at $583,500 (as of 2020).
Shannon Watts House
The disappearance of the Watts family
On August 13, 2018, Shannon returned home from a business trip to Arizona at approximately 1:48 a.m.; His friend and colleague Nicole Uttoft Atkinson gave him a lift from the airport.
Nicole Utoft Atkinson, friend and colleague of Shannon Watts
When Shannon missed her OB-GYN appointment and business meeting and failed to respond to messages, worried Nicole went to her house around 12:10 p.m. Upon arriving at her home, when no one answered, she notified Chris (who was at work), and also notified the Frederick Police Department. At approximately 1:40 p.m., an officer arrived to conduct a welfare check and spoke to Chris and discussed ways to locate his missing family. During a welfare check, Chris gives the police officer permission to inspect the house but Shannon and the children are nowhere to be found. The search team found Shannon’s purse (which contained her phone and keys), her car (in the garage), and her wedding ring (found on the couple’s bed). The following day, the FBI and Colorado Bureau of Investigation joined the investigation. Initially, Chris told police that he did not know the whereabouts of Shannon, Bella, or Celeste, and that he had not seen his wife since leaving work at 5:15 a.m. on August 13. He gave interviews to several news channels and requested to return home to his family, which made the police suspicious of him.
Murder and legal proceedings
On August 15, 2018, Chris was arrested after failing a polygraph test, and later confessed to murdering Shannon. According to Chris, he was having an affair with a woman named Nicole Kessinger and when she requested him (Shannon) to separate, she responded by strangling the children.
Chris Watts with Nicole Kessinger
He claimed that he had strangled Shannan in a fit of rage and then took all three bodies to a remote oil-storage site where he worked. He was fired from his job on the day of his arrest. On August 16, authorities found bodies on the property of his former employer, Anadarko Petroleum; The children’s bodies were found hidden in oil tanks, and Shannon’s body was found buried in a shallow grave nearby.
The place where Shannon Watts was buried
The place where Shannon Watts’ children were hidden
On August 21, Watts was charged with five counts of first-degree murder, with an additional count per child citing “the death of a child who has not yet attained the age of 12 years and the defendant’s state of trust.” was in”; One count of unlawful termination of pregnancy, and three counts of tampering with a dead human body. At his first court appearance, he was denied bail, and at a subsequent hearing, the bail amount was set at $5 million, and Chris was required to post a 15% deposit to be released. On September 1, Watts posted $750,000 and was released pending legal proceedings. In an interview with Dr. Phil, Chris’s attorney claimed that he confessed to killing Shannon after an argument regarding their divorce. While he was killing her, Bella came in and Chris told her that his mother was sick. Chris loaded Shannon’s body into the back of his work truck, and his daughters into the back without their car seats. Later, he strangled both the children one after the other with a blanket in the back seat of his truck. On November 9, he pleaded guilty and, as part of a plea agreement, was spared the death penalty at the request of Shannon’s family. On November 19, Chris was sentenced to five life terms: three consecutive and two concurrent, without the possibility of parole; additional 48 years for unlawful termination of his wife’s pregnancy; 36 years’ imprisonment on three charges of tampering with a dead body. Subsequently, Watts’s $5 million bail was revoked and he was immediately remanded into custody. On December 3, 2018, due to security concerns, Chris was moved to a location out of state, and on December 5, 2018, he arrived at Dodge Correctional Institution, a maximum-security prison in Waupun, Wisconsin.
Facts/General Knowledge
- In June 2015, Shannon and Chris jointly filed for Chapter 7 bankruptcy in Colorado federal court. At the time, Chris was working for Anadarko Petroleum Corp. and the two owed a $44,800 loan. The bankruptcy case was closed in October 2015.
- In July 2018, Shannon and Chris’s homeowners association, Windham Hill Master Association Inc., filed a lawsuit against them for a fee of $1,533 for certain financial reasons.
- The story of Shannon and her daughter’s murder became a topic of discussion on several television and news shows; Episodes of the ABC News television newsmagazine 20/20, the American talk show Dr. Phil, and The Dr. Oz Show were devoted to the family massacre.
Watt’s murder case is being discussed on Dr. Phil’s show
- On January 26, 2020, Lifetime released a film based on the case titled ‘Chris Watts: Confessions of a Killer’. The film stars Shawn Claire and Ashley Williams as Chris Watts and Shannon Watts, respectively. According to Shannon’s family, she was not informed or consulted about the production of the film and only became aware of it when it was already in production. He further said that film producers are making money from this and he fears that this will increase the already existing harassment.
- In September 2020, a Netflix documentary titled ‘American Murder: The Family Next Door’ directed by Jenny Popplewell was released. The documentary features archival footage of the case with no narration or enactment. The documentary also includes social media posts, law enforcement recordings, text messages and home videos.
- She was a dog lover and had a dachshund named ‘Dieter’. After Shannon’s death and Chris’s arrest, the dog moved to a friend’s house, but is currently living with his brother Frankie.
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