


At that time, Nichol’s phone pinged a tower in Frederick, CO where the Watts family home was. The morning of the murders, a neighbor saw a truck similar to the one Nichol owned outside the Watts home.
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Police also found that she had been searching Google for “Chris Watts” as early as Aug(almost a full year before she claims they spoke for the first time, and months before she “met” him at work). Even though their relationship was only two months long, police discovered wedding dress shopping along with phrases like “marrying your mistress” and “man I’m having affair with says he will leave his wife” in her Google search history. Nichol has no alibi for the time of the murders. However, this was after the police were already informed about the affair by a supervisor at Anadarko Petroleum. Kessinger claims that after Watts appeared to be too casual about his family missing, she contacted the police and told them about the affair. Nichol has not been able to tell police what they talked about during this call, though she was interviewed less than 72 hours later. When the bodies of his victims were recovered, they were wrapped in sheets.

Since it was late at night, Nichol said she thought this was strange. Before Shanann got home from her business trip, Chris and Nichol Facetimed. The first time Kessinger says she felt anything was off about Watts was the night of Shanann’s murder. As a safety officer, Nichol knew tons of information about the site Chris worked at, including that it was a perfect site to possibly commit insurance fraud… which would require the kind of explosion that would destroy bodies and evidence. Chris and Nichol met at Anadarko Petroleum, the same place Chris returned to to hide the bodies of his wife and children. No one looking at Shanann’s Facebook page would be under the impression she was “nearing the end” of a “mutual” divorce as Nichol claimed to believe. Computer records show that Nichol frequented Shanann’s Facebook page, where Shanann announced her pregnancy and made frequent updates about her family. She also says she discovered that Shanann was pregnant through the news report.

She says she discovered Watts was still married when watching a news report about his missing wife and children. He eventually mentioned his wife and children, but Kessinger claims he said he and Shanann were separated. Kessinger claims when she met Watts at work, she was “unaware” he was married because he didn’t wear a wedding ring around her (many men with similar jobs won’t wear rings to work because they can be a safety hazard). If Chris were a sociopath capable of killing his pregnant wife and young children, would he really confess so easily? Why? Perhaps because the police immediately halted their investigation afterwards. After failing the polygraph, Chris gives up remarkably easy and confesses to the crimes. Here are some things about Nichol and the affair that just don’t make sense:
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HOWEVER, the more I read about Nichol and the case, the more it really seems like she was planning an insurance fraud scheme that morphed into an affair and then a plan to eliminate Chris’ family so the two of them could be free to be together and collect insurance money together. I believed she was just a coworker that ended up having an affair and whether or not she knew Chris Watts was married, I didn’t believe she had anything to do with the murders. Two months later, Watts murdered his entire family.Īt the beginning of this case, I was firmly on the side of Nichol Kessinger. Chris Watts and his coworker, Nichol Kessinger, began having an affair in June 2018.
