Wow, I missed one day and apparently missed a whole thread. What has the Watts family done now?! Mom went on t.v and bashed her daughter in law? Said she could never do anything right in Shananns eyes and that she was abusive to her son? Am I getting this right? Now all the victim bashing makes sense. It's obvious what the source was that fueled the fire! These people are pathetic! She just has to get in the last word. And there is more to come?
Yes, ma'am. More in the media thread, but here's some of it:
“He’s not a sociopath. He’s not a psychopath,” Cindy Watts said of her son.
“I asked Chris, ‘If you did not do this, do not confess to something you didn’t do.’ She shut me down. She completely shut me down,” Cindy Watts said, referring to Chris Watts’ defense attorney.
“He said, ‘I’m sorry. I lost — I went into a rage, and I killed her.’ And he said, ‘I am so sorry. I ruined your life; I ruined my life,’ Mrs. Watts said.
“After the fact with the bodies, he said, ‘Dad, I could not put the girls with her after what she did — I could not put her with her,’” Ronnie Watts said.
“And so, instead of putting the girls with her, he decided to put her in oil tanks?” Denver7 asked him.
“I don’t understand. I don’t understand,” Mr. Watts replied.
“If he didn’t kill the children, I want him to face that and let them prove it,” Mr. Watts said.
“There’s a whole lot of unanswered questions about the case. Everything happened too quick there, from a case status to a plea,” Mr. Watts said.
“It has been so overwhelming. And I feel like I have to do something to help my son,” Mrs. Watts said. “I just need to do something. If he’s not going to fight, I’m going to fight for him.”
"It was a very hard relationship," said Cindy Watts, Chris' mother. "It was a very hard relationship (with Shanann) as far as I'm concerned. I couldn't do anything right."
The Wattses said their son changed once he met Shanann.
The Wattses said their son's relationship with Shanann was abusive and they felt she isolated Chris from his family in the time they were together.
Ronnie said he believes the initial thing Chris told police -- that he killed his wife only after finding out she had strangled their daughters.
"It's hard for me to believe that he would hurt them girls no matter what," he said. "The story he told me that night, I believed it: The way he looked at me, the way he was crying, I believed it."
“I know he confessed, but he was railroaded into it,” Cynthia Watts, of Spring Lake, N.C., said Monday in regard to her son’s guilty pleas in the murders of his 34-year-old wife, Shanann, and daughters Bella, 4, and Celeste, 3. “I want him to take back the plea deal.”
