Chris Watts gives gruesome details about how he murdered his wife and 2 daughters in a newly released interview with investigators
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While his guilty plea assumes guilt for all three murders, he had previously said that he only killed Shanann after she smothered their daughters.
He finally assumed responsibility for all three murders in an interview with investigators last month, from the federal prison where he's serving his three consecutive life sentences without the possibility of parole. INSIDER obtained transcripts and audio of the interview from the Colorado Bureau of Investigations on Thursday.
In the new interview, Watts gave a distressing blow-by-blow of the morning of the murders, and said he regrets the decision every day.
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Watts said there's a part of him that feels like the idea of killing his wife was "implanted" in his mind and he "had no control over it."
During the trial, when a prosecutor said that it takes two to four minutes to strangle someone, Watts said he wondered, "Why couldn't I just let go?"
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He said he then wrapped Shanann's body face down in a bed sheet and dragged her down the stairs to put in his truck.
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When he came back inside the house, Celeste was waking up in her bedroom, so he took both girls and put them in the back of the truck on the bench seat. He said each brought a blanket, and Celeste brought a stuffed animal.
At that point, he said it felt like someone else had control over him.
He said he put a gas can into the back of the truck because he felt like he could kill himself at the oil site where he worked and planned to dispose of Shanann's body. Ultimately, he told investigators he decided not to go through with that plan because he feared he could hurt more people if something caught fire at the site and exploded.
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