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## Video: Christopher Watts Has Admitted to Killing His Pregnant Wife and 2 Daughters

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_Published 2019-03-07. A Colorado man convicted of killing his pregnant wife and two young daughters last year has admitted to investigators that he strangled his wife inside their home and drove her body to an oil work site where he smothered the girls using a blanket._


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## Transcript

Like time was standing still. It's kinda like I just saw my life, just disappearing before my eyes, but I just like I couldn't let go. It was like someone else. It was like if you piture somebody else around you, holding your hands, holding you, keeping you from not letting go. At some point, there was a statement about rage. Do you feel like you were in a rage at that point? How do you- That's the only way I can describe it, honestly. [ BLANK_AUDIO ] Like a snap, or something. I guess My attorney had said like something, you know, strangulation is more like a passionate type thing. I'm just like, I don't know how that could be passionate.

It felt like it was like an anger with Shanann, with everything that I was just taking it out on everybody that was in front of me that morning. And what were you so angry at Shanann about? Like if you could pinpoint it? [ BLANK_AUDIO ] Nothing that, [ BLANK_AUDIO ] Nothing that makes anybody want to do this. You could be angry at your spouse your whole life but you should never have done anything like this. You should never let it get to that point. I look outside everyday, and like What could we be doing right now? Right now, I'd have a five- year- old, a three- year- old and a, more than likely, a one- month- old son.

And a beautiful wife. And it's like, right now it's just me.

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