Chris Watts’ Mistress Shares Texts He Sent Her After Family’s Murder

Shanann, who was 15-weeks pregnant, and her daughters were first reported missing from their Colorado home on Aug. 13, 2018. While Chris initially pleaded for their safe return on local news, he later confessed to killing them and hiding their bodies at his then-work site. He pleaded guilty to all three murders on Nov. 6, 2018, and was sentenced to five life terms in prison without the possibility of parole.

In the police video, Nichol said that Chris told her he had separated from his wife and was planning on divorcing her. Still, Nichol told officers that Chris was “never hostile” when they would talk about his family.

“There were several discussions that we had about his current relationship and where it had gone,” she said, according to People. “It was never anything aggressive. It was still very kind. He was just like, ‘This is not working.'”

Nichol went on to say that Chris’ behavior throughout their relationship “wasn’t anything out of the ordinary or anything that would scare me. She added, “Even to this day, even after everything that I’ve found out, I still look back at that, and I don’t see any red lights about the way he spoke about his family.”

E! News has reached out to the Frederick Police Department, who investigated the case, for comment.