Chris Watts Reveals New Details About How He Murdered His Family, Brothers Allegedly Contacted Sister They Sexually Assaulted, Mom Allegedly Killed Daughter By Silencing Medical Alarms. Chris Watts, the Colorado man who tearfully lied on television, pleading for the pregnant wife he murdered with his bare hands to come home, will be the focus of an upcoming television movie. By Chris Harnick Dec 23, 2019 6:00 PM Tags. In August 2018, Shannan Watts, who was 15 weeks pregnant, and her two daughters, 4-year-old Bella and 3-year-old Celeste, went missing. Chris Watts is coming under the spotlight again with Lifetime’s new movie Chris Watts: Confession of a Killer, airing on January 25, 2020 at 8 p.m. Eastern.

Lifetime's film, which has the working title "The Chris Watts Story," will focus on the months before the family murder happened to "piec[e] together the Colorado dad’s possible motives," according to PEOPLE.

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The highly publicized and truly horrific Chris Watts case has received the Lifetime movie treatment and the “ripped from the headlines” dramatization has chillingly recreated some details of the case so convincingly, the movie at times feels like a docu-series..

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Sean Kleier ("Odd Mom Out;" "Happyish") will play Chris, Ashley Williams ("How I Met Your Mother") will play the doomed Shanann, and Brooke Smith will also star as an FBI agent. While some of the mimicked details are not 100 percent accurate they mostly mirror the true events of the tragic familicide. The first trailer for Lifetime's Chris Watts movie is here.

After their bodies soon turned up in an oil field where Chris' company had worked, Chris was arrested, despite his outlandish claims that he only murdered his wife because she killed their daughters. While being interviewed by police, Christopher Lee Watts admitted to killing his pregnant wife Shan'ann Cathryn Watts by strangulation and her unborn son, Nico Lee Watts in utero. Where Did The Alpine Manor Murders Take Place? The Lifetime movie will premiere some time in 2020. Get all your true crime news from Oxygen. Lifetime's "The Chris Watts Story" will star Sean Kleier as the father who murdered his young family and Ashley Williams as his pregnant wife, Shanann. Chris Watts, the Colorado man who tearfully lied on television, pleading for the pregnant wife he murdered with his bare hands to come home, will be the focus of an upcoming television movie.

TV Lifetime Entertainment True Crime. On Aug. 13, 2018, the Colorado dad killed his 15 … He later admitted to killing their daughters, four-year-old Bella and three-year-old Celeste, by smothering them with a blanket. Create a free profile to get unlimited access to exclusive videos, sweepstakes, and more! Following in the grand tradition of Casey Anthony, the Menendez brothers, and the Craigslist Killer, an object of true crime fascination is getting the Lifetime movie treatment. The Colorado Bureau of Investigation released audio of an interview conducted by investigators from the CBI, FBI and Frederick Police with convicted murderer Chris Watts. The Watts family murders occurred in the early morning hours of August 13, 2018, in Frederick, Colorado, US.

He pleaded guilty on November 6, 2018, to multiple counts of first-degree murder a There, he allegedly claims to have found religion and keeps a photo of the family he murdered in cold blood nearby. Chris Watts is a Colorado man who murdered his pregnant wife, Shan'ann Watts, and their two young daughters, four-year-old Bella and three-year-old Celeste, on August 13, 2018.

Chris has been moved into a maximum security prison in Wisconsin to serve out his five consecutive life sentences.