Chris Watts confesses he had Sex with Pregnant Wife before strangling her to Death

Chris Watts has made a confession from jail detailing for the first time how he brutally murdered his family in cold blood.

In a series of shocking revelations, Christ Watts said he had sex with his pregnant wife on the same day he strangled her to death and killed their young daughters.

Until now, Mr Watts had never revealed how he strangled pregnant wife Shannan before smothering daughters Bella, 4, and Celeste, 3, to death.

In his confession, Watts said after killing his pregnant wife, he loaded her body into his truck before transporting it and the girls to a burial site.

While at the burial site, he smothered Celeste with a blanket while her older sister looked on. When he was done with Celeste, he then used the same blanket to kill Bella, who screamed “Daddy. no!” with her last breath.

Watts, who was handed five life sentences with no chance of parole for the murders in November, made the confession to investigators from jail last month detailing how he killed his family. The confession was obtained by the Daily Mail. His revelation in February came after prosecutors said that what happened that night in Colorado, US, may never been known.

The Watts’ family home in Fredrick, Colorado

Watts, 33, told the investigators in his February confession all that happened the day his wife returned from a work trip to Arizona. He told them that he had strangled pregnant Shannan when she confronted him about his affair with mistress Nichol Kessinger.

Afterwards, he said he read a Bible verse when Shannan stopped breathing saying: “Forgive these people for they do not know what they do.”

Speaking about that moment, he reportedly told authorities: “Every time I think about it, I’m just like, did I know I was going to do that before I got on top of her?'”

After strangling Shannan to death, Bella came into the room but Watts told her that her mum was asleep. He dragged her dead body down the stairs, at which point the couple’s other daughter Celeste woke up.

He put the body in the truck with the two girls before driving to a work site, where after taking Shannan’s body out of the car he killed the two girls.

Watts then placed his daughters’ bodies in an oil drum and buried his wife in a shallow grave.

Watts now says he regrets his actions and has found God.

He said: “Right now I’d have a 5-year-old…a 3-year-old…and more than likely, a one-month-old son…and a beautiful wife…and right now it’s just me.”