OMG!!! Shan'ann Catches Him Out! - Inside Chris Watts’ FINAL WEEKEND With His Mistress

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:01):
The second to last day of her life, starts off
uncharacteristically upbeat for Shanan. Good morning, baby, are the girls up?
Watts answers politely, The girls are watching cartoons in bed.
Shannan asks her husband if he wants an NFL package
for the fall. Here, Watt shows how seriously their moneylessness

(00:23):
has affected him, but not only that, his entrepreneurial attitude
to sorting it out. He's going to use Troy McCoy's
firestick to stream the games. It seems football is on
everyone's mind because Jeremy Linstrom also texts him. The chronology
is kind of out of walk. Here in the timeline,

(00:45):
Watts lies to Jeremy, saying he can't join him because
he has a quote work function quote he can't miss.
It's getting easier to lie to everyone now, isn't it.
At eleven eighteen, Watts google's trials and hot springs in
the Aspen area. He's not doing that for Shenan's benefit, obviously,

(01:06):
Shanan has no interest in hiking. Watson tends to take
his girlfriend there and perhaps enjoy a part two to
the memorable outdoors. The experience they enjoyed in the sand
dunes it goes without saying that in Watts's fantasy world,
he'll be able to take Cassinger to Aspen after Shenan
and the kids are dead. She won't know that, of course,

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or so he imagines. In fact, by this time next weekend,
not only will she know, all of Colorado and the
United States of America will know exactly what's happened. I
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Speaker 2 (02:03):
Hello, and welcome to True Crime Rocket Science. The most
authentic voice in true crime. By the way, that other
voice you hearing is a real person, so that is
also an authentic voice. More about her at the end
of this episode. Now we are at August eleventh, two
days before the murders, and on this day it was
a Saturday. Chris actually had sex twice with Nicole Kessinger,

(02:27):
first before they went to the restaurant and then when
they came back. In terms of the timeline that we've
already covered, I think it's really interesting that Sheannan says
to him, here, do you want the NFL package for
the fall? You can see she's trying to be conciliatory.
She's trying to appease. What she's trying to get on
his good side. And the thing that I think is

(02:48):
really interesting with it this is it gives one the
impression that Jeremy Linstrom has spoken to Sheanan about him
speaking to her, because how else would Schanan know about
his interest in the NFL. Well, if Jeremy told her
that he was going to this game and that's why

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he was taking time off. Interestingly, at six fifty eight,
Jeremy asked what if he would rather go with him
to the Broncos game. What's then lied to him and said,
I'd like to go with you, but since it's related
to my job, they will ask questions if I don't go.
The other thing that's interesting is what says that he
went to get a firestick, you know, to a streaming

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flash drive to save them money instead of streaming the
NFL package. Now you may remember Shanan complaining bitterly about
him getting long term parking at the airport. Well, now
she's offering to spend money on an NFL package. But
this just really shows how little money they had if

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they couldn't even afford this package. And look at what
they're about to do. They're about to go on a
holiday to Aspen. Shenan's just returned from I'm a six
week trip to North Carolina. They went to Myrtle Beach
and then also Shenan is now in Phoenix, Arizona. The
next weekend they're going to Aspen, but the actually can't
afford an NFL package. They can't afford to pay for parking.

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At nine point forty five, although not found in What's
his phone? Schannan asked him, have you talked to Bella
about if we have a boy? What said? Not yet?
And he added, and I think what's not? Having this
conversation tells you what he thinks about Bella, what he
thinks about their their long term prospects in terms of
his life, his plans. What what said that Bella had

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said when the baby comes out, Bella is going to
pretend it's a girl. Shenan indicated that she was laughing
and said, oh my god, I love her. At eleven
eighteen hours, what search Google for trails and hot springs
near Aspen. This is also for Cassinger's benefit, So him
actually booking this particular thing would make Sheannan feel like, oh,

(05:01):
things have totally sorted out between them. But obviously he's
going to slyly take Kessinger instead, assuming that he's going
to get away with his crimes. Twelve thirty Watch told
Shannan Jen McKennon Kylie coming to watch the girls for
a few hours while I go to that Rockies game.
Chanan asked, what's to ensure that they don't feed Celeste

(05:23):
anything she can't eat? She also asked, what's will you
lock my office? What's applied? Definitely? Thirteen forty nine, Watch
search Google for Toyota dealerships nearby. So it seems like
Watch is anticipating losing the Lexus, and so he's already
thinking about buying another vehicle. So there are a lot

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of changes that are about to take place. The house
is about to be discharged, the vehicles are about to
be discharged, and Watts is making very big, serious plans.
But they're actually beyond all of that. I mean, in
his calculus, he's about to get an instant divorce. And
why is all of this happening? Well, what was clearly

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addicted to Kessinger and the irregular dispatch of naked and
semi naked selfies was keeping what's on a leash, kept
his addiction burning. If he's still not sure what this
really was amounting to. Well, Saturday night would be their
first chance in over a week of being a part
to quench their lust for all of these newde selfies
to sort of amount to something real, something physical, And

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so Keshinger spent forty five minutes that Saturday searching online
about of all things, preparing for anal sex, as well
as browsing other porn sites, and so one can't help
also wondering if this night didn't go that well, if
they didn't have sex, would what still have been under
this sort of hypnosis to do the horrible things that

(06:53):
he did. Remember, all of these are moments for him
to also change his mind to take a different path
to and in his own ideas which I'm sure even
he would admit were extreme, you know, did he rarely
want to go through with this? Was he rarely going
to do this? So, in terms of the timeline, at
oh nine thirty hours, in anticipation of her evening with

(07:15):
wat Keshen just spent forty five minutes searching Google on
topics like how to prepare for anal sex and the
anal sex Guide. This progressed to searches at pornab for
interracial porn videos and threesomes with double penetration. Wow, this
is by no means the only time she sought out
pornographic videos via the internet. Sixteen oh two, Shanan asked

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what time what is leaving for the game? He replied
between six thirty and seventeen hundred hours. Sixteen thirty four.
What's called a local Papa John's pizza store? That is
obviously in order to feed the kids seventeen fifty nine hours,
Shanan asked McKenna, Hey, love, this is Sannan. How are
the girls. McKenna replied they are doing great CC eight

(07:58):
three slices of pizza. Shanan thanked McKenna for watching the
girls and asked if she needed anything if she dared
just ask. In contrast, what's never checked in with McKenna
to see other girls who are doing or whether McKenna
needed anything? That also tells you a lot, doesn't it?
Eighteen thirty three? What search Google for lazy Dog one

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hundred and twentieth Avenue nineteen hundred hours? What search Google
for restaurants near one hundred and twentieth Avenue to include
Rusty Bucket nineteen twenty hours. Shannan asked mckenne if the
girls went to bed yet. McKenna replied, they are still awake.
They are just watching TV and they said they don't
want to go to bed yet. Shannan advised I'd put
them to bed by eight. Chris showed you what to do.

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Make sure they go potty before they go to bed,
and Celeste gets the diaper. McKenna ensured that this would
all occur. You can actually imagine that would be to
some extent a substance of Shenan's conversations with What's when
she spoke to him directly, you know what to do
with the kids. Twenty one to twelve hours. Search Google
for the score of the Rockies game, as well as

(09:03):
what time Rockies game gets over. You can tell at
this point she's actually getting suspicious. Twenty two hundred hours,
Watts told Jeremy that he would be home in twenty minutes.
I think at this point he's having his second twist
of the night with Nicole Kessinger. Twenty two oh four hours.
Having concluded an evening tryst with Watts, Hingers searched the

(09:24):
Internet on topics like Chris Watts, Shenan Watts, Ronnie Watts
and two A two five Saratoga Trail, so probably looking
for signs that the house really is up for sale,
looking for signs of obviously he has told Kessinger about
the drama between Shenan and her father about Nutgate. At

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twenty two fifteen, Shenan called Watson helday three minute conversation. Now,
part of what is alarmed Shenan was that she got
a transaction alert showing quite a large amount that what's
has spent at a restaurant. Now this is not part
of the store. The story was that he went to
a Rockies game. Now he's saying that he went to
a restaurant after that. She's about to investigate the menu

(10:08):
and see how much it costs. And she's very rightfully
concerned that this isn't actually true, that he is actually
cheating on her, and of course he is. And this
whole transaction really is like sort of pulls the cards
that are being constructed where Shenan has felt like, oh

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everything is great, this little bit of evidence basically is
like a huge red flag and it is. And what
you're going to do with this information McKenna Linstrom's observation
while babysitting the kids, and what Bella said to her
when she couldn't sleep, or another extremely critical area of
the timeline. I think the fact that Bella can't sleep

(10:50):
is also telling you something that is going on in
that poor child subconscious as well. I've actually dealt with
this aspect exhaustively in the books, so I wanted to
be repeating any of that here. Anyway. After dinner, Watt
stops at the gas station to draw money to pay McKenna.
Then exhilarated and happy, but disappointed the evening had ended
so prematurely. I mean, it just spent really how many

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hours with Kessinger three four hours He headed home. Once home,
Nan would briefly interrogate him on where he was and
why spend so much money. Now that again is also
going to give him an idea. You know, if everything
is just left the way they are, he's going to
get interrogated like this over and over again. He doesn't

(11:35):
have the freedom of the space to have this affair,
and it's a critical phase now because Shenan is truly alerted. Meanwhile,
Kessinger too would have been disappointed not to have him
spend the night as he had so often in July,
but he would. He would have reassured her that despite
Chanan being out of town, and despite him not staying

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with her that night, significant changes were afoot on the
home front, also that they would be spending the weekend
together in Aspen. Ironically, there were ominous changes brewing. They
just weren't as mature or as well thought out as
what is making out they were. Maybe Kessingers suspected as
much to come home and then snap want to sell

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their houses just like that. When would Snana had the
time to do that, especially when her last post was
a recap of her entire day in terms of her
online searches that night. When he dropped her off at
home fairly early on Saturday night then left her alone
to go to his home, it's difficult to imagine Kessinger's

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interest at this stage of the game wasn't strategic in
any way. Her search for Ronnie Watt suggests that What's
led on something about Nutgate and his parents and Kessinger
wanting to snoop to see if she could see anything
else that What's wasn't saying. So you can see how
the pressure is escalating. People are getting suspicious Church with
the house might have been to verify if he or

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she had put it on the market after all, and
guess what he hadn't. In fact, a year later, arguably
it's still not on the market. There was also another
opportunity for Cassinger to view Shenan's Facebook profile, and even
if she had spent a handful of minutes, it wouldn't
have been difficult to establish that she was pregnant. Did
Cassinger know well? Chanan mentioned her pregnancy in her second

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to last post. Now on the one and the sheer
volume of thrive nonsense was sufficient to muddy a cursory glance,
on the other hand, which mistress would give a rival,
just a cursory glance online, So yeah, we have it.
It's a critical moment in the Phone Data Review twenty
two nineteen, Shenan search Google and the Internet for Lazy

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Dog menu, Lazy Dog restaurant, and bar find a location.
She's actually literally checking up on what she's investigating him.
How she came to learn so quickly of what's his
dinner expense is not reflected in the phone but I
suspect an alert from their bank or credit company. That's
according to the review, and that is correct, twenty two

(14:07):
to twenty eight hours, what's called sinan and hold a
three minute conversation. Immediately afterwards, she sent what's a message, Oh,
save your receipt so we can write it off, her
saying that is also a critical red flag for him. Dude,
she is on to you. We can also see by
the end of Saturday she as upbeat. Optimism was worn

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completely through. She was back to being suspicious, except now
she was more than suspicious. Now she was no longer
giving him the benefit of the doubt. I wouldn't be
surprised if she discussed this with Nicole and Cassie and
they said, make him, you know, make sure that he
shows you the receipt. Basically, get evidence, get an explanation.

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When she called What's Late on Saturday night and instructed
him to save his receipt, he knew the temporary tide
of happiness he'd initiated in her was against him. Saturday
night was another fleeting, intoxicating roller coaster ride with his mistress,
and he wanted to keep punching that ticket. He was
beyond caring about his wife or the children, who was

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sleeping soundly for the last time in their beds. Well,
I'm not going to take it further than that. Incidentally,
the identity of the lady reading narrating at the beginning
of this video is someone called Daniella. She's from Miami.
She's a lawyer, and you'll be hearing from her doing
some of her own episodes, hopefully fairly soon. If you're

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enjoying her narration, please show your support in the comments.
Thank you for listening. Look out for episode twenty one
in the series coming tomorrow, and I'll see you guys
next time. Many A.